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Former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Joi Nunieh, does not have the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, certificate, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio disclosed on Monday. The minister told the House of Representatives Committee ...

Five children from the same family have been killed following an horrific accident on a French motorway packed with holidaymakers. Another youngster and four adults were also horrifically burned when the people carrier they were all travelling in overturned and ...

Detectives in Makueni County, Kenya are investigating an incident in which a man allegedly committed suicide while at his lover’s single-room house in Wote town. According to the deceased’s lover, she retired to bed early leaving her 32-year-old boyfriend watching ...

Pirates have kidnapped seven Russian sailors from the crew of a ship in the Gulf of Guinea, the Russian Embassy in Nigeria said on Monday. The seven Russians were among 13 crew members pirates abducted from the Curacao Trader 210 ...

Newspaper patron and influential media leader, Mallam Ismaila Isa Funtua is dead. He died in Abuja while undergoing a routine medical check-up. He reportedly suffered a massive heart attack during the medical check-up. He is also said to be a ...

An internal conflict within Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán’s old cartel left a family of four dead, including a member of the organization, when assassins opened fire in the northern Mexico state of Sonora. The deadly incident took place Sunday morning ...

An Ohio Air Force veteran has used biodegradable paint to transform his entire yard into a Trump 2020 banner ahead of the November election – earning praise from the President himself. J.R. Majewski, of Port Clinton, used around 120 gallons ...

COVID-19 Task Force in Ekiti, on Monday, arrested not less than 60 people who violated regulation on the compulsory use of face mask. The offenders were taken to a Special Court, where they were convicted for contravening Coronavirus Disease Regulations ...

The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has announced 562 new cases of Coronavirus, with the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, overtaking Lagos in Monday’s caseload. This is the second time Lagos is playing second fiddle in coronavirus infections within two ...

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 ...