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Ondo state government has sacked the striking Residents doctors at the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital (UNIMETH). Their sacking was contained in a letter announcing the suspension of the institution residency training programme from August 1st, 2020. The letter ...

Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo has said criminality is the order of the day and insecurity is one issue common to Nigerians, regardless of tribe, language, religion, location, gender, age, or social position. He noted that restructuring is the solution, adding that ...

A pensioner called police on a nine-year-old girl after she wrote “Black Lives Matter” in chalk outside her home, it has been reported. The woman accused little Mira Acklin of vandalising the street where they live in Ohio and called ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is seeking assistance in finding six Nigerians who are linked to a $6m fraud. The bureau took to its Twitter handle to solicit help in finding the six men who are wanted for “their ...

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has confirmed that another member of his cabinet has tested positive for Covid-19. This latest new case brings to four those who have contacted the pandemic in the Oyo State cabinet. The governor had ...

The United Nations (UN) says it has launched an investigation into a viral video showing a couple apparently having s.e.x in one of its official cars in Israel. Spokesman of the Secretary-General, Mr Stephane Dujarric, told UN correspondents in New ...

Ogun State government has warned street beggars to desist from the act of street begging or face punitive measures of sweeping market square for two weeks. The Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Hon. Mrs. Funmi Efuwape gave the ...

Immediate-past National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole said he has accepted the decision of the National Executive Committee NEC to dissolve the National Working Committee NWC which he chaired until Thursday. He said President ...

It was a tragic end for a middle-aged destitute man along Lagos-Badagry Expressway, Lagos, after a shuttle bus ran over him. The man, whose name and address had yet to be identified, was reportedly crushed when the driver, one Rahmon, ...

On March 8, 2019, the eve of the governorship and state House of Assembly elections, Stephen Alao, a then corps member serving in Kebbi State, was involved in a fatal accident. His skin was pierced, his body stuck in the ...

  Nollywood actress, Funke Adesiyan, has stated that she is still in shock over the death of former Oyo governor, Abiola Ajimobi, who died on Thursday aged 70. The Personal Assistant to the First Lady, Aisha Buhari on Domestic and ...

No fewer than eight staffers of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Idi-Aba, Abeokuta have tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The affected staff consisted of medical doctors, nurses and an administrative staff. This was contained in a press statement ...

Ikeja Electric Plc on Friday said it would begin implementation of its revised electricity tariff from July 1. The electricity distribution company made the announcement in a statement signed by its Head of Corporate Communications, Mr Felix Ofulue. Ofulue said ...

Mr Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), says many Nigerian looters are hiding in neighbouring Ghana. Speaking in Abuja on Friday, Magu said the commission was putting resources together to go after them and ...

A 50-year-old father in Osun State was paraded by the state’s Police Command for raping his 13-year-old daughter. This was disclosed by the Commissioner of Police, Undie Adie, who vowed that the command would not relent in ensuring that rapists ...

Authorities in Mexico found 14 bodies dumped on the side of a road in northern Zacatecas state, where notorious criminal gangs operate, the regional government said on Friday. Images on local media showed the bodies by the side of a ...

Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, has said former Oyo Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, died of multiple organ failure. Professor Akin Abayomi explained, in a tweet, that COVID-19 complications triggered multiple organs failure. Ajimobi died around 4p.m., on ...

A gang who raided the home of Leicester’s Demarai Gray have been sentenced to a combined 85 years in prison. Gray’s girlfriend, Emma Hickman, and baby were inside the home at the time of the burglary which was part of ...

Former soldier killed himself just hours after telling his girlfriend he was planning to propose. Macauley Jepson, 23, discharged himself from the Army in April, 2019 after suffering chest pains during physical training. An inquest heard how Macauley’s family had ...

Fifteen residents of an indigenous village in southern Mexico have been massacred in a horrific attack, authorities have said. The victims were reportedly on their way to a meeting when they were ambushed by a gang of thugs at a ...

A Russian pensioner forced her daughter to live off cat food while caged at her home for 26 years. Nadezhda Bushueva was kept isolated with her elderly mother in a hovel the pair shared with cats. Nadezhda had been kept ...

The funeral of former Oyo Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has been postponed. His spokesman, Bolaji Tunji, told reporters in his Oluyole, Ibadan residence this morning the family would soon make an announcement of the burial programme. Tunji said: “The funeral ...

The federal government has banned what it described as non-critical and administrative capital spending, including the purchase of vehicles. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, in a document tagged, “What you need to know ...

Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has described the death of the former governor of Oyo State, Sen. Abiola Ajimobi, as shocking and devastating. Ajimobi died on Thursday at a private medical facility in Lagos after a brief sickness. The ...

Justin Bieber is seeking legal recourse against two anonymous women who previously accused him on social media of s.e.xual assault. In a filing of a defamation lawsuit against the two Jane Does (who remain anonymous save for their Twitter handles ...