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A plane carrying first lady Melania Trump was forced to turn around shortly after takeoff Wednesday after reports of a "burning smell" by members of the press on board the flight. A Fox News reporter said there was “a thin haze of smoke and smell something burning.” The smell quickly became stronger about 10 minutes after takeoff, she added. The smell...

The Senate has called on Central Bank of Nigeria to suspend ATM card maintenance charges. Office of the Senate President tweeted the decision on its official handle.Nigerian ATM card holders are usually charged yearly fees for owning the card. https://twitter.com/SPNigeria/status/1052564307135946752

Former Women Affairs minister, Aisha Alhassan, who recently resigned her appointment and dumped the All Progressives Congress, has retrieved computers and furniture she donated to the party’s state secretariat in Jalingo. According to Mr Aaron Artimas, APC publicity secretary in the state, Alhassan also removed rugs, air-conditioning sets and tables she had bought for the political party when she was...

The University of Lagos is to screen its newly-admitted students for hard drugs, an official said on Wednesday in Lagos. The university’s Principal Assistant Registrar, Communication Unit, Mrs. Taiwo Oloyede, warned that the university would not hesitate to withdraw admission of new students who test positive for hard drugs. Oloyede spoke in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria. According to...

A woman left paralysed after being "catapulted" from her new bed during sex is suing a bed firm for damages. Claire Busby, of Maidenhead, Berkshire, suffered spinal injuries when she fell from the super king-size double divan as she shifted her position. The 46-year-old is taking legal action against Berkshire Bed Company, trading as Beds Are Uzzz, saying the bed was...

A young Ghanaian teacher, Michael Owusu Afriyie, who is popularly known as Teacher kwadwo basically for his comic skits he is fond of doing, reveals that he has decided to challenge himself to so new uniforms for pupils of his school every month. Michael took it upon himself to sew 18 school uniforms for 18 pupils in his school using his monthly...

Ghanaian actor, Van Vicker has opened up on being married for 15 years, admitting, ''It ain't easy''. The actor says his secret is being afraid of his wife, which translates to, Peace at home. He wrote I have been married for 15 years today #mypeoples and self felicitation wont be in the wrong direction, will it? Cos my broda IT AIN'T...

The mom and sister of British cyclist killed by a French hunter are happy. They say he deserves to be shot dead like an animal after he allegedly raped them. Mark Sutton, 34, died when he was mistaken for a prey in thick woodland near Montriond ski resort, on Saturday. However, he has been called a ‘rapist c**t’ by one...

A junior doctor was reportedly beheaded by her boyfriend after she refused to marry him, say police. Teacher Shyngys Bekenov proposed to his girlfriend Nazerke Bekzhanova, 21, who had recently graduated from medical university in Kazakhstan. She refused because her parents did not approve of him, it is believed. Furious’ over her rejection, the 26-year-old allegedly severed her head as...

Bianca Ojukwu, the widow of late Biafran warlord, Odumegwu Ojukwu, has said that the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, would face grave repercussions for conducting skewed primaries against her and other founding members of the party. Ojukwu's widow said this yesterday in a statement she personally signed. Recounting her ordeal at the APGA senatorial primary in the Anambra South district where...

A member of Sokoto State House of Assembly Alhaji Muhammad Bashir, who lost in the bid to secure the All Progressive Congress (APC) ticket for the House of Representatives, has dumped the party. Bashir said on the floor of the assembly on Wednesday in Sokoto that he has now shifted loyalty to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The News Agency of...

A grandmother has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a toddler was found stabbed and baked in an oven. Carolyn Jones, 48, is accused of killing Royalty Marie Flaw at her home on Monday evening. Police were called to her house in Shaw, Mississipi, after a relative found the 20-month-old’s body inside the oven. Sheriff Kelvin Williams said they...

Cardi B is said to be in a 'private battle' with her music team over the release of her tracks about her rival Nicki Minaj. According to TMZ, Cardi B, 26, wants to 'keep it real' about her ongoing feud with the fellow artist, 35, on her upcoming studio album, while her team remains 'divided'. A source close to the publication...

Ariana Grande has told fans she's 'very sad' as she broke her silence in wake of her split from fiancé Pete Davidson. In a now-deleted Instagram story, Ariana 25, praised her fanbase for their support . The singer also revealed she's taking a 'lil' break from social media, while insisting she's 'trying very hard to keep going' amid the shock split...

Nigerian cross-dresser,Bobrisky has claimed he is married to a billionaire as a second wife. Bobrisky also revealed his supposed husband is returning from a  trip abroad and he is trying all he can to snatch him from the first wife. He shared videos from a market where he was buying fish to prepare for his supposed husband. He wrote Second wife like...

In the wake of world’s outrage over the killing of a second Red Cross worker, Hauwa Liman, by a faction of Boko Haram, her distraught family is hopeful she is alive. Hauwa, who works with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), was reported killed by the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), the second aid worker to be...

A Thai Criminal Court on Wednesday found a jet-setting former Buddhist monk guilty of statutory rape, an Official told dpa. Wirapol Sukphol, 39, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for raping and impregnating a 14-year-old girl between 2000 and 2001, an official who spoke on condition of anonymity said. In August, he was handed a combined sentence of 114 years...

Maureen, the wife of Nollywood actor ,Blossom Chukwujekwu,survived a near death experience after she was scalded with hot water while taking a bath. She revealed three weeks ago, she was trying to take a bath but accidentally poured steaming hot water on her body. With her skin peeling as she experienced excruciating pain, her husband rushed her to the hospital...

A 34-year-old man, Trust Ezekiel, 34, has been arrested for allegedly defiling 5 of his tenant’s sons at their Ijanikin residence in Lagos. According to an exclusive report by ThisDay, the suspect has for years allegedly molested the children in his compound until the 10-year-old, who had endured the molestation for five years, got fed up and opened up to...

Many passengers are still missing after an 18-seater bus plunged into a river along (Akala Olu) Okogbe-Mbiama Axis, East-West Road Of Ahoada West LGA, Rivers State. So far, seven including the conductor have been rescued. The incident occurred, yesterday, after the driver lost control, while the bus skidded off a flooded bridge before plunging into the river.  Local divers have since rescued...