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Malaysian authorities will allow 88 mosques to hold Islamic Friday prayers this week in a relaxation of curbs imposed on places of worship due to the coronavirus pandemic. Up to 30 people will be allowed enter the mosques to pray ...

Gombe State Government has announced the conditional suspension of the ban imposed on places of worship to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. Governor Inuwa Yahaya announced the suspension today in Gombe after a meeting with religious leaders in ...

Ondo State Government has explained how it uncovered N4.3bn kept in a secret account for more than 10 years. It was gathered that the money was lodged in a third generation bank without due process over 10 years ago and ...

Italy’s far-right opposition on Thursday lashed out at a government minister whose tearful moment while announcing a temporary amnesty for irregular migrants has gone viral on social media. The backlash came after the government said it would give migrant workers ...

On the cusp of stepping down, Lesotho’s embattled prime minister has denied in an interview with AFP any role in the murder of his estranged wife, a drama that has gripped the tiny kingdom for months. The octogenarian Thomas Thabane ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says people within the 31 to 40 years age bracket are more susceptible to contracting the coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. According to the centre, however, more deaths have been recorded among older ...

Oyo Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources, Mr Kehinde Ayoola is dead. Ayoola, a former Speaker of Oyo House of Assembly, was said to have been sick for about two weeks. He died at a private hospital around Iyaganku, Ibadan ...

The founder of DAAR Communications Plc, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, has recovered from coronavirus. He has been discharged from the isolation centre at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada. Speaking after testing negative for COVID-19, Dokpesi in a statement thanked ...

Anti-lockdown protesters have gathered in North Carolina for the fifth week despite the governor already starting the reopening process. Gov. Roy Cooper on Friday pushed through a new executive order which eased North Carolina’s stay-at-home order, but the ReOpenNC group ...

A newborn baby boy was eaten by monitor lizards after being dumped next to a pond. The infant was discovered by a group of boys who went to play by the waterside in Nakhon Si Thammarat, southern Thailand on Monday ...

A man, Afobaje Maiyegun, has been arrested by the police in Lagos for beating his wife. Lagos Coordinator of Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team (DSVRT), Mrs Titilola Vivour-Adeniyi, said he will be charged to court on Friday. Vivour-Adeniyi said ...

At least 23,000 people escaping violence in north-western Nigeria have fled to neighbouring Niger in recent weeks, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has said. The refugees were “mainly desperate women and children”, who had been allowed to seek protection in ...

A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court on Wednesday ordered Arik Air to pay N10 million to a passenger whose flight was delayed. The passenger, Isa Modibbo, who is diabetic, reportedly missed an appointment with his doctor in Sokoto after ...

Russian investigators have refused to drop a murder charge against three sisters who killed their abusive father as he slept, leaving a controversial case in legal limbo. The general prosecutor’s office concluded earlier this year that the Khachaturyan sisters had ...

America’s coronavirus crisis could be over by the end of July, a new model predicts. It comes as several states – including New York, which has become both the national and international epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic begin to gradually ...

The mother of Ahmaud Arbrey, a 25-year-old African-American shot dead by two white men while he was reportedly out jogging, says she hopes her son’s killers will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Wanda Cooper-Jones told TMZ ...

U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) on Wednesday said that China-linked hackers were targeting U.S. research organisations to steal data on vaccines and treatments for the new coronavirus. The FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said health care, ...

A group of California prison inmates deliberately infected each other with coronavirus in a failed bid to get out of jail early. A sudden spike Covid-19 cases was reported at the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic back in mid-April seemingly ...

A High Court in Port Harcourt has sentenced a second-year student of Physics department, University of Port Harcourt, Ifeanyi Dike and one Ugochukwu Nwamiro to death by hanging over the murder of an eight-year-old girl, Victory Chikamso Nmezuwuba. The duo ...

Founder, Christ Embassy, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome has said that he predicted the Coronavirus lockdown in December. Oyakhilome, who spoke on Sunday during a telecast, said he told his church members in the middle of December that in 2020, the advanced ...

The Police Command in Akwa Ibom has arrested a medical doctor and six others over alleged sale of a five-month-old baby. The command’s Public Relations Officer, CSP Fredrick Nnudam, made the disclosure in a statement on Wednesday in Uyo, Unudam ...

A 5-year-old boy  on Saturday evening shot his 12-year-old brother to death with a loaded gun he mistook for a toy gun. The loaded gun was found in the woods and the boy fired a single shot to his brother’s ...

This is Uchenna Egbuchulem. He is 47-year old. Uchenna was picked up by the police for allegedly r.a.p.i.n.g and impregnating his biological daughter. He was arrested at Nduhu Alaenyi Ogwa in Mbaitoli Local Government Area of the state yesterday, May ...

Borno State Government has called-off the lockdown in the state. The lockdown was imposed three weeks ago after the state recorded its COVID-19 index case. But in a statement on Wednesday night, the Deputy Governor and state Chairman, COVID-19 Response ...

A three-day-old baby has died after his mother tested positive for coronavirus. Coolio Carl Justin John Morgan was born at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend on Saturday, May 2. An inquest heard the baby was diagnosed with fetal ...