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A mum who gave birth to a record nine babies nearly died from blood loss during the delivery, doctors have revealed. Halma Cisse, from Mali in West Africa, had struggled under the six stone weight of her unborn nonuplets and ...

A baby with Covid died after being abandoned by its parents because they feared they would catch the virus, it has been reported. The two-month-old child tested positive before dying on Sunday evening in the Shri Maharaja Gulab Singh Hospital ...

A policeman, Corporal Akinsanya Akingbade, was on Friday shot dead, as residents of Ile Ogbo and Iwo, in Osun State, clashed over boundary. According to an eyewitness, the clashes occurred around Oke Saaji area along Iwo/Ile Ogbo Road, when some ...

It was jubilation galore as 27 kidnapped students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Kaduna were reunited with their families after 56 days in captivity. Tears of joy flowed freely from both parents and their children. At about 3pm, ...

The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, has said the supplementary budget being prepared by her ministry will cover the cost of procuring and delivering 29.588 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. According to ...

Gunmen suspected to be members of the Indigenous People of Biafra launched another attack on Odoro Ikpe Police Station, in Ini LGA of Akwa Ibom State, killing six officers on duty.   It was gathered that the attack occurred in ...

  The Supreme Court on Friday declared the dissolution of local government administrations in Oyo State and their replacement with caretaker committees as illegal.   The Association of Local Government Of Nigeria (ALGON), Oyo State chapter, had appealed the judgment ...

Italy-bound suspected drug trafficker, Okoguale Douglas has excreted 59 wraps of Heroin after he was busted at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. Douglas, 23, was trying to board a Milan, Italy bound flight when he was arrested by officials ...

Pastor Dare Adeboye, one of the sons of the General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, will be buried on Tuesday at the Redemption Camp. Dare died in his sleep on Tuesday at the ...

If you are looking for APC National leader, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, then we are sorry, you can;t find him now. He is currently in Saudi Arabia observing Umrah.  A photo shared b Dele Momodu also shows the politician next to ...

Aisha Alhassan, former Minister of Women Affairs, popularly known as Mama Taraba, is dead. Details of are death are still sketchy but it was gathered that she died at a hospital in Egypt. The deceased battled a protracted illness in ...

Pandemonium broke out in Ogba, Lagos on Friday morning over the alleged shooting of a motorcyclist also known as Okada rider by a police officer. A resident of the area said the unrest started yesterday when a police officer refused ...

The Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) has said an unspecified number of persons were burnt to death in an auto crash on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. Mr Babatunde Akinbiyi, the spokesperson for TRACE, said this at a media briefing ...

President Muhammadu Buhari says he approved the removal of Hadiza Usman, the Nigerian Ports Authority’s Managing Director, to investigate the agency’s management. Buhari said her removal followed a recommendation by Rotimi Amaechi, the Minister of Transportation. Ms Hadiza will face ...

The Nigerian Insurers Association (NIA) said insurance companies paid N4 billion as claims arising from over 2,000 businesses affected by the mayhem that followed the #EndSARS protests. Ganiyu Musa, Chairman of the NIA, disclosed this at a news conference in ...

Nigerian crossdresser, James Brown has cried out on Instagram that he needs a man. The man who dresses and acts like a female says he needs a man in his life as being single could be tiring. Shortly after his ...

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye preached virtually at the church’s Holy Communion service on Thursday. This is despite the loss of his third son, Dare, who died on Tuesday in his sleep. ...

A female middle school student opened fire on classmates in Rigby, Idaho, on Thursday, officials said. Two students and one adult were injured, police said. The adult was treated and released from Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, while the two ...

Joint security operatives on Thursday night killed no fewer than eight hoodlums after they resisted an attack on Orlu Divisional Police Headquarters in Imo state from unknown gunmen. Also, the joint security operatives recovered seven vehicles the attackers came in ...

There are plans by terrorist groups, Al-Qaeda and ISIS to penetrate Southern Nigeria, the United States has warned the Nigerian government. The US says the dreaded groups are looking to make an inroad into Southern Nigeria, this is just as ...

  Fire on Thursday night gutted the Cairo Market in the Oshodi-Isolo Local Government Area of Lagos State. It was gathered that the fire, whose cause was yet to be known as of the time of filing this report, affected ...

Operatives of the Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have arrested two siblings for their alleged involvement in Internet fraud. The suspects, Queen and Rowland Kalu, were arrested on Wednesday, May 5, 2021, at the Amikanle, ...

Doctors at the Ain Borja clinic in Casablanca, Morocco, said the world record nine babies born on Tuesday by Malian Halima Cisse, are expected to spend at least “two to three months” in incubators. Each newborn, five girls and four boys, ...

The Kaduna state government said on Thursday night that the 27 freed students of Federal College of Forestry Mechanization have not been released to their parents. Samuel Aruwan, Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Kaduna State said the students ...

A 15-year-old student of the Ceder International College, Abuja, Nimota Olatunde, has gone missing while trying to repair her torn school uniform. Punch Metro gathered that the disappearance of the student had caused panic among her family members and friends. ...