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Governor Rotimi Akeredolu has been declared the winner of the governorship primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State. Akeredolu, who is also the incumbent governor of the state defeated his closest rival, Chief Olusola Oke and six ...

Two coronavirus vaccine candidates have proven safe for humans and produced strong immune reactions among patients involved in separate clinical trials, doctors said on Monday. The first trial among more than 1,000 adults in Britain found that the vaccine-induced “strong ...

The Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency, LASEPA had again sealed up Farms City on Admiralty Way, Lekki and Ajah Quilox Pool and Bar in Ajah area of the State for contravening different sections of the State Environmental Law and also ...

A Nigerian medical doctor, Urenna Samuel Iroegbu has died two days after she passed out from the mandatory National Youth Service Corps. Promise passed out from the scheme on Thursday, July 16, and died on Saturday, July 18. She was ...

At least 19 persons have reportedly been killed in an attack by unknown gunmen at Kukum Daji village in Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The gunmen reportedly stormed the village at about 10:30pm during a wedding after-party on ...

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Yusuf Tukur Buratai, has said the various shades of insecurity in different parts of the country will end as soon as Nigerians want them to end. Buratai stated this on Monday when ...

A newly constructed office block for Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) Area office branch in Katsina, was gutted by fire on Monday. According to witnesses, members of the state fire service are reportedly battling to put out the fire. The ...

Sickening pictures show the sea turning red with blood as dozens of whales are slaughtered in an annual ritual in the Faroe Islands. Activists have voiced their horror as the killings – a tradition believed to date back 1,000 years ...

Speaker, Benue State House of Assembly, Titus Uba, his son, member representing Kwande East State constituency, Tertsea Gbisea are among the 66 people, who tested positive for COVID-19 in the State. In separate statements issued by the Chief Press Secretary ...

There is no official confirmation or reaction yet by Nigeria’s military authorities 48 hours after the massacre of some soldiers by bandits in an ambush in Katsina. No fewer than 23 soldiers were killed Saturday when they were ambushed by ...

A woman tried to abduct a two-year-old boy as he played in a park in broad daylight this afternoon. The child’s mum was heard to scream as a woman tried to lead her son away. Police have described the incident ...

A 15-month-old toddler was mauled to death by a family dog in their garden. The girl – named on a GoFundMe page as Scarlett- was sat in in her grandparents’ back garden along with the pit bull, before the pet ...

The UK Government has secured early access to 90 million vaccine doses to protect the UK from coronavirus. In addition, treatments containing Covid-19-neutralising antibodies have been secured to protect those who cannot receive vaccines. The vaccine doses are from the ...

Tens of lottery operators stormed the Federal High Court, Ikoyi on Monday to protest what they deem ”judicial bias” in the handling of a lawsuit filed by Western Lotto Limited, belonging to politician Buruji Kashamu. The protest is in connection ...

The AG NDDC managing director has just collapsed. This happened during the ongoing hearing.  

A chilling new video has revealed how coronavirus spread around the world following the outbreak in China earlier this year. The data visualisation was put together by designers Global Stats who used the World Health Organisation ‘s (WHO) Situation Reports ...

Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi has shared three new pictures from his wedding to Princess Beatrice. The 37-year-old property developer tied the knot with the 31-year-old royal in Windsor on Friday. Photographed by Benjamin Wheeler, the newlyweds are seen walking hand in ...

The Association of Resident Doctors had last week asked their colleagues who were working at the centre to join them in their ongoing strike which commenced on July 1, 2020. Failure of the government to meet their welfare demands was ...

The president of the Bolivian Football Federation, Cesar Salinas, died on Sunday after being hospitalised with COVID-19 earlier this month, officials said. The federation confirmed his death in a statement that highlighted his “dedication and commitment to national and international ...

The Ondo State Police Command has arrested a 23-year-old woman, Iyabo Julius, for allegedly conniving with her lover, Adedayo Sunday, to rob and kill a motorcyclist, Suleuman Azeez. The incident was said to have happened in the 12/12 area of ...

A gunman disguised as a FedEx delivery driver shot and killed the son of a US federal judge and wounded her husband in an attack on Sunday at their New Jersey home, reports said. Judge Esther Salas was not hurt, ...

Iran on Monday executed a former translator convicted of spying for the US and Israel, including helping to locate a top Iranian general killed later by the Americans, the judiciary said. The killing of Major General Qasem Soleimani in a ...

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz has been admitted to hospital, suffering from inflammation of the gall bladder, according to state media. The 84-year-old ruler, who has ruled the country since 2015, was undergoing medical checks in the capital, state ...

Suspected kidnappers have abducted a policewoman, her daughter and four others at Janruwa, Patrick Yakowa way area of Kaduna metropolis. The incident, according to eye witnesses, happened in the late hours of Saturday when the bandits stormed the community and ...

A 13-year-old boy from Pennsylvania is to be tried as an adult after shooting his nine-year-old brother in the head, killing him in a game of cops and robbers gone horribly wrong. Brayden Leroy Wright of Waynesboro was denied bail ...