Biles wins Olympic bronze after mental health battle
Simone Biles made her long-awaited return to the Olympic Games on Tuesday, taking bronze in the beam final won by Chinese teenager Guan Chenchen at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre. It was the US...
View ArticleArmy helicopter crashes in India
A helicopter belonging to the Indian army on Tuesday crashed in a dam in the northern state of Punjab, local media reports said. So far there have been no immediate reports of any casualty in the...
View ArticleGombe plans land audit, dismisses alleged land-grabbing
The Gombe State Government on Tuesday announced plans to undertake a land census, saying the state was not taking over the property of residents. Addressing newsmen at the Ahmadu Bello Quarters, the...
View ArticleBBNaija S6: Housemates share personal experiences in ‘TED Talk’
Big Brother Shine Ya Eye housemates, on the 10th day of the show, held an impromptu ‘Ted Talk’ where they shared their personal experiences. Each speaker shared their expert knowledge on life, careers,...
View ArticleVIDEO: So This Happened (113) reviews Tinubu’s rumoured hospitalisation,...
In this episode of So This Happened, an alleged mentally unstable man was apprehended by residents of Mowe in Ogun State, after they found a huge sum of money, three phones, and female underwear in his...
View ArticlePolice arrest man for allegedly killing son in Ebonyi
Operatives of the Eonyi State Police Command have arrested a 33-year-old man, Martin Odanwu, for allegedly killing his eleven year old stepson, Destiny. Odanwu was said to have beaten the boy to death...
View ArticleCJN warns against leaking court judgment
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Ibrahim Muhammad, has warned against the leaking of court judgments for pecuniary gains. He stated this on Tuesday during the opening ceremony of a virtual...
View ArticleWhy tertiary institutions should train staff locally -TETFUND
The Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, Kashim Ibrahim, has advised tertiary institutions in the country to train their staff locally due to the depreciation in the value...
View ArticleUS Army unit honours Black soldier lynched 80 years ago
A United States Army post, Fort Benning, has honoured a Black soldier who was lynched in 1941. Private Felix Hall, a 19-year-old man from rural Alabama, had said goodbye to two colleagues after working...
View ArticleBuhari deploys Ngige’s wife, eight other permanent secretaries
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Tuesday approved the deployment of Dr Evelyn Ngige, wife of the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, and eight other federal...
View ArticleGunmen kill Rivers community leader, wife missing as daughter demands justice
A middle-aged lady has demanded justice for her father, Solomon Nwagbara, who she said was burnt to death by suspected members of a disbanded vigilance group in Omudioga community, in the Emuoha Local...
View ArticleBandits kidnap eight residents in fresh attack on Niger community
No fewer than eight residents have been abducted by bandits in a fresh attack on Agwan Fulani in Kwakwashi community of Niger State. The incident, it was gathered, happened around 1am on Tuesday. It...
View ArticleConsultants overwhelmed as resident doctors’ strike paralyses health services...
As the strike embarked upon by the National Association of Resident Doctors entered its second day on Tuesday, medical activities have been paralysed in government-owned hospitals. A visit to the Lagos...
View ArticleNSITF management redeploys 300 staff members
No fewer than 300 staff of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund have been redeployed across various sections, departments and regions of the federation. The development followed the reconstitution...
View ArticleCustoms impounds imported vehicles, rice in Katsina
The Nigeria Customs Service says it impounded 13 vehicles, 314 bags of imported rice and some other goods valued at more than N60m, in Katsina State between July 8 and August 3. The Acting Controller...
View ArticleUAE declares Aug 12 public holiday for Islamic New Year
The United Arab Emirates says the holiday for the Islamic New Year (Hijri 1443) will be on Thursday, August 12. This was contained in a tweet by the Federal Authority for Government Human Resources on...
View ArticleOlympics: Yosozum, Hiraki, Brown become youngest gold medallists since 1936
Japan’s Sakura Yosozumi won the women’s park competition to maintain the hosts’ stranglehold on Olympic skateboarding on Wednesday and stop Kokona Hiraki and Sky Brown becoming the Games’ youngest-ever...
View ArticlePictorial: Highlights of BBNaija S6 fashion show
Big Brother Naija Shine Ya Eye housemates thrilled the fans with a fashion show on Tuesday night, an idea that was initiated by one of the housemates, Whitemoney. According to Whitemoney, he wanted the...
View ArticlePICTORIAL: DSS brings Sunday Igboho’s aides to court in Abuja
Aides of the embattled Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, aka, Sunday Igboho, were brought before the Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday. The aides had been in detention of the Department of...
View ArticleOlympics: Briton boxer refuses to wear silver as Cuba win gold
Cuba’s Arlen Lopez won his second Olympic gold medal on Wednesday as he taught Ben Whittaker a boxing lesson in Tokyo — the disconsolate Briton refusing to wear his silver medal and putting it instead...
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