Five Barcelona players tested positive for coronavirus but the news was not made public, according to reports. Catalan radio station RAC1 made the claim this week as Barcelona prepare to return to action on June 13. The quintet were not ...

The late acting Director, Finance and Administration of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Ibanga Etang, tested positive for coronavirus, the commission has revealed. NDDC, in a statement by its Director, Coroporate Affairs, Charles Odili, said the commission was compelled ...

A coroner has revealed that an overdose of cocaine killed Twilight actor Boyce Gregory and his Nigerian girlfriend, Natalie Adepoju. The 30-year-old actor was found dead at his Las Vegas home alongside his girlfriend Natalie Adepoju on May 13. They ...

Former lawmaker and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Muniru Muse has died after a brief illness on Tuesday. Muse died at the Ahmadiyya Hospital in Apapa, Lagos. He was 80. Muse, who represented Lagos Central Senatorial District ...

An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Monday sentenced a technician, Rasak Abiona, to death for beating his 62-year-old father to death with an iron rod during a dispute over his will in Lagos. Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo delivered the judgment in ...

One of the suspects linked to the r.a.p.e and murder of Miss Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, a 100-level student of the University of Benin, Edo State, has been arrested by the Edo State Police Command. The 22-year-old undergraduate was r.a.p.e.d and ...

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the Nigerian Correctional Services to immediately release a former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu. Kalu is in the Kuje Correctional Service centre following his conviction last December for ...

New York City on Sunday topped 200,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, just three months after the first person in the city tested positive for Covid-19. There were 56 Covid-19 deaths in the state on Saturday, ‘which in this absurd reality we ...

The death toll of coronavirus patients who have died in UK hospitals has reached 31,128 after 164 more patients died. NHS England reported 143 more hospital deaths from coronavirus, another 12 patients have died in hospitals in Scotland, seven more ...

A pastor of Christian Reformed Church -Nigeria, CRC-N, in Donga local government area of Taraba state, Emmanuel Bileya have been killed alongside his wife, Juliana by militiamen. The duo were said to have been working on their farms when they met ...

A model makes thousands a month by smoking weed on Instagram. Sewkey used to work as a waitress before she took on a £7 an hour office job. The 9-5 wasn’t working well for the American influencer – so she ...

NBA basketball star J.R. Smith was caught on a video beating up an unidentified man, who allegedly vandalised Smith’s car during the George Floyd-fuelled protests in Los Angeles on Sunday. The former New York Knicks and Cleveland Cavaliers star is ...

With chants of ‘Say no to Rape’ and ‘Justice for Uwa’, protesters, including students of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), activists and concerned individuals yesterday stormed the headquarters of the state police command in Edo State demanding justice for Vera ...

Cynthia Black, 61, from Pennsylvania, was arrested at her home on Wednesday and transported to the York County Judicial Center for allegedly keeping her dead grandmother’s body stuffed inside a freezer for sixteen years so she could claim her social ...

The Federal Government has said that schools would remain closed “for now”, The PUNCH reports. The Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 made this known during its daily briefing on Monday. While giving an update on the PTF announcement, the Personal Assistant ...

A Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere has sentenced James Onuoha, a former Exxon Mobil engineer to 15 years imprisonment. James Onuoha was sentenced to 15 years jail term without an option of fine after he was found guilty of ...

Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has announced measures to ease restrictions on public gatherings in the country. Under the new directives, church services and Muslim prayers can take place with 100 congregants at a time and for only one hour. Social-distancing ...

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has restrained the Edo State Government and Governor Godwin Obaseki from arresting and prosecuting the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Adams Oshiomhole. Earlier, a panel of inquiry headed by Justice ...

Boxing legend Floyd Mayweather has offered to pay for the funeral of George Floyd. TMZ reports that Mayweather Jr has offered to fund the cost of Floyd’s funeral. He wants to foot the bill for four services taking place in ...

White parishioners have prayed for forgiveness after ‘years and years of systematic racism’ as they gathered in the area where George Floyd grew up in Houston, Texas. Protests and vigils have taken across the country in the past as outraged ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has announced that the record for covid-19 in Nigeria have risen to 10578. 416 new cases of covid-19 were announced late last night. The new cases per states are listed below: Lagos-192 Edo-41 Rivers-33 ...

Snoop Dogg has reportedly banked more than £5 million from his appearance in Just Eat’s new advert. The rapper, 48, is the face of the takeaway delivery service’s new campaign and recorded a new song for the company. The star ...

Nigerian music legend and reggae king Majek Fashek, is dead. His death was confirmed by his manager Omenka Uzoma, on the late singer’s official Instagram handle. “Today been having pressure calls, well it is true that the African No 1 ...

Offering a rare glimpse into his family life, the Liverpool superstar shared sweet pictures of him spending quality time with daughter Makka. Salah wrote: “Father daughter bonding time”. He and his daughter were pictured enjoying the weather and smiling, as ...

Federal Government has announced the second phase of its eased lockdown which would be in place for four weeks. The initial six weeks eased lockdown would end by midnight of Monday, but the Presidential Taskforce PTF on Covid-19 said the ...