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The mayor of Portland has been teargassed by federal agents as he stood at a fence guarding a courthouse during another night of protest against the presence of federal agents sent by Donald Trump to quell unrest in the city. ...

A coronavirus vaccine will not be available before the end of the year, a a World Health Organisation (WHO) expert has said. There were hopes in Britain that a Covid-19 vaccine being developed by researchers at the University of Oxford ...

Police in Ikolomani Constituency, Kakamega County have arrested a 46-year-old woman accused of abducting a 17-year-old girl, whom she handed over to her husband to defile. Also arrested, is the woman’s partner. The woman, who hails from Isulu Village in ...

Two police officers from Navakholo Police Station in Kakamega County, Kenya shocked Sianikha Village residents in Bunyala West Ward after they set a female busaa brewer’s house on fire for failing to land their weekly Ksh1, 000 bribe. Teresa Ekesa ...

The President Muhammadu Buhari was on Thursday sighted with a face mask for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic started. The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 had recommended the compulsory use of face mask while in public as one ...

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has kicked against the ongoing reality TV show, ”Big Brother Naija”, describing it as evil. Pastor Stanley Dimkpa, the Chairman of CAN, Rivers state branch, called for the total removal of the show. He ...

The Senior Pastor and founder of the Embassy of the Blessed Kingdom of God for All Nations, Ukraine, Pastor Sunday Adelaja, has asked Nigerians to stop mourning the death of Tolulope Arotile, the first female fighter pilot who was crushed ...

Following a 48-hours notice to Senator Godswill Akpabio to produce names of lawmakers who got contracts from the NDDC, the House of Representatives has initiated moves to sue him for perjury. Earlier, the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs had alleged ...

Medical doctors under the auspices of Pediatric Association of Nigeria (PAN) have warned against ongoing moves to reopen schools following the increasing cases of Covid-19 pandemic in the country. PAN, in a statement by its President, Prof. Edward Alikor and ...

Tears and emotions flowed freely today as the remains of Flying Officer, Tolulope Arotile were laid to rest at the military cemetery on Airport Road, Abuja. An ambulance belonging to the Nigerian Air Force with registration number AF 442, had ...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has ordered Nigerians with expired visas to leave the country on or before August 17, 2020. This development comes weeks after Dubai police cracked down on some Nigerians including Abass Ramon, popularly known as Hushpuppi, ...

A pharmacist was strangled to death by her husband who wanted to start a new life with his gay lover, a review into her death found. Jessica Patel, 34, was strangled by her husband Mitesh, 37, at their Middlesbrough home ...

Former attorney-general and commissioner for justice in Ondo State, Eyitayo Jegede, has won the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primary election for the October 10, 2020 guber poll. Eight aspirants – Jegede, Banji Okunomo, Bode Ayorinde, Boluwaji Kunlere, Sola Ebiseni, ...

Bad Girls Club star Demitra “Mimi” Roche has passed away at the age of 34. Music executive Vince Valholla confirmed news of her death on social media on Wednesday, July 22, writing, “I’m at a loss for words. Don’t know ...

The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has asked landlords and property agents to charge six percent Stamp Duty on all tenancy and lease agreements they enter into with all leasees and remit the same promptly to the Service. Mr Abdullahi ...

A woman slashed an infant’s throat and told the father “I killed your baby”, a horrified neighbour claims. The shocked resident told how a woman dressed all in black was led away in handcuffs by police called to a home ...

An outraged California woman reportedly chose to urinate on the floor of a Verizon store after refusing to leave for not wearing a face mask last week. In a 911 call obtained by CBS Sacramento, a dispatch operator told officers ...

Terrifying footage shows dozens of uniformed gunmen posing with military-grade weapons near armored pickup trucks emblazoned with the initials of the Jalisco drug cartel in Mexico as the country’s top security officials launch an investigation into the video. In what ...

A Chicago-based lawyer, Gal Pissetzky, has denied rumours insinuating the release of Ramoni Abbas aka Husspuppi, an alleged multi-million dollar fraudster facing charges in the U.S. On Wednesday, screenshots of the Bureau of Prisons website, showing his release, went viral. According ...

A lecturer at the Faculty of Education, University of Benin, Stella Okotie, has been killed by a commercial driver, Anu Adisa, around the institution located on the Benin-Lagos Expressway, Edo State. The deceased’s sales boy identified simply as Amos, who ...

Kenyan police reportedly arrests 25 teenagers (10 girls and 15 boys)  for allegedly shooting p.o.r.nographic videos. The youngsters were caught in the act after an anonymous tip by a neighbor, they were arrested while  shooting the video alongside a man ...

An 18-year-old protester was brutally punched in the face by police, knocking out her front teeth, at a Chicago protest calling for the toppling of a Christopher Columbus statue over the weekend. On Friday at least 1,000 people gathered around ...

Ogun State Government today has set the machinery in motion towards reopening of worship centres, barely four months after they were closed as part of moves to flatten the curve of Covid-19 infections. In March, following its ban on high ...

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden labeled Donald Trump on Wednesday the first racist to become U.S. president. The Trump camp quickly rejected the label. Biden, who was vice president under Barack Obama, the first Black U.S. president, fielded a question ...

A blood test can detect signs of cancer four years before symptoms appear, an “exciting” new study led by Chinese researchers found. The non-invasive blood test, called PanSeer, detects cancer in 95 percent of individuals who have no symptoms but ...