Anuoluwa Ogunyinka

President Donald Trump pulled back from the brink of war with Iran on Wednesday, saying that Tehran appeared to be “standing down” after firing missiles — without causing casualties — at US troops based in Iraq. In a televised address to the nation from the White House, Trump emphasized there were “no Americans harmed” in […]

A “depressed” PhD student took her own life after she was bullied for not being posh enough, an inquest has heard. Jessica Small, 26, who studied anthropology and conservation at the University of Kent, was found hanged at her home in Canterbury on October 11. The inquest in Maidstone heard that the “exceptional” student was

No fewer than 300 members of Pastor Paul Adefarasin’s House on the Rock church have reportedly left for greener pastures. According to Opera News on Wednesday, Pastor delivered the news himself in his sermon on the first Sunday of the New Year, held at The Rock Cathedral in Lekki, Lagos. The cleric announced to the congregation

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has assured that no worker in the payroll of the state government would earn less than the national minimum wage. Mr Makinde gave the assurance on Wednesday during the 2020 Inter-Religious Prayer Service, organised by the state government at the State Secretariat, Agodi in Ibadan, the state capital. He

Samsung, a multinational South Korean conglomerate headquartered in Seoul, has unveiled a TV that could automatically spin from vertical to horizontal mode for viewing videos made for smartphones. Dubbed the biggest-ever phone accessory, the Samsung Sero flips from a widescreen TV into portrait mode just like smartphones phones, letting you watch Instagram, Snap and other smartphone

Police in Bayelsa State has rescued the son of State Commissioner of Water Resources, Nengi Talbotin, from the hands of kidnappers. The six-year-old boy simply identified as Antonio was rescued by a team of operatives from Operation Puff Adder led by DSP Chris Nwaogbo at the riverine Ikiebiri town in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area.

A human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, has asked the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and the Vice president, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, to publicly declare their current assets. This was contained a statement signed by Falana and circulated by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project. It will be recalled that SERAP had demanded

The committee established by the University of Ghana (UG) to investigate allegations of sexual misconduct against two of its lecturers exposed in the BBC sex-for-grades documentary says the piece is “misleading and sensational”. Yaw Gyampo, a professor of political science at the University of Ghana, and Paul Butakor, a lecturer at the college of education, were

The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi has vowed to withdraw his support for the President, Maj Gen Muhammadu Buhari [retd],  if his Iwo town is deprived of the Federal College of Education recently approved for Osun State. The monarch, in a statement on Monday, disclosed that taking the proposed higher institution to another town