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Chairman House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora Affairs, Tolulope Akande-Sadipe said 80,000 Nigerian ladies are being held as s.e.x slaves, and forced labour in Mali, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia UAE and Oman. And she blamed Dr Chris Ngige’s Ministry of Labour ...

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State has reacted to the defection of the state’s deputy governor, Agboola Ajayi, to the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP), saying he is desperate to be governor. PREMIUM TIMES reported that Mr Ajayi ...

A toddler died from her injuries three days after the horrific Beirut explosion that ripped her from her mother’s arms. Alexandra Naggear, three, has been revealed as the latest victim of last Tuesday’s blast that left parts of the Lebanese ...

Goias had their opening game of the Campeonato Brasileiro season against Sao Paulo postponed after 10 of the club’s players tested positive for COVID-19. In the hours leading up to kick-off on Sunday, Goias announced they had only that day ...

Nigerians on Monday attacked the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, over her statement that online fraudsters, also known as ‘Yahoo boys’ are now role models in the country due to drop in moral values. The former minister who ...

The deputy governor of Ondo State, Agboola Ajayi, has announced his resignation from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and formally joined the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP). This development is to further his governorship aspiration, he said. Mr Ajayi announced his ...

World Covid-19 cases surpassed the 20 million mark on Sunday night, as three of the worst hit countries also hit grim milestones of their own. According to worldometers.info, total confirmed cases were tallied at 20,016,286, with the death toll also ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has tested negative for Covid-19. The former President took the test last Friday at his Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL) Pent House residence, Okemosan, Abeokuta, Ogun State capital. His Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, disclosed ...

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has told his church members that the world may come to an end before the 69th convention. He stated this on Friday during the 68th Annual Convention ...

  COVID-19 cases in Nigeria increased further on Sunday, 9th of August 2020, as 437 new infections were reported. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) made this known in its daily update on coronavirus. According to the NCDC release, ...

The founder and General Overseer of the Church of the Lord, Olomore, Abeokuta, Prophet Ebenezer Ajigbotoluwa, has been arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly defiling and impregnating two underage female siblings in his church. The ...

There was a mild drama at the Oyo state Infectious Disease Centre on Saturday when a young woman refused to follow her father home after she was discharged from the isolation centre. The graduate of statistics from a school in ...

A Canadian citizen has been sentenced to death in China on charges related to ketamine. Xu Weihong, 45, was convicted of producing the drug in October 2016 by the Intermediate People’s Court of Guangzhou in Guangdong Province. The court said ...

World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) legend James Harris popularly known as Kamala has died after complications from coronavirus. The 70-year-old former powerhouse starred for Vince McMahon’s wrestling company during the late 1980s and early 90s. His autobiography’s co-author, Kenny Casanova, wrote ...

The National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has said that the planned strike by Petroleum Tanker Drivers in Lagos would start on Monday as its meeting with Lagos State Government ended in deadlock. The South-West Chairman of ...

The owner of the property housing the secretariat of the Bayelsa State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr Chubby Ben-Walson, has implored the party’s leadership to pay him outstanding rent totalling N105m before vacating the building. He said on ...

The Osun State Coordinator of the #RevolutionNow protest, Olawale Bakare, popularly known as Mandate, who was arrested last Wednesday, has been released. Bakare’s lawyer, Mr Alfred Adegoke, who shared news of his release on Sunday, also said the three others ...

Ninety-seven thousand US children tested positive for coronavirus in the second half of July – weeks before schools and universities reopen. The figures, taken from the American Academy of Pediatrics from July 16 to 30, come as the country tops ...

Her name is Doreen Moraa Moracha and she is a Kenyan lady. Over the years, she became famous as she continues to educate people on HIV and how it is not a death sentence. When she was 8, doctors told ...

New Zealand, the Pacific island nation of 5 million people is now the safest place in the world right now. In a COVID-19 pandemic raging world, New Zealand has successfully kept the disease away from its shores, in the last ...

It is two weeks today that a father, identified as Austin abandoned his wife and baby boy in a private hospital in Lagos for fear of N220, 000 bill. According to Halimat, the mother, she was delivered of a baby ...

Many churches in Lagos on Sunday witnessed low turnout on the first Sunday of reopening after 20 weeks of lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu had on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020, relaxed some of the lockdown measures ...

Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun was one of the dignitaries that paid an early morning visit to the home of late senator Kashamu who passed on yesterday at a Lagos hospital due to covid-19 complications. In one of the photos, ...

Former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has criticised former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, over his comment on Buruji Kashamu‘s death. Obasanjo on Saturday condoled with the Ogun State Government over the demise of the businessman. In a statement signed by his ...

At least 29 bodies have been recovered after a massive landslide triggered by monsoon rains swept away dozens of tea estate workers in southwestern India, police said Sunday. The landslide in Idukki district, around 250 kilometres (155 miles) from Kerala ...