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A 36-year-old woman from Machakos County, Kenya on Friday evening gave birth while answering a short call of nature at the Mwala Level 4 Hospital. The woman, who lives with partial paralysis following a stroke, had been assisted by her ...

After more than 30 years of Islamist rule, Sudan has outlined wide-reaching reforms including allowing non-Muslims to drink alcohol, and scrapping the apostasy law and public flogging. “We [will] drop all the laws violating the human rights in Sudan,” Justice ...

Police officers in Machakos County, Kenya on Saturday arrested a 69-year-old-man accused of defiling hi seven-year-old granddaughter. According to Kathiani B village elder, Beatrice Mbindyo, the seven-year-old girl was tending her family’s herd of cattle when her grandfather accosted and ...

Ibadan-based businessman, Mr Omololu Akinyosoye, tells Punch that he has been told that one needs to lobby to get the result of coronavirus test Why did you go for a COVID-19 test? I had a friend who died of COVID-19 ...

YouTube star Nicole Thea has died along with her unborn son, according to a statement on her Instagram account. The news was announced to the popular dancer’s 105,000 followers on Sunday afternoon. The soon to be mum, who lived in ...

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 24-year-old man, Badmus Folarin, for burning the buttocks of a 10-year- old boy, Sunday David, for allegedly licking from a tin of tea. Folarin allegedly used a hot knife to ...

Police operatives have rescued a citizen of the United States of America who was allegedly confined to a Lagos hotel against her wish for over one year. The victim, who came from Washington DC, arrived in Nigeria on February 13, ...

Nigeria, on Sunday recorded 571 new cases of Coronavirus and 16 deaths, with Lagos and Ebonyi taking huge lead. The new cases put the nation’s total coronavirus figures at 32,558 and 740 deaths. In the figures released by the Nigerian ...

A cloud of mourning has swept over Kaumoni village in Matungulu, Machakos County, Kenya after bodies of two lovers were found hanging side by side just days after eloping from the capital city. Eyewitnesses said that the duo has been ...

Zindzi Mandela, the daughter of South Africa’s anti-apartheid icons Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, has died. She died in Johannesburg on Monday morning aged 59. The death has been confirmed by a family source, SABC reports. She was the South ...

Germany’s prost!tutes demonstrated in Hamburg’s red light district late on Saturday evening demanding that the brothels be allowed to reopen after months of closure to curb the spread of coronavirus. With shops, restaurants and bars all open again in Germany, ...

Doctors employed by the Lagos State Government will on Monday begin a three-day warning strike, The Punch has learnt. The Chairman of the Medical Guild, Lagos, Dr Oluwajimi Sodipo, at a briefing on Sunday, said the doctors were embarking on ...

The immediate past acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr. Gbene Joi Nunieh, has denied that the agency spent N22.6billion under her stewardship, just as she alleged that the Niger Delta Minister, Senator Godswill Akpabio, threatened ...

Another building has partially collapsed in the Ikotun area of Lagos State. The one-storey building was said to house nine shops and 15 rooms. Fortunately, there were no lives lost or injuries recorded. According to the Director-General of the Lagos ...

The death toll of the two-day violent protests in Mali’s capital Bamako has increased to three. At least 74 others were injured. Xinhua, quoting local hospital authorities, also reported significant material damage, especially to the National Assembly, which was looted ...

Ogun State government on Saturday arrested 128 environmental offenders and prosecuted them for engaging in acts that obstruct waterways and leading to flooding in the state. The offenders were arrested by the state Environmental Health Personnel and the Nigeria Police, ...

With 664 new infections, the number of COVID-19 cases in Nigeria has risen to 31,987. The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) disclosed this in a tweet on Saturday night. According to the agency, the new infections were recorded in ...

Ekiti State Government has sealed off Victory College, Ilawe Ekiti, in Ekiti South West Local Government Area of Ekiti State for violating its directive on school closure. The Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Mr. Foluso Daramola, disclosed that his ...

These dramatic photos taken in South Africa show a lion capturing a 144lb hyena before ripping it apart. Photographer Chad Cocking, 36, from Johannesburg, spotted the incredible scene in Tanda Tula Safari Camp in Greater Kruger Park. The 418lb lion ...

Emirates Airlines has cut a tenth of its workforce during the novel coronavirus pandemic in layoffs that could rise to 15 percent, or 9,000 jobs, its president said, according to a report today. The Middle East’s largest carrier, which operates ...

Senator Ben Bruce yesterday joined other family members to bury his brother-in-law, Robert Hargett who was the elder brother to his late wife. Recall just in March, 2020, the senator lost his wife of many years. Announcing the demise of ...

A report by the Presidential Probe Panel has revealed details of how the suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, allegedly used a cleric to launder funds abroad. Magu is currently being interrogated by ...

United States President Donald Trump finally yielded to pressure and wore a face mask in public for the first time on Saturday as the US posted another daily record for coronavirus cases, while Disney World reopened in a state hit ...

The federal government on Saturday, received some consignments containing critical medical equipment donated by the Economic Community of West Africa, ECOWAS and the West African Health Organisation, WAHO. The equipment, given to the country through WAHO, is aimed to support ...

At least five people were killed and 40 others, including off-duty police officers, arrested Saturday after gunmen stormed a South African church, reportedly over a leadership dispute, the national police commissioner said. According to a statement by South Africa’s top ...