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Coronavirus patients admitted to hospital still suffer lung damage three months after they are sent home, a study has found.   Most people’s conditions improve within six weeks but researchers found that some struggled with breathlessness and coughing for much ...

An Eastern Cape woman died in a hail of bullets when a gunman opened fire inside the Madeira police station charge office in Mthatha CBD on Monday afternoon.   Terrified eyewitnesses ran for their lives when the shooting occurred. Songezo ...

Queen Ola has shared a cryptic post on her Instastory, months after her rumoured split from  husband — Alaafin of Oyo.   Recall rumours went wild months ago that the Queen had been allegedly sent packing from the palace over ...

Aisha Buhari, the First Lady of Nigeria, has expressed disappointment over the cartoon image of her (Aisha) after her daughter, Hanan’s wedding at the Presidential Villa on Friday.   The cartoon shows the First Lady seeing Nigerians drowning in a ...

A Union Bank staff, Kolapo Oduwole has been charged by the EFCC with forgery and fraud in the sum of N80,000,000.   Oduwole, who worked at the Katsina branch, was docked before Justice Musa Danladi of the Katsina State High ...

The Government of Ogun State has finally reopened schools, five months after they were shut down to prevent community transmission of coronavirus.   The state government said schools should reopen on September 21 for the first term of 2020/2021 session. ...

Niger State Governor Sani Bello has commiserated with the victims of tanker explosion that occurred in Lambata, Gurara Local Government Area of the state.   Bello, in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Mrs Mary Berje, in Minna ...

A woman was left without a forehead for two years following a car crash where her feet were ­resting on the dashboard.   Grainne Kealy’s knees were forced into her face by the airbag that inflated under her feet after ...

Russian dissident, Alexei Navalny has improved and is now being weaned off mechanical ventilation.   Charite hospital, which has been treating him since he was airlifted to Germany after falling ill on a Russian domestic flight last month gave the ...

Hoodlums suspected to be members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, in Ondo State, on Monday stormed the premises of the Ondo State House of Assembly in their hundreds.   The presence of the hoodlums has created ...

The Abuja zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested three suspected internet fraudsters.   They were nabbed for alleged involvement in romance scams, identity theft and other internet-related fraud. EFCC spokesman, Dele Oyewale, announced the ...

Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said there is no going back on fuel and electricity tariff hike in the country.   Buhari, who spoke at First year Ministerial Performance Review Retreat, at the State House Conference Centre, Abuja, said ...

India’s coronavirus infections have surged past 4.2 million on Monday as it overtook Brazil to become the country with the second-highest number of cases.   With 4,204,613 infections, the country has nearly 70,000 cases more than Brazil, which will post ...

President Muhammadu Buhari led government says the price of electricity and fuel in Nigeria are the lowest in West Africa.   Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, said this in a statement on Monday. He noted that with the price of ...

A 27-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the mass stabbings in Britain’s second city Birmingham that left one person dead and two critically wounded, police said Monday.   The man was held on suspicion of murder and seven ...

China has put its homegrown coronavirus vaccines on display for the first time, as the country where the contagion was discovered looks to shape the narrative surrounding the pandemic.   High hopes hang on the small vials of liquid on ...

A 37-year old man has been electrocuted to death after he tried switching from a generating set to electricity power while watching TV in Sapele, Delta State.   The incident was said to have happened on Sunday afternoon, at about ...

Suspected hoodlums and land grabbers on Sunday invaded Isiu palace in Ikorodu, Lagos State in a failed attempt to abduct the newly-installed monarch, Oba Olukayode Raji. The thugs shot sporadically at the palace.   The News Agency of Nigeria reports ...

A mother who desperately tried to keep her daughter’s killer behind bars has been ordered to pay him £40,000 to cover his legal fees.   Ian Simms, 63, was jailed in 1989 for strangling Helen McCourt, 22, to death in ...

A school teacher has been arraigned in a Kwara State family court in Ilorin, the state capital, for alleged s.e.x.ual molestation of his seven-year-old pupil.   Akorede Hammed was said to have taken the minor to a toilet where he ...

A husband forced out of the firm he ran with his wife after their 19-year marriage fell apart has been awarded £100k after a judge ruled she racially harassed the Australian.   Only last year Duncan and Fiona Bendall posed ...

The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) says cocaine trade boomed during the coronavirus pandemic.   Traffic from South America to Europe has reached “record amounts”, Sascha Strupp, a Strategic Analyst told Dpa. Strupp called narcotics trade a ...

David Ibiyeomie, founder and General Overseer of Salvation Ministries has been criticised for laying curses and threatening controversial Media personality, Daddy Freeze.   Daddy Freeze, who is popularly known for criticising Nigerian pastors, in his recent post on his Instagram ...

There was no survivor in a bus that somersaulted and burst into flames on Sunday on Ihiala-Onitsha Road, Anambra state.   All the trapped passengers were burnt beyond recognition. A passenger who jumped out of the vehicle also died. Mr ...

An Ibadan-based nurse, Sukurat Adewale, was all tears on Friday before a customary court sitting in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, while alleging that her husband, Adewunmi Adewale, deceived her into aborting 15 pregnancies she had for him but later ...