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A man, Prince Iyase Kelvin Osawaru took to his Facebook page page to narrate how his sister,Lilian died as a result of domestic violence According to him, her husband punched her stomach while she was heavily pregnant and died as ...

A Rwandan court on Thursday handed a life sentence to a former politician found guilty of orchestrating the killing of tens of thousands of people during the 1994 genocide, a court spokesman said. Ladislas Ntaganzwa, head of the commune of ...

South Africa will allow most economic sectors including mining and manufacturing to fully resume operations from next month as the country further eases coronavirus lockdown regulations, the government has announced. Africa’s most industrialised economy has been largely shut since a ...

People around in US are throwing caution to the wind and secretly breaking quarantine to have s.e.x after spending weeks home alone amid the coronavirus pandemic. With public health experts warning against coming into contact with anyone outside of your ...

The police death of George Floyd has sparked peaceful protests and scenes of violent unrest amid calls for justice in the US city of Minneapolis. Mr Floyd, who worked as a club security guard, died after he was pinned down ...

The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has stated the nation would have long been forgotten had the President not taken over in 2015. Adesina, in his weekly column From the Inside, argued Buhari’s ...

A CNN reporter Omar Jimenez has been arrested by Minnesota State Patrol while giving a live television report this morning. Jimenez and his crew – producer Bill Kirkos and photojournalist Leonel Mendez – were arrested while Jimenez was reporting on ...

An Ondo State based Pastor, Kolawole Samson, has been sentenced to death by hanging for killing one Ayo Olaniyi at a village near Okeigbo area of the state. The late Olaniyi was said to have in March 2016, gone to ...

Twitter on Friday flagged a post by US President Donald Trump on the unrest in Minneapolis as ‘glorifying violence’, saying the tweet violated its rules but would not be removed. “This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about glorifying violence. However, ...

Kidnappers of Nasarawa State chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Bishop Joseph Masin, have demanded N20 million to set him free. The cleric was abducted on Wednesday night at his Lafia home by assailants who came on motorcycles. Thursday, ...

George Floyd’s fiancée and family have appealed for calm and said he wouldn’t want people to get hurt after a night of violence saw a man shot dead and clashes with police. Courteney Ross spoke out after carnage unfolded in ...

One Chisom Eze has allegedly killed his 19-year-old brother, Henry, during a fight over a bottle of soft drink at their place of residence on Johnson Street, Alaba area of Lagos State. Punch Metro gathered that 21-year-old Chisom left the ...

The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Thursday raised the alarm over increasing deaths caused by rejection of patients in the country’s hospitals. The PTF Chairman and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha,   at the task force ...

In a s.e.x fantasy gone wrong, two men with machetes entered the wrong house in New South Wales, Australia, before quickly realising their error. One of them has now been acquitted of entering a home armed with a weapon in ...

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed at removing some of the legal protections given to social media platforms. He said the firms had “unchecked power” to censure and edit the views of users. President Trump has ...

Major airports in the country will in the “next few days” roar into life after weeks of inactivity caused by the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown. The airports are the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Ikeja; Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja; Aminu Kano Arport, Kano ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has said there is no evidence that COVID-19 is transmitted by breastfeeding even when a nursing mother has contracted the virus. According to a statement by the health body on its website on Wednesday, nursing ...

China has evacuated 325 of its citizens from Nigeria via an Air Peace flight that was scheduled to depart at 10:05 pm on Thursday. The plane is headed for Shanghai. France, the UK, and the US are among the countries ...

The Abia State Government has declared a suspected COVID-19 patient, Emmanuel Ononiwu, wanted. Ononiwu was said to have tested positive and refused to isolatate himself as requested by appropriate medical protocol. The Commissioner of Information, John Okiyi-Kalu, in a statement ...

Kogi state doubled down on Thursday night in rejecting its inclusion in the coronavirus caseload in the country. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, announced two cases for the state on Wednesday. But the State government has rubbished the ...

A fire tore through an overcrowded maximum security prison in Cameroon’s port city of Douala on Thursday leading to the hospitalisation of three prisoners with serious burns, a local fire chief said. Firefighters backed up by police were able to ...

The prosecution in the trial of former governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State, Senator Ademola Adelake and for others on examination malpractices charges, withdrew charges against the politician on Thursday. Adeleke was arraigned before a ...

Nigeria’s tally of confirmed COVID-19 cases on Thursday rose to 8,915 as 182 new infections were announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). Five deaths were recorded from the virus on Thursday bringing the total number of confirmed ...

The Lagos State Government has given approval to Primero Transport Services Limited, operator of the high capacity Bus Rapid Transit, BRT, to carry 42 passengers seated with no standing as against earlier directive aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19 ...

Lagos State Government will from July introduce what it describes as First Mile and Last Mile (FMLM) mobility solution to replace banned Okada and tricycle. Transportation Commissioner Frederick Oladeinde, speaking yesterday at the 2020 ministerial press briefing at the JJT ...