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Facebook on Monday rejected calls from the Australian government and news companies that it share advertising revenue with the media, suggesting it would rather cut news content from its platform. The US tech giant said in a submission to Australia’s ...

Some street sweepers and supervisors took to social media at the weekend to protest the non-payment of their salaries. They urged the Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) to pay them the outstanding three months’ salary. The sweepers appealed to ...

A former firebreather has been left scarred for life after her boyfriend set her on fire. Danyeil Townzen, 42, from Dallas, Texas, US, suffered burns to 80% of her body, and miraculously survived. In September 2019, Matthew Gerth, 34, was ...

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A white woman claims she was pulled over by police five times in the space of a year because her large poodle Merlin was repeatedly mistaken for a black man. Cynthia Franks, a US children’s television writer, said she noticed ...

A tiny baby born three months premature has beaten all odds to overcome coronavirus. Emmanuel Boateng is now believed to be Britain’s youngest survivor of Covid-19 after coming home from hospital recently. The tot, who was born premature on January ...

One of the reasons cited for the disqualification of Godwin Obaseki from APC’s June 22 governorship primary in Edo State was that the University of Ibadan awarded him two certificates with separate dates. However, the University of Ibadan debunked the ...

A Texas father fatally shot his two teenage daughters before turning the gun on himself in an apparent double murder-suicide, authorities have said. Officers from the Mesquite Police Department responded to a home in the 1300 block of Bradford Place ...

Donald Trump has fired back at comments about his apparent frailty on show during a graduation address. Observers noted the US President taking ‘baby steps’ and using two hands to drink from a glass of water at West Point, the ...

It’s about to get hotter! Governor Obaseki today visited Nyesom Wike. The Rivers Governor received his embattled Edo counterpart Godwin Obaseki at the Rivers State Government House, Port Harcourt. Details of the meeting were sketchy but there were speculations it ...

  Former beauty queen and wife of Pastor Ituah Ighodalo, of the Trinity House, Ibidunni Ighodalo, is dead. Ibidunni, a humble and caring woman, died on Sunday morning of heart attack in Port Harcourt where she was handling COVID-19  isolation ...

In Borno state, some soldiers caused some mayhem at the Auno checkpoint on Saturday. They caused a fatal accident, mocked Nigeria’s democracy and threatened officials at gunpoint. One of the soldiers blurted out to the officials: “To hell with democracy, ...

A woman has lifted the lid on the “explosive sex” she has been enjoying during two affairs with married men in the breach of lockdown. Claire, 32, was seriously craving human contact when the Government announced a strict lockdown in ...

Panic has gripped the city of Calabar and its environ, as hospitals and pharmacies recorded an unprecedented upsurge in malaria and typhoid fever cases, with an increasing demand for malaria and other related drugs. This development has heightened speculations that ...

Italian police have detained 10 Nigerians accused of running a human trafficking ring that allegedly used voodoo rituals and promises of jobs to lure migrants to Italy only to be  put to work as prostitutes. Police in Catania, Sicily, said ...

The Obaseki faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State yesterday faulted the disqualification of Governor Godwin Obaseki from the party’s June 22 governorship primary, branding it “totally unacceptable” and falling “short of acceptable moral and legal standards ...

Prophet Samuel Kayode Abiara, a retired General Evangelist Worldwide of the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) has said killing of virgins in Nigeria is a sign of end time. He also spoke about the pandemic saying it is nothing anyone should ...

A student identified as Grace Oshiagwu has been reportedly raped and killed in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, the third in the state in two weeks. The deceased, 21, was a National Diploma student of The Oke-Ogun Polytechnic, Saki. The ...

The Atlanta police officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks has been terminated, Atlanta police spokesman Carlos Campos has said. A second officer involved has been placed on administrative duty, Campos said. The announcement about the two officers comes as protesters ...

A passenger dies in an Air India flight which took off from Lagos on Saturday A 42-year old passenger on board an Air India flight from Lagos to Mumbai died under unclear circumstances. Report said the passenger displayed symptoms of ...

A suspect connected with the killing of the 29-year old pregnant student of the University of Ibadan has been arrested by the Oyo State Police Command. The student, Azeezat Shomuyiwa, was murdered in Ijefun, Akinyele area of Ibadan, the Oyo ...

The Nigerian in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), on Saturday, confirmed the arrival of 269 Nigerians that were stranded in India in Lagos and Abuja. The commission, who announced their arrival on its Twitter handle, said that the the 269 Nigerians arrived ...

Hundreds of Kenyans defied tear gas and riot police to hijack the body of a popular singer, Abenny Jachiga, who was believed to have died of COVID-19. The crowd of fans and mourners swarmed the Kisumu cemetery and prevented a ...

A Gambian man has been indicted in Colorado on federal charges that he tortured planners of a failed 2006 presidential coup when he was a member of a special armed unit that reported directly to the dictator of the African ...

Four men face life in prison for killing Uganda’s most beloved gorilla, Rafiki. The 25-year-old endangered silverback was one of only 1,004 mountain gorillas left in the wild and headed up a human-habituated family of 17 in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable ...