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George Floyd and Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter in Floyd’s death, worked together at a Minneapolis club as recently as last year, according to a report from local television station KSTP. Maya ...

A General Court Martial sitting in Abuja has jailed six Nigerian Air Force personnel, who were aides to the former Chief of Defence Staff, Late Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, who was murdered in cold blood. Badeh was shot dead ...

Prominent UK church leaders today branded the mass closure of churches ‘unlawful and unnecessary’ as they threatened a judicial review into keeping them shut. A coalition of Christian bishops and reverends has urged the Government to prioritise churches in its ...

An 85 years old grandmother, a resident of Sabon-Kaura area of Bauchi metropolis who is grateful for the construction of a road in her area, has narrated how she and her contemporaries walked barefooted in muddy water whenever it rained. ...

Tragedy occurred in the early hours of today, Saturday, when fire gutted Olaleye Market in Somolu, Bariga area of Lagos State, with property worth billions of naira destroyed. Director-General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, Dr. Femi Oke-Osanyintolu, said the ...

Preliminary findings from investigation carried out by the Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Agency has revealed that illegal abortion by unqualified medical practitioners has killed 200 women in Bauchi, as well as the cause of mysterious deaths in Azare and ...

US President Donald Trump has announced that he is terminating the country’s relationship with the World Health Organization (WHO). The president has accused the WHO of failing to hold Beijing to account over the coronavirus pandemic. “China has total control ...

Fifteen people were reportedly killed in Faskari and Sabuwa local government areas of Katsina State in a deadly attack by bandits on communities in the two councils on Thursday night. The bandits were said to have attacked Unguwar Gizo, Maigora, ...

Diego Costa is time in prison for tax fraud, with prosecutors asking for him to face six months behind bars ahead of his trial on June 4th. According to reports in Spain, via Cadena Ser, the Atletico Madrid striker has ...

Several hundred people angrily protesting the death of an African-American man in police custody in Minneapolis rallied outside the White House on Friday, in tense scenes that have spread to several cities across the country. President Donald Trump was in ...

Former President Barack Obama put out a statement on George Floyd, a black man who died after being pinned down by police in Minneapolis. “This shouldn’t be ‘normal’ in 2020 America,” he wrote. “It can’t be ‘normal.’ If we want ...

The Bethel School District has fired first-year wrestling coach Dave Hollenbeck for mocking the tragic death of George Floyd on Facebook, KOMO News reports. “His behavior was not consistent with our equity initiatives and nondiscrimination policies,” a school spokesperson said ...

Nigerians will now pay stamp duties on all forms of electronic notifications acknowledging receipts of funds. This includes SMS and messages on any electronic platform such as emails and Whatsapp messages. This is according to a circular that was signed ...

The family of George Floyd has hired their own pathologist for a separate autopsy after the official results claimed he did not die of strangulation or asphyxiation. The preliminary results of the county’s autopsy instead concluded Floyd, 46, died from ...

The police in India have arrested a pigeon on suspicion that it is a trained spy for Pakistan. Indian officials said that the pink painted bird carrying a “coded message,” attached to its foot was alleged to have flown from ...

Former group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Maikanti Baru is dead. Baru died of an undisclosed ailment on Friday night. He was aged 60. Mele Kyari, who succeeded Baru at NNPC, announced the death on Saturday morning. ...

As part of President Muhammadu Buhari’s agenda to reduce unemployment rate in the country, the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr Festus Keyamo (SAN), said that the Federal Government has agreed to pay the sum of twenty thousand ...

A man identified as Peter Ogbonna, inflicted severe machete wounds on his twin brother, Paul, during a fight in Ndimoko Arondizuogu, Imo State on Monday, May 25, 2020. The problem reportedly started after Paul allegedly flogged the son of Peter’s ...

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been taken into custody in connection with the death of George Floyd, who was killed during a police altercation earlier this week, according to KARE 11. Minnesota Department of Public Safety Commissioner John ...

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 ...