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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 1,074 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 88,587. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Friday. “On the 1st of ...

A 40-year-old man was on Thursday night arrested for allegedly defiling his niece in Kasipul, Homa Bay County, Kenya. The suspect was arrested at his home in Kawuon Auko village in Kasipul for allegedly defiling the 11-year-old girl repeatedly. The ...

The wife of the Lagos State governor, Mrs. Joke Sanwo-Olu has welcomed the first baby of 2021 at the Mushin General Hospital. The baby was born 12:01am weighing 3kg. The baby was born to its parent after 7-year of Infertility. ...

Eleven persons were on Friday seriously injured in a multiple motor accident in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra state. The accident which occurred around 2pm opposite a Catholic Church in the area involved six vehicles with fifty-two persons on ...

Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai has exercised his prerogative of mercy and ordered the release of 12 convicts to celebrate the New Year. In a statement by the governor’s Special Adviser on Media and Communication, Mr. Muyiwa Adekeye, 10 ...

It is a dark start of year 2021 for families in Githurai village of Ruiru, Kiambu County, Kenya after an abandoned shrub where five children were playing caved in resulting in their death. The children, all aged between three and ...

The Presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church Worldwide aka Winners’ Chapel, David Oyedepo, says any system the church attacks will crash, The Punch reports. “When the church goes against a man, his destiny is finished. When the church goes ...

A 20-year-old mother, Faith Alhassan, has been arrested in Kaduna State for killing her one-year-old daughter, allegedly to enable her to marry her ex-boyfriend who was not ready to accept her with a baby. Faith, a secondary school certificate holder, ...

Parents of 11-year-old Don-Davies Archibong, JSS1 student of Deeper Life High School, Idoro Uyo, have demanded the sum of one hundred million naira compensation for the inhuman torture their son was allegedly subjected to in the school. This is contained ...

The Zazzau emirate was Friday thrown into mourning following the death of two Princes and council members, Alhaji Bashir Aminu (Iyan Zazzua) and Alhaji Abdulkadir Iya Pate (Talban Zazzau). Iyan Zazzau who was a major contender for the emirship following ...

Prophet Jeremiah Fufeyin, the founder of Christ Mercyland Deliverance Ministry, has said that the secret behind the novel Coronavirus pandemic would be exposed this year. The clergyman disclosed this in his prophecies for the new year at Crossover Night service ...

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye has released his 2021 prophecies.   Known as his custom, Adeboye yearly releases prophesies for the world, Nigeria as a country and individuals. Here are his ...

The federal government has approved the development and release of a mobile app to enable Nigerians and legal residents easily link their National Identity Number (NIN) to their phone numbers. This is contained in a statement released by Dr Femi ...

Over 1,000 people have so far signed a petition to compel the Central Bank of Nigeria and the board of FCMB to sack its managing director, Adam Nuru. Adam Nuru, reportedly fathered the two children of a married woman, working ...

A Nigerian lawyer, Bolanle Cole and political analyst , TD Cole Esq. has shared a shocking story of how a banker died after being told his two children from his marriage are not his. He shared the story on twitter ...

Here are faces of the organizers of the proposed Kaduna s.e.x party which was meat to hold on December, 27th.   The organizers had gone online to advertise the party which alerted the state Government. In-turn the police started their ...

President-Elect of the United States, Joe Biden, has named a Nigerian-American, Osaremen Okolo as his Covid-19 policy advisor. Okolo was among 100 names announced as additional members of the White House staff by the Biden transition team on Wednesday. Biden ...

Nonso Nnamani, an Economist in a post has revealed only An Economist has revealed only  2% of Nigerians have more than N500,000 in their bank account.   He quoted a statistics from the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), which stated that ...

The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has said that the ongoing enrollment for the National Identification Number (NIN) is free across the country.   In a tweet on Thursday, NIMC warned that those who extort applicants risk a seven-year jail ...

Nollywood actress, Ini Dima-Okojie, has revealed that she was diagnosed with fibroid in 2017. The diva shared her story with her fans on her Instagram account.   She allayed the fears of her friends and fans as she noted that ...

The Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has said that the Nigerian government is on the case of Sulaimon Olufemi who has been on death row for 18 years in Saudi Arabia over the killing of a ...

Tragedy struck in Asu village, Obafemi Owode Local Government Area, Ogun State, on Wednesday when an operational vehicle of the operatives of the  Nigeria Customs Service crushed a motorcyclist, Juwon Mumuni, to death. Punch correspondent gathered that the operatives of ...

Spokesman of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Frank Mba has been promoted to the Commissioner of Police by IGP Mohammed Adamu.   He was decorated with his new rank by the IGP and assisted by DIG Aminchi Baraye on Wednesday ...

The new Covid-19 strain that ravaged the United Kingdom has popped up in San Diego County, California officials including Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday.   Newsom announced the mutation’s arrival in his state during a live conversation with federal infectious ...

A woman who earned the nickname the “Dancing Nurse” for cheering her Covid-19 patients with her moves while volunteering across the US has contracted the virus.   Registered nurse Ana Wilkinson, who had been treating coronavirus-stricken patients in New York ...