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  As many as 43,000 US children 17 or younger have already lost at least one of their parents to the deadly Covid-19 pandemic, according to a newly released study. As of February, the report in the Journal of the ...

The funeral preparations are under way for Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II’s husband, who died on Friday aged 99. According to the BBC, the ceremonial royal funeral will be held at St George’s Chapel, in the grounds of Windsor Castle, ...

Prince Harry has arrived the UK ahead of his grandfather Prince Philip’s funeral, which will be held on April 17. The Duke of Sussex arrived on Sunday from California, where he has been residing with his wife Meghan Markle and ...

A twitter user, has narrated how her brother who works for an event company and was put in-charge of small chops at a wedding was ‘brutally assaulted’ by groom’s brothers at a wedding.She said the groom’s brothers had approached him ...

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, has directed the Muslim Ummah to look out for the crescent (moon) of Ramadan 1442AH from Monday. Abubakar gave the directive on Sunday in a statement issued by Prof. Sambo Junaidu, Chairman, ...

The Lagos State Wastewater Management Office (LSWMO), in collaboration with the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental Offences, has commenced the clampdown on illegal operators discharging sewage at Iddo, Adekunle Lagoon end and Costain area of Lagos state.   The operation ...

Bandits terrorising parts of Kaduna State on Monday killed a seven-year-old boy and his father in Wawan Rafi II village, Zangon Kataf local government area. The bandits, during the bloody attack on the village, also set ablaze seven houses, one ...

Twelve soldiers killed in the bloody communal clash between Konshishi and Oju local Government areas in Benue state were on Monday buried in Wurukum military cemetery in Makurdi, Benue state capital. Governor Samuel Ortom and other top military officers attended ...

Twitter announced today it has established an African foothold in Ghana and is now hiring staff for its office. Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey broke the news with one liner: “Twitter is now present on the continent”, with the flag of ...

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has apprehended the merchants of dangerous chemicals used in food and drinks supposedly to enhance taste that killed three people in Kano. The three died after consuming adulterated flavoured ...

Malta is offering to pay holidaymakers up to £173 each this summer to encourage tourists to return. Popular holiday destinations have struggled during the pandemic due to travel restrictions resulting in closed borders and bans on trips abroad. Malta, which ...

Four teenage girls are accused of setting fire to an unoccupied Pennsylvania house and posting footage of the inferno to Snapchat. Police used the social media post to identify and later arrest the teen suspects, ranging in age from 12 ...

A human right lawyer, Aishat Temin, has condemned the act of a cleric who allegedly beat a student to coma for stealing money from a local safe (piggy bank). The police had arrested the cleric identified as Moshood Alabi, who ...

A disgruntled former Walmart employee in North Carolina is accused of crashing into his old workplace and driving through the aisles, a report has said. Lacy Gentry, 32, who was fired in February, allegedly rammed into a Walmart store in ...

The family of the late activist and Afenifere spokesman, Yinka Odumakin, today announced the order of his funeral rites. A terse statement by his widow, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, today said the rites would span three days – starting from Thursday, ...

The Gan Allah Fulani Development Association of Nigeria has called on the federal and Oyo state governments to ensure the return of the displaced Sarikin Fulani Igangan, Alhaji Salihu AbdulKadir, to Igangan in Ibarapa North Local Government Area of the ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, lamented the annulment of the June 12, 1993, presidential election, presumably won by late philanthropist, Moshood Kashimawo Abiola, blaming the annulment on ‘bad belle’, adding that ‘bad blood’ denied Abiola the top seat. Obasanjo said ...

The Minister of Com­munications and Digital Economy, Alhaji Isa Ali Ibrahim, also known as Sheikh Pantami, has reportedly been placed on the US watch list over a possible link with Al-Qaeda. Ibrahim, also the Dep­uty Secretary General of the Supreme ...

The Federal Government confirmed on Sunday that the Ebute Meta train station, the most iconic on the Lagos-Ibadan train service will be named after the first Lagos state governor, Brigadier Mobolaji Johnson. Johnson, who was military governor of Lagos between ...

The General Overseer of Resurrection Praise Ministry, Archbishop Samson Benjamin protested against the Buhari administration on Sunday in Lagos. Benjamin, popularly known as Jehovah Sharp Sharp, carried a coffin as he marched through the streets of Festac. The Bishop claimed ...

The Police Command in Osun says a suspected ritualist has killed and cut off the head and hands of a female food vendor in Ile-Ife on Saturday. The Command Spokesperson, SP Yemisi Opalola, who said this in a statement on ...

Femi Fani-Kayode, the chief campaigner for Kogi Governor Yahaya Bello as Nigeria’s president in 2023, used the scathing words ‘an idiot and accursed slave” for Bello. Bello had said in an interview that if President Buhari asked him to jump ...

Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested two suspects for the alleged killing of one Osita Anwuanwu, 64, in the Arida area of Ikotun. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, said in a statement on Sunday ...

The federal government has destroyed over 329,000 birds across 62 farms following the outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) which has continued to wreak havoc on farms across the country since the first reported case on January 29. From ...

The dreams of Hammed Omotosho, a secondary school leaver in Agbado, Ogun State, sadly ended after he was electrocuted while fixing the electricity of a building disconnected in the neighbourhood. The 24-year-old, who was a cobbler and a member of ...