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The Federal Government has lifted the ban on interstate movement effective from July 1, 2020. Secretary to the Government of the Federation chairman Presidential Task Force (PTF) on Covid-19, Boss Mustapha, disclosed this during the daily media briefing. National coordinator ...

The federal government disclosed yesterday that more than one million applications were received from intending N-Power enrollees across the country in less than 48 hours. This was as it debunked reports that the N-Power portal had been hacked. Rather, the ...

Shock hit Naivasha town after a woman poisoned her four children to death on Saturday afternoon. Beatrice Mwende Kimotho, 42, is alleged to have locked her children in the house before giving them poison at Kabati Estate. The children were ...

Grief has engulfed residents of Kyanguu village in Matiliku, Nzaui Sub County, Kenya after a ten-year-old girl committed suicide. Police said that the minor’s body was found dangling from a tree by her mother at their homestead on Friday at ...

Police officers in Kirinyaga County, Kenya on Sunday arrested a 35-year-old man who killed his 28-year-old girlfriend and later buried her body in a shallow grave. According to the Kirinyaga Central Sub County Police Commander Doreen Oduor, the suspect was ...

Taraba State Government has declared Monday, June 29, Tuesday, June 30 and Wednesday, July 1, as public holidays to enable residents to participate in the local government council poll. This was contained in a statement by Alhaji Hassan Mijinyawa, Chief ...

Iceland’s President Gudni Johannesson has been re-elected with a whopping 92 percent of the vote, according to final results released on Sunday. The former history professor won his second four-year term in the largely symbolic position in Saturday’s vote, the ...

The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, awarded the sum of N15 million against the Nigerian police over the alleged killings of three members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN). Justice Taiwo Taiwo, in his judgment, also ordered the ...

The Ministerial Council of African Petroleum Producers’ Organisation (APPO) decided at its 38th session on the 15th June 2020 to move the temporary headquarters of the organisation from Abuja, Nigeria to the permanent headquarters in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo. Apart ...

British rock band The Rolling Stones are threatening President Donald Trump with legal action for using their songs at his rallies despite cease-and-desist directives. The Stones in a statement on Sunday said that their legal team is working with music ...

The Lagos State Government has begun stiff enforcement of laws against distressed buildings and called on property owners to carry out immediate integrity tests or risk demolition. The General Manager, Lagos State Materials Testing Laboratory (LSMTL), Dr Afolabi Abiodun, told ...

The Police in Lagos State have arrested three paedophiles in different parts of the state. One of them arrested by Ikorodu police, was identified as Eke Kanu, a 61 year-old, residing at Ebute Road, Igbogbo, Ikorodu. He impregnated his 19-year-old ...

A former member of the Rivers State House of Assembly who respresented Ahoada East Constituency I, Hon. Martyns Mannah and unrepentant critic of Governor Nyesom Wike’s administration has died after protracted illness. It cannot be immediately confirmed the circumstances surrounding ...

A sick video allegedly showing shamed p3rn star Ron Jeremy having s3x with an 87-year-old woman, who appears to lack the ability to consent, is being reviewed by investigators in Los Angeles. The video has been sent to the Los Angeles ...

Two middle-aged men have committed suicide in Rijau local government area of Niger state. The incidents, which occurred on different occasions, have put the number of suicide in the last two months in the local government area to 13. The ...

Study in-uk.com notes that undergraduate fees for international students from outside the EU begin at around £10,000 per year. At the postgraduate level, they start at around £12,000, and if you wish to study medicine or MBA, you may have ...

The Osun State Police Command has commenced investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of one Shuaib Isola after he was punched during a fight in Iwo on Sunday. According to sources, the incident happened around 10am at the playground ...

One of the black police officers at the scene of the killing of George Floyd by a white officer in Minneapolis in May has a Nigerian father. Alex Kueng who joined the police largely because he believed diversity could force ...

Operatives of Ogun State Police Command have arrested two robbers on the Kara long bridge along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in the Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of the state while robbing motorists. Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Police Public Relations Officer in the ...

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 ...