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The world is “at war” against Covid-19, the UN chief said Monday, calling for the application of wartime logic to the inequitable access to the weapons needed to fight the pandemic. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres decried the “tsunami of ...

A Black Lives Matter activist is fighting for her life in hospital after being shot in the head, according to a political party she is affiliated with. Sasha Johnson – a mum-of-three – is said to be in a critical ...

The Queen is “deeply upset” by Prince Harry’s public digs at the Royal Family – and she has taken them “very personally”, reports suggest. The Monarch is especially upset by her grandson’s criticism of Prince Charles’s parenting skills. Harry’s relationship ...

Brazen thieves stole a set of “irreplaceable” historic treasures worth more than £1 million in a raid at Arundel Castle. Gold rosary beads carried by Mary Queen of Scots to her execution in 1587 were among treasures that were snatched. ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered that the National Flag of Nigeria be flown at half-mast in all public buildings and official residence across the country to honour Chief of Army Staff, Lt General Ibrahim Attahiru and 10 others who died ...

Gunmen Sunday night attacked the Nigeria Police Divisional Station and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Akwa, Anambra. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the armed attackers came in three Hilux trucks at about 8pm on ...

  The family of the late Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Ibrahim Attahiru, were involved in a disagreement with the Nigerian Army over his burial on Saturday. They insisted that Attahiru must be laid to rest without a coffin ...

  Police in Libya has reportedly arrested two Nigerian nationals for allegedly killing another foreigner. In a report by Libya Observer, the Nigerians, a man and woman, were arrested in Misrata District in northwestern Libya on Sunday, May 23. Police forces ...

  A man identified as Chika Uba has reportedly died after taking his 32-year-old girlfriend, Amaka Joseph, to watch a football match in the Ikeja Local Government Area of Lagos State. It was gathered that Uba after picking Amaka from ...

  The presidential steering committee (PSC) on COVID-19 has declared 90 travelers as ‘persons of interest’ for violating the Covid-19 protocol for passengers arriving Nigeria from selected countries. The federal government had mandated travellers who arrived Nigeria within 14 days ...

  Nigeria’s First Lady, Aisha Buhari and her children paid a condolence visit to the family of the late Chief of Army Staff. Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru. The first family visited the family of Laye Chief of Army Staff on ...

Gunmen have abducted the Deputy Director of Information Communication Technology of Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijebu-Ode, Mrs. Lateefat Abimbola, a student of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Toyinbo Olayinka, and two others. While Abimbola was kidnapped in Ijebu-Ode ...

Pastor Tunde Bakare drawing on history said youths, once entrusted with power, were responsible for the present state of Nigeria. Bakare, who is the General Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, CGCC, said youths, between their 20s and 30s, ...

Another graduate has been a3ped and killed in Nigeria by unknown men. Otunla Blessing, a graduate of English at the University of Abuja, reportedly traveled from Oyo state to Abuja to collect her result. She reportedly arrived late and was ...

Governor Seyi Makinde will swear in all newly elected Local Government Chairmen on Monday, May 24, 2021, in Ibadan, Oyo state. In a press release signed by the Oyo State PDP Secretary, Alhaji Wasiu Adeleke, the ceremony is expected to ...

Over 70 persons have been injured in two different fire incidents that gutted al-ihsan filling station at Sharada Quaters in Kano State. Commissioner of Works, Alhaji Garba Idriss Unguwar Rimi, confirmed the incident to newsmen. He said that the fire ...

  A Brazil based drug kingpin has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, who also intercepted 36 blocks of cocaine, weighing 27.95 kilogrammes with a street value of over N8 billion at the Murtala ...

Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, says he does not believe in any entity aside from the Nigerian State. The governor also specifically said he does not support agitation by secessionists for Yoruba Nation in the South-West region. Akeredolu, who is ...

PDP Governors’ Forum (PDP-GF) on Saturday expressed concern over the move by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate the party’s finances. The forum in a statement by its Director-General, Mr CID Maduabum, in Abuja, said that the ...

The Ondo State capital, Akure, was on Saturday agog as hundreds of Yoruba Nation agitators, under the aegis of Ilana Omo Oodua, trooped to the town from neighboring South-West states for a rally. The agitators, who were led by activist ...

An attempt by some public secondary school students in Ede, Osun state, to mob a man, Wasiu Olasunkanmi, 30, for allegedly picking dried human faeces was foiled by police in the town. It was gathered that the suspected ritualist was ...

Again, agitators for the independence of the Yoruba nation stormed Akure, the Ondo State Capital, on Saturday. The protesters gathered at Isinkan Roundabout, Akure, calling for self-determination. They brandished posters that read, “Support Orile Ede Yoruba”. One of the agitators, ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari was conspicuously missing at the burial of the late Chief of Army Staff, General Ibrahim Attahiru, on Saturday. Attahiru died in a plane crash close to the Kaduna Airport on Friday. 10 other officers were also ...

The United Kingdom through the British High Commissioner, Catriona Laing condoled with Nigeria over the death of the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Ibrahim Attahiru. The COAS died in a helicopter crash on Friday alongside 10 others in Kaduna. “Profoundly ...

  Atletico Madrid performed a dramatic second half comeback to beat Real Valladolid 2-1 and secure their first La Liga title since 2014. Diego Simeone’s side came into the game knowing victory would be enough to get them over the ...