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A newlywed killed himself after key signs of worsening mental health were missed during the coronavirus lockdown, an inquest heard. Craig Murray, 41, previously had face-to-face meetings with experts after suffering a severe bout of paranoia which caused him to ...

Activist and co-convener, Bring Back our Girls (BBOG) campaign, Aisha Yesufu has predicted that after Boko Haram terrorists are done in the North, they would face the south. The activist said this in a Twitter post. She said; ”When Boko ...

Ogoni communities in Rivers have instituted a contempt proceeding against the Central Bank of Nigeria Governor (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, at the Federal High Court, Abuja.   The charge is over his alleged refusal to order payment of N182 billion ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday ordered the immediate opening of four land borders in the country. Buhari’s directive was made public by the Minister of Finance at the end of the virtual Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting. Land borders to ...

Boko Haram recruited three local gangs in northwest Nigeria to kidnap hundreds of schoolboys on its behalf, security and local sources said Wednesday. The jihadist group has claimed responsibility for Friday’s attack, which targeted a secondary school in the town ...

A 40-year-old jealous lover, Etifa Obukulubu, who set ablaze his estranged girlfriend and a pastor ablaze at the Igbogene area of Bayelsa State in October, narrated to newsmen yesterday that he caught both of them on a bed having a ...

Emmanuel Ibah, a member of the Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation has died of Covid-19 complications.   The NFF announced his death in a statement. It said Ibah’s family confirmed his death. Ibah, who also was Chairman of ...

Primate Elijah Ayodele, leader of INRI Evangelical spiritual church has said that the kidnapped students from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, in Katsina State are somewhere between the Niger Republic and Nigeria. He said God showed him the children were ...

The two sections of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, are presently blocked, particularly around the Magboro area as a result of a gas pipeline explosion. The Federal Road Safety Corps stated that due to the “standstill traffic situation on both sections of ...

A mob on Wednesday set ablaze a police station in Igboukwu in the Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State. An eye witness, who gave his name as Goddy, told Punch that the police station was put on fire around ...

  A group of former senators, House of Representatives members and other politicians across the Southwest geo-political zone has urged the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to contest as president in the 2023 election. ...

An Indiana murder suspect escaped from a prison transport van that made a pit stop at a McDonald’s on Monday, authorities said.   Leon Taylor, 22, was being extradited from Texas to the Hoosier State when he fled from the ...

Senators on Tuesday, again, lamented the inability of President Buhari to effectively address insecurity in Nigeria.   They also reminded the President of their powers of impeachment as contained in the nation’s constitution if the situation persists. The senators also ...

California is distributing 5,000 body bags mostly to the hard-hit Los Angeles and San Diego areas and has 60 refrigerated trailers standing by as makeshift morgues in anticipation of a surge of coronavirus deaths. The precautions come from hospitalizations that ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 758 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 74,132. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Tuesday. “On the 15th of ...

A woman in Australia fell off a cliff to her death on Saturday after trying to take a photo at the precarious location. Rosy Loomba, 38, was with her husband and child when the accident occurred at Grampians National Park, ...

A Japanese man dubbed the “Twitter killer” who pleaded guilty to killing nine people in a high-profile mass murder case in 2017 was sentenced to death on Tuesday, the Tokyo District Court Tachikawa branch confirmed to CNN. Takahiro Shiraishi, 30, ...

  Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo state has said that by 2022 Nigerians will be able to determine whether they need restructuring or a Yoruba presidency.   Some Nigerians have been clamouring for power to be rotated to the Southern region of ...

  A five-year nutrition action plan that will help to reduce hunger and malnutrition across the country has been approved by the federal government.   According to the spokesman to the Vice President Laolu Akande, the plan was approved by the National ...

  The University of Ibadan (UI) clinic has been closed down after a patient tested positive for Coronavirus.   Spokesperson for the university, Olatunji Oladejo said the UI Clinic will be closed for seven days following a confirmed COVID-19 case. Though no ...

  Rufus Adepoju, the Diocesan Bishop of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) of Ekiti West has been suspended over an alleged sexual misconduct.   Announcement of his suspension was conveyed in a letter dated December 11, 2020 and signed by the Primate of the ...

A 16-year-old pupil of Angus Memorial Senior High School, Jemimah Marcus, who won the Lagos State Spelling Bee competition, will become a one-day governor. Marcus emerged winner on Tuesday after a fierce battle with other students. She was presented with ...

Sergent Hamza Haruna, a police officer has said that claims of Mr Ndukawe Ekweke, a petitioner at the Lagos judicial panel are all false. Mr. Ndukwe Ekweke previously narrated to the panel how he was unlawfully arrested by police officers ...

The Jigawa State Government on Tuesday announced the closure of public and private primary and secondary schools across the state. It directed that the schools should be closed effective Tuesday following the increasing cases of coronavirus in the country. The ...

Members of the House of Representatives have called for the immediate suspension of the Federal Government’s Special Works Scheme. Earlier, the National Assembly and the Federal Ministry of Labour, Employment and Productivity had clashed over the recruitment of 774,000 workers ...