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  Meta is set to launch verification for businesses on WhatsApp soon. Meta disclosed this during a media briefing yesterday, whose details were embargoed until today, with Meta’s  VP of business messaging, Nikila Srinivasan. The firm stated that it will soon begin to make it possible for businesses to receive verification from Meta, which users […]

Lazio goalkeeper Ivan Provedel scored a bullet header in stoppage time to earn a miraculous draw for Lazio in their Champions League group stage match against Atletico Madrid. The 29-year-old Italian goalkeeper joined his team’s attack in the closing minutes in Rome, and when Luis Alberto sent over a ferocious cross, he sprang and buried […]

The Oyo state governor, Seyi Makinde, said the vacant stool of Alaafin of Oyo is not for sale. Makinde said he would not only refer such people to the Oyo State Anti-Corruption Agency (OYOCA) but would personally take such individuals to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). He urged the people of Oyo town, […]

The Third Mainland Bridge will be shut to motorists to allow the commencement of remedial repair on bad portions of the bridge, the Lagos State Ministry of Transportation has announced. The repair to be carried out through the Lagos Public Works Corporation, LPWC, in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Works, will see the bridge […]

Benjamin Hundeyin, the Lagos State Police Command Public Relations Officer (PPRO), says the body of late singer Ilerioluwa Oladimeji Aloba, aka Mohbad, may be exhumed for autopsy if the need arises. There have been controversies surrounding the death of the 27-year-old singer, with allegations of a threat to life while Mohbad was alive. Hundeyin, in […]

The FCT Police Command yesterday confirmed that its operatives have arrested the national president of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Tajudeen Baruwa and over 20 other members over conduct that bothers on public disturbance and breach of peace. Spokesperson of the Command, SP Josephine Adeh said the president and others arrested will […]

Super Eagles and Napoli striker Victor Osimhen has been nominated for the latest edition of The Best FIFA Men’s Player of the Year award. The list, which was released by the world football governing body yesterday, had the Nigerian striker, Andre Onana (Cameroon) and Yassine Bounou (Morocco) as the only Africans nominated. The qualifying period […]

Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa, Algeria, Lesotho and five others are expected to converge in Cairo, Egypt from September 20 to 23 for the 2023 African Para Table Tennis Championships which is a qualification tournament for Paralympic Games and Commonwealth medallists – Isau Ogunkunle, Faith Obazuaye, Ifechukwude Ikpeoyi top the list of Nigerian contingent to the […]

The police in Sokoto State have confirmed a banditry attack in Giyawa village, Goronyo Local Government Area in the eastern senatorial district of the state, where four persons were confirmed dead. The Sokoto State Police Public Relations Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Ahmed Rufai, confirmed  that eighteen persons were initially abducted by the assailants that […]