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Nigerian payment and financial service company, OPay, has denied opening any account without an individual or its customer’s consent.The digital payment platform disclosed this in reaction to claims on social media that the company uses people’s phone numbers to open accounts without the consent of the owners.On Tuesday, many people …

The Palestinian Hamas group has infiltrated Israel and fired rockets from the Gaza strip.According to latest media reports, 22 persons have been confirmed dead and 100 have been left injured, with many sustaining gunshot wounds. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that his nation is at war with “the …

The Federal Government has announced the indefinite suspension of the N-Power program. Betta Edu, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, made the announcement while featuring on a TVC news program on Saturday. She said the decision was birthed by some irregularities within the scheme, noting that the government has …

Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) nominee for president, has asked the Supreme Court for permission to present what he calls new evidence. In the application he filed, Atiku said that the evidence he is seeking to present before the Supreme Court will support his claim that President Bola …

Sir Jude Idimogu, the deputy leader of the Ndigbo All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos, has pleaded with the opposition parties to give President Bola Tinubu room to breathe and concentrate on running the country.On Friday, Idimogu made the request while interacting with reporters. The former lawmaker, who served Oshodi-Isolo …

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Idowu Owohunwa, today disclosed that late Mohbad, vomited and developed goosebumps immediately after he was injected three times by an auxiliary nurse identified as Feyisayo Ogedemgbe. CP Owohunwa revealed this at a press briefing on the state of the investigation into the rapper’s death. Speaking at …

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited says it has no intention to increase the pump price of petrol, also known as premium motor spirit (PMS), at its retail outlets.There have been speculations on social media that the company plans to raise the petrol pump price to over N700 a …

 Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Special Offences Court in Ikeja, Lagos has convicted and sentenced a businessman, Kolawole Erinle, to twelve years imprisonment for $1.4m fraud. According to a statement by the Acting Head, Media and Publicity of the Economic Crimes and Commission (EFCC), Dele Oyewale, Erinle and his company, …

The police in Lagos say the auxiliary nurse who injected Mohbad is prime suspect in the singer’s death. Idowu Owohunwa, the Lagos state police commissioner, gave an update with respect to the ongoing investigation into the singer’s demise in a press briefing on Friday afternoon.Owohunwa disclosed that the police had …

A former presidential spokesman, Reno Omokri has told the people rejoicing on social media that Atiku Abubakar has no case as President Bola Tinubu truly graduated from the Chicago State University (CSU). Atiku had addressed a news conference in Abuja on Thursday after the certificates of Tinubu was released to …