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...
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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...
A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has restrained the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Simeon Chibuzor Amadi, from receiving or acting on any communication from the Rivers State House of Assembly connected to the planned...
Premier League side Manchester City have agreed a deal in principle to sign Crystal Palace captain Marc Guehi as they battle a defensive crisis. Guehi was close to joining Liverpool on transfer deadline day in September 2025 before the move...
Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner on Friday confirmed that he will leave the Premier League club when his contract expires at the end of the season. Glasner made this known at a press conference ahead of Palace's trip to Sunderland...
Workers under the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) have declared an indefinite strike scheduled to commence on Monday, January 19, 2026, over unresolved labour issues. The strike was announced by the Joint Union Action Congress (JUAC), which directed all categories...
Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) have rescued two pastors and a church member who were abducted by suspected bandits while travelling through Kaduna State. The victims—Rev. Idi Buhari, Emmanuel Jacob and Suleiman Adamu—were kidnapped on January 9,...