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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 869 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 149,369. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Wednesday. Nigeria also recorded 8COVID-19 ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has charged security agencies to secure the immediate release of students and staff of a public school in Niger State who were kidnapped late Tuesday night. The president’s directive was contained in a statement by his spokesperson, ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s wife, Ri Sol Ju, has appeared in state media for the first time in more than a year, joining her husband at a concert during one of the country’s biggest holidays. The official newspaper ...

No less than 620 makeshift houses have been completely destroyed by fire at Custom House Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in the outskirts of Maiduguri metropolis, Borno State. A child also lost his life while the other two old women ...

British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing, on Wednesday, joined the #BeLikeNgoziChallenge which has been trending online since the beginning of the week. The #BeLikeNgoziChallenge challenge has attracted sizzling attention lately with the historic emergence of Nigeria’s pride, Dr. Ngozi ...

Residents of an Abuja suburb, Pegi, have staged a protest over incessant attacks by bandits and the deplorable state of motorable road which aids attacks in their community. The protesters numbering up to 60, besieged the Federal Capital Development Authority ...

  A Delhi court, on Wednesday, acquitted Priya Ramani, a journalist, of criminal defamation in a suit filed by former Indian Minister, M. J.  Akbar. Delivering judgment, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ravindra Kumar Pandey held that the complainant failed to prove ...

Aghughu Adolphus has been confirmed by the Senate for appointment as Auditor-General for the Federation, following a nomination by President Muhammadu Buhari. The confirmation was sequel to the presentation and consideration of a report of the Committee on Public Accounts ...

Prince Philip, husband to the English Monarch, Queen Elizabeth has been hospitalized. CNN reports that a statement from Buckingham Palace said the 99-year-old Duke of Edinburgh was rushed to a London hospital after feeling unwell. According to the statement, Prince ...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has denied plans to increase fuel price from February. There had been speculations the prices of petroleum products may go up next month as many filling stations sell petrol above the official N162 per ...

A former model was ordered to resign from a job at a hospital because she was too beautiful, it is claimed. Claudia Ardelean, 27, who has a double degree in law and European ethics, was asked to work unpaid on ...

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has announced the temporary closure of Runway 18R/36L at the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos. This closure according to a statement signed on Tuesday by the General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Henrietta Yakubu, was due ...

Pastor Essa Ogorry of Fulfilling Word Foundation Church who went viral few days ago for refusing to wed a couple after the groom arrived 5 mins late to church is dead. According to many people on social media who have ...

Former Ogun State Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel (OGD) has been formally received into the All Progressives Congress (APC) by five governors of the party, who were led by their colleague in the state, Dapo Abiodun. The governors, Rotimi Akeredolu of ...

Pope Francis led the world’s 1.3 billion Roman Catholics into Lent on Ash Wednesday, as they scaled back a centuries-old ritual to help stem the spread of the coronavirus.   Francis normally marks the start of the penitential season with ...

              A young man from Tamale, the northern regional capital, Ghana has died suddenly after announcing his wedding date on Facebook. Fuseini Sayibu Baba, known among his friends as Citizen Shaibu Promzy, was ready ...

A 40-year-old ritualist named Adeboye Moshood has been arrested with human parts on Tuesday by Joint Task Force.It was gathered Moshood on Tuesday morning brought a sack that contained what was not known to his neighbours into the house at ...

Rafi’atu, the girlfriend of final year student of the Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State, Bashir Abdulalhi, who allegedly committed suicide by drinking sniper has denied cheating on him. She says he was the one that cheated on her. We reported that the ...

Today, February 17, Nigeria’s First Lady, Aisha Buhari turns 50. A lot of personalities have been celebrating her, and the woman believed to be the closest to her has taking to her social media page to celebrate her. Celebrating the ...

American model who is also a stripper, Symba has publicly shown support to jailed Nigerian fraudster, Obinwanne Okeke. Recall he was yesterday sentenced to a 10-year jail term in the US after he was found guilty of fraud charges levelled ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 1,368 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 148,296. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Tuesday. Nigeria also recorded 16 ...

An Ikorodu based hotelier, Ebiesuwa Abayomi Fredrick, and his wife, Tinuola Idayat Oyegunle, have said to spend 40 years imprisonment for advance fee fraud. Tribune Online gathered that Abayomi Fredrick is the owner of the popular Victoria East Park Hotel ...

Tosin Ajaomo, the lawyer to the former acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, on Tuesday said the appointment of a new boss to head the anti-graft agency came as a shock. Speaking during an ...

Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, on Tuesday, listed conditions to reopen the crisis-torn Shasha market in Ibadan, the state capital. Makinde made this known when he led some northern governors to the leaders of the Yoruba and Hausa communities in ...

This is the moment a man caught his wife in an hotel with another man on Valentine’s day. In the video making the rounds, the lady could be seen hurriedly leaving the hotel as a man ran after her. Others ...