The world's richest man, Elon Musk has bought a 9.2% stake in Twitter, according to a US securities filing, which makes him the company's largest shareholder.
The Tesla founder and tech guru bought 73,486,938 Twitter shares on 14 March, according to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, which is worth...
The 2022 Grammy Awards winners were announced Sunday, April 3, at a live ceremony in Las Vegas, Nevada. Early winners included Jon Batiste, Olivia Rodrigo, Silk Sonic, Foo Fighters, St. Vincent, H.E.R. and comedian Louis C.K.; Central New York native Joe Bonamassa, on the other hand, lost in the Best Contemporary Blues...
A man has narraated how he lost his entire life savings after investing all of the money with a cryptocurrency trader who died in 2018.
Tong Zuo recalled when he invested his money into Quadriga CX, and trusted the company's CEO and founder, Gerald William Cotten with the funds since he had password access...
An 80-year-old woman has graduated with a Master of Business Administration.
The woman's granddaughter took to LinkedIn to celebrate her on her convocation day.
The granddaughter explained that her grandmother decided to get her MBA to "let her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren know that if she can do, so can we...
A Nigerian man, Isaiah Olugosi, 38, was on Monday, March 28 discovered dead in his cell at HMP Wormwood Scrubs in West London, where he was awaiting sentence after being convicted for fraud.
In May 2021, he pled guilty to masterminding a scam that defrauded over 100 shops in the...
Operatives of the EFCC have arrested 75 suspected internet fraudsters in separate sting operations in Owerri, Imo State.
The Abuja Zonal Command arrested 46 suspects on Monday March 28, 2022, for alleged involvement in computer-related fraud at different locations in Owerri, the Imo State capital.
The suspects who are mainly students and...
A Russian ship and two other Russian navy vessels have been destroyed by the Ukraine military in the occupied Ukrainian port city of Berdyansk.
The Ukrainian military posted footage on Thursday, March 24 saying the warship known as the 'Orsk' had been hit by its forces.
Berdyansk, a port city which links...
Chinese authorities searching the site where a China Eastern jet crashed, killing all 132 people on board, have found the aircraft's black box.
Liu Lusong, a spokesman for China's aviation authority told reporters the flight recorder 'from China Eastern MU5735 was found on March 23'.
The discovery comes after the head...
Greece is keeping the system offline, after reporting a Cyber attack on its Postal Service on Sunday.
A service disruption was announced on Monday – while claiming isolating its data center has helped mitigate impact.
The attack reportedly targeted a single workstation, exploiting an unpatched vulnerability, and looking to encrypt systems...
The FBI claimed in a flash advisory that at least 52 critical infrastructure orgs have been breached by the threat actor group as of January 2022. The affected entities included vitality, fiscal services, federal govt, and IT sectors, the bureau said.
Ragnar Locker operators evade detection by using terminate remote...
A south Florida teacher was led out of school on a stretcher and taken to the hospital after she was attacked by a 5-year-old student.
Officials said Monday, March 7, that the attack, which happened last week, left the unnamed teacher "dazed" and "unresponsive."
The teacher was found by first responders "sitting on...
Drugmaker, Pfizer has reported having more than double of annual profits due to its sales of vaccines in 2021, forecasting that the company will make more than $50 billion in 2022 for its Covid-19 vaccine and therapeutic.
Pfizer, whose vaccine developed with German company BioNTech wand as the first approved...
A man who suffered horrific abuse at a Catholic boarding school in Scotland has secured a record £1.4million in compensation.
The 54-year-old, known only as AB, was sexually assaulted by religious brothers John Farrell, Paul Kelly, and Gerard Ryan.
According to Mail Online, the incident occurred during a 14-month spell while he was...
Survivors of Popular Turkish Televangelist Adnan Oktar who was jailed in January for 1,045 years in Turkey on a series of child abuse and molestation charges, have detailed their suffering in the hands of the disgraced preacher.
The accused was found guilty of rape, child abuse, espionage and blackmail in January...
A Panini playing card for a young Cristiano Ronaldo has sold for almost £60,000.
The card was made by the Italian company during the 2002-03 season when the then young star, now 37, made his football debut for Sporting Lisbon.
According to MailOnline, the vast majority of cards from his early years were...
U.S. Army soldiers who refuse to be vaccinated for COVID-19 will soon be discharged, the military branch announced Wednesday February 2.
The Army said it will "immediately begin separating Soldiers from the service" who refuse to be vaccinated or who don't have an approved or pending request for exemption.
"Army readiness depends...
Prosecutors have dropped charges against a Missouri high school teacher after she married the student she was accused of having sex with.
In February 2019, former Sarcoxie High School teacher Baylee A. Turner, 26, was charged with having sexual relations with one of her male students following an investigation by...
Two gay men in Iran have been executed after spending six years on death row.
Mehrdad Karimpour and Farid Mohammadi were hanged in a prison in the northwestern city of Maragheh, some 310 miles away from the capital, Tehran, where they had been convicted on charges of sodomy.
They were sentenced...
Engineers have been said to be the movers and shakers of our contemporary world. Whatever one have chosen to specialize in, be it mechanical, civil, chemical, electrical, or any other form of engineering, the things you’ll help invent, design, and construct will become the staple diets of our global...
A lawyer for Bill Cosby has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a bid by prosecutors to revive his criminal sex assault case.
The 84-year-old American actor and comedian has been free since June, when a Pennsylvania appeals court overturned his conviction and released him from prison after nearly three years.
The state's highest...
Nigeria women have been ranked as the highest users of skin-whitening creams on the African continent.
The data was taken from the International Journal of women’s Dermatology and published by CNN. It shows that 75 per cent of women in Nigeria use skin-whitening products.
Nigeria is closely followed by Senegal at...
Over 26,000 Nigerians have signed a petition on Change.org to stop the demand for English proficiency tests from Nigerians looking to travel abroad for studies or work.
The petition, which was initiated by Policy Shapers, was titled "Stop asking Nigerians to write IELTS".
As Nigeria's language of instruction at various levels...
Canadian police have found the bodies of four people, including an infant, in a snowy field near the US border.
The group of four died from exposure due to the frigid cold, which dropped to -35C (-31F) with wind chill.
The bodies of a man, a woman, a teenage boy and...
Tennis superstar, Novak Djokovic is reportedly on track to play at the Australian Open despite the Immigration Minister contemplating whether to cancel his visa for a second time.
In a statement issued on Tuesday, January 11, a spokesman for Alex Hawke said he is 'thoroughly' considering whether to use his discretionary powers to cancel...
Tianjin, a major Chinese port city near the capital Beijing, has begun mass-testing its 14 million residents after a cluster of 20 children and adults tested positive for Covid-19, including two caused by the Omicron variant.
According to the report, the citywide testing, begun on Sunday and is to be completed over...
Elizabeth Anne Holmes, founder and chief executive of Theranos, a now-defunct health technology company that soared in valuation after the company claimed to have revolutionized blood testing by developing testing methods that could use surprisingly small volumes of blood, was found guilty of fraud and conspiracy on Monday January 3.
Holmes who...
A California mother gave birth to twins just 15 minutes apart but in different years.
Mother Fatima Madrigal gave birth to baby boy Alfredo Antonio Trujillo at 11:45 p.m. on Friday night, Dec. 31, 2021.
Just 15 minutes later, Alfredo’s sister Aylin Yolanda Trujillo was born exactly at midnight on New...
About 12 people have been crushed to death and 17 other left injured in a New Year's Eve stampede at a hilltop shrine in India.
The horror incident unfolded at around 2.40am as people gathered to celebrate New Year's Eve at the famous Mata Vaishno Devi shrine in Katra.
According to local reports, an...
A Nigerian nurse practising in the U.S. has been jailed for sexually abusing patients in the U.S.
Godbless Uwadiegwu, a former nurse aide, was on Tuesday, December 28, sentenced to three years in prison by a U.S court after pleading guilty to sexually abusing patients.
The 59-year-old was accused of having...
Operatives of Osun Amotekun Corps have launched a manhunt after a sex worker living in Ofatedo, Osun State developed a strange illness and started vomiting blood after an encounter with some suspected ritualists at a hotel around West bypass, Osogbo.
The victim was dumped by some unknown men at the entrance to the...
A call girl has blasted a 'sex addict' man after he dumped her in a car park without paying his £720 bill and didn't even offer to make her a cup of tea when she came to his place.
Matthew Bushell, 48, was jailed for two years on Monday, December...
The Canadian government has lifted the ban placed on foreign travelers from Nigeria and nine other African countries.
On December 1, Canada placed the ban over fears of the new Omicron variant of COVID19.
Speaking at a news conference today December 17, Canadian Minister of Health, Jean-Yves Duclos, said the lifting...
A search warrant was issued on Thursday December 16, for Alec Baldwin’s cell phone following a police investigation into the fatal shooting of cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, on the New Mexico set of his film Rust in October.
The "affiant" is identified within the documents as a "full-time, certified peace officer" and a "Violent Crimes Detective in...
United States Federal Bureau of Prisons has announced that convicted Nigerian online fraudster, Obinwanne Okeke a.k.a Invictus Obi will be released in 2028.
The Nigerian convict is currently being held at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI), Oakdale after being sentenced to 10 years in prison earlier in the year for his involvement in...
A 52-year-old Australian socialite, Stephenie Rodriguez, has narrated how she got her two feet amputated and endured an 18-month nightmare when she contracted cerebral malaria from a mosquito bite during a visit to Lagos.
In a report by the Sydney Morning Herald, the single mother and digital entrepreneur said she...
A 21-year-old woman was forced to dig her own grave before being shot dead and buried on a beach.
Police officers at Irapiruba Norte de Laguna, in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, dug up Amanda Albach’s body on Friday, December 3, and the body was uncovered a day after three people,...
Authorities in the UK found Cocaine with an estimated street value of up to £78 million when police responded to reports that people were stealing from a lorry.
Police arrested three men and a woman, who have since been released on bail following last Friday's seizure of drugs at a...
At least 19 people have died and 32 more injured after a bus carrying Catholic pilgrims to a religious site in Central Mexico crashed on Friday, November 26.
Authorities said the bus lost its brakes and slammed into a building in the State of Mexico.
Six of the victims suffered injuries so severe...
At least 45 people including 12 children have been killed after a bus caught fire on a highway in western Bulgaria early on Tuesday.
A senior interior ministry official confirmed that children were among the dead and seven people, who had jumped out of the burning bus had been taken to...
Reagan To, the Squid Game actress who voiced the Red Light, Green Light doll, has revealed her parents won't let her watch the violent Netflix hit because she's too young.
The 10-year-old voiced the terrifying Red Light, Green Light doll in Squid Game's English language dub.
But despite being famous around the world, Reagan still hasn't...
An R. Kelly associate has been sentenced to 96 months for witness intimidation in connection to the singer’s sex crime and racketeering case.
The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York announced the sentencing Wednesday November 17, about seven months after 38-year-old Michael Williams pleaded guilty to an arson charge.
The...
A man accused of stabbing a pit bull dog more than 50 times, and then trapping his body in a suitcase is now pleading guilty, four years after he said he was innocent.
Brendan Evans, 35, from Florida will now serve 10 years in state prison on two counts of...
Four newborn babies have died after a fire broke out at a children's hospital in India, officials said.
The blaze swept through the neonatal unit at the Kamla Nehru Children's Hospital in Bhopal, which is in the Madhya Pradesh state in central India.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan has ordered an investigation...
Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson’s rumored romance seems to be taking a prominent turn as the two had dinner for the second night in a row on Wednesday November 3.
Page Six reported that Davidson, 27, was first to arrive at hotspot Zero Bond, Manhattan’s A-list private members’ club.
Davidson reportedly wore a...
Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu says contrary to reports, 32 and not 36 deaths have been recorded from the Ikoyi building collapse.
The governor gave the clarification while speaking to newsmen at the scene of the incident today November 4.
''Yesterday we opened a register for missing persons, people that have missing...
Banks in Nigeria will stop accepting old £20 and £50 notes from December 31, 2021.
This is to enable proper conclusion of cash evacuation.
Fidelity Bank Plc disclosed this in an email to its customers on Wednesday, Nov 3, titled "Withdrawal of old 20 and 50 GBP notes from circulation".
The email...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC has allegedly arrested popular socialite and businessman, Obinna Iyiegbu, aka Obi Cubana.
Punch reports that the club owner who arrived the headquarters of the EFCC at Jabi, Abuja, at about noon on Monday, is currently being interrogated by operatives of the commission.
A...
An emotional scene played out at Sydney airport on Monday, November 1, as Australia’s international border reopened after almost 600 days and loved ones were able to reunite
On March 20 last year, Australia introduced some of the world’s toughest border restrictions in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Almost all travel to...
Lai Mohammed, Nigeria's minister of information and culture, says the recommendations to lift the ban on Twitter in Nigeria will apply to all social media platforms in the country.
The minister said this on Monday, October 18, when he featured on ‘This Morning’, a programme by Television Continental (TVC).
The federal...
Netflix's biggest series, Squid Game is estimated to be worth almost $US900 million ($A1.2 billion) for the streaming giant, Bloomberg News reports, citing figures from an internal Netflix document.
The nine-episode thriller, in which contestants play childhood games with deadly consequences in a bid to win 45.6 billion won ($A52 million), became an international hit...
A Form One student from Chitungizwa in Zimbabwe, has committed suicide after being busted by his own mother bedding a 14-year-old girl.
The boy was said to have had a quarrel with his mother after being caught red-handed in the act at their house in Unit G.
15-year old Godfrey Chipare was found hanging...
A man managed to escape death after his Incredible Hulk mobile phone case blocked a bullet which was fired at him.
The unnamed victim was shot on October 7 and was admitted to the University Hospital in the city of Petrolina in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco.
Police rushed to the scene but...
Taiwanese defence ministry has warned that China could be capable of mounting a "full-scale" invasion of the Island by 2025.
The warning by the Taiwanese defence ministry comes days after 77 Chinese warplanes flew into Taiwan's air defense zone.
Taiwan and mainland China have been governed separately since the end of...
A Romanian billionaire was killed along with his wife, son, and five other people when the plane he was piloting crashed into a building in Italy on Sunday, October 3.
Dan Petrescu, 68, one of the richest men in his home country, was operating a single-engine Pilatus PC-12 before it slammed...
A rare collection of drawings, sketches and paintings by legendary boxer, Muhammad Ali has sold at auction for nearly $1m (£733,760).
About 26 art works were auctioned at Bonhams auction house in New York with the auction company stating that the most anticipated works, Sting Like a Bee, sold for...
A 35 year old police sergeant raped a woman 14 years his junior and got her pregnant when she was drunk, a court sitting today, October 6, has heard.
Ben Lister was a serving officer with West Yorkshire Police when it is alleged he sexually assaulted the woman after a...
