China has evacuated 325 of its citizens from Nigeria via an Air Peace flight that was scheduled to depart at 10:05 pm on Thursday. The plane is headed for Shanghai. France, the UK, and the US are among the countries ...

The Abia State Government has declared a suspected COVID-19 patient, Emmanuel Ononiwu, wanted. Ononiwu was said to have tested positive and refused to isolatate himself as requested by appropriate medical protocol. The Commissioner of Information, John Okiyi-Kalu, in a statement ...

Kogi state doubled down on Thursday night in rejecting its inclusion in the coronavirus caseload in the country. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, announced two cases for the state on Wednesday. But the State government has rubbished the ...

A fire tore through an overcrowded maximum security prison in Cameroon’s port city of Douala on Thursday leading to the hospitalisation of three prisoners with serious burns, a local fire chief said. Firefighters backed up by police were able to ...

Nigerian Couple and reality stars, Teddy A and Bam Bam have dispelled another rumor of ‘Domestic Violence.’ The rumors were stirred earlier today after BamBam shared a recent photo of herself after she birthed her first child in March. However, ...

The prosecution in the trial of former governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State, Senator Ademola Adelake and for others on examination malpractices charges, withdrew charges against the politician on Thursday. Adeleke was arraigned before a ...

Nigeria’s tally of confirmed COVID-19 cases on Thursday rose to 8,915 as 182 new infections were announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). Five deaths were recorded from the virus on Thursday bringing the total number of confirmed ...

The Lagos State Government has given approval to Primero Transport Services Limited, operator of the high capacity Bus Rapid Transit, BRT, to carry 42 passengers seated with no standing as against earlier directive aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19 ...

Lagos State Government will from July introduce what it describes as First Mile and Last Mile (FMLM) mobility solution to replace banned Okada and tricycle. Transportation Commissioner Frederick Oladeinde, speaking yesterday at the 2020 ministerial press briefing at the JJT ...

Stuart Scott, 25, first noticed his hair was receding in his late teens and grew self conscious to the point he rarely went on nights out with his friends. But his confidence hit rock bottom when a woman on Plenty ...

A pilot study on the use of dogs, to diagnose the dreadful covid-19 pandemic ravaging many countries, may start in Nigeria in July. The pilot training programme utilising scent detection by dogs to discriminate between samples from Covid-19 positive and ...

Spain has begun an official 10-day mourning period for the tens of thousands of victims of the coronavirus pandemic in the country. Starting from Wednesday, all flags on public buildings across the nation and on Spanish naval vessels will be ...

A teenage boy has admitted to killing his ten-year-old sister in her sleep after they argued over using a computer tablet according to the Daily Mail news. The girl, named as Luda and described by local media as smart and ...

Two Kenyan lovers have been given the shock of their lives after being told by their parents that they are siblings, a few days to their wedding. John Njoroge was told to call off his marriage plans to Rose Wanjiku ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the Senate and the House of Representatives, seeking approval for a fresh loan of $5.513 billion. In a letter read by Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, at the plenary on Thursday, the ...

The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremony for Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett and six others is postponed until 2021. Hall of Fame Board of Governors chairman Jerry Colangelo broke the news Wednesday to ESPN. The ceremony ...

The Kogi State Government, Thursday denied the two index cases reported by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), insisting the state is still COVID-19 free. Recall that the NCDC on its website alleged that, two index cases were recorded ...

The Federal Capital Territory FCT Ministerial Task-team on the Enforcement of Covid-19 Restrictions has arrested eight persons, some of who impersonated army officers, for violating the 8 pm to 6 am curfew imposed on the territory in the wake of ...

Kylie Jenner can’t help but see a bit of herself in her two-year-old daughter Stormi. And on Wednesday evening, the 22-year-old makeup mogul had her 178million followers seeing double when she reposted a comparison shot of herself and Stormi on ...

A man said to be a dismissed soldier and his accomplice who claims to be a serving soldier have been arrested by the police in Lagos State with 1,200 kilogrammes of substance suspected to be Indian hemp. The image-maker in ...

Another crisis is brewing in the Oyo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) following alleged clandestine moves to expel former Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, from the party. THISDAY reliably gathered that leaders of the party in the ...

This is the horrifying moment a mother appears to push her autistic son into a canal in what police say was her first attempt to kill him. Patricia Ripley, 45, faked Alejandro Ripley’s abduction after trying to drown him twice, ...

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says that labeling two of President Donald Trump’s tweets with fact checks does not make the social media company an “arbiter of truth.” “Our intention is to connect the dots of conflicting statements and show the ...

Kogi State has recorded its first cases of the deadly Coronavirus since the pandemic broke out in February in the country. Kogi and Cross Rivers State previously held the record as the only two states in Nigeria not to have ...

It was children’s day yesterday, and new mom, Mercy Johnson Okojie shared first photos of her 4th child — a baby girl to mark the glorious day. Sharing photos of Divine-Mercy Okojie, the actress says she is a proof that ...