The Los Angeles Lakers are set to battle it out with fellow home team the Clippers during Sunday night’s game. And Chrissy Teigen and husband John Legend were clearly feeling the aura of excitement at the Staples Center, when they ...

Coronavirus cases in the UK have today rocketed to 273 in the biggest increase yet after ministers warned 100,000 Brits could die from the deadly bug. Medical experts are now expected to recommend the government move into its second “delay” ...

Iranian state TV today confirmed that 194 people have died from the killer coronavirus and 6,566 are now infected in the Islamic Republic. As the Persian New Year approaches, the Health Ministry warned Iranians to avoid large gatherings and stay ...

Nigerian afrobeats and dance-hall music act, Damini Ogulu, popularly known as Burna Boy has been named the headline act in Fresh Island 2020 music festival to take place in Croatia. The Grammy nominee secured the spot ahead of his Nigerian ...

Mr Ikenna Unegbu, the Imo state director of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), has been docked at a family court in Owerri for raping a two- year old girl in his office. The Nation reported that Chinonye Obioma, mother ...

Nine people were killed in a bloody confrontation on Friday in western Mexico between a criminal gang and agents investigating a suspected kidnapping, officials said. The dead included two officers and six people believed to have been held captive in ...

Two classmates who have been dating since they were in SS1 are about to get married. Their secondary school mate, social media user, Sir Dickson, shared the photos of the loverbirds, with the caption; “Two of my classmates in secondary ...

As the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK hits 164, many of us are rightly seeking to follow the best measures in an attempt to stay safe. Masks are becoming a common sight and shops are reported ...

Two dozen people have been rescued from the rubble after a five-storey hotel housing quarantined coronavirus patients in China collapsed. The Xinjia Hotel in Quanzhou in the Southeast Fujian province collapsed on Saturday, leaving around 70 people trapped. Video from ...

A Kano High court sitting at Audu Bako secretariat on Friday sentenced one Saude Yahya of Utai quarters in Wudil local government to three years in jail, for strangulating her child to death. According to the charge sheet, Saude, who ...

The death of veteran actor, Kasumu Odumosu, fondly called Pa Kasumu came as a shock to many, even though the actor had been battling with stroke for nine years. The 66-year-old actor who had acted in over 100 films would ...

Pope Francis decided to deliver Sunday’s prayer by livestream and Italy called in retired doctors as the new coronavirus epidemic gathered strength and emptied streets in Europe’s worst affected country. The 83-year-old pontiff broke with centuries of tradition by enlisting ...

The Egyptian frontman was back on target in a meeting with Bournemouth on Saturday, allowing him to match the efforts of Michael Owen Mohamed Salah has topped the efforts of Fernando Torres and Luis Suarez by reaching the 20-goal mark ...

The Egyptian becomes the first Reds player since the Englishman to score at least 20 goals in three consecutive seasons Mohamed Salah has equalled Michael Owen’s Liverpool record after scoring in Saturday’s Premier League tie against Bournemouth. With Callum Wilson giving the Cherries ...

  Social media giant Facebook has closed its three London offices from Friday afternoon through Monday for deep cleaning, after a visiting Singapore-based employee tested positive for coronavirus. “An employee based in our Singapore office who has been diagnosed with ...

A 44-year-old woman, Mrs. Bose Olasukanmi who was used by several ‘fraudulent’ pastors to perform fake miracle has been arrested by operatives of the Inspector General of police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) in Lagos after months of trail on her ...

Welsh rugby is in mourning after former star Matthew J Watkins died of cancer aged 41. The ex-centre was suffering from a rare form of bone cancer and had been in treatment at Velindre Cancer Centre in Caradiff before he ...

  Three persons have been confirmed dead after rival cult gangs clashed in Elezuo/Umuchima Street in Okigwe, Imo State. The gangs were in supremacy struggle over who controls the territory when an argument resulted into a free for all, according ...

A member of a nine man armed robbery gang, Gambo Isa, who is currently being investigated by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS Lagos State Police Command has revealed that he was part of the robbery operation that disarmed ...

They came on motorcycles, in the quiet breeze of the early morning when many had left the comfort of their beds to congregate for the Subhi (early morning) prayer. It was 5:30am and the sounds of the assailants’ gunshots created ...

Residents of Owode Quarters in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, were stunned on Wednesday when an apprentice, Peter David, was caught having s.e.x with a pregnant goat at an uncompleted building in the neighbourhood. David, who claimed to be an indigene ...

Gunmen on Thursday night, abducted Madam Beauty Nimizuoa, the 80-year-old mother of the Chairman of Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, Uroupaye Nimizuoa. According to eyewitnesses, the octogenarian was kidnapped at about 11.40pm at her Agudama-Ekpetiama country home in ...

Justice Muniru Olagunju of the Oyo State High Court has sentenced a former Deputy Chief Registrar of the state judiciary, Mrs. Mutiat Omobola Adio to five years imprisonment without an option of fine. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), ...

The senate has approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s $22.7 billion loan request — years after it was rejected by the previous assembly. At its plenary session on Thursday, the upper legislative chamber approved the 2016-2018 external borrowing plan which the president ...

Saudi Arabia has detained two senior members of the royal family – Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, the younger brother of King Salman, Mohammed bin Nayef, the king’s nephew, according to reports citing sources with knowledge of the matter. The Wall ...