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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 ...

Primate Babatunde Elijah Ayodele, the founder of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church has said they are yet to born the person that will take over his church.   He was reacting to the recently amended Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA). ...

Former Chelsea manager Antonio Conte is aiming to recover £27 million after allegedly being scammed by an investment manager in London.   The 51-year-old enjoyed a successful two-year stint at Stamford Bridge between 2016 and 2018 – winning the Premier ...

A security man has been caught in the act raping an 8-year old girl.   According to report, he was caught by someone who wonders what he was always doing in an uncompleted building with the girl. The story was ...

Governor Bello Matawalle has presented gold bars and an assortment of precious stones, products of Zamfara to President Muhammadu Buhari.   The presentation was done on Monday night at the State House, Abuja. Zamfara State has the highest gold deposits ...

  Founder, Christ Embassy, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome says it is high time Africans should stop claiming to be black as black signifies absence of direction and evil.   He said the toga: ‘Black lives matter’ should stop, as Africans were ...

Landlords and residents of Oluwatedo community, Ogere, in the Ikenne Local Government Area of Ogun State, have started deserting their houses due to the continuous killing of people by a suspected serial killer, Feyisola Dosumu, aka Spartan.   Punch Metro ...

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 ...