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British-Nigerian woman, Susan Idoko-Okpe has been released from Isolation center after weeks of battle. She was released today from an Abuja isolation center after 54 days of quarantine. Recall Mrs Okpe had been making videos from her quarantine insisting she ...

Nigeria’s President,  Muhammadu Buhari has approved the sack of Prof. Charles Uwakwe as the Registrar and Chief Executive of the National Examinations Council, NECO. A letter dated May 11 and signed by the Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of ...

Bauchi state government has lamented the refusal of two Coronavirus positive cases to isolate themselves. Executive Chairman of Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Agency (BASPHCDA), Dr Rilwanu Mohammed, yesterday, said two COVID-19 positive people have declined to be isolated in ...

The kidnappers that abducted a Navy Commander whose identity is yet to be ascertained are demanding a ransom of N50m. The Navy Commander was said to have been abducted on Saturday along Owo-Ikare Road in Akoko North East Local Government ...

A 37-year-old Malaysian, Punithan Genasan has been sentenced to death in Singapore via Zoom call for his role in a 2011 heroin transaction. While rights groups have criticised the use of Zoom in capital cases, Fernando said he did not ...

The Federal Controller of Work in Lagos, Mr Kayode Popoola, on Wednesday, said that the Marine Beach Bridge in Apapa would be shut for repairs next week. Popoola told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the contractor, ...

According to reports, the man started suspecting his wife after noticing she has been receiving strange calls. On this day, he traced her to her destination — which happens to be an hotel and caught her with her lover. Catching ...

A popular US Pastor who disobeyed President Donald Trump’s order on religious gatherings and held a Mother’s Day Church service has tested positive for coronavirus. Redwood Valley Assembly of God Church pastor Jack McMilin in California tested positive for coronavirus ...

Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has disclosed he will be awarding scholarship to 300 students. According to the former Minister, the scholarship will be through his wife’s foundation — Snowhite PureHeart Foundation. ”I will award scholarships to 300 students to ...

Ebonyi State Police Command, said it has arrested 10 suspects in connection with the flogging of one pastor Oko Chukwu Obeni, 30, of Ndukwe Amasiri Village in Afikpo North local government area of Ebonyi State. It was alleged that the ...

A son of Mexico’s former president Luis Echeverria Alvarez, who governed in the 1970s with an iron fist, has killed himself, authorities have said. Alvaro Echeverria Zuno, 71, died on Tuesday morning at his home in the state of Morelos, ...

The children of Susan Idoko Okpe, the Benue state COVID-19 index case, have called out the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC), to release their mum who has been in the Abuja Isolation center for 57 days now. Idoko has ...

The Lagos State branch of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA has directed doctors in state to proceed on an indefinite sit-at-home order to protest what they described as ‘conflicting directives by the government and incessant police harassment’ on medical doctors ...

No fewer than 292 evacuated Nigerians have arrived in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, from Saudi Arabia, The Punch reports. It was gathered that the flight arrived late on Tuesday at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja. Minister of Foreign ...

A fire outbreak has occurred at the headquarters of the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) in Abuja. The main cause of the fire which started this morning cannot be ascertained. It was gathered that a large number of staff of the ...

Bakers in Lagos State have urged the Federal Government to intervene in the prices of baking materials, which may lead to increase in the prices of bread by 60 per cent anytime soon. The bakers complained that the increase in ...

Former Chief of Staff, Lt. General Oladipo Diya’s wife, Mrs. Folashade Diya, has died, five days to her 66th birthday. According to a press statement released by Olawale Adekoya, Special Adviser (Media & Strategy) to Gen Diya, the late Mrs. ...

A North Carolina man who made a stop on his way to a job interview discovered it was his lucky day when he won $200,000 from a scratch-off lottery ticket. Fredd Jordan, a semi-retired chef from Smithfield, told North Carolina ...

  The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire has adviced Nigerians to prepare for the worst despite the ease of lockdown by President Muhammadu Buhari. He made this plea during the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 daily briefing in Abuja on Tuesday. “It ...

Oyo State has recorded six new confirmed cases of Covid-19, bringing the total number recorded in the state to 143. According to the latest figures released by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Tuesday night, the six cases ...

Bauchi state government has lamented the refusal of two Coronavirus positive cases to isolate themselves. Executive Chairman of Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Agency (BASPHCDA), Dr Rilwanu Mohammed, yesterday, said two COVID-19 positive people have declined to be isolated in ...

A Russian nurse has been reprimanded for wearing a bikini underneath a transparent protective suit while treating COVID-19 patients, the country’s official newspaper, Rossiiskaya Gazeta reported on Wednesday. The unnamed nurse, who reportedly works at a state hospital in the ...

A woman whose charred and dismembered body was found in suitcases dumped in a forest was today named as 28-year-old Phoenix Netts. It is understood the young woman was killed at a women’s refuge in Birmingham where she had been ...

A Japanese woman who built a cult following online with her video game skills has been recognized as the world’s oldest YouTube gamer — at the age of 90. Hamako Mori, known as “Gamer Grandma” to her 250,000 YouTube subscribers, ...

A Chinese laboratory has been developing a drug it believes has the power to bring the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic to a halt. The outbreak first emerged in China late last year before spreading across the world, prompting an international race ...