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A new book on Donald Trump written by his niece sold nearly a million copies on the first day it went on sale in the United States, its publisher said Thursday. Mary Trump’s “Too Much and Never Enough: How My ...

A 73-year-old man was killed by police in Canada just hours after refusing to wear a face mask in a grocery store, the country’s public broadcaster the CBC reported on Thursday The man allegedly assaulted a grocery store employee on ...

Damilola Adegboye, the immediate elder sister of the late first female combat helicopter pilot in the history of Nigerian Air Force, Tolulope Arotile, has called for a thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding her death. Adegboye in an interview with ...

Best friends who allegedly smuggled $3million worth of ice into Australia burst into tears as they appeared handcuffed in court. Israh Chahine and Alexandra Karanfilovska, both 23, appeared at Central Local Court on Tuesday charged with importing commercial quantities of ...

A couple pleaded guilty to bribing their daughter´s way into the University of Southern California as part of the college admissions cheating scheme. Diane Blake and Todd Blake from Ross, California, appeared before a Boston federal court judge via video ...

A couple who has quintuplets, triplets, and two sets of twins is chronicling what life is like with 14 children in TLC’s new reality show Doubling Down with the Derricos. Karen and Deon Derrico have had four sets of multiples ...

Fahim Salem, founder and CEO of Gokada, died of multiple stab wounds, New York City’s medical examiner said on Thursday. Saleh, 33, was found dead in his Manhattan’s Lower East Side apartment earlier this week with his body dismembered. An ...

Ibrahim Magu, the suspended acting chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has opened up on the allegations that he gave N4 billion to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. Magu described the claim as false and a calculated attempt to tarnish ...

Fighting erupted inside and outside of Taiwan’s parliament again on Friday over the disputed nomination by President Tsai Ing-wen of a senior aide to a top government watchdog post. The main opposition party labelled the appointment cronyism. The Kuomintang (KMT) ...

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Benin Zonal Office have arrested a 22-year old Computer Science Undergraduate of the University of Port Harcourt, Kenneth Gift, his girl friend, Dandy Spice and mother, Dorah Aninah for suspected internet ...

Zainab Aliyu, the young Nigerian lady wrongly arrested for drugs in Saudi last year, has moved another notch in her life by completing the mandatory National Youth Service Corps scheme. A beaming Zainab was showcased Thursday by Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the ...

A bizarre love triangle is making shock headlines in Russia after a 75-year-old woman allegedly stole her daughter’s man. Mum and daughter are said to be engaged in a tug of war for the same bloke after he dumped the ...

The mum of a girl who was kidnapped, r*ped and murdered just days before her ninth birthday says she hopes her daughter’s killers “end up in hell”. Married couple Igor and Kristina Dvornikov have been charged in the killing of ...

The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on Thursday confirmed 595 new COVID-19 cases and nine deaths in the nation. With the figures, Nigeria’s COVID-19 caseload stands at 34,854, with 769 deaths and 14,292 recoveries. According to the NCDC, the ...

Fish farmers in Niger State have lamented the loss of goods allegedly worth over N100 million after heavy rainfall in Lapai Gwari in Bosso local government area of Niger state washed away their farms. It was gathered that thousands of ...

The son of a visually impaired man, Emmanuel Nwonu, was on Thursday, sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment without an option of fine by an Ebonyi State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Abakaliki for stealing church offering. The convict, had penultimate Wednesday, ...

A Bangladesh hospital owner accused of issuing thousands of fake negative coronavirus test results to patients at his two clinics was arrested on Wednesday while trying to flee to India in a burqa, police said. The arrest marked the end ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has warned all his appointees that he would not accept any act of disrespect to the National Assembly. According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President handed down ...

The Enugu Police Command on Thursday arraigned two consultant psychiatrists of the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Enugu, before an Enugu State Magistrates’ Court for forgery and stealing. The accused, McDonald Inechi and Kinsley Ugwuonye, were arraigned before Chief Magistrate S. O. ...

Boko Haram terrorists have asked a 75-year-old visually impaired man living in an internally displaced persons camp in Borno State to pay N20m as ransom for his abducted daughter and niece. Jato Ndarfa, who fled from Gwoza in 2014 after ...

Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams, is not taking lightly the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) explanation that a reversing car killed combat pilot, Tolulope Arotile. “How would such a promising young girl be killed by a reversing car within the ...

French president Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte were at the centre of an astonishing security scare when furious anti-government swarmed towards them in a Paris park. ‘Macron Resign’ was the chant as the 42-year-old head of state and the ...

Former Defense Minister of Gabon, Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda has been promoted to Prime Minister, making her the first woman to hold the role in Gabon’s history. The president of Gabon, Ali Bongo Ondimba, appointed the country’s first woman Prime ...

The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, has told Nigerian doctors planning to emigrate to the United Kingdom to take note of the fact that they will not be paid hazard allowance if they do so. Ehanire said this during ...

A health warning has been issued in Colorado after a squirrel tested positive for the bubonic plague in what is being described as ‘an increase of reported plague activity.’ The sick squirrel was found in the city of Morrison, southwest ...