Health

‎Reports reaching us is that Popular music producer, OJB Jezreel is dead. According to reports, he passed on about an hour ago, following a health relapse for about 2weeks now. Source says his family had to keep him on N35k dialysis before his need for oxygen yesterday. He finally gave …

What a sad day for Nigeria!  One of Nigeria’s most iconic sports personalities, former Super Eagles captain and former coach of the team, Stephen Keshi, has died.   According to his family, he died in the early hours of today Wednesday June 8th of Cardiac arrest in Benin, Edo state. …

A total of 1,934,765 displaced persons are currently living in formal camps, host communities and satellite camps in liberated communities as a result of the insurgency in Nigeria’s North Eastern states of Borno, Yobe, Taraba, Gombe, Bauchi and Adamawa. The National Emergency Management Authority (NEMA), Yola Camp Coordinator, Saad Bello, …

Elderly men in South Korea have allegedly been given erectile dysfunction drugs to buy their votes in legislative elections, prosecutors said Tuesday, announcing an investigation into the suspected breach. South Koreans go to the polls on Wednesday in an election already overshadowed by North Korean nuclear threats and economic difficulties. …

    Linda Ikeji has fired back at Wizkid and somehow revealed that she knows more about him than he thinks, making it clear that he got his Porsche automobile on hire purchase and didn’t buy the ride out rightly. Below is what she wrote via her blog: So my …

Elder statesman and founder of the defunct Nigeria Advanced Party (NAP) Dr. Tunji Braithwaite is dead. The 82-year-old lawyer reportedly died Monday morning after a brief illness at St. Nicholas Hospital in Lagos. More details soon.

President Mohammadu Buhari has said he is angry over the news of latest cruel attacks on a mosque in Maiduguri, Borno State, describing Boko Haram, perpetrators of the dastardly act, as a group of mindless and godless people. He was reacting to the early morning attacks which claimed over 20 …

An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday remanded a 14 year-old teenager (names withheld) at the Boys Correctional Centre, Isheri, a suburb of Lagos, for allegedly raping a five year-old daughter of his neighbour. The Chief Magistrate, Mr Tajudeen Elias, who remanded the accused, over the alleged defilement, then adjourned …

A World Bank Specialist on Welfare Economics, Prof. Foluso Okunmadewa says Nigeria loses 1.5 billion dollars in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) annually to vitamin and mineral deficiencies. Okunmadewa said this at the Stakeholders’ Dialogue on the reviewed Draft National Policy on Food and Nutrition (NPFN) by the Federal Ministry of …

36-year-old gay South African singer, Koyo Bala, who is HIV positive has died at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, after battling with anal cancer for two years. Koyo Bala was part of a pop gay group known as 3-Sum made up of Bala‚ Amstel Maboa and the late Jeff …