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Britain's Prince Harry arrives during the first week of a nine-week trial lawsuit against Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Daily Mail, which Britain's Prince Harry and others are suing over allegations of privacy breaches dating back 30 years, at the High Court in London, Britain, January 20, 2026. REUTERS/Toby Melville Prince Harry faced a “sustained campaign of attacks” for challenging Britain’s powerful Daily Mail over alleged intrusion into his private life, his lawyer told the High Court on Tuesday, January 20, as the Duke of Sussex and six others pursue claims of unlawful information gathering against the paper’s publisher, Associated Newspapers. Entertainment center Harry, 41, and fellow claimants, including Elton John, David Furnish, Liz Hurley, Sadie Frost, Doreen ...

A woman who had a child with her husband’s friend and publicly celebrated the child on Facebook will forfeit her share of her husband’s pension after a Johannesburg court, South Africa, ruled that awarding her half would amount to an “undue benefit” and humiliation for the husband. Entertainment center The couple married in community of property in January 2011. The wife instituted divorce proceedings in August 2024, asking for the dissolution of the marriage and an equal division of the joint estate. While both parties agreed the marriage had irretrievably broken down, the husband asked the South Gauteng High Court to deny her 50% of his pension payout from the Municipal Gratuity Fund after it emerged she was involved with his friend and had a baby with him. According to his ...

Opral Benson, the Iya Oge of Lagos who was earlier reported missing by her family, has been found in Liberia. A family source confirmed the development on Tuesday evening, noting that the 90-year-old socialite may be dealing with age-related health issues. The source suggested she could be experiencing symptoms linked to old age. Benson’s family had raised concern on Sunday after she was unaccounted for for more than 48 hours. In a public alert, they disclosed that she was last seen on January 13, 2026, and had failed to return home, prompting an urgent appeal for public assistance. Despite efforts to contact the family using the phone number shared in the notice, calls and messages were unanswered at the time of reporting. Born on February 7, 1935, Opral Benson is an American-...

The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, carried out an unannounced visit to the Nigerian Immigration Service passport office in Gwagwalada, Abuja, on Tuesday. During his visit, Tunji-Ojo criticised delays in passport processing and warned applicants not to make extra payments. The minister inspected operations at the VIP and Children section of the passport office and engaged both officials and applicants, questioning why applicants were still waiting long after the office was expected to commence operations. During the visit, Tunji-Ojo got feedback from applicants and cautioned them against paying money outside official fees, insisting that Nigerians had already paid fully for passport services. “I don’t want to hear that you are collecting money for diesel or paper. ...

The Lagos State Government on Tuesday announced that rehabilitation works on a 20-kilometre stretch of the Lekki–Epe Expressway will commence on Sunday and run for about 64 days, with traffic management to be carried out in phases across key intersections. The state Commissioner for Transportation, Oluwaseun Osiyemi, during a tour of the corridor, said traffic control during the rehabilitation would focus on specific intersections rather than shutting down the entire corridor at once. According to Vanguard, he explained that the first phase, tagged Intersection One, would run from Chevron to Igbo-Efon, with work to be carried out on the Lagos-bound carriageway using a structured eight-intersection phased approach. “To facilitate construction while maintaining vehicular movemen...

A disturbing video circulating on social media captures the frightening moment students of a tertiary institution in Edo State struggled to escape after a fire broke out in their residence. The incident occurred on Monday, January 19, at a building located behind Farnet Campus 2 in Auchi, Edo State. The footage shows students jumping from a second-floor balcony as flames engulfed their room. In the video, a male student is seen leaping from the balcony, while others, trapped inside the building, were assisted by a ladder placed by fellow students to help them climb down to safety. The dramatic escape has since sparked widespread reactions online. https://twitter.com/i/status/2013649518424662048

The family of Opral Benson, the Iya Oge of Lagos, has declared her missing.  Entertainment center In a notice released on Sunday, the family revealed Benson,90, was last seen on January 13, 2026 and has not returned home since then. Describing the situation as time-sensitive, the family appealed to the public for any information that could help locate her. “The family reports that Mama Opral Benson has been missing since Tuesday, January 13, 2026. She has not returned home and her current whereabouts are unknown,” the notice reads." "Anyone who has seen her, or has any information, no matter how small, is urged to contact us immediately.  “Call 08037039214. Alternatively, please report to the nearest police station. This is time-sensitive. Please sh...

Goods valued at several millions of naira were destroyed in a fire that engulfed a storey commercial building on Somoye Osundairo Street, within the Computer Village area of Ikeja, Lagos State, in the early hours of Tuesday. The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, said the incident occurred at about 1:55 am, triggering the immediate activation of the state’s emergency response mechanism from its Command and Control Centre in Alausa. In a statement issued on Tuesday morning, the agency disclosed that its response team arrived at the scene to find a raging fire at a one-storey commercial structure occupied by dealers in computers and related accessories. “Upon arrival of the LASEMA Response Team at the incident scene, it was observed that a fire outbreak had occurred in...

The Lagos State House of Assembly has backed the state’s executive in the ongoing demolition of structures and shanties erected along shorelines and under high-tension cables across the state. The Chairman, House Committee on Information, Security and Strategy, Mr Stephen Ogundipe, said this in a statement in Lagos on Tuesday. The state government, through the Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development, has embarked on the demolition of illegal structures, especially in the Oworonsoki and Makoko areas in the state. Makoko residents had on Thursday protested at the Assembly complex over the demolition of their structures, urging Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu to stop further demolition. Ogundipe, representing Oshodi-Isolo Constituency-01, said the exercise was a necessary step...

China's population has fallen for the fourth year in a row despite efforts by the government to persuade couples to have more children. Official figures released on Monday revealed that the world's second-most populous nation shrank in 2025, with the total population to 1.404billion, around three million fewer people than the year before. A decade after ending China’s longtime one-child policy, the country’s authorities have been pushing a range of ideas and policies to try to encourage more births,  tactics that range from cash subsidies to taxing condoms to eliminating a tax on matchmakers and day care centers. 'China's one-child policy will be remembered as one of the costliest lessons of misguided public policymaking,' the Brookings Institution said in a 2016 report short...