A 103-year-old woman has been confirmed dead in a fire outbreak in the Oyingbo area of Lagos State.
The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) confirmed the incident via a statement issued by its Permanent Secretary, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, on...
The Nigerian Army has recovered a cache of arms and ammunition after no fewer than 80 militants surrendered under the Cross River State Government’s amnesty programme in Akpabuyo Local Government Area of the state.
The militants voluntarily emerged from the...
The Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, is preparing for a large-scale wedding ceremony as nine of his children are set to get married on the same day.
Matawalle, a former governor of Zamfara State and husband to four...
Grammy Award-winning Nigerian artiste Burna Boy will headline the grand finale of the TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Fan Zone concerts in Rabat, Morocco, bringing the curtain down on the tournament’s music and fan experience.
The Confederation of African...
The naira closed the week stronger on Friday, January 16, 2026, appreciating against the United States dollar at the official market to trade at N1,417.94.
Data released by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) showed that the naira gained N1.33.
This...
Former heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua has returned to the gym weeks after surviving a fatal car crash that claimed the lives of two of his close friends.
The accident occurred on December 29, 2025, in the Makun area along...
South Africa’s renowned Kruger National Park has been closed to visitors after severe flooding caused by weeks of intense rainfall left at least 19 people dead across Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces.
Park authorities announced the closure on Thursday as a...
A Lagos-based father, Samuel Alozie, popularly known on TikTok as Promise Samuel, has raised alarm over the death of his nine-month-old identical twin sons, Testimony and Timothy, who reportedly died about 24 hours after receiving routine immunisation at a...
Ayo Labinjoh, the woman at the centre of a renewed paternity controversy involving Afrobeats star David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has spoken publicly in response to allegations made by her daughter.
The issue resurfaced on Thursday after a 12-year-old...
X (formerly Twitter) suffered a global outage on Friday, January 16, 2026, as the social media platform was down for tens of thousands of users worldwide.
Outage tracking website Downdetector.com. confirmed the development.
There were more than 41,000 reports of issues...
