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The end is near. The world will cease to exist on April 23, according to a prediction that has some laughing, some yawning and yet others making preparations that could leave their lives in shambles. The warning about an upcoming Rapture, from numerologist David Meade, follows a … Read...

A man who claimed that painkillers turned him gay has said he doesn’t want to stop taking the pills because he fears he would turn straight again. Unemployed Scott Purdy, 23, started taking Pregabalin, also known as Lyrica, after a go-karting accident.… Read more via Metro –...

A teenager has gone viral for her choice of outfit to Prom. She stepped out in a risque. Ankara outfit which revealed her bum... Read more via Linda Ikeji’s Blog – https://ift.tt/2HAVjuk Get More Nigeria Metro News

A teenager has been arrested after satanic images were left at the altar of a Catholic church. The incident at St Mary’s church, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, on Tuesday, was … Read more via https://ift.tt/2E7B8yq Get More Nigeria Metro News

A Nigerian woman has shocked Twitter community after disclosing that she just got married to her husband after dating him for 14 years. Read more via https://ift.tt/2pPKASz Get More Nigeria Metro News

Telecoms giant Globacom Ltd, popularly referred to as Glo, has been accused of mass-sacking members of staff who are female and married.. Read more via https://ift.tt/2GCuAwX Get More Nigeria Metro News

A Nigerian lady identified as Ebor Lovina, who reportedly turned the sex advances of her boyfriend’s brother, met her untimely... Read more via https://ift.tt/2GlkWzF Get More Nigeria Metro News

Heavy rain downpour in Lagos on Thursday led to the death of two school boys in Alagbado,Their bodies were found floating on the water and both boys were confirmed dead at the hospital. Eye witnesses lamented … Read more via https://ift.tt/2J6zctV – Get More Nigeria Metro News

A Nigerian oil and gas engineer was, yesterday, jailed for seven years for the rape of an 18-year-old student in Aberdeen, three months after his lavish wedding in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State in December, 2017. Kufre Umoh Uwem, 34, of 6 Waterton Lawn, … Read more via https://ift.tt/2pSHSuR Get...

American Embassy on Tuesday slammed a Nigerian, Julius Olawale Oluwagbenro, 46, with life ban for allegedly posing as an engineer, among other lies in order to get American Visa, Newtelegraph reports. . . According to the suspect, Tuesday was his fourth attempt to get the … Read more via...

A 32-year-old man, Obagie Ikede is battling for his life in a private hospital in Sapele, Delta State, after Nunu Allround, a 30 year old mother of two slit his throat with razor blade for daring to end their three months … Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2IeBANI Get More...

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has distanced itself from the news making the rounds that it called for the decriminalisation of cannabis in Nigeria. In a statement recently in Abuja, the UNODC denied that it said it was okay to legalise cannabis in … Read more via...

Fed up with the chaotic and indiscriminate parking of trucks with the attendant lingering gridlock on the Apapa/Oshodi expressway, Lagos . Nigerian Navy has handed down a one-week ultimatum to all trucks to vacate Lagos roads,Gridlock as tankers shut down Apapa road Already, the Navy … Read...

The Inspector – General of Police, IGP. Mr. Ibrahim Idris. the Assistant Inspector -General of Police, Zone 2, Mr. Ibrahim Adamu and five others have been dragged before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, over alleged acts amounting to threat to life. Others joined … Read more via...

Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Bama, Borno second largest town worst hit by Boko Haram, are to return home in phases, the state government has said. Secretary to Borno State Government (SSG), Alhaji Usman Jidda said, on Tuesday, that the state government decided to allow the IDPs...

The Enugu Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday arraigned one Nwachukwu Placidus, a former manager of First City Monument Bank Ltd, Onitsha Branch and three former bank workers with Idemili Micro Finance Bank Ltd, Nnewi namely; Ohaegbunam Chinyere,Egbosi...

Amid confusion and disagreement over discrepancies observed in the revenue figures presented by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeting ended on Tuesday in deadlock in Abuja. The meeting was convened for representatives of...

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court was the scene of drama on Monday, when one Alhassan Abdulmumin, a prosecution witness in the homicide case against the killer wife, Maryam Sanda, disappeared when the judge called him to enter witness box. At the resumed hearing of the case, the …...

Christy Anyanwu Empress Pat Dewuibe is the Deputy Managing Director of Baywood Continental Limited, an oil and gas company based in Lagos. She had previously worked with the Nigeria Labour Congress years before leaving the labour movement to help her husband run his business. In addition to …...

The Joint UN Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) has appointed Wife of the President, Hajiya Aisha Buhari, as UNAIDS Special Ambassador for the Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Promotion of Treatment for Children living with HIV in Nigeria. Read more via TODAY.NG –...