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President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday formally unveiled the renamed National Stadium in Abuja as Moshood Abiola Stadium. Buhari, who renamed the national monument two years ago, was represented by FCT Minister Muhammed Musa Bello. The ceremony was witnessed by Abiola’s ...

A lake in India that has been in existence for over 50,000 years turned pink overnight and no one has been able to reveal the cause of this. What caused the lake to turn pink? That was the question on ...

The Screening Committee of the All Progressives Congress has cleared Pastor Osagie-Ize Iyamu to participate in the party’s primary election in Edo State scheduled for the 22nd of June while disqualifying the embattled incumbent Governor over discrepancies in his academic ...

Olena Zelenska, the wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said on Friday she had tested positive for coronavirus, but her husband and their two children had tested negative. Zelenska, 42, on her Facebook page said, “Today I’ve received a positive ...

The Chairman of the Gombe State Task Force, Idris Mohammed, has confirmed the death of Abubakar Mohammed, a Senior Registrar in Paediatrics with the Federal Teaching Hospital Gombe. The deceased died three days ago but the COVID-19 test result returned ...

An Ogun State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Abeokuta has sentenced a 20-year-old man, Musa Anifowose, to two years’ imprisonment for raping an eight-year-old girl. The convict had pleaded guilty to the one count of s.e.x.ual abuse. The prosecutor, Bukola Abolade, ...

A sick gymnastics coach who had s-x with an underage girl “once a week” has been jailed. Taylor Farrell, 27, met the victim, then 12, while working as a gymnastics coach in Melbourne, Australia. He then began grooming her through ...

Twitter on Friday said it had removed tens of thousands of “state linked” accounts used by China, Russia and Turkey to push their own propaganda, sow misinformation or attack critics. By far the biggest network uncovered was linked to China, ...

One man identified as Lateef has sent his wife Suliat to court that their marriage should be dissolved. The man said he wanted to divorce his 28-year-old wife because she has become nothing but a nuisance to him. Lateef said ...

Some workers of Atlantic Hotels have accused the management of sacking a female worker, Grace (Not real name), after she was s.e.x.u.a.l.l.y harassed by one Sanjiv Raut, a cooking staff and an Indian national. The hotel, which is situated at ...

Former Imo Governor and member representing Imo West Senatorial District, Senator Rochas Okorocha, has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of peddling falsehood against him, saying the commission did not recover any money from him. Okorocha’s outbursts followed ...

In recognition of the supreme sacrifice she paid during the March 15 Abule-Ado multiple blasts, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Thursday named a newly built 500-capacity assembly hall after the late principal of Bethlehem Girls College, Sr. Henrietta Alokha. ...

The Lagos State Government, on Wednesday, sealed 15 buildings over lack of planning permits. The government made this known via its Twitter handle. The buildings affected are located in Bourdillion, Onikoyi, and Banana Island. The state Commissioner for Physical Planning ...

A mother-of-two has been forced to live with her intestines hanging out of her abdomen after surviving a horrific nightclub shooting. Takieyah Reaves, from Newark, New Jersey, defied death to survive being shot twice by a random attacker who sprayed ...

Spanish prosecutors have opened a probe into whether former king Juan Carlos was handed millions of dollars in kickbacks from Saudi Arabia. The Supreme Court is looking into allegations the king was paid to facilitate the construction by a Spanish ...

A University College London medicine expert was burnt alive by an angry mob after being accused of practising witchcraft. Domingo Choc Che, a natural medicine expert, had been working with the university on a project when the traumatic event happened. ...

The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu has said the anti-graft agency is investigating serving and former state governors for graft. According to him, suspects who connived with the governors were being invited for questioning. ...

The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Thursday, ordered the remand of a journalist, Rotimi Jolayemi, also known as Oba Akewi, who was arrested for his Yoruba poetic song critical of the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed. Justice ...

To commemorate this year’s National Democracy Day celebration, the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, his deputy, Dr Obafemi Hamzat will on June 12 hold a Democracy Day webinar for youths in Lagos. The national leader of the All Progressives Congress ...

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President Muhammadu Buhari this morning addressed Nigerians on the occasion of the Democracy Day. The President’s speech below: NATIONAL BROADCAST BY PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI ON DEMOCRACY DAY, JUNE 12TH 2020 Fellow Nigerians, 1. The 2020 celebration of Democracy Day marks ...

Just three-and-a-half weeks away from the Dominican Republic’s presidential election, leading candidate Luis Abinader said he and his wife have tested positive for the novel coronavirus. The country is one of the worst-affected by the coronavirus pandemic in the Caribbean ...

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, on Thursday, paraded a suspected supplier of aphrodisiac to Boko Haram members in Borno State. The suspect, Bakura Ibrahim, apart from supplying the sex enhancing herbs, to the insurgents, also provides fuel and ...

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Makurdi Zonal Office have commenced investigations into allegations of misappropriation of funds to the tune of N42million involving an aide of governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State. The suspect, Paul Hembah, ...

The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic has denied fixing June 21, 2020, as resumption date for air travels in the country. National Coordinator Dr Sani Aliyu, clarified: “What we said to the aviation authority is ...