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Amina Mohammed-Baloni the Kaduna State Commissioner for Health has tested positive for COVID-19. Mohammed-Baloni made the revelation on social media via her Twitter handle on Friday, in a series of tweets while noting that she has gone into isolation. She ...

Senator Bayo Salami, who represented Osun Central in the Senate between 1999 and 2003 is dead.The Osogbo-born politician, it was learnt, died in the United States of America after a brief illness. Salami, who was elected on the platform of ...

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter was rushed to the hospital but now in stable condition. His daughter Corinne announced the news to Blick and pleaded for privacy from the public. “My father is in the hospital and is getting better ...

The Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation Lafiya Dole has inflicted heavy casualties on Boko Haram terrorists in their hideouts at Alagarno and Sambisa Forest area of Borno, Defence Headquarters says.   Alagarno lies 150km from Maiduguri, the Borno capital. ...

Suspected armed robbers have reportedly shot and killed a police officer, Inspector Mohammed Hameed, in Benin, Edo state. The incident occurred on Wednesday night, along the ever busy Lagos Street. It was gathered that a police patrol team had received ...

Members of the Nigerian House of Representatives have proposed a bill for the legalisation and usage of non-toxicant cannabis plants for trading, medical and scientific research and cultivation to bolster the country’s non-oil revenues. Miriam Onuoha, representing Okigwe North Federal ...

The federal government has been urged to pull out of the International Criminal Court, ICC Rome Statute for failing to be fair and just to the country in its dispositions.   The Olowu of Kuta, Oba Adekunle Oyelude Makama gave ...

China has locked down a city of 11 million people in its northern province of Hebei, in an effort to contain the country’s worst coronavirus flare-up in months. Residents of Shijiazhuang, a provincial capital close to Beijing, have been barred ...

  Publisher Dele Momodu and presidential aide, Lauretta Onochie, clashed on Twitter today January 8 after Lauretta made a comment about Dele Momodu.   It all started when Momodu reacted to the Federal government’s decision to borrow money from dormant ...

  The Kaduna State Government has debunked reports that helicopters were supplying arms to criminal gangs.   A statement issued on Friday,  by Samuel Aruwan, the State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, said the government has been drawn to ...

  Donald Trump has said he will not attend Joe Biden’s inauguration come January 20.   Hours after finally promising a peaceful transition of power, Trump took to Twitter to write: “To all of those who have asked, I will ...

A Nigerian lady has revealed how she got married to her twin brother despite all odds as she share the story of how it all started to the point where they got married and had a child.Sharing her story on ...

Disturbing footage shot inside one of the biggest hospitals in London shows the horrific toll on both patients and medical staff during this latest coronavirus spike.Staff at the capital’s University College Hospital say they are being forced to to make ...

Nigerian international footballer, Ugochukwu John Ogu has appealed to Nigerians to say a prayer for him as he shared how he was betrayed by people he held close to his heart at the initial stages of his music career.John Ogu ...

A fraudster claiming to work for the NHS injected a 92-year-old woman with a fake Covid-19 vaccine, City of London Police has said. Detectives are hunting the man who charged the victim in Surbiton, south-west London, £160. Police said it ...

A company led by American-Senegalese R&B singer Akon has signed a deal to finance a copper and cobalt mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo in a joint venture with a state miner, according to a contract published by the ...

Women who are having their first babies after the age of 35 years and above run the risk of having babies having Down syndrome. Dr Yashim Andrew, a hematologist at the National Hospital, Abuja, made this assertion in Abuja on ...

What is all these? What is Reno Omokri sharing on twitter?  Apparently this lady has been spilling all sorts on Instagram about Governor El-Rufai’s 3rd wife and more. She is at the moment in Nigeria — Kaduna precisely. All the ...

The Minister of Power, Mr Saleh Mamman, has directed the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to inform all Electricity Distribution Companies(DISCOs) to revert to tariffs that were applicable in Dec. 2020.   Mr Aaron Artimas, Senior Special Adviser, Media and ...

Anthony Joshua plans to retire from boxing within the next five years. Joshua, 31, turned professional in 2013 following his Olympic triumph the year before at the London Games. He has since won, lost, and then won back three of ...

Nigerian comedian McEdopikin and his wife have welcomed their first child. The comedian shared the excited news on Instagram about their bundle of joy — a baby boy. While sharing the photos, he said his name can now be changed ...

  President Buhari today received the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu in a close door meeting held at the State House, Abuja. More photos of the two leaders below…      

The Liquefied Petroleum Gas Retailers (LPGAR), branch of National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), on Thursday, decried the increase in the prices of cooking gas across the country. Its National Chairman, Mr Michael Umudu, told the News ...

Investigations are underway to “hunt down every man and woman” who took part in the deadly storming of the US Capitol building. Police and politicians vowed no one would escape justice after parts of America democracy’s home was destroyed by ...

                      A 33-year-old suspect, Hassan Ebere, has  revealed how he sold 6,000 dead poultry to residents of Maiduguri for five years so as to raise money for his livelihood since ...