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Algeria imposed new coronavirus restrictions Sunday, closing sport and cultural centres as well as beaches after a spike in infections.   The government called on Algerians to fight what it called a “concerning phase” of the pandemic. Algeria has registered ...

U.S. President Donald Trump in a new tweet declared himself the winner of the 3 November election.  “I won the election”, Trump declared in all-caps tweet on Monday morning. Twitter responded moments later by tagging the tweet with a link ...

Indian veteran actor, Soumitra Chatterjee is dead.   Born in 1935, the star of Bengali cinema passed away on Sunday. Xinhua reports that he died at a hospital in Kolkata, the capital city of West Bengal. Chatterjee was undergoing treatment ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) told students to prepare for resumption next week.   ASUU said this on its official Twitter page as the education body expressed hope of an agreement with the federal government. The Union expressed ...

Joe Biden has cried out over the failure of the General Services Administration (GSA), to recognise him as President-elect   GAS is the government agency tasked with beginning the transition process immediately after a presidential election in the US. Also, ...

Gunmen abducted a lecturer and two children of a member of staff of the Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic Zaria, Kaduna State, on Saturday.   The Secretary, Information and Protocol Unit of the polytechnic, Mr Abdullahi Shehu, confirmed to NAN on Sunday ...

Aisha Yesufu, popular activist and EndSARS promoter has reacted to a statement by the Nigerian Army that no live ammunition was fired at protesters at Lekki toll gate.   The Nigerian Army on Saturday, while appearing before the Lagos Judicial ...

A fugitive Leonard Rayne Moses has been arrested in the US state of Michigan, by the FBI nearly half a century after he escaped from custody.   In 1971, Moses fled while serving a life sentence for the first-degree murder ...

A gigantic alligator has been spotted stomping across a golf course in Florida – prompting utter disbelief on social media.   The dinosaur-like beast with huge legs and tail was ‘out for a stroll’ on Wednesday as the area was ...

Thousands of Donald Trump supporters rallied in Washington today, with the president making a drive-past in his motorcade as he sticks to discredited claims that mass fraud denied him election victory.   Marchers close to the White House greeted Trump’s ...

A yet-to-be identifed Lagos prince has vowed that Oba Rilwan Akiolu will be dethroned.   In a trending video recorded in Yoruba, he accused the monarch of corruption, neglect of the state and the people. He accused the monarch of ...

The Nigerian Army emphatically denied that it has mounted a manhunt for DJ Switch, who alleged soldiers killed between 7 and 15 protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate.   On Saturday, Commander of the 81 Military Intelligence Brigade, Brigadier Ahmed ...

  The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Sonny Echono, said teachers without requisite qualifications, competencies and practicing license are presently migrating out of the Nigerian Teaching Service. He disclosed this on Saturday in Abuja while monitoring the conduct of ...

The Federal Government has inaugurated the National Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.   Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, who inaugurated the centre in Abuja, said the inauguration was in line with the digital skills acquisition drive ...

Former senate president, Bukola Saraki returned to Ilorin, Kwara state today for the first time since leaving Senate. He was welcomed by the warm embrace of his supporters.  He has been away before the defeat of the Peoples Democratic Party ...

Croatia centre-back Domagoj Vida was substituted at half-time in the 3-3 friendly draw with Turkey on Wednesday after testing positive for Covid-19. Though Vida, along with the rest of the team, had tested negatively on Monday, subsequent tests on the ...

Brig. Gen. Ahmed Taiwo of the Nigerian Army has alleged that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu invited the military during the EndSARS in Lagos to avoid total anarchy.   Taiwo is the Commander, 81 Military Intelligence Brigade, Victoria Island. He spoke on ...

A Magistrate Court in Abuja on Friday ordered the Police to investigate 50 EndSARS protesters.   They are accused of playing active roles in the agitaion. They include Aisha Yesufu, David Adeleke – Davido, Ayodeji Balogun – Wizkid, Deji Adeyanju, ...

One person was confirmed dead in a fatal accident in a lone car crash in Ilesa, on Friday.   The accident occurred around Ibodi junction Ile-Ife Road in Ilesa, Osun State. A Camry car painted in black colour with registration ...

An inspiring woman has turned her life around from being hooked on heroin and crack cocaine with a staggering make-over. Demi-Nicole Dunlop was addicted to the Class A drugs for two years. The 27-year-old took them everyday which left her ...

                    A 15-year-old girl identified simply as Fatima is troubled at the moment being at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital Idi-Araba a month after giving birth.   She was said to ...

Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump has finally broken his silence, admitting indirectly that he has lost the election to Joe Biden.   He spoke on Friday at the White House, his first speech since Biden was declared the winner last ...

About 76 persons have been confirmed dead in 222 clusters of yellow fever outbreaks in Bauchi, Delta and Enugu states, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has said.   But the organisation said its multi-agency yellow fever technical working group ...

Al-Qaeda’s second-in-command, indicted in the US for the 1998 bombings of its embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, was secretly killed in Iran in August, The New York Times reported on Friday.   Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, who was on the FBI’s ...

Vehicles in the Presidential Fleet and those of members of the Executive Council of the Federation would be converted to use gas as fuel, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, has said.   Mr Sylva, who spoke with ...