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The management of the Federal Medical Centre in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, has confirmed that a two-year-old girl has tested positive for the coronavirus at the centre. The child was said to have been admitted into the facility eight ...

Pandemonium recently broke out in the Isale Oja area of Agege, Lagos State after the son of the Chief Imam of the community, Abdulrahman Olayiwola, allegedly stabbed his friend, identified simply as Pelumi, to death. Punch correspondent learnt that the ...

Iran has been rocked by its third honour killing in a month after a 22-year-old woman was bludgeoned to death by her father. Reyhaneh Ameri, from Kerman in south central Iran, was allegedly attacked with an iron bar after arriving ...

Police in Kitengela, Kajiado County, Kenya have launched a hunt for a middle-aged man accused of killing his girlfriend. It is alleged the suspect strangled his lover on Friday night and hailed a boda boda at 5am Saturday with instructions ...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers has suspended a former Deputy National Secretary, Victor Giadom, over alleged acts of gross infractions of the party’s Constitution. Livingstone Wechie, the Media Adviser to the Acting Chairman of APC in Rivers, Igo ...

Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma has adopted a 9-year old boy who went viral for signing Catholic hymns. The boy who comes from a very humble family and hawks coconuts and pear also made it an habit of entertaining his ...

A Ghanaian identified as Suzanna Laar who visited Synagogue Church of All Nations in Ikotun has been declared missing. The 54-year-old woman had visited the church, alongside her two sons, in search of healing over an ailment they claimed had ...

Nigeria reached a new grim milestone in COVID-19 cases Sunday night with the national total now 20,214. The new caseload was reached after the NCDC announced 436 new cases, with 12 deaths. Lagos continued to dominate the daily chart with ...

The Secretary to the Delta State Government, Chiedu Ebie, and the state Commissioner for Information, Charles Aniagwu, have tested positive for coronavirus. The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Olisa Ifeajika, disclosed this in a statement today. He said the ...

Ghana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has apologised to the Nigerian government after the building housing high commission staff was demolished on Friday night. In a press statement, the ministry said it viewed with concern the development, which is a breach ...

Former Executive Director of Projects of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Engr. Samuel Adjogbe on Saturday night escaped death as suspected gunmen attacked his car. He confirmed the incident in a telephone chat with The Nation. He explained the ...

A 34-year-old man Ifeanyi Apusiobi on Sunday, allegedly killed two of his children in Ogbunike in Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State. The suspect reportedly attacked his victims, Chinecherem and Obinna said to be his biological children while they ...

The Nigeria Immigration Service(NIS) has arrested two Indians who illegally entered the country without proper documentation in spite of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Lagos Airport Command, NIS, Comptroller Mr Abdullahi Usman made this known in a statement by the Public ...

A 19-year-old footballer who moved to America on a scholarship has died just a few weeks after discovering he had blood cancer. Joe Aspinall, who attended Coastal Bend College in Texas, passed away on June 10 at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary. ...

The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire and Directoar General Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Chikwe Ihekweazu have been sued over “their failure to account for the public funds so far spent to combat the spread of COVID-19 in Nigeria. ...

Churches in Oyo State have reopened after three months of closure due to the ban placed on religious gatherings by the government. You would recall that the state government had in March, placed a ban on religious gathering as part ...

Resident Doctors will return to work tomorrow 22 June. This followed the suspension of their strike by their umbrella organization. The National Association of Resident Doctors said it took the decision to enable the government time to fulfill outstanding demands. ...

The embattled Students’ Union Government (SUG) President of the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro (FPI), Ogun state, Adegboye Emmanuel Olatunji who was arrested by men of the state police command for alleged cultism on February 9, 2020 has threatened to commit suicide. ...

Drama ensued at the Government House in Ondo on Saturday night as a team of policemen led by Commissioner of Police Bolaji Salami stopped the Deputy Governor Agboola Ajayi from exiting with official vehicles. Ajayi, who has been at loggerheads ...

With the rising number of Covid-19 cases, Lagos and Kwara state governments have announced plans to convert their Hajj and pilgrims’ camps to isolation centres to ease the burden on hospital facilities and the limited number of bed spaces. There ...

A tragedy was averted on Saturday as a tanker, laden with 33,000 litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) overturned at Lombardy Area, Oju-Ore, in Ogun state. Mr Akeem Ganiyu, FRSC’s Sango-Ota Unit Commander confirmed that the incident occurred at about ...

Unidentified gunmen have killed a pharmacist Mr Sunday Ike, in Gwarimpa area of Abuja. He was shot in the head and robbed of his light blue Toyota Camry. The assailants struck Friday at 11.00p.m. at the victim’s shop located on ...

The body of ex-beauty queen and event planner extraordinaire, Ibidun Ajayi-Ighodalo, has been laid to rest yesterday, Saturday, 20th June 2020. The 39-year-old wife of popular Pastor Ituah Ighodalo of Trinity House Church passed away on Sunday, June 14 in ...

Some armed men invaded the Nigerian high commission in Accra, Ghana, on Friday, destroying some apartments under construction. The affected buildings were reportedly being constructed to house staff and visitors. A Ghanaian businessman had accused the commission of encroaching on ...

Speaker of Enugu State House of Assembly, Mr Edward Ubosi, has ordered the shutdown and fumigation of the assembly complex, after a member died of COVID-19. Mr Jeff Mbah, Chairman of the House Committee on Information and Communication, announced this ...