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Pope Francis’ has lost his personal doctor, Fabrizio Soccorsi to coronavirus according to the Vatican. The physician, 78, who was being treated for an “oncological pathology,” died at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, according to Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano.  Pope Francis named ...

The lawmaker representing Osun West Senatorial District, Adelere Oriolowo on Sunday escaped an assassination attempt by suspected political thugs during a constituency meeting in Osun State. The Nation gathered that Senator Oriolowo was at the All Progressives Congress (APC) constituency ...

The little girl in Bauchi State, whose s.e.x.u.a l organ was removed by suspected teenage ritualists, is alive.  She survived the assault and is responding to treatment at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH). Bauchi State Police Command spokesperson, DSP ...

Medical experts say that it is possible for twins conceived naturally to have two different biological fathers. The phenomenon, they say, is known as heteropaternalsuperfecundation — a phenomenon that occurs when two different males father fraternal twins. They experts say ...

No fewer than three police officers were over the weekend shot dead while two others sustained bullet wounds at Onueke Police Station in Ezza South Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. Vanguard gathered that the policemen were attacked by suspected ...

The Nigeria Immigration Service headquarters in Abuja has been razed by fire in the early hours of Sunday. The Service which disclosed this in a statement on its official Twitter handle said the fire affected some of the offices in ...

A private school in the New York borough of Staten Island, Wagner College has revoked an honorary degree given to President Donald Trump. This is coming after Lehigh University, a private school in Pennsylvania also revoked the same degree awarded ...

  Lagos state police command today Saturday, January 9 paraded 237 clubgoers who were arrested for violating COVID19 protocols. The clubgoers were arrested on Friday Night January 8 and Saturday, January 9 in the Surulere and Victoria Island axis of the ...

  1585 new cases of COVID19 were recorded in Nigeria on Saturday, January 9.   According to the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, Lagos recorded 573 fresh cases while the FCT recorded 182 new cases.   The health agency says ...

  The Federal Road Safety Commission FRSC says beginning from the second quarter of 2021, the National Identity Number NIN will become compulsory whenever anyone is applying for vehicle registration.   According to the press release signed by Bisi Kazeem, ...

Mrs Rosemary Adebutu, one of the wives of the owner of Premier Lotto, Chief Kessington Adebutu, is dead.   She was said to have died in a highbrow hospital on Lagos Island on Saturday afternoon after a brief illness. A ...

  The Florida man who was photographed carrying U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern from the House of Representative chambers during the riot at the U.S. Capitol, has been arrested.   The suspect identified as 36-year-old Adam Christian of Parrish in Florida, was arrested on a federal warrant ...

  Hadiza Nasir El-Rufai, wife of Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai, shared the photo above on her Twitter handle on Saturday evening January 10.   According to her, the photo shows what the stress from being the governor of the state ...

  A Caucasian woman dating a Nigerian man simply identified as Sam recently made a video detailing her living condition in Nigeria. The lady sent the video which has since gone viral, to her family members in America.   In ...

A child in Switzerland survived after being driven over twice by a car, police-reported on Saturday. A driver was moving his car to a different parking spot in the town of Oberentfelden on Friday evening when he ran over the ...

Tongues have begun to wag on social media after former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode announced the arrival of a new born baby. The question many people asked the ex-minister is; who is the mother of the baby? FFK had taken ...

Two suspects arrested in Bauchi over ritual killing of a little girl have been telling the police why they embarked on the dastardly act. A news website, PRNigeria reported that the suspects, in an audio clip of the interrogation confessed ...

No fewer than seven people have been confirmed dead after operatives of Amotekun engaged some Fulani herdsmen in Oyo State.   The incident reportedly occurred at Aiyete in Ibarapa North Local government area of the state on Saturday. Daily post ...

Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, has postponed indefinitely his 50 years coronation anniversary in the aftermath of the ravaging coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This is contained in a statement he personally signed and issued to newsmen on Saturday. The oba ...

A Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed the alleged certificate forgery suit brought against Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and one of its members, Edobor Williams.   Justice Ahmed Mohammed, in a ...

A 47-year-old Nigerian man, Nafike Malafa Bala based in Canada has died on his birthday.  The University of Jos graduate died on Tuesday, January 5, 2021, which happened to be his birthday. The cause of his death was not mentioned. ...

Missing Sriwijaya Air plane with 62 people on board which lost contact after taking off from Indonesia’s capital Jakarta on a domestic flight today is suspected to have been found. Rescuers said suspected debris had been found in the sea ...

#Twitter has also permanently suspended United States President Donald Trump’s account due to the risk of further incitement of violence after hundreds of his supporters stormed the US Capitol. “After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and ...

Richard Barnett, President Donald Trump’s supporter, who broke into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office, has been apprehended. Barnett posed for pictures and stole mail from her desk. He was arrested on Friday in Little Rock, Arkansas, and has been charged ...

Many Nigerian governors will be given COVID-19 vaccine on live television to encourage Nigerians to accept the vaccine, an official has said. Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti, who addressed journalists in Abuja after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, said he ...