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The death of Oyo State Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources, Kehinde Ayoola was announced last week. Kehinde before his death was also a dedicated and loyal friend of the Governor. While visiting his family over their loss, Makinde said ...

Scientists at a California biotech company have found an antibody that completely blocks coronavirus in a discovery they called a ‘cure,’ Fox News reports. Sorrento Therapeutics, based in San Diego, claims its STI-1499 antibody stopped coronavirus from entering 100 percent ...

Police in Lagos have arrested two FAKE soldiers Kehinde Elijah, 45, and Eze Joseph in connection with the killing of a police sergeant, Onalaja Onajide. Onajide, who was attached to Ilemba Hausa Division, Ajamgbadi, was gunned down about 9:30pm on ...

Top-flight South Korean side has apologised after fans accused them of using s.e.x dolls in the stands. FC Seoul insisted they were “premium mannequins” rather than s.e.x dolls – but did admit they came from a supplier that produces s.e.x ...

Police authorities and officials of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) are looking for a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) who tested positive for Covid-19 but fled when a team came to evacuate him on Friday afternoon, The Nation ...

Kansas police have arrested a 14-year-old boy who was allegedly spotted on camera watching a 15-year-old girl while she slept in her home. The Wichita Police Department said in a release that a tip helped them find the teen, who ...

A youthful police constable from Buuri West in Meru County, Kenya committed suicide following a domestic dispute with his wife. Michael Siwalo allegedly shot his spouse, Silvia Ramat Letei, in the stomach at 6:15pm before turning the gun on himself ...

Police in Arusha, Tanzania have arrested a 32-year-old man on allegations of killing his 79-year-old mother. Daniel Emmanuel, a resident of Sakila area in Arumeru District, Arusha, was, on Saturday, May 16, allegedly found by neighbours drinking his mother’s blood ...

The Federal Road Safety Corps has recorded 3,947 road crashes and 1,758 deaths in the first quarter of 2020. The Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria today in Abuja. ...

A Somali governor and three bodyguards were killed in a suicide attack claimed by the Al-Shabaab jihadist group in the regional capital of Galkayo on Sunday, a security official said. The Al-Shabaab attacker rammed a scooter taxi into a car ...

Nigerian government today announced that it has impounded a flight owned by a UK company being used to run commercial trips despite an existing travel ban. “Flair Aviation, a UK company, was given approval for humanitarian operations but regrettably we ...

Men of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, narrowly escaped death on Saturday night, when they were attacked by rampaging hoodlums while in the process of rescuing some victims of a road accident at Oke-Gbegun hill in Ikorodu area of ...

Lagos State Government has quarantined 39 Nigerian evacuees from Ghana. The returnees and 12 others from different West African countries were camped in the Badagry area of the state and have begun the 14-day isolation supervised by the Nigeria Centre ...

Madagascar on Sunday reported the first death of a patient suffering from novel coronavirus nearly two months after it was first detected in the country. According to local daily L’Express de Madagascar, the case is a 57-year-old man, a parking ...

Nigerians residing in Bangkok, Thailand appear set for a showdown with the Nigerian Ambassador to the country, Ahmed Nuhu Bamalli and the Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama over the directive that stranded Nigerians in Bangkok anxious to return home should ...

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and his rival Abdullah Abdullah on Sunday signed a power-sharing deal, ending a bitter months-long feud that plunged the country into political crisis. “Doctor Abdullah will lead the National Reconciliation High Commission and members of his ...

Thirty workers in a factory in Oyo state have tested positive for coronavirus. The factory, which is located at Ibadan South West Local Government, has subsequently been sealed. The 30 workers are part of the new 31 new cases in ...

A 17-year-old boy is set to be charged with murder for allegedly helping his 16-year-old online girlfriend kill her mother and brother with special needs by torching their family home. Kaleo Pangelian was arrested by Douglas County Sheriff’s Office at around ...

Africa’s young and fit population will help the continent avoid an enormous death toll from Covid-19, according to figures from the World Health Organization. Analysis from the UN’s international public health body predicts more than a quarter of a billion ...

China has acknowledged it destroyed early samples of COVID-19, confirming a claim put forward by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo late last month. On Friday, Liu Dengfeng, a supervisor with China’s National Health Commission, admitted that ‘the Chinese government ...

The sterling qualities of Nigerian graduates and professionals serving in the Technical Aids Corps programme has been recognised with the appointment of a Nigerian medical practitioner, Dr. Laoluwa Adejayan, as the Head, COVID-19 Task Force in Sierra Leone. Announcing Adejayan’s ...

Some foreign airlines are allegedly planning to resume flights to Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt airports despite the ban on international commercial flights by the Federal Government in a bid to halt COVID-19 spread. Although some of the airlines said ...

One hundred and seventy-six new cases of Covid-19 have just been confirmed in Nigeria. According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC via official Twitter handle, 95 of the new cases are recorded in Lagos, followed by 31 in ...

Media mogul, Dele Momodu, attained the age of 60 on Saturday, May 16, 2020, and though the rampaging coronavirus has put a hold on public gatherings and parties, he showed he is a showbiz impresario as he hosted a well ...

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons has decried the increasing cases of r.a.p.e, incest and domestic abuse among Nigerians during the stay-at-home order due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The NAPTIP Director-General, Julie Okah-Donli, said this in ...