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The international community increased pressure on the military junta that has seized power in Mali, as the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) suspended the nation from its membership Tuesday.   Its leadership agreed the move at an extraordinary session ...

John Obi Mikel scored his first Stoke City goal in their 5-1 hammering of Shrewsbury Town in Tuesday’s pre-season friendly match.   Mikel who joined the Potters on a free transfer earlier this month, made his first start for Stoke ...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has seized 11,785,800 tramadol tablets in Lagos.   They were packed in a total of 607 cartons. Head of Public Affairs, Jonah Achema, made the announcement in a statement on Wednesday. It quoted ...

The Federal Government has ordered the chief executive officers and their lieutenants in agencies under the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources to convert all their official vehicles to run on autogas.   It was gathered on Tuesday that the Minister ...

A branch of Access Bank at Adetokunbo Ademola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos has been gutted by fire.   Part of the bank’s building was gutted by fire after a petrol tanker exploded near it. The Federal Fire Service who have ...

Ajax and Netherlands defender Daley Blind collapsed during Tuesday’s pre-season friendly against Hertha Berlin.   Blind, 30, was diagnosed with a heart condition in December 2019 after suffering from dizziness during a Champions League game against Valencia. The former Manchester ...

Governor Nyesom Wike on Tuesday overwhelmed Rivers lawmakers in the National Assembly (NASS) with car gifts, charging them to defend Rivers state interests at all time in the discharge of their duties.  Wike, through Amb Desmond Akawor, Rivers Chairman of ...

Ebonyi has banned under aged herders from operating in the state.   It warned under aged herders caught will be arrested while the chief herdsman would be arrested and prosecuted. These were part of the communiqué at the end of ...

A man who attempted to dye his beard black out of ‘boredom’ has suffered an agonising allergic reaction leaving him with chemical burns.   Marno Botha and his girlfriend Caitlynn Van Hecke thought it would be a laugh to change ...

The city of Amsterdam has found an innovative way to tackle the age old problem of public urination.   The city council has installed 12 special plant pots that double up as urinals spread across tourist hot spots including the ...

South Korea is closing schools and switching back to remote learning in Seoul after the country counted its 12th straight day of triple-digit daily increases in coronavirus cases.   Education Minister Yoo Eun-hae said that at least 193 students and ...

Mother of Big Brother Naija housemate, Kiddwaya, has pleaded with fans to vote for her son, Kiddwaya.   In a video which she shared on social media, Kiddwaya’s mother said his good attitude in the house has brought tears to ...

  YouTube star Landon Clifford has died at the tender age of 19.   The tragic news was confirmed by Landon’s wife Camryn Clifford in a heartbreaking social media post. A devastated Camryn shared the last photo of her husband ...

In appreciation of the outstanding and exemplary honesty she displayed in returning the sum of thirteen million, nine hundred and forty six thousand, four hundred naira (N13,946,400.00) mistakenly paid into her account, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, on Tuesday, ...

The Nigerian Senate may call for a forensic audit of the joint venture between the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) and Chinese cable company, StarTimes.   The senate is bewildered that 12 years after the agreement in 2008, there is no ...

Unless three different surgeries are urgently conducted on the left leg of Ledesi Kote, a 19-year-old boy who was shot by a police officer for impregnating a girl, according to doctors ,the young man may lose the leg to amputation. ...

  Kim Yo Jong could be North Korea’s most tyrannical dictator yet if she succeeds her brother Kim Jong-Un and may prove ‘a credible nuclear threat to the US’, it’s claimed.   That’s the view of one diplomacy expert, amid ...

  A Fifty-five-year-old man, identify as Abdulhamid Muhammad has been confirmed dead after felling inside well while attempting to rescue his sheep from the well.   It was gathered that the incident leading to Muhammad’s death occurred in Sha’iskawa village, ...

Zimbabwe notorious armed robber Musa Taj Abdul has been finally arrested.     Abdul who has been on the run for over two decades and masterminded a spate of criminal activities,  was one of Zimbabwe’s most wanted armed robbers. He ...

Residents are yet to come to terms with the bizarre incident of a breastfeeding mother, Mrs Chizoba Eke, who was found in a septic tank after three days in an uncompleted building at Iguwurita, Ikwere Local Government Area of Rivers ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed the Chief Executive Officer, Channels Television, John Momoh as the acting Chairman, Governing Council of the University of Lagos, UNILAG.   According to a letter issued on 21 August, 2020 and signed by the Permanent ...

Tunisia’s prime minister-designate on Tuesday unveiled the country’s second government in six months, which must now seek approval from lawmakers incensed by how the administration was formed. Hichem Mechichi had previously declared his intention to form a cabinet dominated by ...

General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Enoch Adejare Adeboye, has reacted to the Companies and Allied Matters Act, CAMA, recently signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari.   The RCCG head joined the Christian Association of Nigeria ...

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has cautioned Nigerians to stop the consumption of an organic apple and blackcurrant originating from Australia.   Prof. Moji Adeyeye, NAFDAC Director-General, who disclosed this to the News Agency ...

  Uganda closed its police national headquarters on Monday after a senior police officer tested positive for coronavirus.   The headquarters building will be closed for three days to allow fumigation and testing of personnel, police spokesperson Fred Enanga told ...