NAIRA NAIJA NEWS - NIGERIA

It was all fun for some Warri residents who gathered at the mansion of billionaire Chief Ayiri Emami as he hosted a birthday party today in Warri, Delta state. The business mogul held a double celebration as he hosted a birthday party and also a party to thank members of the All Progressives Congress APC following the just concluded Warri south constituency 1 bye-election....

Ex-bread seller Olajumoke has been living a life she only saw in movies in the past courtesy of her recent fame.The model is out of Nigeria on her first ever international trip to South Africa. Check out her photos in South Africa below..

The Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, has disclosed that it generated N3.30 trillion in revenue for the government from taxes in 2016...

The Osun state government, on Sunday afternoon, announced that a full investigation will be launched into the cause of late Senator Isiaka Adeleke's sudden demise...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, Kaduna state governor Nasir El-Rufai were among the dignitaries that attended the wedding of President Buhari's personal assistant, Tunde Sabiu, to Fatima in Kaduna on Saturday, April 29th. Congrats to them. See more photos from the wedding ceremony after the cut..

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, Kaduna state governor Nasir El-Rufai were among the dignitaries that attended the wedding of President Buhari's personal assistant, Tunde Sabiu, to Fatima in Kaduna on Saturday, April 29th. Congrats to them. See more photos from the wedding ceremony after the cut..

The attack on Mercy Aigbe took place on Easter Sunday so she has had time to heal. And according to new reports, Lagos state government might prosecute the actress' husband Lanre Gentry after she dragged him to the Lagos Ministry of Women Affairs for the alleged battery. ..

An Accident between a red Toyota and a Danfo bus on Third Mainland Bridge this morning has thrown a passenger leg into the Lagoon. The victim, a passenger in the danfo bus was seating in the front when the incident happened....

In a bid to show his jovial side, governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia state was pictured engaging in an arm wrestling with a Chinese investor at the state government house. Some of the Chinese investors that the governor interfaced with during his recent visit to China are currently in Abia State...

Flamboyant Lagos pastor, Bishop Tom Samson of the Royal Christ Family Ministry in Ikeja, Lagos -was spotted chilling recently in his expensive hummer limousine which is said to be worth N80 million. ..

Redeemed Christian Church of God Pastor, Dele Taiwo, who is also an Abuja based lawyer, held his white wedding today. Pastor Dele got married to his beautiful bride Doyin today, in a wedding held in one of RCCG's churches in Abuja....

A baby boy delivered by 18-year-old Aisha Lawal who is knwon to hang around a Katsina brothel, has become the center of controversy in a case of alleged abduction and subsequent selling of the baby to one Grace Ohuhu for N200, 000...

The Ooni of Ife Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi departed Lagos for Ile-Ife, Osun state in style after attending the 22nd World Conference of Banking Institutes held at Eko Hotels & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos. The monarch was as usual spotted his in luxury Rolls Royce -surrounded by his aides as he left for his palace.

This is very sad. A Nigerian woman identified as Mrs Keke Esu, who got married last year had died mysteriously -leaving her family and friends in lament. ..

A murder suspect who was on the run for more than four decades was finally apprehended while hiding out in a tent deep in the woods. David Lee Edds, 61, was wanted for a 1976 stabbing in Harris County, Texas - which was reopened in 2014 when DNA linked him to the crime scene...

Delta State Police Command have engaged in an investigation over a 34-year-old Anglican Church pastor from Anambra State, who allegedly tricked a 23-year married woman that had a matrimonial problem to a hotel in Asaba, where he took-off her clothes and caressed her. ..

Yesterday, We broke the news of Mercy Aigbe's failed marriage after suffering alleged battery from her husband. Since then the internet has been reacting to the news in different ways. Here's what they are saying!...

Akwa Ibom State indigene, James Udobong, 29, had always nursed a dream of becoming a footballer for Nigeria’s national team.

Fresh reports have it that an autopsy has been carried out on former Director of Direct Labour Agency, Chief Lucky Ayomanor who allegedly died of cardiac arrest in the custody of the police in Sapele, Delta State. ...

Suspected herdsmen have invaded the residence of Wole Soyinka, renowned playwright and professor, in Ogun state. The scholar disclosed this on Friday while speaking at a forum in Freedom Park, Lagos. “My home is under invasion… From Imeko to Abeokuta is under invasion by herdsmen,” he said...

The driver of a bus that collided with a lorry at Malili on the Nairobi-Mombasa highway in Kenya, killing eight people, was avoiding running over a snake, one of the accident victims has revealed. Ms Elizabeth Mwongeli, 28, told the Nation at Machakos Level 5 Hospital, where she was admitted, that just before the crash she heard the driver shout that he had seen a big snake...

Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe on Friday signed the bail bond of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday granted Kanu’s bail on health grounds....

This is quite shameful! A Facebook User, Sheyi Sheyor, a student of Osun State University Uniosun, Osogbo has taken to his Facebook page to brag about raping a girl. ..

Pictured is one of the men involved in trafficking people across the Sahara as they make their way to Europe. In a TV interview with BBC, he revealed how the trafficking was done from Kano to Libya before being transported to Europe through the Sahara desert or the Mediterranean sea..

A Nigerian lady, who claims to have never had sex before, has taken to social media to auction her virginity through a popular relationship handle on Instagram 'Break or Makeup.'..

It's barely 24 hour to the first 100 days of US president, Donald Trump in office. Reflecting on his time so far, Trump in a recent interview with Reuters said, ...

Four suspects behind the kidnapping of a 75-year- old woman have been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command..

An arrested mother of 3, whose kids were left to fend for themselves after she was jailed for one month by her landlady over rent, has been freed by Cool FM OAP, Daddy Freeze, who secured her bail....

The dog that foiled mass killing by a female suicide bomber in Borno recently, will be bestowed with posthumous award by the Nigerian Veterinary Medical Association, NVMA...

The Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, has cleared the air on the video making the rounds in the social media that is being misconstrued as his snubbing the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, at a public function in Lagos. Rather, Oba Akiolu said his gesture to the Ooni was the culturally acclaimed way of greeting a monarch in Lagos...

The Police at Isheri Oshun division have intensified efforts to unravel the circumstance behind the disappearance of a two-year old boy who was later found dead with his joystick severed off in Lagos..

Nigerian girls says she will commit suicide if Davido doesn’t attend her birthday..

A former Director of Direct Labour Agency, Chief Lucky Ayomanor has the allegedly died in the custody of the police in Sapele, Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State..

Paul Okoye of P-Square is sure enjoying the good life as he awaits the birth of his second child with wife Anita. The singer met with the Deputy Senate President Ekweremmadu and former military Head of State, General Abdulsalam Abubakar. He later shared photos of him chilling in an ultramodern hot tub with built in TV.  He captioned the photos: "Ordinary day. Chill".  More photos after the cut.

Two people have died following the partial collapse of a two-storey building under construction in Lekki, Lagos. Work had been ongoing on the site located at NICON Town Estate, off Admiralty Way, Lekki, when the building fell, trapping workers beneath the debris...

When you talk about 'mother of all nations', one living person that can perfectly fit that description will be 37-year-old Mariam Nabatanzi Babirye. At only 37, Mariam has become quite famous because of the number of children she gave birth to all by herself...

ABUJA — Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that former President Goodluck Jonathan from his first days as President showed he  was too small for the office, saying he, Obasanjo, acted more as an opponent of Jonathan than a supporter of Muhammadu Buhari ahead of the 2015 presidential poll...

Governors of the All progressives congress (APC) met with its National working committee late last night in Abuja to discuss certain issues/crisis plaguing the party. Speaking to newsmen after the meeting, Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-rufai said that the governors had restated their support for Buhari, adding that his state of health had no issue with politics. ...

Did she slay it or not?

President Muhammadu Buhari has renominated retired Justice Sylvanus Nsofor, 82, whose nomination as a non-career ambassador was rejected by the Senate...

According to an online user who shared these disturbing photos,the victims pictured below were murdered in Oku Iboku, Akwa Ibom State by mercenaries from Ikot Offiong in Cross Rivers State...

The operatives of the Rapid Response Squad attached to the Lagos Police Command have arrested eight miscreants in Ojodu Berger for extorting motorists and ordering them to park on obstruction in return for fee....

Governor Ayo Fayose was seen in a Nairabet shop, in Ado Ekiti. The governor is known for associating himself with the masses. 

A former Minister of Aviation, Prof. Babalola Borisade is dead. According to family sources, Borisade died in the early hours of Wednesday in the United Kingdom (UK) He was aged 71, from Usi Ekiti

Nigerian man subjects his neighbor to continuous harassment by always masturbating in her presence. ..

In her effort to tackle herdsmen/farmers clashes in the State and to ensure that criminals face the wrath of the law, the Benue state police command received report on Saturday 22/04/2017 that herdsmen destroyed cassava crops and inflicted matchet injuries on a farmer ,one Dennis Nongu in Logo LGA. ..

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State on Wednesday explained his presence at the trial of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mr Nnamdi Kanu, saying it is in line with his belief in justice for all irrespective of tribe...

Soekarno-Hatta Airport authority in Banten investigates men arrested for possessing 5.9 kilograms of methamphetamine. (Warta Kota/Andika Panduwinata) An alleged Nigerian drug smuggler was shot dead after resisting arrest in Tanah Tinggi, Central Jakarta on Wednesday. Jakarta Police Chief Insp. Gen. M. Iriawan said the police shot Douglas Hope Onyebuchi, aka Kabaka, who was a suspect in a drug smuggling case in Kelapa Gading, North Jakarta...

President Muhammadu Buhari has written a letter to the National Assembly, requesting for approval to borrow $5.851 billion for the upgrade of various sections of the Nigerian railway...

The Nigerian Police says it has commenced investigations into the comments made by an alleged officer Inusa Saidu Biu who threatened to kill 200 people If President Buhari should die. A statement signed by the force's PPRO, reads;..