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Many celebrities have shared some spooky supernatural stories based on their encounters with the paranormal. Succession star Sarah Snook said she spotted a ghost in London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket while performing Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray in 2024. “I do feel like I saw one. I saw somebody get up, and I was, like, ‘Oh, cool. They’re getting up and leaving. They must need to go to the toilet.’ But I look back and they were not there,” she told The New Yorker in an interview published in March 2025. “They were in a very white, kind of…

The Accord Party candidate and incumbent governor, Ademola Adeleke has won the Iwo Local Government Area (LGA) in the Osun State governorship election with a wide margin. The result was announced at about 11:59 p.m. at the LGA collation centre located at Baptist High School, Iwo. According to the result sheet, he polled 27,085 votes, defeating his closest rival, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate , Bola Oyebamiji , who secured 19,660 votes. The other results were: AA, 130; AAC, 62; ADC, 588; ADP, 191; APGA, 74; APM, 12; APP, 2; BP, 6; NNPP, 3; PRP, 4; SDP, 3; YPP,…

The Independent National Electoral Commission has begun the collation and announcement of results for the Osun State governorship election held on Saturday. INEC’s move came hours after the election concluded across the state’s 30 local government areas. State Retuning Officer: Prof. Joshua Ogunwole, VC Federal University, Oye Ekiti 1. Boluwaduro LG Returning Officer: Prof Sola Omotola A: 7,118 APC: 7,050 ADC: 179 Accredited voters: 14, 662 Total valid votes: 14,478 Total vote cast: 14,655   2 Ede South LG Returning Officer: Raji Oluwakemi A: 26,188 ADC: 390 APC: 6,219 Accredited voters: 34,011 Total vote cast: 33,950 Total valid votes: 33,210…

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is addressing the political “backlash” she is receiving after going public with her decision to freeze her eggs. “One question that I received earlier is do I regret coming out publicly about this due to all of the political negativity and the larger political context, and especially this idea that, for me, I’m quite young in my career — especially when it comes to politics — so would the backlash around this have any future impact on my career and do I regret it for those reasons,” Ocasio-Cortez, 36, said in a video shared via her Instagram…

The Accord Party candidate and incumbent governor of Osun State, Ademola Adeleke, is in an early lead in the ongoing governorship election after results from 15 of the state’s 30 Local Government Areas were collated. The results announced across the 15 LGAs reviewed showed that Mr Adeleke has so far secured 283,235 votes, ahead of his closest challenger, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Bola Oyebamiji, who has polled 216,003 votes. The African Democratic Congress (ADC) candidate, Najeem Salaam, is in third place with 11,196 votes. Based on these figures, the tally shows that Mr Adeleke had a lead of…

The Nigeria Customs Service, Apapa Area Command, said it has recorded an unprecedented revenue collection of N323bn in July 2026. The Public Relations Officer of the command, Sulaiman Isah, in a statement on Saturday, explained that the revenue is the highest monthly figure ever recorded by the command. Isah stated that the Customs Area Controller in charge of the command, Emmanuel Oshoba, made the disclosure during the monthly meeting with Deputy Comptrollers of Terminals and Unit Heads held last week at the command. “The landmark performance further underscores the strong results achieved under the leadership of the Customs Area Controller…

Travis Kelce is showing off his new husband hardware ahead of the Kansas City Chiefs’ first football game of the 2026 preseason. Kelce, 36, was spotted walking into Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium on Saturday, August 15, looking effortlessly chic in a black-and-orange tie-dye two-piece. He accessorized his ensemble with a pair of black sunglasses, a metallic watch and his impossible-to-miss gold wedding band. Kelce, whose team will face off against the Los Angeles Rams on Saturday, married pop star Taylor Swift on July 3 inside New York City’s famed Madison Square Garden arena. “It was a fun offseason, man,” the…

Following the conclusion of results collation at the respective levels of the 30 local government areas in Osun State, the final collation of results has commenced at the designated collation centre in Osogbo, the state capital. The designated INEC Returning Officers for the various LGAs are expected to present the results from their respective LGAs for verification and final approval by the Returning Officer for the election. The final collation will determine the overall result of the governorship election, following the conclusion of voting and the collation of results at polling units, wards and local government levels. Voter turnout in…

The Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has entered an intense transmission phase, with cases spreading rapidly across six provinces. The World Health Organisation (WHO), in a statement on Saturday, noted that as of Wednesday, DRC reported 4,665 confirmed cases and 2,184 deaths, representing a case fatality ratio of 46.8 per cent. According to the statement, the outbreak, now the largest Ebola outbreak reported in the country, has spread from Mongbwalu health zone to 54 health zones across six provinces. “Initially confined to Mongbwalu health zone in Ituri Province, the outbreak has expanded to…

Governor Ademola Adeleke of Accord Party took an early lead on Saturday as the Independent National Electoral Commission began collating results from the governorship election in Osun State. A review of results uploaded on the INEC Result Viewing Portal indicated that Adeleke was leading other candidates in the provisional results. On his trail was the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Oyebamiji, while candidate of the African Democratic Party, Najeem Salaam, appeared to be coming a distant third. As of the time of filing this report, INEC had uploaded 95 per cent of the results on IREV, with Adeleke…