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The barber shop owner from upstate New York who contracted Covid-19 after giving haircuts in violation of the state lockdown angrily denied Governor Andrew Cuomo’s claim that he infected more than a dozen others. Joseph LaLima Sr, 76, is the ...

The Imo State Government has queried a senior editor with the Imo Broadcasting Corporation, Mrs Ottih Vivian, for complaining of non-payment of her salaries and that of her colleagues. Ottih, a lawyer, had on May 4 in a Facebook post ...

President Muhammadu Buhari today felicitated with journalist/publisher, Ayobamidele Abayomi Momodu, popularly known as Dele Momodu, as he turns 60 today, May 16, 2020. The President, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, in ...

Police in Lagos have arrested one Habib Olapari, his teenage brother Rilwan and one Peter for allegedly hacking their neighbour Taiwo Eluyemi to death in front of his son. The suspects were said to have committed the alleged offence on ...

The Oyo State Government has suspended the executive members of the Bodija International Market in Ibadan for allegedly collecting illegal levies from the traders. Mr Adewale Osoniyi, the Caretaker Chairman of Aare Latosa Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Samonda, Ibadan, ...

The Lagos State Police Command, on Wednesday, arrested four suspected human traffickers and rescued 24 girls, whose ages range from 13 to 27, from their hideout in the Abattoir area of Agege. Punch Metro gathered that the suspects, Okon Felix, ...

Chairman of DAAR Communications Plc, Raymond Dokpesi Jnr, has recovered from coronavirus. The founder of DAAR Communications Plc, Raymond Dokpesi, and two of his grandchildren also recovered from coronavirus on Thursday and were discharged from the University of Abuja Treatment ...

At least six persons drowned when a boat conveying them and other passengers capsized in Ogurude, Obubra Local Government Area of Cross River State. According to sources in the area, the victims were returning from a burial in a village ...

Slovenia, a mountainous nation of two million people, has become the first European country to proclaim an end to the coronavirus epidemic at home. The European Union state’s government said on Friday the COVID-19 spread is under control and there ...

A 23-year-old man, Uchenna Mbahotu, has been arrested by the Divisional police headquarters in Orji Owerri North local government area, in Imo state, for allegedly taken sexual advantage of two minors, named Chinaemerem Akagha 11-year-old and Nmesoma Akagha, 9-year-old. The ...

Kim Jong-un was reportedly hauled from his expensive private school after spies exposed his love of BDSM p.o.r.n. The North Korean leader, now 36, attended a boarding school in Bern, Switzerland, in the 1990s. But he was ordered home by ...

Seething animal rights activists have released distressing footage that appear to show bleeding and rotting animals, including bats, in wet markets across Asia. Taken during the coronavirus pandemic, the harrowing clip shows animals including ducks, bats, monkeys, snakes and chickens ...

The wanted Eleme Local Government Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Youth leader, Princewill Osareojiji, who has a N5m bounty placed on his head by the Rivers State Government, has accused a serving Commissioner in Governor Nyesom Wike’s cabinet for his current ...

A Bus Rapid  Transit, BRT, driver, Collins Nnodi is on the run after crushing a Lagos businesswoman to death in Ikorodu area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria. The BRT driver reportedly crushed Mrs Grace Okeleke to death at Agric Bus Stop, ...

Former Senior Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe has revealed drugs used to treat him while he battled COVID-19. Okupe had announced on his Facebook page, that on the 23rd of April, he and ...

A revised forecast model relied on by the White House is now projecting 147,000 Americans could die by August – an increase of 10,000 on projections from just two days ago – due to the easing of social distancing measures. ...

A 33-year-old woman, identified as Jane Mwende Nguthu, on Wednesday night committed suicide by hanging herself at her house in Komarock, Nairobi County. The woman hanged herself with an iron box cable shortly after her neighbours rescued her children whom ...

A man identified as Mr Chinedu Omeonu, has reportedly killed his cousin, Mr. Solomon Orji, at Mgboko Umuoria community in Obingwa council area of Abia State over mango fruits. Vanguard in Abia gathered the deceased had gone to Omeonu’s residence ...

A Chinese man is left stunned after finding out that his twin babies have two fathers. The parent, who remains unidentified, made the shocking discovery after taking the newborns to undergo a DNA test as part of the standard procedure ...

The Police Command in Kaduna has confirmed the abduction of the Vice-Chairman, All Progressive Congress (APC), Kaduna State chapter, Shu’aibu Idris-Lauge and his daughter. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Mohammed Jalige, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria ...

Nigeria’s Coronavirus infections have surpassed 5,000 after the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, records fresh 193 new cases of the pandemic. According to NCDC, Nigeria’s total confirmed Coronavirus cases stand at 5,162. Of the 193 new cases released, Lagos ...

Johnny Depp’s ex-partner Vanessa Paradis has said he is a ‘kind, attentive, generous and non-violent person and father’, according to court documents in his libel claim. The Pirates Of The Caribbean star is suing the Sun newspaper’s publisher, News Group ...

Burundi government has kicked out the national head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and three members of his team during a presidential election campaign despite health risks from the coronavirus pandemic. The government confirmed on Thursday that a May ...

Besiktas have installed a gigantic disinfection cabinet at the entrance to the club’s training ground as Turkish Super Lig sides begin to prepare for the resumption of the league. The humongous cabinet has 20 sides and players and staff alike ...

Mortuary officials of the Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Yenagoa have raised an alarm that their mortuary is full to capacity and they can no longer admit new corpses. The management said that the morgue had reached its full capacity since ...