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US President Donald Trump will prolong a ban on US employment permits to year-end and broaden it to include H-1B visas used widely in the tech industry, the White House has said. A senior administration official told journalists the move ...

A man, Osas Onyeokweni, and his wife, Tomisin Onyeokweni, have been arrested by the Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command for molesting and indecently assaulting a 20-year-old girl. Mr Onyekweni was said to have called his former girlfriend on ...

An unnamed official of the Covid-19 task force of the Ojodu Abiodun Local Council Development Authority of the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State, who was filmed assaulting a woman, has been arrested by the police. The woman, identified ...

Mad oh! A man who shot dead his former neighbor when she answered the door at her Massachusetts home had disguised himself as a UPS driver, prosecutors have said. Robert Bonang, 61, is charged with killing 59-year-old Laurie Melchionda after ...

A controversial Russian priest has taken over a convent after claiming that the coronavirus pandemic was a hoax and church leaders were “working with the forerunners of the Anti-Christ”. Father Sergei Romanov, together with a group of armed cossacks, began ...

The American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has commended the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for offering assistance to it in the investigation and prosecution of six Nigerians involved in Business Email Compromise (BEC) and wire fraud in the ...

Nigeria’s tally of confirmed Covid-19 cases rose to 20, 919 on Monday as 675 new infections were announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. Seven deaths were recorded from the virus on Monday, bringing the total number of confirmed ...

Steve Bing, an American producer, philanthropist, and writer has died by suicide at the age of 55. According to TMZ, he died on Monday June 22nd after jumping from the 27th floor of a luxury apartment building in L.A.’s Century ...

The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 said on Monday it had started reviewing the guidelines for lifting of the ban on interstate travels. Speaking at the daily press briefing of the PTF in Abuja, the National Coordinator of the task ...

A man, Chris Ndukwe, has reportedly committed suicide after stabbing his lover, Olamide Alli, to death at his place of residence on the Victory Point Estate in the Ilasan area of Lagos State. Although the reasons for Ndukwe’s action remain ...

A former Minister of Education, Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, has lost her mother, Mrs. Cecilia Nwayiaka Ujubuonu. Ezekwesili’s spokesperson and publicist, Mr. Ozioma Ubabukoh, stated that Mrs. Ujubuonu died in the late hours of Sunday. An indigene of Ndodolu village, Umunuko, ...

Oyo State government’s decision to reopen schools from June 29 is insensitive, the Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba said on Monday. He warned that such decision if taken could raise Covid-19 infection figures in the state. As of ...

A Ghanaian monarch says the Nigerian high commission in the country was aiding a businessman to forcibly take over the plot of land belonging to his people. Joy News, a Ghanaian platform, quoted Nii Okwei Kinka Dowuona VI, paramount chief ...

There was tension in Ilesha in Osun State on Monday as a cult clash left two dead, forcing banks in the community and commercial activities to shut. It was gathered that the clash was between Eyie confraternity and Aiye cult ...

A transgender man has announced he is pregnant with his second child six years after he was branded a ‘monster’ when he had his first baby. Kayden Coleman, who began transitioning from female to male in 2009, said he found ...

The couple are currently in lockdown in LA with one-year-old son Archie Harrison after stepping down as senior members of the Royal Family to forge their own path. And since moving to the City of Angels, they have been keeping ...

Family members, political associates and relatives of former Oyo State governor, Abiola Ajimobi, are fearful as hopes of him recovering from coma fades away by the minute. The 70-year-old slipped into coma on Thursday for the second time as a ...

Michael Jackson’s daughter Paris opted not to wish him a happy Father’s Day yesterday – but did so for her cousin. The 22-year-old took to her Instagram account on Sunday night to pay tribute to TJ Jackson, whose father is ...

The Oyo State civil and public servants of all grade levels, today fully resumed work following the directive of the state government after a three-month stay-at-home order. The state secretariat was closed on March 27 as part of the measures ...

Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu has emerged the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the September 2020 election. Imo state governor, Hope Uzodinma declared Ize-Iyamu winner of the direct primary election with a total of 27,838 votes to defeat ...

The popular Oba Market in Benin City, the Edo State capital, has been razed. The fire, which burnt almost all the massive market, according to witnesses, started around 12:05 am and raged till 6am before it was put out by ...

Frustrated women are forking out £1,000-a-go for orgasm lessons from a s.e.x guru. Self-styled orgasm coach Veronica Trufasu, 32, didn’t have her first one until two years ago when she had four in a row. She’s since come so far ...

A 26-year-old Florida man fatally shot his best friend while showing off his gun when they were playing video games, because his friend said, ‘What, are you going to shoot me?’ Shea Harkins, 26, of Palm Harbor, Florida, was arrested ...

An Ebonyi State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Abakaliki, on Friday, remanded one Elom Maduka, 38, in a correctional facility for allegedly killing his stepmother, Mrs Augustina Odio. The suspect, it was gathered, was said to have complained that the victim ...

Justin Bieber has refuted allegations that he s.e.xually assaulted a woman going by the name of “Danielle” in 2014. The woman, who tweeted from an anonymous account Saturday night (June 20) that was removed from Twitter shortly after Bieber publicly ...