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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 ...

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 ...