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The Peoples Democratic Party has named Senator Ibrahim Dambaba (Sokoto South) as the new Senate Minority Whip. He replaced Senator Sahabi Yau from Zamfara State, who defected to the All Progressives Congress recently.

  Johnson & Johnson is recalling five of its Neutrogena and Aveeno spray sunscreens after the company found low levels of benzene, a cancer-causing chemical, in some samples. The company said customers should stop using the affected products, which were ...

A Venezuelan man who owns a Florida security company allegedly traveled to Haiti multiple times in the plot to assassinate President Jovenel Moïse – and the head of the late leader’s security detail has been placed in custody, according to ...

A “vampire” child killer has confessed to murdering ten youngsters and sucking his victims’ blood in a five-year spree, Kenyan media say. Masten Milimo Wanjala, 20, was arrested on Wednesday following the discovery of two bodies found dumped near the ...

A Fulani man, Babbi Aliyu, was seriously injured during a clash between members of a Fulani family in Ikoroku village in the Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara State. The clash, which occurred in the early hours of Wednesday, was ...

The Ondo State Security Network, also known as Amotekun Corps, has impounded no fewer than 40 vehicles when its operatives raided some night clubs on Wednesday in Akure, the state capital. The government has ordered that the nightclubs and bars ...

The first batch of six A-29 Super Tucano aircraft have departed the United States of America en route Nigeria, the Nigerian Air Force has said. NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Edward Gabkwet, in a statement on Thursday, said ...

Two men were found dead Wednesday inside a Miami Beach hotel that was formerly the home of late fashion designer Gianni Versace, police said. The unidentified men were discovered by housekeeping in a room at The Villa Casa Casuarina in ...

  The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has approved the use of Moderna and Sputnik COVID-19 vaccine in Nigeria, The American and Russian made vaccines were approved for emergency use, according to the Director-General of NAFDAC, ...

Detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has filed an application before the Federal High Court in Abuja, seeking to be transferred from the custody of the Department of State Service, DSS, to the Nigerian ...

The Federal Government has declared Tuesday July 20 and Wednesday July 21, as Public Holidays to mark 2021 Eid-el-Kabir celebration. A statement by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Dr Shuaib Belgore, stated that the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, ...

The Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero today told President Muhammadu Buhari to improve the economy situation of the country to ameliorate sufferings and hardship faced by Nigerians especially in the face of the high cost of food and commodities. ...

  A recent study has shown that over 740,000 global cancer cases in 2020 were caused by alcohol consumption. The study titled, “Global burden of cancer in 2020 attributable to alcohol consumption: a population-based study”, was published in The Lancet ...

Fans of heavily-tattooed artiste, King of Madness, has attacked police on social media for arrested and parading the artist as a suspect. The artiste, who was among 1,320 suspects paraded by the state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, on Wednesday, ...

The Nigerian military on Wednesday released 1,009 ex-Boko Haram insurgents, who had been in military custody at Giwa Barracks in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The former terrorists were handed over to the Borno State Government in a secret ceremony ...

  The Treasurer of the Caretaker Committee of the Lagos State chapter, All Progressives Congress (APC), Sumbo Ajose died in the United States. The late Treasurer had gone to the US for treatment but died on Tuesday at the age ...

The Awujale and Paramount Ruler of Ijebuland, Oba (Dr) Sikiru Adetona, has cancelled the 2021 edition of the annual Ojude Oba Festival. This was confirmed in a statement issued by the Coordinator of the Festival and Baagbimo of Ijebu, Chief ...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been transferred to a hospital in Sao Paulo for tests on a potentially obstructed intestine, his office said on Wednesday, after the far-right leader endured a 10-day bout of chronic hiccups. The 66-year-old had been ...

  Friends and associates have given Obi Cubana 246 cows for his mum’s funeral. The socialite lost his mom in December, 2020. However as he prepares to bury his mother in Anambra this weekend, his friends and associates have sent ...

The death toll in South Africa has risen to 72 as violence continues across the country following the jailing of former President Jacob Zuma. Crowds looting and setting alight shopping centres clashed with police in several cities on Tuesday. A ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has warned against trips that characterise the period as Muslim faithful prepare to mark the 2021 Eid-el-Kabir celebrations next week. NCDC Head of Risk Communications Division, Dr Yahya Disu, handed down the warning ...

At least 19 people have died and dozens are missing, according to regional officials, after heavy rains triggered flash floods in parts of Germany, damaging homes and disrupting transport. Police in the western city of Koblenz said in a Twitter ...

Justice Peter Kekemeke of the FCT High Court, Nyanya, on Wednesday sentenced a 29- year-old Pastor Stephen Kalu to life imprisonment for raping a 17- year-old girl. The convict, a preacher at Adoration Ministry, Karshi, Abuja, was arraigned before the ...

The Senate on Wednesday said that the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy has established a centre for artificial intelligence and robotics to deploy the use of robots and artificial intelligence in combating crime and criminality in Nigeria. The revelation ...

Despite the existence of the National Identity Number, Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia on Wednesday launched his state’s replica of the scheme. He called it Abia State Social Identity Number (ASSIN). He was the first to enroll in the scheme, ...