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Prince Charles has revealed he feels ‘ghastly’ for those who couldn’t be with their loved-ones as they died of coronavirus. The Prince of Wales, 71, has opened up about his brush with COVID19 in a new interview with Sky News ...

Friends, families, and concerned individuals gathered at a private memorial service in Minneapolis to honor George Floyd on Thursday. Thousands also streamed the memorial service online to salute and grieve George Floyd – the unarmed black man who died after ...

Two children have tested positive for coronavirus just days after primary schools reopened. St Paul’s Church of England Primary School in Wibsey,  Bradford, has written to parents to advise them on the need to self-isolate if they have come into ...

A Nigerian lady who was offered for sale at $1,000 in Lebanon, Peace Busari, has refused to return to the country, the Chairman of Nigerian Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has said. The NiDCOM chairman, who spoke on Thursday during ...

The Lebanese Government has stopped issuing work visas to Nigerians visiting Lebanon to be employed as domestic workers as a way of addressing the rising incidences of human trafficking in the Arab country. The Lebanese Ambassador to Nigeria, Houssam Diab, ...

Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has said that he does not believe President Muhammadu Buhari is in charge of the country. This is coming days after a retired colonel and former military administrator of Kaduna, Umar Dangiwa, wrote an open ...

The People’s House continued to be fortified from the public Thursday, as workers erected a perimeter of tall metal fencing around the White House complex. After law enforcement forcefully dispersed peaceful protesters so President Donald Trump could participate in a ...

A 25- year- old man Ezekiel Yunana is in police custody for raping a 85- year- old grandmother in Rafi local government area of Niger state. The victim reported that she was sleeping when the suspect broke into her room ...

A man, identified simply as Mr. Edafe, died yesterday after he was struck by lightning during a downpour in Edo state. The deceased was reportedly working at a building site around the Cattle Market in Asoro Hill, on Ekehuan Road, ...

The most populous nation in Africa, Nigeria, has on Thursday recorded 350 new cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), increasing the total number of confirmed cases to 11, 516. Announcing the new cases via its official twitter handle, the Nigeria ...

Nine persons, including eight policemen and one civilian, were feared killed on Thursday in Isanlu, Kogi State when a gang of armed robbers launched an attack on a branch of a first-generation bank in the town. The News Agency of ...

A six-year-old boy has drowned after slipping and falling off a toilet seat into a pit latrine. The child was found drowned in the outdoor lavatory near his family home in Moldova after a massive two-day search. Beniamin Osipciuc disappeared ...

Bald men could be at greater risk of having serious Covid-19 symptoms, according to new research. And the lead author of the study is so confident in the data that he has told The Daily Telegraph: “We really think that ...

A callous gang of brothers, the Emmanuels, have been arrested by the Nigerian police, after they gruesomely killed a 55 year-old woman, buried her in a tank and then demanded ransom for the body. The brothers, born by same parents, ...

A longtime friend of George Floyd who was in the passenger seat of his car when Floyd was arrested by four Minnesota police officers and brutally killed, says he did not resist arrest. Maurice Lester Hall, 42, witnessed his friend’s ...

Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki has been dragged before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja over an alleged forged certificate and perjury. In the originating summons sighted by Daily Independent, the plaintiffs are Edobor Williams, Ugbesia Abudu Godwin and ...

The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Sadique Abubakar on Thursday in Katsina directed his officers and men on ground to locate and neutralise all suspected bandits and to submit weekly reports on their operations. Speaking during his operational visit ...

A married woman has gotten herself into serious trouble after she visited her married partner in his house. Reports gathered that the married man collapsed after s.e.x romp with her. The lady however denied having anything to do with what ...

A male Covid-19 patient has absconded from an isolation centre in Jos, Plateau state. Mr Williams Bassi, the Coordinator, World Health Organisation (WHO), disclosed this during a courtesy visit to the palace of the Gbong Gwom Jos, Jacob Buba, on ...

Two communities in Anambra State; Nibo in Awka South and Abba in Njikoka Local Government Areas on Thursday mobilized Indigenes in separate protest marches to take over the gate of the Anambra State government house. The communities’ indigenes who wielded ...

The suspected kidnappers of a resident doctor at the Ojobo General Hospital, Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, Wisdom Iboyitete, have reportedly contacted the victim’s family and demanded N5m ransom. Community sources made the disclosure to Punch. It was ...

There are indications that the ban on interstate movement would be lifted on June 21. The National Coordinator of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, Dr. Sani Aliyu, gave the hint on Tuesday, noting that once domestic flights resume, ...

The mugshots of all four officers charged over George Floyd’s killing have been released – with Derek Chauvin facing 40 years. On Wednesday, prosecutors leveled new criminal charges against all the Minneapolis cops at the scene of the unarmed black ...

Police Command in Ogun State says it has arrested one 25-year-old Wasiu Bankole for allegedly r3ping a 70-year-old woman, whose name has been kept under wraps. A statement made available in Abeokuta on Thursday by the Police Public Relations Officer ...

A 57-year-old retired medic allegedly committed suicide on Thursday, June 4, by throwing herself in front of a moving lorry on the Kajiado-Namanga road, Kenya. Eunice Kinuthia, who worked as a medical doctor at Kajiado County Referral, died on the ...