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Sri Lanka has lifted a ban on wedding receptions as part of an easing of coronavirus restrictions, but grooms may not kiss the bride – at least not in public. Wealthy Sri Lankans usually hold wedding celebrations with thousands of ...

An Ondo state   family Court in Akure has quashed a forced marriage of a 16 year old Secondary School girl to  an Islamic Cleric with eight wives, Alhaji Yusuf Lateef. Lateef, who is an Ore based cleric was to make ...

Justice Adolphus Karibi-Whyte, Retired Justice of the Supreme Court, is dead. The retired judge died at the age of 88. His son, Gogo confirmed his father’s death saying he died in Port Harcourt. The late justice left behind four boys ...

Gov. Hope Uzodinma of Imo has assented to a bill repealing the law that created pension allowances and gratuities for former governors, deputy governors, assembly speakers, and deputy speakers. Signing the bill into law in Owerri on Friday, the governor ...

A Wisconsin teacher is accused of having s.e.x with her 16-year-old foster son who is also her former student after her husband is said to have secretly recorded their alleged trysts. Stephanie Pudlowski, 38, was arrested on May 15 after ...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has donated 500 bags of 5-kilogram rice to the Ebonyi government as palliatives to cushion the effects of covid -19 on its people. Dr. Kenneth Ugbala, Secretary to the State Government (SSG), disclosed this after the ...

The Delta State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of a housewife, who allegedly killed her husband, Mr. Uzougbo Iwebunor, on Friday May 15, in Issele-Uku, Aniocha North LGA of Delta. Command spokesperson, DSP Onome Onovwakpoyeya, told newsmen on Friday ...

President Trump has ordered for American flags on all federal buildings to be lowered to half-staff over the next three days to honor those who have passed away from coronavirus. Trump tweeted: ‘I will be lowering the flags on all ...

Dismissed Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure in Kano State, Engineer Mu’azu Magaji has recovered from coronavirus. He took to his Facebook page to announce he has been confirmed covid-19 negative and discharged. “To the Glory of Allah SWT, today Friday ...

Kylie Jenner has been accused of another Photoshop fail as fans spotted an blunder in her latest sexy snap. The reality TV star, 22, shared a picture of herself lounging on a sofa in front of a pricey Hermes handbag. ...

A tool to measure haemoglobin – without drawing blood – has been created by scientists, using a phone. The ground-breaking method uses pictures of a person’s eyelids to assess the levels. Being able to perform one of the most common ...

The Turkish fiancée of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi said Friday “no one” had the right to pardon his murderers after his sons said they “forgive” the killers. Khashoggi — a royal family insider turned critic — was killed and ...

Shocked onlookers reportedly screamed in horror as a helicopter door broke off the aircraft at 800ft and plummeted to earth, hitting a nearby building before coming to land in the grounds of a secondary school where kids were playing. The ...

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai has vowed to sack doctors and other health workers threatening to embark on strike. He said his administration would not succumb to blackmail by the doctors. El-Rufai, in a statement on Thursday night by his ...

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has said 27 more members of staff of iSON Xperiences located in the Ibadan South West Local Government Area of the state have tested positive for COVID-19. At least 63 members of staff had ...

It was a short and familiar car ride for Satoshi Uematsu from his home to a care facility where he’d spent many hours as a caretaker for the disabled residents. It was the early hours of July 26, 2016, and ...

A taxi driver in Owerri, identified as Anayochukwu Njoku, from Umuakagu, Agbahara Nsu in Ehime Mbano council area took to his heels and abandoned his wife when he realised that she gave birth to conjoined twins. Njoku’s wife, Chidinma, was ...

A teenager who lost both her hands to meningitis has defied the odds by learning to play the piano. Tilly Lockey, 14, was determined to prove a physiotherapist wrong after she said she would never master it. Tilly said she ...

With the Eid-el-Fitr celebrations around the corner and the month-long Ramadan fast coming to an end, President Muhammadu Buhari will be conducting his Eid prayers with his family at home. This is in observance of the lockdown measures in the ...

The coast is now clear for Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu to contest for the governorship ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State as the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party on Thursday night granted him a ...

The Federal Government has disclosed that there are plans to soon reopen schools nationwide, saying, however, that this will not be done in two weeks as being speculated in some quarters. Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, made the ...

A 60-year-old man, Yikatey Somatey, has been arrested for killing his wife at Gando near Nyanyema, a suburb of the Sawla-Tuna Kalba District, Ghana after he accused her of having an affair with another man. The suspect accused his wife, ...

A 30-year-old Tharaka Nithi man who assaulted his wife and sealed her genitalia, mouth and ears in a fit of jealousy has been arrested. The man, identified as Kifo Muriuki was smoked from his hideout in Kaningo, Kitui County by ...

A police Inspector, Charles Okoro, has been arrested for killing a Muslim cleric, Fatai Oladipupo, around Igando Road, Ikotun area of Lagos State. The Lagos State police spokesman, Bala Elkana, confirmed his arrest.   According to Elkana, the Lagos police ...

The nation’s finance minister, Zainab Ahmed, says the coronavirus pandemic and falling oil prices are set to force the economy into negative growth. Ms. Ahmed made the comments after the National Economic Summit meeting in Abuja on Thursday. “On the ...