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Nigeria has recorded 321 new cases of COVID-19, bringing to 52,548 the number of confirmed cases in the country.   Announcing this Monday, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said Lagos recorded 98 new cases; Federal Capital Territory (FCT), ...

Youths volunteering at an archaeological dig in central Israel have found 425 gold coins that had lain buried in a clay jar for 1,100 years.   Most of the money dates back to the early Islamic period, when the region ...

  Residents in Detroit are left with more questions than answers after a 20-year-old woman believed to have died was found breathing at a funeral home.   The Southfield Fire Department released a statement saying paramedics responded to a call ...

At least 50 people are feared trapped in the debris of a five-storey building that collapsed on Monday in an industrial town in western India, a lawmaker said.   The building, said to be 50 years old, contained 47 apartments. ...

This is the heartbreaking moment a man knelt in front of an FRSC van asking them to kill him or return his drivers license. From the clip, he knelt to prevent the officials from driving off with his license.   ...

The Minister of Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, on Monday, gave updates on reopening of tertiary institutions in the country.   Nwajiuba, speaking at the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID today, said they have had discussions with ...

An unidentified Nigerian woman who was involved in robbing an Arab tourist in Dubai has been sentenced to two years in jail.   Reports from Dubai said she was sentenced today. Her trial began in late July. She was also ...

2020 Big Brother Naija housemate, Erica, has detailed how her friendship with male housemate, Laycon begun.   In a conversation with her love interest, Kiddwaya, Erica revealed that after they entered the Big Brother Naija house for the first time, ...

The Federal Government on Monday has begun the evacuation of about 241 Nigerians who had been trapped in China.   The President of Nigerians in Diaspora Organization (East China), Elijah Odii, stated these in a short message to The Punch ...

The Polytechnic Ibadan ordered some academic and non-academic staff in the institution to resume work.   The institution was closed due to the coronavirus that is ravaging the world. The staff are expected to resume work today (Monday). The institution ...

  One of the most famous nudist colonies in Europe has reported a “very worrying” outbreak of coronavirus – leading to warnings to people to stay away. Managers of the Cap d’Agde resort, which welcomes around 35,000 visitors every summer, ...

A middle-aged man, Taoreed Olusola, on Monday, was shot by two yet to be identified after being attacked on a bike along the Government House road, Secretariat, Ibadan.   Reports reaching Vanguard have confirmed that the victim has given up ...

The junta that seized power in Mali wants a military-led transitional body to rule for three years and has agreed to release the ousted president, a source in a visiting West African delegation and the rebel soldiers said Sunday.   ...

  The Senate of the University of Lagos has elected Prof. Folasade Ogunsola as its Acting Vice-Chancellor. The senate gathered this morning August 24 to elect an acting VC.   The Presidency over the weekend asked the Chancellor of the ...

  Former Congolese president, Pascal Lissouba, is dead.   Lissouba died in Perpignan, France today Monday. August 24.   A statement from his Pan-African Union for Social Democracy (UADS) party said he died after a brief illness.   “President Lissouba passed ...

LMAO! Funniest lawmaker ever liveth. See eh, if you are not following Akin Alabi on Instagram, you are missing. Aside from his business angle, wealth of knowledge, the lawmaker from Oyo state is anturally funny! In one of his recent ...

A police inspector, identified as Hosea Yakubu, has been reportedly beaten to death by soldiers at Eleme Petrochemical gate, Port Harcourt, Rivers State.   Yakubu was said to have incurred the wrath of the soldiers when he drove against traffic ...

The DSS has released a statement about what went down yesterday in Enugu where deaths where recorded when IPOB members fought security operatives.   The DSS through its spokesman, Peter Afunanya released a statement saying, two officers where brought down ...

A LAUTECH student has gone wild wild after allegedly taking drugs.  She was on a bike when she started misbehaving and jumped off the bike in Ado-Ekiti. In a video making the rounds, the lady is seen giving incoherent answers ...

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 ...