The video above shows Muslims faithfully making last-minute shopping for rams at Kara market, along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

Senate President Bukola Saraki on Wednesday boasted that the opposition Peoples Democratic Party will win the 2019 presidential elections. Saraki said this in Ilorin at a meeting with PDP members who came from the 16 local government areas of the state. He also expressed his confidence that his new party would emerge victorious in all […]

Super Eagles’ Technical Adviser, Gernot Rohr, on Wednesday inspected the Ahmadu Bello Stadium in Kaduna as part of preparations for the team’s qualifiers for the 2019 AFCON, an official has said. Ademola Olajire, the Director of Communications at the Nigeria Football Federation, said in a statement on Wednesday the inspection was an indication that preparations have […]

Simon Utebor, Yenagoa The Bayelsa State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Ebitimitula Etebu, has said that mothers who breastfeed their babies exclusively have lower risks for cancer, high blood pressure and osteoporosis, among other ailments. Etebu said this during the opening of the 2018 World Breastfeeding Week, sponsored by the United Nations International Children Emergency Fund, […]

Dayo Ojerinde Experts have identified drug abuse, self-medication and excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages as the major causes of low blood pressure. A cardiologist at the First Foundation Hospital, Ikeja, Dr Tosin Ajayi, in an interview with our correspondent, described low blood pressure as a deadly and more dangerous disease than high blood pressure. “An […]

Maureen Ihua-Maduenyi  Automaker, Ford has equipped its all-new Ford Escape with five new technologies to improve driving experience for its customers. At the recent launch of the luxury car by Coscharis Motors, the exclusive distributor of Ford vehicles in Nigeria, the firm says that the five technologies make the all-new Ford Escape the ideal suburban […]

BMW is gearing up to launch its seventh-generation BMW 3 Series, which is expected to be the brand’s star at the Paris Motor Show and will usher in a new platform and more electrification when it arrives in UK showrooms early next year. Ahead of its Paris debut, the new saloon has been spied testing […]

Olusola Amore (A retired Commissioner of Police) I have a different opinion about the SARS reform because I believe that every policeman in the command should be under the Commissioner of Police of that command. To have any contingent of policemen outside the control of the CP is to create room for misbehaviour. When I […]

Governor Ayodele Fayose on Tuesday said that all the ongoing capital projects in Ekiti State will be completed and inaugurated before he vacates office on October 16. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Fayose made the promise while speaking at the 2018 edition of the Annual Udiroko Festival in Ado Ekiti, the state capital. The […]

The National Association of Nigerian Students has issued a notice of mass actions over the protracted crisis between the Council of Legal Education and the National Open University of Nigeria. It said the crisis had hindered the law graduates of the university from being admitted to the Nigerian Law School for over five years. A […]

Italian actress and sexual abuse campaigner Asia Argento denied Tuesday having had a sexual relationship five years ago with an underage teen, calling the allegations part of “a long-standing persecution”. The New York Times reported on Sunday that Argento, 42, a Harvey Weinstein accuser and leading figure in the #MeToo movement, had paid actor and […]

Scientists said Tuesday they have confirmed the existence of ice on the Moon’s surface for the first time, a discovery that could one day help humans survive there. Signs of ice on the Moon have been reported by scientists for years, but previous observations could have been explained by other phenomena, such as unusually reflective […]

English county scores on Tuesday: County Championship First Division At The Oval Surrey 211 (T Bailey 5-53) and 306 (R Burns 70) v Lancashire 247 (D Vilas 61, J Bohannon 52) and 177-5 At Scarborough Yorkshire 216 (K Williamson 87; D Pennington 4-53) and 140-6 (K Williamson 61; M Ali 4-35) v Worcestershire 572-7 dec […]

Samuel Awoyinfa, Abeokuta President Muhammadu Buhari will lead other eminent Nigerians to inaugurate a $250m brewery owned by International Breweries Plc next week Tuesday. The Plant Manager, Mr. Tony Agah, disclosed this on Monday to journalists during a media tour of the brewery located at Km 3 Flowergate Industrial Scheme, Sagamu-Abeokuta Expressway, Ogun State. He said […]

A woman escaped an alleged sex attacker by biting down on his penis after he forced her to give him oral sex, police say. The woman, who has not been named, allegedly ate away at Spencer Franklin’s privates after he reportedly broke into her home last Thursday morning, Metro UK has reported. After sneaking into […]

A group of sex workers have been arrested for drugging and robbing their male customers at a brothel in Majorca area of Spain. The gang, including a brothel madam and four prostitutes, are accused of spiking their clients’ drinks so that they could steal and abuse their credit cards. But they were stopped in their […]

A woman has revealed she cancelled her dream wedding just a week before the big day after discovering her fiancé watched porn. Claire Dalton’s ex-fiancé kept the habit secret from her throughout their four-year friendship and relationship and she was so shocked she called off the marriage — despite having spent six months planning it. […]

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has urged Nigerians to resist the temptation of voting for those who will return the country to the throes of massive looting, come 2019 elections. Mohammed made the appeal on Tuesday in a Sallah message delivered at a media briefing at his home town, Oro, near Ilorin […]

President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday announced a plan to weaken regulations on US coal plants, giving a boost to an industry that former leader Barack Obama had hoped to wind down in order to cut harmful emissions that drive global warming. The Environmental Protection Agency’s new Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule would allow states […]

A total of 46 candidates including the incumbent president and his two predecessors are seeking to contest Madagascar’s presidential polls at the end of the year, the Constitutional Court said Tuesday. The court will now assess the candidates’ eligibility and confirm by Sunday which ones will be allowed to stand in the first round of […]

Bosnian midfielder Miralem Pjanic has signed a contract extension to keep him at Juventus until 2023, the Italian champions announced on Tuesday. The 28-year-old has won back-to-back Serie A and Italian Cup doubles since joining the Bianconeri from Roma in 2016. Known as a set-piece specialist, Pjanic has scored 15 league goals directly from free-kicks […]

A senior  Treasury official  warned Tuesday that the United States has more economic sanctions on Russia in the pipeline, after the US blacklisted two Russian companies for trading with North Korea. “Absolutely … You will continue without a doubt to see more from this administration,” Sigal Mandelker, US Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial […]

The Presidency said President Muhammadu Buhari has demonstrated his fitness to run for a second term by trekking 800 metres from the Eid praying ground in Daura to his private residence. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that, after the Eid prayers, President Buhari shunned protocol and opted to trek some 800 metres, acknowledging cheers […]

As Muslims troop to the praying ground on Airport Road, Abuja, on Tuesday, in commemoration of the Eid el-Kabir, security agents subject them to brief body searches. Overhead, Police helicopters are seen patrolling the airspace of the praying ground on Airport Road in Abuja. See the photographs, courtesy, OLATUNJI OBASA:      

A Tanzanian government senior official said on Tuesday that Tanzania was on high risk of Ebola outbreak. The Ebola Virus Disease killed 50 out of 91 patients in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. Ummy Mwalimu, the east African nation’s Minister for Health, said the high risk categorization followed the World Health Organisation (WHO)’s new statistics […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday expressed delight over Nigeria’s steady progress toward food sufficiency. The president made his feelings known when he fielded questions from newsmen at his private residence in Daura, Katsina State, where he is celebrating Eid-el-Kabir. He thanked Almighty God for a bumper harvest being recorded across the country. “I hope the […]

The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, the Speaker of the Kwara House of Assembly, Dr. Ali Ahmad and the Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji lbrahim Sulu-Gambari were among the dignitaries and thousands of Muslim faithful who performed the two rakaat prayers commemorating Eid el-Kabir in llorin on Tuesday. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the prayer […]

After turning heads in Paris with her black catsuit, Serena Williams is out to wow the US Open in her brand new “Queen” collection for Nike, designed by American stylist Virgil Abloh, the sportswear giant said Monday. Abloh — artist, architect, friend of Kanye West and artistic director of Louis Vuitton — created two dresses […]

Six people were killed after a man went on a killing spree in southern China, stabbing his girlfriend and her relatives, ploughing a car into pedestrians and attacking passersby. The 54-year-old man surnamed Huang had been having relationship problems and decided to take it out on his girlfriend and her family in Monday’s attack, Liuzhou […]

Crystal Palace captain Luka Milivojevic says he prefers playing without Video Assistant Referee (VAR) even though his side felt hard done by in going behind to a controversial penalty in the 2-0 loss to Liverpool. The 27-year-old Serbian midfielder said he had asked Egyptian Mohamed Salah to tell match referee Michael Oliver he should reverse […]

World number one Simona Halep withdrew from the WTA Connecticut Open on Monday with a leg injury, the day after losing the Cincinnati final to Kiki Bertens. The Romanian, who cited soreness in her right Achilles, said she still plans to take part in the upcoming US Open. “I need to recover in time for […]

A Harvard professor made some controversial comments concerning coconut oil in a lecture posted on YouTube. The video, which has garnered 400,000 hits, comes after the American Heart Association advised people to avoid coconut oil, Business Insider Deutschland reports. In the talk, titled “Coconut oil and other nutritional errors,” Prof. Karen Michels described coconut oil as […]

Etim Ekpimah, Uyo A former Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio, said he regretted imposing Mr Udom Emmanuel as the Akwa Ibom State Governor on the people of the state. Apologising to a crowd at the Ikot Ekpene Plaza, Akpabio, who returned from his mother-in-law’s burial inEnugu on Sunday evening, said Emmanuel was the greatest […]

Tony Okafor, Awka The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has said he is considering contesting the Anambra Central Senatorial seat on the platform of the All Progressives Congress in the 2019 general elections. Ngige disclosed his ambition on Monday at a briefing at Obosi in the Idemili North Local Government Area of […]

The National Examinations Council has released the June/July 2018 Senior Secondary Schools results, News Agency of Nigeria quoted a statement issued on Monday in Minna. The Acting Registrar, Alhaji Abubakar Gana, said in the statement that 1,041,536 candidates registered, while 1,032,729 candidates actually sat for the examination. Gana said that 939,733 candidates representing 90.47 per […]