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Thousands of people have been evacuated from parts of the Caribbean and southern US as two storms tore through the region on Sunday.   Hurricane Marco and Tropical Storm Laura have brought high winds and rough seas, causing damage to ...

Kellyanne Conway has announced that she is resigning from her post as Senior Counsel to US President Donald Trump.   In a statement, Mrs Conway said she was stepping down at the end of August to focus on her children, ...

Femi Fani-Kayode has reacted to the controversies generated over the disinvitation of the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai by the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA.   FFani-Kayode reacts as withdrawal of El-Rufai degenerates into Christian, Muslim battleani-Kayode, who is also ...

An aide to a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has dismissed speculations that his principal is nursing an ambition to serve as the running mate to a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola ...

Twenty inmates were killed in a shootout with police during a prison breakout in Madagascar on Sunday, the justice ministry said.   Scores of prisoners attacked guards with rocks and grabbed a gun as they tried to flee the Farafangana ...

The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo state, has quashed rumours making the rounds that the former APC national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole is his godfather.   Speaking with Arise Television on Sunday, Ize-Iyamu said he is ...

Lagos Commissioner for Health Professor Akin Abayomi has tested positive for coronavirus.   Commissioner for Information and Strategy Gbenga Omotoso announced this minutes ago on Twitter. He said: “Subsequent to close contact with persons feeling unwell and testing positive for ...

North Korean maximum leader, Kim Jong Un is reportedly in coma and is preparing to hand over power to his sister, British tabloid The Sun reported, quoting a former South Korean diplomat.   The diplomat, an ex-aide to former South ...

Sunday Shodipe, the man suspected to be behind series of killings and rape of women in Akinyele area of Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, has told the police how he escaped from their custody after he was first arrested. ...

Bayern Munich are crowned champions of Europe for a sixth time, becoming the first team in Champions League history to win every game en route to lifting the trophy.   Neymar and Mbappe were denied by Neuer in the first ...

Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministries has lost £150,000 to theft.   General Overseer of the mega church, Pastor Daniel Olukoya, on Saturday, admitted that the money is missing and revealed that his former employee, who is a pastor, stole ...

Several persons were feared dead today when members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra and security agents clashed at Emene, Enugu State.   According to reports, trouble started at about 7:00am when some policemen invaded Community Secondary School in Emene ...

The police have re-arrested Sunday Shodipe, the prime suspect in the series of ritual killings at the Akinyele Local government Area of Oyo State.   The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mr Olugbenga Fadeyi, confirmed this today. The ...

Dr. Stella Immanuel, the woman who took the world by storm in July when she claimed that Hydroxychloroquine is the potential cure for Coronavirus, has hired an Attorney to battle her queries from medical boards in the United States.   ...

Police detectives from the Anambra Police Command have arrested a woman, Franca Udokwu, 30 for dumping her newborn baby inside a pit toilet. The detectives attached to the Ogidi Division at about 8:30am on Saturday arrested the woman from Obuba ...

Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) has arrested five suspected criminals in Calabar, Cross River State.   A resident, Emmanuel Effiong, Nyong, 21, was arrested on Saturday, at about 1445hrs. Others arrested were David Ubong Okon 18yrs ‘M’, Edidiong Akpan Essien 25yrs ...

  A sadistic killer forced his ex to watch him mutilate her new partner’s genitals with a samurai sword after tying her up with electric cables at their holiday home in Portugal.   Police launched a manhunt when the traumatised ...

Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari has confirmed the flight incident that nearly claimed her life and that of her daughter, Hanan on Friday.   DailyPost reported earlier that the aircraft Mrs Buhari was travelling in encountered some troubles in ...

Members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Shiites have claimed that a clash between them and the police on Saturday had claimed the lives of three.   Ibrahim Musa, President Media forum of the IMN (Shiites), said a combined force ...

Video app TikTok said Saturday it will challenge in court a Trump administration crackdown on the popular Chinese-owned platform, which Washington accuses of being a national security threat.   As tensions soar between the world’s two biggest economies, President Donald ...

Residents and sympathisers, on Saturday night, cried as men of Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, and Fire Service recovered the body of three-year-old Seyi Jebose from the well she fell into at their 1, Gemini Bus Stop, Baruwa, Ipaja, ...

There was a palpable tension in Enugu State on Sunday when policemen clashed with members of the Indigenous People of Biafra.   The Punch gathered that two persons died in the clash. It was learnt that many members of the ...

A 16-year-old boy, Adeniyi Muhammed, has been arrested by the police in Ogun state for allegedly stealing 14 ladies underwear.   Muhammed was arrested following a report by one Amudalat Opaleye of Kano street Ayetoro. The said Opaleye had reported ...

Gunmen on Saturday evening abducted four occupants of an SUV in Delta State and took them to an unknown destination.   The incident occurred after the River Ethiope near Umutu towards Urebigbe axis in Ndokwa East Local Government Area of ...

First Lady, Aisha Muhammadu Buhari, has returned to Nigeria after spending few weeks in the United Arab Emirates, UAE for medical treatment. It was gathered that the First Lady left Nigeria immediately after the Eid prayers as a result of ...