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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 ...

Stuart Scott, 25, first noticed his hair was receding in his late teens and grew self conscious to the point he rarely went on nights out with his friends. But his confidence hit rock bottom when a woman on Plenty ...

A pilot study on the use of dogs, to diagnose the dreadful covid-19 pandemic ravaging many countries, may start in Nigeria in July. The pilot training programme utilising scent detection by dogs to discriminate between samples from Covid-19 positive and ...

Spain has begun an official 10-day mourning period for the tens of thousands of victims of the coronavirus pandemic in the country. Starting from Wednesday, all flags on public buildings across the nation and on Spanish naval vessels will be ...

A teenage boy has admitted to killing his ten-year-old sister in her sleep after they argued over using a computer tablet according to the Daily Mail news. The girl, named as Luda and described by local media as smart and ...

Two Kenyan lovers have been given the shock of their lives after being told by their parents that they are siblings, a few days to their wedding. John Njoroge was told to call off his marriage plans to Rose Wanjiku ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the Senate and the House of Representatives, seeking approval for a fresh loan of $5.513 billion. In a letter read by Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, at the plenary on Thursday, the ...

The Kogi State Government, Thursday denied the two index cases reported by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), insisting the state is still COVID-19 free. Recall that the NCDC on its website alleged that, two index cases were recorded ...

The Federal Capital Territory FCT Ministerial Task-team on the Enforcement of Covid-19 Restrictions has arrested eight persons, some of who impersonated army officers, for violating the 8 pm to 6 am curfew imposed on the territory in the wake of ...

A man said to be a dismissed soldier and his accomplice who claims to be a serving soldier have been arrested by the police in Lagos State with 1,200 kilogrammes of substance suspected to be Indian hemp. The image-maker in ...

Another crisis is brewing in the Oyo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) following alleged clandestine moves to expel former Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, from the party. THISDAY reliably gathered that leaders of the party in the ...

This is the horrifying moment a mother appears to push her autistic son into a canal in what police say was her first attempt to kill him. Patricia Ripley, 45, faked Alejandro Ripley’s abduction after trying to drown him twice, ...

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says that labeling two of President Donald Trump’s tweets with fact checks does not make the social media company an “arbiter of truth.” “Our intention is to connect the dots of conflicting statements and show the ...

Kogi State has recorded its first cases of the deadly Coronavirus since the pandemic broke out in February in the country. Kogi and Cross Rivers State previously held the record as the only two states in Nigeria not to have ...

A United States based Nigerian, Tony Ugochkwu, has walked out of prison a free man after spending 15 out of the 18 years he was wrongly convicted for murder. For being a victim of wrong identity, he is to be ...

Nigeria has recorded 389 new cases of the Coronavirus across various states of the country. Announcing via its official Twitter handle last night, the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) stated that 256 cases were recorded in Lagos State, 23 ...

The Federal Government has suspended further evacuation of stranded Nigerians overseas. The development, according to Foreign Affairs Minister Geoffrey Onyeama is to allow take-off of a new policy on evacuation of Nigerians. Onyeama said henceforth evacuated Nigerians would not have ...

Cynthia Morgan has made a u-turn to apologise to her former Record Label boss, Jude Okoye and her former manager, Joy Tongo. She released a statement today in which she admitted she made some mistakes, then went on to apologise ...

An Osun State High Court has sentenced two men to death by hanging after finding them guilty of armed robbery. The trial judge, Justice Jide Falola sitting in Ila-orangun on Wednesday, handed down the death sentence on Ayodeji Adeleke and ...

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 ...

A native doctor simply identified as Ogunkoya has been arrested in Ogun State for allegedly killing and using a pastor for rituals. The State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi identified the slain cleric as Pastor Ezekiel Kalejaiye. ...

Aareonakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Abiodun Ige Adams and wife yesterday welcomed a set of twins. His wife, Ayinba Mojisola Adams, was delivered of a set of twins, a boy and a girl, on Tuesday night at a private hospital ...

Oyo State has recorded two more deaths from COVID-19, bringing the state’s total to six. Head of the state COVID-19 task force, Governor Seyi Makinde made this disclosure while giving an update on Wednesday morning. The two deaths were from ...