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Florence, widow of ex- Oyo Governor Abiola Ajimobi, was angry about how the Oyo State government led by Seyi Makinde treated her husband in the last one month of his illness. The widow, however, made her feelings known when she ...

A legal practitioner, Olukoya Ogungbeje, has filed a suit at the Federal High Court in Lagos to challenge the ban imposed by the state government on the operations of commercial motorcycles, popularly known as okada, and tricycles otherwise known as ...

Pregnant teen Darya Sudnishnikova has admitted she is scared about giving birth as her baby’s arrival draws closer. The girl was 13 when she announced the father of her unborn child was 10-year-old Ivan on a primetime TV show in ...

A 30-year-old woman has drowned while trying to save her five-year-old boy who drowned while swimming in Germany’s Rhine River. The accident happened in Treburg in the state of Hesse on Saturday, police said. After the boy disappeared, his mother ...

The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) says the Chinese restaurant known for exclusive and discriminatory service in Lagos remained shut. The FCCPC Director General, Mr Babatunde Irukera, disclosed this when he appeared on the News Agency of Nigeria ...

The Chief Judge of Kogi State, Justice Nasiru Ajanah is dead. According to Judiciary source, Ajanah, aged 64, died early hours of Sunday at a hospital in Abuja after a protracted illness. Late Justice Nasir Ajanah was born in 1956 ...

Scientists have warned that covid-19 causes a far wider range of health problems than previously thought and that victims may never fully recover from its debilitating effects. According to them, covid-19 does not just cause a wide range of symptoms, ...

Three family members drowned in a new pool after a child got into difficulty and the adults couldn’t swim. An eight-year-old girl, her 33-year-old mom, and 62-year-old grandfather, all drowned in the swimming pool of a New Jersey home on ...

The remains of former Oyo Governor Abiola Ajimobi have been laid to rest. He was buried at his Oluyole residence at about 10 a.m. The burial was witnessed by his wife, children as well as very close associates. Meanwhile, hundred ...

No fewer than 1,300,000 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination candidates may lose their admission into universities and polytechnics in 2020 over the delay in the Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the category of candidates who ...

One person was killed and another wounded in a shooting at a Black Lives Matter rally in the US state of Kentucky, police said. The incident Saturday took place at Jefferson Square Park in the center of Louisville where protestors ...

Nigeria has recorded its highest daily toll of new infections with 779 cases. The new cases were confirmed for 21 states and the federal capital territory (FCT) by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) at 11:42pm on Saturday. A ...

About 4,625 university and polytechnic graduates representing 35 per cent have applied for recruitment into Amotekun Corps in Osun, Sunday PUNCH has learnt. Twenty per cent of the applicants are university graduates from various disciplines, while 15 per cent have ...

The federal government has asked Nigerians stranded in Turkey to pay $1,300 for one-way flight ticket. In a statement on its website, the Nigerian embassy in Turkey said those returning home are expected to pay $1,300 for economy class while ...

The family of Emmanuel Kushi has been distraught over the kidnap of their daughter, Patience, which occurred four days ago. Their fears were further raised by bizarre messages from suspected cultists who kidnapped the 20-year-old undergraduate in Bauchi State. One ...

The confirmed cases of Covid-19 around the world surpassed 10 million last night, with the United States ad Brazil posting huge figures. The death toll has also surpassed 500,000, according to the latest figures by worldometers.info. United States and Brazil ...

Facts emerged on Saturday that a lingering cold war between the family of the former Governor of Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi and the Oyo State Government was largely responsible for the delay in his burial. According to Islamic injunction, ...

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Uche Secondus, on Saturday presented the party’s certificate of return to the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki. He said the party was delighted to have the governor who he said has seen ...

Oyo State Government has shut five private health facilities in Saki and Ibadan allegedly for contravention and unethical practices. The state task force on private health facilities, headed by the Commissioner for Health, Dr Basiru Bello, shut down the facilities ...

  The Lagos state government generated a sum of N25 billion through taxation in April despite the total lockdown imposed on the state. This is according to head of The Lagos State Inland Revenue Service, LIRS’ Information and Communication (ICT) Department, Mr. ...

A Nigerian writer identified as Alex Adekunle James has taken to social media to write on the reason why he returned a sum of over $2500 he picked on the ground. According to him, he never for once thought of ...

NASA wants you to help put the loo in lunar, so it’s offering $35,000 in prizes to design a toilet that can be used on the moon. The space agency has set an ambitious goal of sending astronauts back to ...

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, on Saturday, wrote from where he was isolated from his family, deploring the increasing cases of covid-19 in the state. He said it had become obvious that community transmission of the virus had reached ...

Lagos and Osun state governments have threatened fresh lockdowns amid increasing covid-19 cases in the states and the country. Fresh 684 Covid-19 cases were recorded in 18 states and the Federal Capital Territory on Friday by the Nigeria Centre for ...

A woman who lives in Abule-Egba area of Lagos known as Mrs Bukola Agboola on Thursday was rescued by neighbours after attempting suicide. The mother of two was said to have attempted suicide on Thursday night, in her residence at ...