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A woman in Akwa Ibom State has disclosed online that the indomie noodles she bought in her state was actually part of the covid-19 palliative.   She said she didn’t know why her mind went there, but she decided to ...

  Nigerian state governors under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum said the recent cache of palliatives discovered by citizens in warehouses across the country was kept in anticipation of a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the ...

  The Plateau State Government has given looters 48 hours to return stolen COVID-19 palliatives in their possession or risk being arrested. The PUNCH had earlier reported that a warehouse where COVID-19 palliatives were stored in the Bukuru community of ...

A ‘mysterious’ fire outbreak has razed the Ondo State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) office at Oke Eda, Akure, the state capital.   Reports had it that the fire outbreak started at about 11 pm on Sunday. The building, which also ...

The Ondo State Governor, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu, has described a video that has gone viral, giving quit notice to the Igbo people to leave Yorubaland, as a senseless and one capable of causing destabilization in country.   A group, Young ...

The staff of office of the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu has reportedly been RETURNED. The staff was stolen by some rioters during the #EndSARS protest in Lagos. A video showing the Staff of office has been shared online. ...

British soldiers have arrested seven Nigerian stowaways, aboard an oil tanker, Nave Andromeda, off England’s south coast.   The crew of the vessel were forced to take shelter around 1000GMT and called for help, when they were reportedly threatened by ...

A Nigerian man known on Twitter as @one_dosh has revealed how he was left in a devastated state after discovering that his girlfriend was getting married to another man. He revealed that she shocked him by showing him pre wedding ...

Nosa Onaghise, a 33 year-old Nigerian residing in Austin, Texas has been sentenced to 51 months in US federal prison for his participation in a conspiracy that laundered more than $1.7 million.   Onaghise was sentenced for his role in ...

Former Lagos State governor and a stalwart of Nigeria’s All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has proposed that the Lekki Toll Gate where peaceful protesters were attacked by security forces last Tuesday remains closed indefinitely.   Tinubu put forward the ...

Oyo State Government has issued a warning to hoodlums attacking private and public property in the name of the just-suspended #EndSARS protests, urging them to steer clear of the state.   Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism Dr. Wasiu Olatunbosun, ...

There was no single confirmed case of covid-19 in Lagos in the last 24 hours, according to the latest data released last night by the NCDC.   On Saturday, Lagos, which has 20,807 confirmed cases so far, logged 18 cases, ...

The police on Sunday ordered their officers and men to go after those who were looting private and government establishments under the guise of #EndSARS protests.   Police commands in Akwa Ibom, Osun, Plateau, Kano and Anambra states said they ...

At least, 25 inmates out of the 1,900 that escaped from Oko and Sapele Road Correctional Centres in Benin City, Edo State last Monday have voluntarily surrendered themselves to the authorities.   An official of the Sapele Road Correctional Centre ...

  Female passengers flying from Qatar were subjected to invasive searches after a premature baby was found abandoned in an airport bathroom, in procedures the Australian government on Monday described as “grossly disturbing” and “offensive”.   A number of women ...

President Muhammadu Buhari’s daughter, Zahra Buhari-Indimi has reshared an Instagram post that suggested that the discovery of Covid-19 palliatives locked away in warehouses nationwide is proof that the President is not the country’s problem.   “Now that people confirmed Buhari ...

Nigeria’s 36 governors have denied hoarding the food items donated by the organised private sector to ease the economic hardship imposed on the poor by the COVID-19 lockdown.   A group of Nigerian businesspersons and corporate organizations, which calls itself ...

Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has reviewed the curfew on the people of Ilorin, the state capital from 24 hours to 12 hours.   A statement by Rafiu Ajakaye, Chief Press Secretary to the governor, late last night said the ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has given a marching order to members of his cabinet to relocate to their home states for the purpose of dousing the tension created by the #EndSARS protests and the destruction of property by hoodlums hiding under ...

Federal Government is reportedly considering supplying electricity to the Republic of Chad following a recent request by the neighbouring country, it has emerged. Government-owned Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) disclosed on Sunday that a meeting was held last week to ...

  As looting continues nationwide, especially the breaking of warehouses storing Covid-19 palliatives, Osun State Governor, Mr Adegboyega Oyetola on Sunday issued 72-hour period of amnesty for looters to return stolen property or face full wrath of the law.   ...

A British music teacher allegedly killed his French partner before taking his own life on a Spanish motorway after posting about his struggles during lockdown.   Caspar Veres died after driving nearly two miles on the wrong side of the ...

Femi Fani-Kayode has attacked the National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu for saying that he did not travel out and that he is ‘still the Asiwaju of Lagos and Jagaban.’   A reporter had asked ...

The Special Military Task Force, Operation Safe Haven (OPSH),maintaining peace in Plateau has arrested 123 suspects for vandalising and looting items from private businesses and government properties in Jos.   The Commander of the task force, Maj.-Gen. Chukwuemeka Okonkwo, presented ...

Pope Francis today called for urgent prayer for Nigeria to avert every form of violence.   Nigeria has been engulfed by lots of violence, looting, destruction of properties and killing innocent people in the aftermath of #EndSARS protest. But Pope ...