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Four people were killed and more than 50 injured after an oil tanker truck exploded on a highway near Wenling in east China on Saturday, the local government said. The impact of the blast caused some nearby rural homes and ...

Seven persons travelling for a funeral ceremony have died in an auto crash on the Ogidi-Abatete road in the Idemili Local Government Area of Anambra State. Many others on the same journey sustained varying degrees of injury. The accident, which ...

The First Lady, Aisha Buhari, on Friday asked Police Inspector-General Mohammed Adamu to release her staff who are in police detention. Buhari in a series of tweets said the IGP should “release my assigned Staff who are still in the ...

A civil war seems to be brewing within the Oniru monarchy as the new Oniru of Iruland, Oba Gbolahan Lawal, has asked all banks housing funds belonging to the family to immediately place a ‘Post No Debit’ order on all ...

A California man was arrested for allegedly feeding poisoned food to eight homeless people then filming them writhe in pain for his own twisted amusement, according to a report. William Robert Cable, 38, of San Andreas, allegedly told victims they ...

The Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja has lost a nurse, Mrs Adenike Bakare, to COVID-19, The punch has learnt. Bakare, who was an Assistant Director, Nursing Services, according to a source, died on Friday and was buried privately in ...

The wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, has called on the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to immediately release her aides. Mrs. Buhari stated this in a series of tweets on Friday. The aides were reportedly detained based on the ...

Tourists were left terrified as two wild elephants charged at their jeep on a safari in Sri Lanka. The incident happened at the Minneriya National Park in North Central Province on June 4. A group of safari-goers were travelling through ...

New mothers infected with Covid-19 should generally continue breastfeeding and should not be separated from their babies, the World Health Organization said on Friday, stressing that the benefits outweighed the risks. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual press ...

A black business owner claims his white landlord evicted him from an office space because he was peacefully protesting at a Black Lives Matter demonstration. Jeremiah Johnson, Exodus Bargblor, Xaví Fonceca and Edward Idehen run co-owned fashion brand Stylent from ...

The story of an Indonesian man Muh who “divorced” his wife two days after their wedding after finding out she is a man has gone viral. It is gathered Muh met his wife Mita on Facebook about a month ago ...

A major Chinese propaganda outlet has criticized the United States over its handling of the coronavirus outbreak after more than two million people in America tested positive for Covid-19. The Global Times, Beijing’s flagship nationalist tabloid, branded the U.S. as ...

A bungling man has been filmed casually waiting to be seen at a hospital with a crossbow arrow lodged in his chest. The hapless patient, identified as 21-year-old Mr Peng, had accidentally shot himself while loading his crossbow. Incredibly, the ...

The Abiola family in Abeokuta, Ogun State yesterday demanded an official recognition of late Chief M.K.O Abiola as a former president of Nigeria. The head of the family, Chief Olanrewaju Abiola, made the demand on President Muhammadu Buhari at the ...

Osun Deputy Chief Of Staff, General Administration, Adejare Adebisi is dead. A source revealed, the deceased died of a prolong illness at an undisclosed hospital in Lagos State His death comes less than a year after he was inaugurated into ...

A white woman was arrested yesterday on five federal accounts of arson for allegedly setting five Seattle Police Department cars on fire during George Floyd protests in the city. Margaret Aislinn Channon, 25, was arrested by federal authorities wearing full ...

The kidnappers of an officer of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Adamu Suleiman, and his two children, Abdullahi and Balkisu, have insisted on collecting N7.5 million before they will be set free. The NIS officer and his children were abducted ...

Sacked 116 staff of United Bank For Africa (UBA) have instituted a case before an industrial court praying the court to declare their dismissal as illegal. The staff, in a joint suit, claimed that they were constructively dismissed by the ...

For many people, the day hasn’t really started before you’ve managed to get some coffee in your system. Now, new guidelines suggest that your coffee habit may help to reduce your risk of a number of cancers. New guidelines published ...

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, ...