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There is more trouble for Nigeria as COVID-19 hits harder with 1,133 fresh cases reported on Wednesday. This is the second time Nigeria is recording over 1,000 cases and the second highest since February when the pandemic broke out. The ...

A yet-to-be-identified woman was confirmed dead on Tuesday afternoon in a lone road accident that occurred along Ilesa, Ile-Ife road, Osun State.   The fatal accident happened around 1:30 pm on Tuesday at Obadare (Wosem) Ilesa- Ife Expressway, Ilesa. It ...

A petrol tanker fire incident on Wednesday, killed six persons and set ablaze about 30 buildings in Jebba town, Moro Local Government Area of Kwara State.   The petrol tanker, which was travelling through the town, reportedly lost control and ...

Following the rising cases of coronavirus, the Federal Capital Territory Minister, Malam Muhammad Bello, has ordered that all bars, restaurants, leisure gardens, and event centres should be shut for five weeks.   He also directed that informal and formal festivity ...

An L.A. County Sheriff’s deputy allegedly had s.e.x on the Universal Studios lot, and the guy had his mic open for all to hear … and the recording is now the talk of the department. Apparently one of the participants ...

A high school teacher from West Pokot County, Kenya on Monday, December 21 died by suicide. The body of Lucy Chebet Lokortodo, 30, a teacher at Kalya Mixed Secondary School in Kipkomo Sub-County, was found hanging from a rope tied ...

The Marine Patrol team of the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, in Cross River has rescued a three-weeks old baby suspected to be a victim of child trafficking at the high sea. The Cross River Comptroller of NIS, Mr Okey Ezugwu, ...

  Legal luminary, Afe Babalola (SAN), has decried the continuous fall in the standard of education in the country. He spoke at a recent event in Ekiti State. Babalola, expressed worry that many of today’s graduates cannot defend their certificates. ...

Governors of the 36 states under the auspices of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) have expressed worries over the deteriorating security challenges bedeviling the country, particularly the North-west region.   The Chairman of the Forum and Ekiti State Governor, Dr. ...

Two Muslim men say they were booted off an Alaska Airlines flight in February because of text messages they sent in Arabic. The men, identified as Abobakkr and Mohamed, were on a business trip when they boarded an Alaska Airlines ...

Rapper turned activist, Ruggedman has said on twitter that anyone that got his or her BVN in 2014 when it was introduced automatically has NIN.   He says those people only need to dial a certain number on their phone ...

Police in Tharaka Nithi County, Kenya have arrested a senior police officer accused of sodomising six boys. Chief Inspector John Marete, who is the Officer Commanding Police Post (OCPP) at Mitheru in Maara Sub-County, was arrested on Tuesday. A resident ...

The General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministries, Apostle Johnson Suleman has cleared the air over receiving thousands of dollars from the US Government in what was termed a Covid-19 loan. A twitter user by the name Michael Harriot had published names ...

A woman, 29, who faked she had cancer and even shaved her head to convince her friends she was terminally ill so they would pay for her £8,500 dream wedding has been jailed for five months. Toni Standen of Widnes, ...

General Overseer of the INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Elijah Ayodele has prophesied that  president Muhammadu Buhari, will suffer health complications in 2021.   Primate Ayodele made this revelation in a tablet of prophecies delivered to the media where he spoke ...

The Senate has commenced a legislative work to enact a law that would legalise the activities of various hunter groups in Nigeria.   The bill, titled “The Nigerian Hunter’s Council of Nigeria Bill, 2020 (SB. 477), was sponsored by Senator ...

The Department of State Services (DSS) has raised the alarm that it had uncovered plots by some criminal elements to carry out violent attacks on public places, including key and vulnerable points during the yuletide seasons. The intelligence agency also ...

Explicit n*de pictures of the King of Thailand’s mistress have been sent to anti-monarchy activists in a bid to “sabotage” the Royal consort. More than 1,400 snaps of Thai king Maha Vajiralongkorn’s mistress – many of them n.a.k.e.d or semi-n.a.k.e.d ...

Vladimir Putin has signed legislation that will grant former Russian presidents lifetime immunity once they leave office. The bill, which was published online Tuesday, gives former presidents and their families immunity from prosecution for crimes committed during their lifetime. They ...

More than 300 Nigerian schoolboys were reunited with their families last weekend, days after they had been abducted by kidnappers from their dormitory in the country’s north-west. The kidnapping revived memories of the 276 Chibok schoolgirls abducted in Borno state ...

The police in Bayelsa State have arrested 15 persons who allegedly specialise in vandalising armoured cables, solar batteries, transformers and other electrical accessories for street lights. Police Commissioner Mike Okoli, who paraded the suspects at the headquarters in Yenagoa on ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has withdrawn the operating licenses of 42 microfinance banks (MfBs). The affected banks have been shut down. The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has stepped in to wind down the banks. In a statement, ...

A 45-year-old mother of five children identified as Mrs Ifeoma Otubo from Okposi Umuoghara in Ezza North LGA of Ebonyi state has committed suicide. The deceased, it was gathered, took took her own her life by hanging on Sunday December ...

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Jill on Monday received their first doses of the coronavirus vaccine on live television, part of a growing effort to convince the American public the inoculations are safe.   Joe Biden took a ...

Boss Mustapha, secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), says four of his children have tested positive for coronavirus.   Mustapha, who is the chairman of the presidential task force on Covid-19, announced this during a media briefing in ...