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The Federal Government has said the ongoing evacuation of Nigerians from abroad as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic would end on Saturday, August 22, 2020.   The Chairman, Presidential Task Force on Covid-19, Boss Mustapha, disclosed this during a ...

In continuation of Operation Sahel Sanity, the military offensive to wipe out armed bandits from North West, troops deployed at Forward Operation Base Sabon Birni LGA of Sokoto State on 15 August 2020 after a painstaking undercover operation successfully smashed ...

The Lagos State Government will today arraign the driver of a container-laden truck and its owner over the death of Ms Chidinma Ajoku, 27, and Chima Nnaekpe, 29, The Punch reports.   Chidinma and her colleague, Nnaekpe, who both worked ...

Canada’s finance minister Bill Morneau has resigned.   He announced his resignation Monday, on the heels of an ethics scandal and amid a reported split with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over pandemic spending. Morneau, who has held the post since ...

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, says his administration is installing closed-circuit televisions in the southern part of the state as part of efforts to strengthen security forces and restore calm in the crisis-torn communities.   The governor made this known ...

Malam Wada Maida, Chairman, Board of Directors of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), is dead.   A member of his family, Lawal Sale Maida, said Maida died in Abuja on Monday. He was aged 70. He was not ill ...

Wife of Kaduna State Governor, Hajiya Ummi El-rufai, yesterday appealed to the Kaduna State House of Assembly, KSHA, to establish a law that would ensure the castration of r.a.p.i.sts in the state.   She raised alarm that there were three ...

Law makers in Bolivia have approved a toxic bleach which has falsely been branded around as a miracle cure as a coronavirus treatment.   According to local media reports, the Latin American country’s Legislative Assembly gave chlorine dioxide the green ...

A saucy couple were left red-faced after they were spotted having s3x during a Zoom meeting.   The shamed staff member was caught in the act after he forgot to turn his camera off after the virtual city council meeting ...

Nigeria on Monday confirmed 417 fresh COVID-19 cases as the country announced the date for the resumption of international flights.   The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed the new infections in a tweet on its official handle. The ...

The pilot of a hot air balloon died and two passengers were severely injured after it crashed near the banks of the River Rhine in Germany, police said  today.   The balloon was caught by a gust of wind as ...

The prime suspect in connection with incessant ritual killings of residents of Akinyele area of Ibadan in Oyo State, Sunday Shodipe, who escaped from police custody, has killed another woman in the community.   The incident occurred on Saturday when ...

Soon to be bride crushed to death last week Wednesday on her way to work in Lagos as held.   Immaculate Emife Okochu was buried amid tears at her hometown. Recall her fiance Lovely Etomi had taking to social media ...

Mrs Jumoke Razak, the wife of late APC chieftain, Lanre Razak, says her husband did not die of COVID-19 pandemic.   Razak told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Epe, that her husband’s death was natural as ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of Ghana said late Sunday that tertiary schools will reopen on Aug. 24 for students who have yet to complete the academic year.   The government will put in place necessary preventive measures to allow ...

The Dominican Republic on Sunday sworn in Luis Abinader as the new president ending 16 years of rule by the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD).   The candidate of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) convincingly defeated the PLD candidate, former public ...

The Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit (Taskforce) has said it would begin demolition of illegal structures in Lekki area of Lagos on Wednesday.   Chairman of the Lagos State Task Force, CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi disclosed that all ...

A Russian schoolgirl who claimed a ten-year-old boy was the father of her unborn child has given birth to a daughter.   Darya Sudnishnikova was 13-years-old when she made headlines insisting she had been made pregnant by her prepubescent boyfriend ...

Abdulwahab Bello, a-30-year-old man, has alleged that a Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Twon Township Police Station, whose name was not given, tortured two of his friends to death with a pistol while the said officer also broke two of ...

A video has shown Melania Trump appearing to refuse to hold President Trump’s hand as they stepped off Air Force One.  Footage, which has been widely shared online, shows the First Lady, 50, navigating the steps from the presidential aircraft ...

Thousands of members of a Protestant church linked to a coronavirus cluster in Seoul have been asked to quarantine, South Korean authorities said Monday, as they accused the group’s firebrand conservative leader who has reportedly tested positive of obstruction.   ...

The Bayelsa State Governorship Election Tribunal sitting in Abuja has annulled the election of Duoye Diri, governor of Bayelsa State.   The election was nullified based on a petition by the Advanced Nigeria Democratic Party, which argued that it was ...

Benue students have taken to the streets to protest killings in the state by suspected herdsmen.   They are asking the Meyitti Allah Vigilante Group to leave the State. The placard-bearing protesters blocked major streets leading to traffic grid lock ...

  Pregnant women and children were on Sunday denied access to churches in some parts of Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, as they reopened for services after about four months closure.   Most of the churches visited were seen to have ...

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom has faulted the judgment of an Upper Sharia Court in Kano State sentencing a 13-year-old boy, Umar Farouq, to 10 years in prison for making derogatory statements toward Allah in an argument ...