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Church members and wedding guests in a church in Port Harcourt engaged in a verbal fight when the pastor refused to wed a couple right away because they arrived 5 minutes late to church. Despite pleas, the pastor went to his office and declined to wed them at the appointed time. He left the couple…

Trading in Cryptocurrencies is not backed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Act which recognizes the naira as the only legal tender in the Nigerian financial system, an analyst has said. The CBN had on Friday, directed Deposit Money Banks (DMBs), Other Financial Institutions (OFIs) and Non-Bank Financial Institutions (NBFIs) local financial institutions to…

The members of Lagos State Judicial Panel on Restitution for Victims of SARS related Abuses and Other Matters are divided over an application by Lekki Concession Company (LCC) to repossess Lekki tollgate plaza; while five members supported it, four others objected. The four dissenting panellists were Ebun Olu-Adegboruwa, Olorunrinu Oduala, Temitope Majekodunmi and Patience Patrick…

A student of Oduduwa secondary school, Ile-Ife, Osun state in collaboration with some thugs beat a principal, Sanusi Ademola in the school to stupor. It was gathered that the student, Adeyeni Adejuwon, 19, was scolded for not dressing properly in the morning only to return to the school with his father and thugs and unleash…

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi (Ojaja 11) and Eselu of Iseluland, Yewa North Local Government Area, Ogun State, Oba Akintunde Akinyemi, were engaged in hot exchanges over herdsmen’s reported attacks in several villages in Ogun State. In an exclusive story on January 23, The Nation had reported how herdsmen who were allegedly expelled…

Internet Television Service provider, Showmax, says it will be streaming “I Am LAYCON”, a television show in the U.K., France, Italy, and 24 other countries outside Africa. Showmax’s Public Relations Officer in Nigeria, Onna Okafor, who made the disclosure on Friday in Lagos, said the company’s first Nigerian original series, I Am LAYCON, would be…

The Commissioner for Education in Rivers State, Professor Kaniye Ebeku, has given reason why law graduates of the National Open University (NOUN) are unfit to be admitted into the Nigerian Law School. Ebeku, a professor of law said it was impending doom for the legal profession, if the move to admit NOUN graduates into law…

Nursing students of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, were filmed standing outside to write a test. In the footage shared online, some of the students are seen kneeling on the floor since there were no chairs or desks available. Others are seen using the trimmed plants as a table. “How this people go take pass?…

A GoFundMe campaign has been launched for Sunday Adeyemo, a Yoruba activist better known as Sunday Igboho to support his campaign against killer herdsmen. The Nation learnt the campaign was launched by one Maureen Badejo, based in the United Kingdom for “purchase of buses for Sunday Igboho”. The GoFundMe page is meant to help raise…