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As President Donald Trump’s days in the White House wane, his administration is racing through a string of federal executions. Five executions are scheduled before President-elect Joe Biden’s 20 January inauguration – breaking with an 130-year-old precedent of pausing executions ...

  At least 16 travellers have been killed by unknown gunmen on Wednesday along Abuja-Kaduna expressway on their way back to Kano from a business trip.   TGB gathered that the victims (all males) were from Dambatta local government.   ...

US President-elect Joe Biden’s son Hunter has said his tax affairs are under investigation.   The investigation is being conducted by federal prosecutors in Delaware. US media quote sources saying it relates to business dealings with foreign countries including China. ...

Tragedy struck in Owerri, the Imo State capital on Tuesday, after fleeing gunmen shot and killed two siblings.   The victims, Ifeanyi Anyanwu, 47, and Tochukwu Anyanwu, 45, were shot dead at the back gate of the Imo State University, ...

  The World Bank has predicted that the effects of COVID-19 pandemic could see further drastic deterioration in the standards of living of Nigerians and push a fresh 20 million citizens into poverty by 2022. Although the institution listed some ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be the first person in his country to be given Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine.   Netanyahu made the announcement Wednesday in front of a just-landed aircraft at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, which had ...

Four Lions at Barcelona Zoo in Spain have tested positive for coronavirus, veterinary officials say. Three females named Zala, Nima and Run Run and one male called Kiumbe were tested after displaying mild symptoms. Two staff members also tested positive ...

The  Federal Government on Wednesday disclosed that it received a total of 38,051 Citizenship applications from September 2018 to October 2020. Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Dr Shuaib Belgore, made this known in Abuja at the 4th Quarter 2020 Public-Private ...

A youthful man from Bombolulu in Mombasa County, Kenya who was on Sunday morning attacked by commercial s.e.x workers, has died in hospital. The man, whose identity is yet to be communicated, died while receiving treatment at the Kilifi County ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 474 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 70,669. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Wednesday. “On the 9th of ...

Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has assured Nigeria and other African countries of access to COVID-19 vaccines as from the end of January through the first quarter of 2021. A statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday quoted Okonjo-Iweala after ...

Nobel Laurette, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has described the year 2020 as the most challenging year as a result of the vicissitudes of problems.   He added that Nigerian situation was worse as a result of the imperial nature of its ...

Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested two siblings and one other for an alleged attempt to kidnap their former employer. The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this on Wednesday in a statement. Oyeyemi ...

Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman, Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT), on Wednesday, told the Federal High Court, Abuja, that he has no case to answer over allegations he laundered N2 billion, stolen from the pension fund. Anayo Adibe, lawyer to Maina ...

While the rest of the world is busy shopping and wrapping gifts, this mum is avoiding festivities as she is allergic to Christmas.   Victoria Osborne, 47, suffers from such extreme allergic reactions at this time of year she could ...

Uganda has applied through the Global Alliances for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) to secure the Covid-19 vaccine from drugmaker AstraZeneca amid surging cases in the country, the ministry of health has said. Henry Mwebesa, director general of health services, said ...

A State High Court in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, on Wednesday remanded in prison, a Nigerian professor, Ignatius Uduk, accused of election fraud during the 2019 general elections in the state. He is to spend five days in the correctional ...

Two suspected cattle rustlers and one herdsman were on Wednesday arrested by the men of the Ondo State Security Network Agency, otherwise known as Amotekun Corps.   The arrests were made following an attack by the suspects on operatives of ...

A local government worker in Benue State, Aondona Yaga, has burned himself to death over unpaid allowances of three years and his inability to pay his enormous debt, according to sources. Yaga was until his death, a casual staff member ...

Congressional Republican leaders rejected a resolution that asserted that Joe Biden is president-elect, the latest effort by the Hill GOP to refuse to accept the election results even though it’s been clear for weeks that President Donald Trump lost.   ...

Google has released the list of the top 10 people Nigerians searched for in 2020. Under the list are popular musicians such as Rema, Naira Marley, Omah Lay and winner of the Big Brother Naija Lockdown Season 5, Laycon. Number ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has won the 2020 presidential election in Ghana, defeating his closest challenger and former president John Mahama by polling 6,730,413 votes (51.59 per cent). Mr Mahama, who contested on the platform of the National Democratic Congress, got ...

A retired chief superintendent of police (CSP), Carol Afegbai, has sued the Edo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry for victims of SARS and related abuses for issuing a warrant of arrest against her after she failed to appear before it ...

OMG! A girl has narrated in school how her stepmother used a hot knife to burn her face and hand. The girl, Husnah Habib, a class 4 student of Islamic school, Sheikh Abubakar Gummi Academy in Asokoro, Abuja turned up  ...

The Lagos State Government has launched a special security team, named ‘Anti-Oneway and Other Traffic Offenders Squad’ to checkmate one-way driving and other traffic offences by motorists. The squad was set up by the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hakeem Odumosu, ...