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END OF DAYS: THE eruption of the volcano on Spanish isle La Palma has destroyed 100 homes and forced 500 tourists to flee. The La Cumbre Vieja volcano erupted on Sunday shooting 1,000C lava hundreds of metres into the air streaming towards towns and forcing thousands to evacuate. No fatalities have …

Binance is apparently facing more pressure from regulators over possible abuses at its cryptocurrency exchange. Bloomberg sources said US officials have expanded their probe of Binance to include possible insider trading and market manipulation. The company hasn’t been accused of wrongdoing, but Commodity Futures Trading Commission investigators have reportedly inquired …

55-year-old comedian and Friday star, Anthony Johnson has has been confirmed dead after being “found lifeless in a store” earlier this month. Johnson was at that time, rushed to hospital after being found to be in an unresponsive state in a shop in Los Angeles. His cousin told TMZ that …

A travel agent, named Maria Silvia scammed Manchester United striker, Cristiano Ronaldo, out of £250,000 (about N140 million) after the football star entrusted her with his credit cards and pin. The 53-year-old travel agent also scammed Ronaldo’s super-agent Jorge Mendes of £14,000 and Manchester United winger, Nani, of over £1,500. …

The four biggest global audit firms earned a whopping N6.13 billion from 11 Nigerian banks as audit fees for 2020, a review by Newsextra24  shows. The big four are PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), Deloitte, KPMG and Ernst & Young. Data from banks’ corporate reports show that the amount was earned as the …

President Buhari departs for 76th UN General Assembly in New York on 19th Sep 2021

AD ATTACK: AN ex-Pennsylvania politician launched a two-month “Making the Taliban Great Again” billboard campaign chiding President Joe Biden as a terrorist for his handling of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. The pull-out rushed through by President Biden had made us the laughing stock of the world,” former Republican state senator …

France attacks Boris Johnson as an opportunist ‘fifth wheel on the carriage’ and says Britain has ‘returned into the American lap’ in extraordinarily bitter outburst after losing £30bn subs deal France intensified the growing diplomatic war over a cancelled £30billion submarine contract and dismissed Prime Minister Boris Johnson as the …

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola refuse to apologise to City fans as he calls out supporter club chief who told him to stick to football. Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has refused to apologise to City fans over his comment this weekend. The Spaniard invited fans to show up against …

As the Covid-19 outbreak has hit the global economy, many taxi drivers in Bangkok, Thailand have abandoned the service and left the city for their home villages, leaving so-called taxi graveyards behind. However, some taxi firms in Bangkok, whose cars are currently out of service due to the downturn in …