Nigeria

The federal government has directed for universities across Nigeria to be closed down for three weeks because of the coming elections.The National Universities Commission...

A lecturer of the Lagos State University of Technology has been remanded in custody of Kirikiri Correctional Centre for allegedly defiling his 10-year-old daughter.The...

A popular Nigerian hair vendor identified as Ahiwe Precious aka Perry has been reported dead in Owerri, Imo State.Instablog9ja reports Perry died on Friday,...

The Rivers State High Court has sentenced one Bestman Lekia to death by hanging for killing four people and using one of his victims’...

A client has gotten to the wrong side of a sex worker after he failed to pay for services rendered by the lady of...

The Nollywood industry has been thrown into a state of mourning after actor, Ikechukwu Mitchel Ogbonna, famed IK Ogbonna announced the death of his...

Governor Ademola Adeleke-led administration in Osun State came to a hurting halt on Friday as the Osun Election Petitions Tribunal sacked him from office.His...

A young Nigerian lady has indeed demonstrated a hungry man is an angry man after she bought chicken feed as gari.In a viral...

Nollywood actress and PDP deputy governorship candidate in Lagos State Funke Akindele was, on Tuesday, chased out of the Ikosi fruit market by suspected thugs while...

Tems has become the first Nigerian musician to be nominated for an Oscar award for helping write "Lift Me Up", one of the soundtracks...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday, January 23, served as the captain of the football team of Baptist Boys High School, Abeokuta in a football novelty match...

A BBC investigation has discovered that political parties in Nigeria are secretly paying social media influencers to spread disinformation about their opponents ahead of...

Gunmen burned a Catholic priest to death and shot and injured his colleague in northwest Nigeria on Sunday, police said, the latest violence raising...

The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Seme Police Division in Lagos State, Nigeria, SP Mojeed Salami, slumped and died in his office on Tuesday,...

Nigeria’s Rivers State Police Command has arrested a 17-year-old boy identified as Noble Uzuchi over the impregnation of 10 ladies.The suspect was nabbed alongside...

A man was caught stealing a bunch of plantain and was given a taste of his own medicine.The suspect was given strokes of cane...

A lecturer at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Mrs Ngozi Uzodike, has been delivered of septuplets (seven babies).Uzodike, who works in the Department of...

A Nigerian court has struck out a police regulation that forbids unmarried female officers from getting pregnant, local media report.In a landmark judgment, a...

A Nigerian pastor has been arrested by operatives of the Plateau State Police Command in Jos State for staging his kidnap and demanding ransom from...

A medical doctor at the General Hospital, Garaku in Kokona Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, Ahmed Isaiah, has died from Lassa fever. He was said...

A groom fell flat on the ground with his bride while trying to lift her up at their wedding reception.The newlyweds were having their...

A popular Nigerian herbalist Fadayomi Kehinde aka Ejiogbe, is reported to have passed on after a meeting with a pastor's wife in a hotel.It...

Leader of a Nigerian State Legislative Assembly, Odo Nnamdi Emmanuel and his wife, arrived at their wedding reception in a tricycle, popularly known as Keke...

A Nigerian police officer has been charged with murder over the shooting of a female lawyer in the main city, Lagos, on Christmas Day.Drambi...

At least 14 people have been killed and 24 others injured after a vehicle ploughed into crowds watching bikers at a popular carnival in...

Actress Anita Joseph says married women who are in the habit of depriving their husbands of sex, while undergoing a spiritual fast, should change...

Shell has agreed to pay $16m (£13m) to four Nigerian farmers and their communities to compensate for damage allegedly caused by pollution coming from...

Nollywood actor, Yul Edochie, has rendered an unqualified apology to his first wife, May, over his decision to marry a second wife.The actor says...

A Nigerian High Court in the capital, Abuja, has found the campaign leader for high-profile presidential candidate Peter Obi guilty of money laundering.Doyin Okupe...

An employee of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Jude Ozuogu and his wife, Ifeoma Ozuogu, have been sentenced to 13 years imprisonment for child...

Popular Nigerian gospel musician, Sammie Okposo, has been buried.The final funeral rites came off on Thursday, December 15, 2022, in Lagos Nigeria.The 51-year-old...

Some persons have been reported injured after a crowd disrupted the concert of the Nigerian Afrobeats artiste, Asake, in Brixton, London.Emergency services rushed to...

An exclusive CNN investigation has found that some Western governments who pledged to support LGBTQI+ rights have also funded supporters of a controversial bill...

Famous disc jockey and daughter of Nigerian billionaire, Florence Otedola, known as DJ Cuppy, has announced her engagement to British boxer, Ryan Taylor. According to...

Artiste manager Lawrence Nana Asiamah Hanson, popularly known as Bulldog, has asked Ghanaians to pardon Nigeria singer Wizkid after he failed to show up...

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested 20 drug dealer suspects including women and seized tons of narcotics in Ondo, Kebbi, Akala and...

Nigeria’s Defence Chief, General Lucky Irabor, said on Thursday that the military will not investigate a Reuters report that it ran a secret mass...

A boxer representing Imo State at the ongoing National Sports Festival in Nigeria has died in the boxing ring.Chukwuemeka Igboanugo slumped after the opponent...

Nigeria’s central bank has limited weekly over-the-counter cash withdrawals by individuals and corporates to 100,000 naira ($225; £186) and 500,000 naira ($1,125; £928) respectively.This...

A year-old boy has died after falling into a bucket of water in Nnewi, Anambra state of Nigeria.The child's parents reportedly left him...