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The Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem will reopen on Sunday after a two-month closure due to the novel coronavirus, a senior official said Wednesday. “All the doors of the Al-Aqsa mosque (compound) will be opened at dawn on Sunday,” Omar ...

  Dr. Akinwumi Adesina is expected to step back as the president of African Development Bank after the board supported an independent probe as requested by the U.S. The U.S. treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin rejected an internal investigation that cleared ...

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has fined three stations over broadcast of misleading content on COVID-19 and also sanctioned 28 others for other violations against the Nigeria Broadcasting Code. The three stations fined are Adaba FM and Breeze FM, all ...

The brother of Senegalese president, Macky Sall has announced he has tested positive for Coronavirus. Aliou Sarr who is the mayor of Guédiawaye is being treated at the Dalal Diamm hospital in Dakar. His wife is also reported to have ...

Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki says he is confident of returning to power as the first man of the state because “power comes from God.” The governor who disclosed this on Wednesday, in an interview on Channels Television breakfast programme, ...

Twenty three-year-old Charity Wairimu, who was s.e.xually assaulted by her husband, James Kifo Muriuki, on May 16, has revealed that she is yet to get medical treatment ten days after the beastly incident happened. Kifo is alleged to have sprayed ...

Emergency nurse Jann Tipping and doctor Annalan Navaratnam had planned to get married in August. But with the coronavirus crisis, they decided to cancel as they worried their Jann’s family wouldn’t be able to travel from Northern Ireland and Annalan’s ...

Joe Biden attacked US President, Donald Trump, as an “absolute fool” Tuesday for belittling his election rival over recently wearing a mask, an issue that has become a partisan flashpoint during the coronavirus pandemic. The Democratic Party’s presumptive 2020 presidential ...

Barely 24 hours after the World Health Organisation, WHO, suspended all clinical trials for hydroxychloroquine as a potential treatment for COVID-19, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has said the trial will continue in Nigeria. ...

A tiny French village made history over the weekend by electing the country’s first openly transgender mayor. Marie Cau, who won the election Saturday in Tilloy-lez-Marchiennes, in northern France, said her gender wasn’t an issue during the campaign and that ...

Two civilians were on Tuesday kidnapped after an ambush by a group of pirates along Degema waterways in the Degema Local Government Areas of Rivers State. The pirates, who were in two gunboats, had opened fire on another boat said ...

Presidential spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, says Nigerians are lucky to have President Muhammadu Buhari, as their leader. Adesina has come under fire following some of his comments. He insists his boss is performing well, despite the contrary opinions held by ...

Nigerians stranded in Malaysia amid the pandemic are expected to return to the country this week. It was gathered that interested persons have started paying the $1,000 (N390,000) charged by Air Peace Airlines for the return ticket for economy class ...

Chairman of Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic, ASUP, Delta State Polytechnic, Ozoro Chapter, Mr America Akpituren lost his life over the weekend in a ghastly motor accident. It was gathered that Akpituren, who drove in a Toyota Highlander jeep, died ...

A total of 875 people have committed suicide during the lockdown period in Nepal. The country has been under lockdown since March 24. According to the data compiled by the Nepal Police, the suicide cases across the country increased by ...

A man has been arrested in Thailand for allegedly stealing his neighbours shoes in order to have s.e.x with them. Theerapat Klaiya, 24, had a fetish for flip-flops and was found with a staggering 126 pairs that he had pinched ...

A woman who has become the first hijab-wearing judge in the UK says she wants young Muslims to know they can achieve anything they put their minds to. Raffia Arshad, 40, started dreaming of a career in law when she ...

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Tuesday said 276 new cases of the novel coronavirus have been recorded across the country. NCDC said Lagos reported 161 of the new cases. According to the NCDC report, Rivers recorded 36 new cases, ...

Talent manager and former Coded Tunes Entertainment publicist, Toni Payne, has narrated how AY Comedian refused to allow Indigenous rapper, Olamide to perform at his show only to come back to beg for favour after Olamide’s fame. Toni Payne revealed ...

17 persons confirmed to be positive for COVID-19 in Edo State are yet to receive treatment, the state commissioner for health, Patrick Okundia reveals. He said the government worried that the wrong addresses and phone numbers from residents during sample ...

In this interview with Eniola Akinkuotu, Mrs Dorcas Jolayemi, the wife of a journalist detained for criticising Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, recounts her eight-day ordeal in the custody of the Kwara State Police Command. A human rights ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday took a swipe at the Federal Executive Council (FEC) under President Muhammadu Buhari. This followed the altercations between the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Pantami and the Chairman of ...

A South Korean has been jailed for four months on Tuesday for breaking coronavirus quarantine rules, authorities said, in the country’s first such prison sentence. South Korea endured one of the worst early outbreaks of the virus – at one ...

A man in India has been arrested for allegedly murdering his wife by letting a cobra loose in her room. Police in the southern state of Kerala said phone records showed the man, named as Sooraj, had been in contact ...

Nigerian Government food items delivered to Kano State government as palliatives are left rotten at open space and are being beaten by rain and sun, The Guardian has gathered. The Federal government two weeks ago delivered 110 trucks of food ...