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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has renamed the new coronavirus as Covid-19. WHO announced the new name in its tweeter handle at @WHO that “we now have a name for 2019nCov disease. “The new name is COVID-19.The CO stands for ...

The Technical Director, Nigeria Wrestling Federation (NWF), Christopher Nwadei, said that team Nigeria has won nine medals in the 6th International Solidarity weightlifting championship holding in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Nwadei disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja. He said that the competition ...

Nigeria’s billionaire businessman and President/CEO of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has topped Forbes Africa’s Billionaires list for 2020 for the ninth time in a row. The list according to Forbes captures only eight countries who have billionaires; Egypt and South ...

The Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Bishop Matthew Kukah,  on Tuesday hit President Mohammed Buhari hard. The cleric assessed the Buhari regime and concluded the President had not only relegated the national interest to the background, but he had also ...

  The Benue Government has continued to keep mute over what has been described as a “strange disease,” which has reportedly killed more than 10 persons between January 30 and now, the Punch reports. The President-elect of the Igede National ...

Kobe Bryant and daughter Gianna were buried last Friday in a private family ceremony in Orange County Kobe Bean Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna have been laid to rest in a private family service two weeks after their deaths ...

  A 35-year-old headmaster at Alhazawa Primary School, Danja, in the Danja Local Government Area of Katsina State, Kabiru Husaini, has been remanded in a correctional centre for the alleged rape of a minor in his school. Husaini, who resided ...

The family of Clement and Toyin Okhide, who were killed in the Ejigbo area of Lagos State by their son Michael, has begged the media to mind their business as it mourns the dead. The Okhides were killed by their ...

Scores of medical doctors and health workers, including pharmacists and nurses on Tuesday embarked on a peaceful protest in Owerri, the Imo State to demand 100 percent restoration of their salary as was promised by Governor Hope Uzodinma. The protesters, ...

  Three security guards were Tuesday arraigned before a Lagos Magistrates’ Court, Igbosere for allegedly stealing N8, 460,000, from their employer, one Kola Ayeye. The defendants are Justine Abatore 52, Michael Chima 21, and Mustapha Ibrahim, 38. They are facing ...

A Belfast couple on Tuesday made history by becoming the first same-s.e.x couple to get married in Northern Ireland, following a landmark change in the law last year. Robyn Peoples, 26, and Sharni Edwards, 27, tied the knot in an ...

Unidentified hoodlums have bombed a major trunkline belonging to the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) in Bayelsa State. It was gathered that the pipeline linking the Tebidaba flow station at Olugbobiri, Southern Ijaw Local Area, was attacked on Monday night. ...

A Lagos woman on Tuesday stunned an Ikeja S.e.xual Offences and Domestic Violence Court that her three daughters, aged 12, nine and seven were serially defiled by a muslim cleric, the family housed free between seven and eight years The ...

The Jigawa State Shari’a Enforcement Command (Hisbah), says it has arrested 34 suspected commercial se.x workers and confiscated 147 bottles of beer in Kazaure Local Government area of the state. The Hisbah Commander in the state, Malam Ibrahim Dahiru, made ...

  A heartbreakign video currently going viral on social media has shown the moment a Nigerian man in South Africa killed another man reported to be his relative.   In the video, the two men appeared to have been involved ...

  A Nigerian man and 5 others have reportedly been taken into police custody for duping about 200 sick patients in need of kidneys   The men pretended to be World Health Organisation, W.H.O, certified buyers and sellers of kidneys based in ...

Operatives of Lagos State Police Command have arrested two Chinese men working with Lifemate Furniture for allegedly sodomizing their fellow citizen in Lagos. According to The Nation report, the r3pe happened at 49, Morrison Crescent, Alausa on January 23, 2020. ...

Odion Ighalo will be in the Manchester United squad for the Premier League clash with Chelsea next Monday despite missing a training camp in Spain due to fears he could be denied re-entry into Britain if restrictions against the outbreak ...

The Adamawa/Taraba Command of the Nigerian Customs Services (NCS) has impounded a trailer load of 256 50kg bags of contraband rice, each bag hidden in bigger bags packed with beans. Customs Area Comptroller, Kamardeen Olumoh, who addressed newsmen at the ...

An Mdantsane man who was jailed for eight years for rape walked out of St Alban’s Prison in Port Elizabeth recently after spending two years inside for a crime he did not commit. The rape conviction ended 27-year-old Osiphesona Ngcanga’s ...

Actress and mother of two, Opeyemi Aiyeola, has indirectly reacted to the ongoing dispute between Nollywood divas, Iyabo Ojo and Faithia Balogun. The 42-year-old actress rarely keeps Nollywood friends to avoid a scenario such as the last drama of Iyabo ...

A 22-year old man, Safiu Muritala, has been remanded at Kirikiri prison for allegedly stabbing his friend over a bottle of beer. The accused was said to have bought a bottle of beer, drank from it and then placed the ...

The Supreme Court in a unanimous decision on Tuesday affirmed the nomination of Mr. David Lyon as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and upheld his victory as Governor-elect of Bayelsa State, striking out an appeal by former ...

A middle-aged man simply identified as Victor was in the early hours of Tuesday burnt to death by an angry mob at Ekpo Edem in Calabar South LGA for stealing a fowl. The tragic incident Vanguard gathered occurred at Abitu ...

Amoo Musa Olalekan has been staying in his dormitory and writing thesis these days as a final year master student in Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak. “I have stayed in my dorm since ...