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Cases of the novel coronavirus in American prisons and jails have doubled over the last month. There are more than 68,000 inmates confirmed to have contracted COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, reported The New York Times. According to ...

Police in Ebonyi have arrested a former commissioner in the state, Donatus Ajah, on allegations of  murder. Ajah was accused of complicity in the death of a 46-year-old man, Azubuike Inya. Both  Mr Ajah and the late Mr Inya are ...

Exercising with a face mask on ‘could prove fatal’, an expert has warned. Lindsay Bottoms, a reader in Exercise and Health Physiology at the University of Hertfordshire, claims that a mask makes it harder to inhale the quantity of air ...

A 35-year-old man will most likely lose his appetite for committing crime while he serves his jail sentence in Mexico. Police arrested the man in Mexico City last Friday after he was caught hiding a pistol inside a sandwich. Cops ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared Nigeria free of wild polio, following the completion of documentation for the free status. The UN health agency disclosed this on its regional office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, official twitter account @WHOAFRO. ...

A Florida worker has come down with coronavirus along with 15 of her friends after the group all got together and went out to a bar ten days ago. Erika Crisp, 40, has revealed that she had been suffering from ...

The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), has recommended to President Muhammadu Buhari the sacking of the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Ibrahim Magu. Malami, in a ...

Gunmen on Thursday killed an 80-year-old university don, Prof Christopher Ogiehor, a father-in-law of an Edo State aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, Matthew Iduoriyekenmwen. Ogiehor was said to have been found dead in his house located at 13, Egbor ...

A 17-year-old barber, Kelechi Onah, was, Wednesday, allegedly shot dead in his shop at Owerre-Eze Orba, in Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State. The late Onah was said to had cut the hair of one of the suspects, who ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Thursday night announced  745  new cases in Nigeria The centre made this known via its Twitter handle. The new cases as recorded in states on Thursday are as follows: Lagos-280 Oyo-103 Ebonyi-72 FCT-60 ...

A 51-year-old man of Nigerian origin, Ronayerin Ogolor, has been sentenced to three years in prison for internet fraud in the United States. Ogolor was sentenced by US Chief District Judge, Beth Phillips, and was ordered to pay $871,739 in ...

Police in Louisiana say a mentally ill mother shot and killed her four children, including an infant, and her neighbor before turning the gun on herself at an apartment complex. Monroe Police Chief Reggie Brown confirmed the six deaths that ...

The Federal Government on Thursday said it was not feasible to open the airspace for commercial flights to begin operations again on June 21, 2020. According to the government, it will be disastrous to allow domestic flights begin operations from ...

A grandmother gave birth to her own twin grandchildren after cervical cancer left her daughter infertile at just 23. Nursery worker Micaela Gump-Johnson was left devastated when she was given the diagnosis at such a young age after trying for ...

A Nigerian entrepreneur, Obinwanne Okeke, popularly known as Invictus Obi, on Thursday appeared before an Eastern District of Virginia court. Okeke, and conspirators appeared before the Magistrate, Judge Robert Krask, on counts bordering on fraud, forgery, among others,  said the ...

A German politician has died after he was hit by lightning whilst taking a wee outdoors in a storm. Local politician Nico K., 44, who belonged to the Christian Democratic Union Party and was a member of the local council, ...

Facebook on Thursday removed ads by President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign that contained a symbol used in Nazi Germany for political prisoners. The leading social network, which has drawn fire over its hands-off approach to political speech in recent months, ...

Senator Abiola Ajimobi is not dead, though his condition remains critical, multliple sources told P.M.News on Thursday night Nigeria’s rumour press had announced the former Oyo governor’s death, without the confirmation of the family. But Bolaji Tunji, his media adviser ...

A former judiciary officer in Borno State  has been sentenced to 16 years imprisonment for defrauding 194 widows to the tune of N781,800 through a forged food collection card in the name of a non-governmental organisation. The man, Ramat Muhammed, ...

The Osun State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of a lover boy, Maliki Ayo, a third-year student of the Federal University of Oye-Ekiti for the death of Faderera Oloyede. Oloyede died in his room in the Koko area of ...

Donald Trump has weighed in on the shooting of Rayshard Brooks – a black man who died after being shot by a white police officer in a restaurant car park in Atlanta. Commenting on the incident and the officer charged ...

High street giant Sports Direct was forced to close a store on its first day back after lockdown after discovering a snake. It is feared that the creature thought to be a Honduran milk snake could have been lurking in ...

An Indian Army Colonel and two soldiers have been killed in clashes with China. Senior military officials from both sides have been scrambled to the border as fears grow of a military escalation. China for its part has accused Indian ...

The President is unhappy with the current state of the security situation in the country, telling service chiefs, their best is not good enough. Disclosing this to State House Correspondents today, after a security briefing, the National Security Adviser (NSA), ...

The alleged murderer of a missing 19-year-old Black Lives Matter protester and a 75-year-old woman confessed to his mother about the killings, DailyMail reports. Aaron Glee Jr, 49, was arrested on Sunday after police found the bodies of the two ...