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Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has declared that as from June 19 mosques will reopen, while churches can reopen as from June 21. The governor also said that churches and mosques in the state should not accommodate more than 40 ...

Members of Nigeria’s House of Representatives have killed a motion seeking to recommend castration for rapists. The House, at the plenary on Thursday, rejected the motion which was recommended by Mr James Faleke. Faleke, representing Ikeja in Lagos had recommended ...

When we think of giving birth, we don’t tend to think of it as a public spectacle. It’s typically something private that happens in a delivery room, or in our own home, or potentially in the back seat of a ...

An incident in which a pregnant elephant in Kerala, India died after she was fed a pineapple filled with explosives has exposed a new low by human beings. The suspect behind the fatal feeding remains unknown. “Her jaw was broken ...

A knife-wielding attacker wounded 37 students and two adults at a Chinese primary school in on Thursday, officials said, with local media identifying a security guard as the perpetrator. All the victims at the primary school in southern China, including ...

Two Chinese expatriates working at a mining site in Ebonyi State have been abducted by unknown gunmen The abducted Chinese nationals are employees at Greenfield Metals Nigeria Limited, which specialises in lead and zinc mining. The incident, it was gathered, ...

Former governor of the old Ondo State, Bamidele Olumilua, is dead. Olumilua, who hailed from Ikere Ekiti, ruled the old Ondo State between 1991 and 1993. He was elected then on the platform of the Social Democracy Party (SDP). He ...

A Christian couple sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan will now appear in court for the final hearing in their appeal after six years on death row. Shagufta Kausar and her husband Shafqat Emmanuel, a poor Christian couple from ...

The mother of 18-year old Barakat Bello who was r.a.p.e.d and murdered in Ibadan, Oyo state has spoken to BBCNewsYoruba about how her young daughter was murdered right in the backyard of their home. She spoke holding back tears as ...

US President Donald Trump appears as the first result of suggested accounts when users type “racist” into Twitter’s people search, it emerged on Wednesday. The result, reported by the British news outlet The Independent and verified by AFP, highlights the ...

The police in Calabar have arrested a retired army captain, Bassey Ekanem, for allegedly defiling his 4-year old niece. The incident happened at Ekanem’s residence at 12, Edim Ibangha Street, Big Qua Town, Calabar. According to a source, Ekanem, who ...

Ebonyi Governor David Umahi has directed the shutting down of all government offices in the state with immediate effect to pave way for decontermination. He said the order became imperative followed the contraction of COVID-19 by some Executive Council members. ...

The Adamawa State police command, on Wednesday, confirmed the arrest of one of its officers who allegedly shot dead a motorcyclist who refused to part with a N100 bribe. The alleged crime occurred at a checkpoint in Maiha local government. ...

A mother and her child today, June 3rd, lost their lives at Oghara community in Delta state, when a petrol tanker rammed into them. The two were said to be on a motorbike when a tanker lost control and rammed ...

Boris Johnson has described the death of George Floyd “appalling and inexcusable” as protests in the United States continue to rock the country. The PM spoke up after Labour’s leader Sir Keir Starmer said the case had “shone a light ...

Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno state; has suspended medical doctors and entire staff of the Ngala General Hospital for abandoning it. According to him, the entire hospital staff has also abandoned patients to an International Non-Governmental Organisations (INGO) operating in ...

Former Abia Governor Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has been released from Kuje Custodial Centre, Abuja where he was serving a 12-year sentence following an order to that effect by the Federal High Court in Lagos. Justice Mohammad Liman of the ...

Drake showed solidarity with protesters across US when he donated to the National Bail Out. The 33-year-old rap superstar shared a receipt for his $100,000 donation to the charity in his Instagram Stories after the songwriter Mustafa the Poet urged ...

Lesotho’s former first lady, Maesaiah Thabane, returned to custody on Wednesday after a court revoked bail that she had been controversially given over the murder of her husband’s estranged wife. The 43-year-old was charged with murder in February after police ...

A 17-year-old girl has been ambushed and gang-raped by three armed boys,suspected to be streerchins, in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital. The Nation learnt that the teenager was hawking sachet waters and soft drinks around 7pm on Monday when she ...

The Federal Government has announced that only five airports will be reopened when flight operations resume on Saturday, June 21. According to a circular by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), asides the five selected airports, all others are to ...

Pope Francis has called the death of George Floyd at the hands of US police officers “tragic” and said he is praying for him and “all those others who have lost their lives as a result of the sin of ...

A Mexican senator was caught getting topless on a government Zoom conference unaware that her camera was on. 66-year-old senator Martha Lucia Micher started getting changed during a May 29 meeting with members of the National Regeneration Movement political party, ...

A 21-year-old young man, known as Ishaku from Dass local government area of Bauchi state, has allegedly killed his friend, Zeloti John over a girlfriend. Daily Sun learnt that the unfortunate incident occurred on Friday, 29th May, 2020 in Kanwara,  ...

Despite President Muhammadu Buhari’s approval for the relaxation of restriction placed on churches and mosques starting from Tuesday Kaduna State Government said worshipping places and markets will remain closed in the state till further notice In a statement by Muyiwa ...