Hollywood actor Rutger Hauer, best known for his role in Blade Runner, has died after a brief illness, various Dutch media reported Wednesday, quoting family sources.

US regulators on Wednesday slapped a record $5 billion fine on Facebook for privacy violations in a wide-ranging settlement that calls for revamping privacy controls and oversight at the social network.

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Argentina star Lionel Messi was hit with a one-game suspension by South American football bosses over his dismissal during the Copa America third-place play-off against Chile earlier this month.

National chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, on behalf of the leadership of the party, Wednesday, congratulated United Kingdom newly elected Prime Minister , Mr. Boris Johnson.

Two chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State, Chief Lanre Rasaq and Mrs Risikat Adegeye, have commended President Muhammadu Buhari over the choice of ministerial nominees from the state.

New British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s maiden speech Wednesday outside the premier’s 10 Downing Street office was a statement of intent about his premiership.

The House of Representatives, Wednesday, resolved to investigate circumstances behind the alleged rape of blind students in two schools in Jabi and Kuje areas of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, by their teachers.

Crushed inside disease-ridden cells, with no beds, little food and even less hope, inmates in Cameroon’s prisons were already tense before an influx of political detainees and Anglophone separatists stirred up an explosive mix.

Most marriages conducted in religious houses in Nigeria could be deemed illegal as the Federal Government has disclosed that most worship centres conducting marriages in the country lack the license to do so under the statutory Marriage Act.

Former Vice President and Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2019 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Wednesday said the travel ban placed by the United States on some political players in the country validates claim the elections were rigged.

Chairman of Channels Group, Mr John Momoh, yesterday, asked that investigation be opened into the killing of a reporter of his television station, Precious Owolabi.

The Niger Delta Youth Council, NDYC, the umbrella body of youth organizations in the oil-producing regions of the country has called on Nigerians to support government’s efforts towards curtailing the insecurity challenges in the land.

The Arewa Consultative Forum has lashed at former president Olusegun Obasanjo over his letter to President Muhammadu Buhari over the security situation in the country, saying that the former president lacked the moral high ground to talk about insecurity in the country.

The immense success of teen pop bands like ‘Jackson 5’ and ‘One Direction’ on the International scene, leads us to imagine the possibility of a similar success story in the fast-evolving Nigerian music industry; such that a band of teenage artists would grow to record chart-topping songs, put out great videos, perform at profiting events, attain a level of popularity that allows them command tons of fan love and then qualify to be called pop stars.