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A prominent elder statesman and leader of Yoruba socio-cultural group Afenifere, Senator Ayo Fasanmi, is dead. He died in the early hours of this morning. Fasanmi who died at 94 was born on September 25, 1925. An official announcement is ...

Debate continues to rage over the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine as cure for Covid-19. The World Health Organisation initially recommended the drug, but later withdrew the recommendation. This followed some scientific studies that discredited the drug and also pointed out some ...

British rapper Wiley apologised on Wednesday for “generalising” in a series of anti-Semitic posts that got him permanently banned by Twitter. “I’m not racist, you know. I’m a businessman,” Wiley told Sky News after the social media platform made its ...

A robbery attack on a bullion van in Ebonyi State has led to the death of four policemen. The Ebonyi State Police Command confirmed the killing of the security officials on Wednesday, hours after the incident occurred. A Deputy Superintendent ...

Nigeria has announced that the country has recorded 404 new cases of Coronavirus, bringing the total number of infections in Nigeria to 42,208. According to the latest figures released by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), last night, Lagos ...

Zambian leader Edgar Lungu on Wednesday fired his education minister, David Mabumba, the presidency said, after n.u.d.e video clips of him went viral on social media. A statement from the presidency did not give reasons for his removal but it ...

An Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court sitting in Isabo has sentenced a 27-year -old man, Ayinde Semiu, to 10 years imprisonment for breaking into two shops and stealing foodstuff worth N77,850. The Magistrate, Mrs I.O Abudu, on Wednesday, sentenced the convict after ...

Gunmen have shot 13 members of the same family dead in Agbudu, Kogi-Koton-Karfe Local Government Area of Kogi State. Fourteen people were killed in the attack, with six persons serious injured. Ede Ayuba, State Police Commissioner, who disclosed this while ...

Benue State Commissioner for Health and Human Resources, Dr Sunday Ongbabo, on Wednesday resigned his appointment. Ongbabo who was also the secretary, State Action Committee on COVID-19, did not state reason for his resignation. The Chief Press Secretary to the ...

Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has been attacked by Boko Haram terrorists. This happened while on his way to Monguno and Baga. It was gathered the terrorists ambushed the governor’s convoy as he went to distribute food to Internally Displaced ...

The Benin Monarch, Oba Ewuare ll, has condemned in strong terms, the clash between supporters of APC and PDP last Saturday, that occurred at the gate of the palace. The clash occurred soon after the state Governor, Godwin Obaseki, some ...

The Imo state police command on Tuesday paraded at the command headquarters in Owerri, two suspected cultists Chijioke Onyeahialam, 25-year-old man and Johnbosco Ihekoronye, male, 27-year-old, said to be planning a revenge attack on their rivals. The police through the ...

Data shows that a recent spike in coronavirus cases in Latin America has made it the most infected region in the world. The rising number of cases make Latin America the region most impacted by the pandemic globally due to ...

The Kogi State Government has said schools in the State will reopen for exit students on Monday, 10th August. This was made known by the State Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Wemi Jones in Lokoja after a stakeholders meeting ...

The first five Rafale fighter jets bought from France in a multi-billion-dollar deal landed in India on Wednesday and the defence minister used their arrival to launch a veiled warning to neighbouring China over territorial tensions. A water-cannon guard of ...

A UK man accused of raping and murdering his friend, who he was “trusted” to walk home for safety, has told a jury he “accidentally killed her during s.e.x”. Wesley Streete, 20, said he put the body of Keeley Bunker ...

A student of babcok university who was involved in a leaked s.e.x tape that went viral last year  have reportedly been  awarded a scholarship to study abroad. The school management expelled her after a video showing her and an ex-student ...

An incestuous daughter has admitted helping her father kill her boyfriend, before having s.e.x with her dad and illegally marrying him. Amanda McClure, 31, and her father Larry McClure, 55, tied Thomas McGuire, 38, up, battered him over the head ...

An evil gang who kidnapped and tortured a young couple before stripping the boyfriend naked and Tasering his genitals have been jailed. The couple were subjected to a terrifying two-day ordeal which also saw the girlfriend have a knife held ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday announced he had asymptomatic COVID-19, but said he’d already recovered from it. “Today you are meeting a man who managed to survive the coronavirus on his feet. Doctors came to such a conclusion yesterday. ...

A former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has said the refusal of President Muhammadu Buhari to name a railway station after former President Olusegun Obasanjo is malicious and sacrilegious. Buhari had on Monday named railway stations after 17 prominent Nigerians, including ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has described as “impressive” and “spectacular” Dr Stella Immanuel and her sensational video prescribing hydroxychloroquine as cure for COVID-19. His comment came just as social media companies cracked down on the viral coronavirus disinformation that came ...

It was a lucky escape on Tuesday for 10 passengers onboard a boat to Lagos Island when it suddenly capsized. According to report, the incident occurred at 8,23 pm when the ferry was on its way to Ozumba Mbadiwe, Lagos ...

An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Tuesday sentenced a 37-year-old commercial motorcyclist, Emmanuel Idoko, to 20 years imprisonment for sexually assaulting his 12-year-old daughter. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Mr Idoko was convicted of ...

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said the National Art Theatre in Lagos will be revamped with creative hubs of four clusters – film, music, fashion and IT- in 22 months. The Minister gave the assurance on ...