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Female American Air Force officer is slammed for saying sexual harassment is the price women have to pay for joining the army

A female Air Force Lt. Col. has been slammed for suggesting murdered soldier Vanessa Guillen deserved to be s3xually harassed because it’s ‘the price of admission’ for women in the army and ‘if you’re gonna cry like a snowflake about ...

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Ritualists arrested over Ibadan killings

Some suspected ritualists have been arrested by the police for the serial killings in Akinyele area of Ibadan, The Nation has learnt. The Special Adviser to Governor Seyi Makinde on Security, Mr Fatai Owoseni, disclosed this while addressing a town ...

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Two-year-old girl ‘is raped while in coronavirus isolation ward’

Police are investigating after a two-year-old girl was allegedly raped on a coronavirus isolation ward in South Africa. The sickening attack is said to have happened at the Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital in Pretoria. An aunt of the toddler ...

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Nigeria records 503 new COVID-19 cases; total now 29,879

Nigeria, on Tuesday, recorded 503 new cases of COVID-19 in 20 states, bring the total confirmed cases to 29,879, with 669 deaths. Of the new cases reported by the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Lagos which is the epicenter, ...

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Couple arrested for beach sex act in front of children

An amorous couple were arrested for a performing a s.e.x act on a beach promenade in Malaga in full view of children and holidaymakers. Moments earlier beach workers  – hired to enforce strict new social distancing rules – had thrown ...

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37 year-old man to die by hanging over murder in Osun

A State High Court sitting in Ile-Ife, in Osun State, on Tuesday sentenced Oluleke Ogunyemi, 37, to death by hanging over murder. Oluleke was arraigned on March 6, 2013, on two counts charge murder and conspiracy to murder contrary to ...

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Security agents storm Magu’s homes as suspended EFCC boss remains in detention

A combined team of riot policemen and operatives of the State Security Services (SSS) yesterday searched the residence of Ibrahim Magu, the suspended boss of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. A source close to the presidential panel set up ...

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Kwara Chief of Staff Adisa Logun dies of Covid 19

Aminu Adisa Logun, the chief of staff to Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of Kwara has died, the state government announced Tuesday evening. The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Rafiu Ajakaye, said in a statement. “With total submission to the will ...

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Dozens of people put into quarantine as Bubonic Plague breaks out in China

Dozens of people have been quarantined after the Bubonic Plague was confirmed in China. Cases of the disease were reported in Bayan-Ulgii aimag, a province in Mongolia, with a 15-year-old boy infected after eating a marmot hunted by a dog. ...

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Brazil president, Jair Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus

Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro – who has held large rallies calling for lockdowns to be lifted – has been diagnosed with coronavirus. The far-right rabble rouser today revealed he had tested positive for the virus after he became unwell. He ...

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‘You are a barefaced treasury looter’, PDP blasts Ganduje

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has ‘finished’ the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Campaign Council for the Edo governorship election, Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, describing him as a barefaced treasury looter, who has no moral rectitude to speak ...

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Two conjoined twins separated successfully in Italy

A hospital in Rome said on Tuesday it had successfully separated two-year-old twins joined above the nape of their necks, after three risky surgeries. Joined skull to skull, sisters Ervina and Prefina were born with a condition the Bambino Gesu ...

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Sexual harassment of students in tertiary institution to attract 14 years imprisonment, N5million

The Senate has passed a bill against sexual harassment in tertiary institutions. The bill was sponsored by Deputy Senate President Ovie Omo-Agege prohibits the offense of sexual harassment of students in tertiary institutions. It also criminalizes the act of neglect ...

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Queen Elizabeth’s cousin and first openly gay royal reveals he spent the lockdown with both his ex wife and husband

Most couples feel proud of themselves for emerging from lockdown with their relationship still in tact, but the Queen’s cousin Lord Ivar Mountbatten and his husband James have more reason than most to be in a self-congratulatory mood. For the ...

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JUST IN: Buhari suspends Magu as EFCC acting chairman

President Buhari has suspended Ibrahim Magu as the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), the BBC just reported. Magu reportedly spent the night in a police cell at the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) Headquarters in ...

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People may need to keep wearing masks indoors as hundreds of scientists from 32 countries confirms coronavirus as airborne

Hundreds of scientists say there is evidence that novel coronavirus can linger in smaller particles in the air and infect people indoors, which could mean that masks may be required while inside. The new findings have prompted researchers to call ...

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4 police officers remanded for torture, murder of suspects

A Magistrate Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has remanded in the Correctional Center, four police officers who allegedly tortured Late Chima Ikwunado to death and inflicted various degrees of injuries on three others while being detained in a ...

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Kidnapped Delta NLC chairman regains freedom

The kidnapped Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress, Delta State, Comrade Goodluck Ofobruku has regained his freedom after paying an undisclosed amount of money. The Labour leader who was abducted around 8pm on Saturday while driving out of his house behind ...

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Ondo Assembly begins process to impeach Deputy Governor, Agboola Ajayi

Members of the Ondo State House of Assembly have commenced the process of removing the deputy governor, Mr Agboola Ajayi. The members of the Assembly are currently deliberating in the Assembly on the allegation of gross misconduct against Ajayi.   ...

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