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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are set to make millions on the professional speaking circuit after reportedly signing with a high-profile agency who represent Barack and Michelle Obama, as well as Bill and Hillary Clinton. The Duke and Duchess of ...

Half a million Senegalese schoolchildren returned to class on Thursday, under instructions to wear face masks and keep a distance from each other, after three months of absence. The government in the West Africa state shut schools in mid-March in ...

A teenage schoolgirl fought off two would-be rapists – including a 14-year-old boy – but was then doused in kerosene and burned to death by her attackers, police say. The 14-year-old suffered burns to 80 per cent of her body ...

A pregnant woman has been shot dead by intruders while giving birth in her home in South Africa. Shaida Nathan and the baby she was delivering were unable to be saved by paramedics and both died at the scene. According ...

Abiola Ajimobi, former governor of Oyo State, who had been on life support machine for weeks, is dead. The 70-year-old, who was admitted at the First Cardiology Hospital in Ikoyi, Lagos, following Coronavirus complications, died on Thursday.

Residents of Pegi community in Kuje Area Council were thrown into confusion over the alleged kidnap of three person while on their way home around 10pm on Wednesday. Chairman, Pegi Community Development Association, Taiwo Aderibigbe, who confirmed the development to ...

An aggrieved Kenyan mother has called for the arrest of three men who r.a.p.e.d her 17-year-old daughter on seperate occasions in early June. Recalling how the incident occurred, the girl said she knows only one of the men from Facebook ...

The crisis in the All Progressive Congress (APC) continues to deepen as the Acting National Secretary of the party, Arc Waziri Bulama was barred by armed policemen from entering the National Secretariat. Bulama while addressing the media on the event ...

A small-scale miner in Tanzania has become an overnight millionaire after selling two rough Tanzanite stones – the biggest ever find in the country. Saniniu Laizer earned £2.4m ($3.4m) from the country’s mining ministry for the gemstones, which had a ...

Dubai Police have seized $40.9m in cash and more than a dozen luxury cars in the arrest of Hushpuppi, Nigerian Instagram celebrity accused of online fraud and money laundering. In a video shared by the police, officers explained how they ...

The Government of Ghana has promised to rebuild the demolished building in the Nigeria High Commission. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, announced this. Onyeama expressed satisfaction with the steps taken by Ghana on the issue. He said they have ...

The people of Bauchi State can now sleep with their two eyes open as a serial motorcycle thief who was a dismissed police sergeant has been arrest. According to information by the Command’s public relations officer, Ahmed Mohammed Wakil, the ...

Governor Godwin Obaseki is set to clinch the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship ticket as his fellow aspirant, Kenneth Imasuangbon stepped down a few hours to the delegate election. 2, 229 party delegates thronged the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, Benin City ...

The World Health Organisation has warned the demand for oxygen is outstripping supplies as COVID-19 cases race towards the 10 million mark. WHO director-general Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus said global cases are rising by about one million cases per week. This, ...

The Nigerian police have chased out staff of the All Progressives Congress at its national secretariat in Abuja, as they sealed off the office for the second time this week. Two police patrol vans and two Peugeot 604 cars were ...

A 43-year-old father has been arrested for allegedly raping his 3-year-old daughter while his wife was in the hospital to deliver their child. Mr Ikechukwu Ekenta, from Ikeduru- Ogwah, Mbaitolu Local Government Area of Imo state, is accused of defiling ...

  Femi Fani-Kayode on Thursday wrote an open letter to Senator Bola Tinubu, reminding him of his words and how his political party, the All Progressive Congress (APC), is falling apart. In a letter titled ”An Open Letter To Jagaban”, ...

The Rivers State Government has approved COVID-19 guidelines for marriages and weddings with N10million fine to be paid by violators. The Commissioner for Information and Communications, Pastor Paulinus Nsirim, said the guidelines were approved by the state Executive Council in ...

Jennifer Aniston has given fans a rare glimpse of a mysterious new tattoo during a video call with former Friends co-star Lisa Kudrow. The actress, 51, was chatting to her former co-star during Variety ‘s Actors on Actors issue, in ...

The biggest global increase in coronavirus cases has been announced as 183,020 cases were recorded in just 24 hours by the World Health Organisation. According to a daily report, the biggest increase in cases of the deadly bug came from ...

The New York City Marathon, the world’s largest marathon and one of the city’s biggest annual spectacles, has been canceled this year as concerns about the spread of the coronavirus continue to dash hopes of holding large-scale events, organizers announced ...

Amidst growing concerned on the effect of ravaging coronavirus on the country’s economy, Bowen University, Iwo, Osun State has reportedly sacked over 100 staffs of the institution. It was gathered that the sacked staffers received their letters of disengagement through ...

A 36-year-old father of five, Fatai Oyedele, was arrested on Wednesday after a failed suicide attempt. Oyedele, who is a cloth seller, was rescued from the Ogun River in the Akin-Olugbade area of Abeokuta around 1.15pm. He reportedly left his ...

The Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi, is facing one of his toughest times on the throne as his subjects have not only turned against him but also demanded his immediate dethronement over various infractions. In a letter to the ...

Akwa Ibom State Government said on Wednesday that it had dropped all the charges preferred against Emmanuel Effiong, a pastor of the Christ Embassy Church, located at Nung Akpa Ime, off Nsikak Eduok Avenue, Uyo. Effiong was arrested on Sunday, ...