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A World Health Organization (WHO) team due to investigate the origins of Covid-19 in the city of Wuhan has been denied entry to China. Two members were already en route, with the WHO saying the problem was a lack of ...

The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Muhammed Babandede, has warned that foreign visitors who failed to present their COVID-19 test certificates on arrival in the country will have their visas revoked. Speaking at the weekly briefing of the Presidential ...

Four intending travellers have sued Arik Air Limited for alleged indiscriminate cancellation of their Abuja-Yola flight without notification on October 22, 2020. The plaintiffs – Sadiq Usman, Luqman Hussain, Muhammad Danazumi, and Zubair Usman – accused the airline of breach ...

Nollywood actress Elvina Ibru disclosed on Tuesday that she tested positive for the dreaded novel-coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The actress made the revelation in a video she posted on her Instagram page where she said she has been in isolation and ...

  The Kano government has stopped payment of N30,000 minimum wage to civil servants in the state and have now reverted to the former N18,000 minimum wage.  Salihu Tanko-Yakasai, spokesperson to Governor Abdullahi Ganduje said they reverted to the former minimum wage ...

  The Federal government will be borrowing from Nigerians unclaimed dividends and bank account balances unattended to for at least six years.   This is according to the provisions in the Finance Act 2020 recently signed into law by President ...

  The elevator of the Cocoa House in Ibadan, the Oyo State has collapsed leaving one person dead. The incident it was gathered happened during repairs. Four other persons were said to have sustained injuries. We gathered that the faulty ...

The Lagos state Deputy Governor, Obafemi Hamzat’s brother, a medical doctor, is dead. He died of Covid-19 complications. Report has it he died Tuesday night. Dr Haroun Hamzat, half brother to the Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr Kadri Obafemi Hamzat, ...

Following the alleged s.e.xual abuse of an 11-year-old student of the school in Uyo, the police in Akwa Ibom State are preparing to arraign some officials of the Deeper Life High School. Some officials of the school were said to ...

The Police Command in Oyo State has decried the rate at which unlicensed firearms are being used by some people in the state. This was disclosed by the command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Olugbenga Fadeyi, in a statement ...

A couple were left stunned after finding a note hidden inside their wall which was written 70 years ago. Karl Church, 49, and his partner Eve Jones, 48, were in the midst of renovating their bungalow in Kingsthorpe when they ...

Two Oyo State government workers were charged Tuesday with stealing and selling 40 bags of sugar from the state’s Covid-19 palliatives.   Charged were a 50-year-old driver, Adebiyi Azeez, and Sunday Akinleye , a 43-year-old Assistant Protocol Officer in charge ...

The Police in Edo State is currently investigating the circumstances that led to the death of a 55-year-old man, Enoragbon Imuetinyan, by unidentified persons in Ehen quarters, Urhonigbe community in Orhionmwon local government area of the state.   The deceased ...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said sustained criticisms of President Muhammadu Buhari administration by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would not earn the opposition party return to power in 2023. National Secretary, Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) APC, Sen. ...

The Queen’s cousin Lady Mary Colman has died at the age of 88. Lady Mary died at her Norfolk home on Saturday. Her family announced her death in an obituary in the Daily Telegraph, which read: “Lady Mary Cecilia died ...

Hundreds of civilians are fleeing their homes following an attack by suspected Boko Haram insurgents on a community in Askira/Uba local government area of Borno state on Tuesday. It was learnt that the deadly groups are currently setting houses ablaze ...

The traditional ruler of Abule-Okuta, Bariga, Lagos State, Wasiu Jinadu, has accused policemen attached to the Bariga Police Division of allegedly torturing his son, Taiwo, to death. Punch Metro gathered that Taiwo was arrested on Christmas Day after a local ...

          A middle-aged pregnant woman, Musa Mariam is now being quizzed by the Osun State police command for allegedly poisoning a 3-year-old male child, Rokeeb Musa who happens to be a child of her husband’s second ...

This is quiet embarrassing… A lady who wanted to satisfy her s.e.xual urge ended up calling for help after inserting a giant insecticide spray can into her vagina to satisfy her urge. Something went wrong as she masturbated and the ...

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 45-year-old man, Akanji Oluwaseyi, for allegedly having carnal knowledge of his 13-year-old daughter. Oluwaseyi was reportedly arrested following a complaint by the victim, who reported at the Obantoko police divisional ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 1,354new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 92,705. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Tuesday. “On the 5th of January ...

The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria on Tuesday said it is disappointed by the recent hike in electricity tariffs approved by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission. According to a statement signed by TUC President, Comrade Quadri A. Olaleye, the hike ...

The Lagos State Government has paid a huge sum of money to forensic experts to unearth the truth of what happened at the Lekki toll gate on October 20, 2020. This was disclosed by the Chairman of the Lagos State ...

The Kaduna State government has explained the reason for the demolition of Asher Kings and Queens Restaurant – the building said to be the venue of an aborted s.e.x party in the state. It revealed that apart from violating Covid-19 ...

At least 732 members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) batch B, have tested positive for Covid-19, the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on Covid-19, Boss Mustapha, said on Tuesday. Mr Mustapha at a task force briefing ...