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The Governor of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodimma on Wednesday presented vehicle gifts to Judges in Imo State and stressed the need for the judicial arm of government to join forces with the other arms, the Executive and Legislature, to ...

Saudi Arabia has identified about 11,600 Nigerians reportedly stranded in the country, many due to the coronavirus disease, and is making plans to airlift them back home, an official has said. The Nigerian embassy official, who is privy to the ...

A Mexican cartel boss has died from coronavirus while serving time in jail. Moises Escamilla May was one of the leaders of the infamous Los Zetas gang. He had already spent more than a decade in jail after he was ...

This is the creepy moment a corpse appears to wave from inside a coffin. The person was being buried during a Christian service in the city of Manado in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, on May 5. As their devastated family gathered ...

A young man known has Leo has allegedly been murdered. According to reports, he was kidnapped around willow wood hotel in Owerri, Imo State last week. The men that kidnapped him were reportedly in Army uniform . They took him ...

A 65-year-old man from Sikuvale Village in Navakholo Constituency in Kakamega County, Kenya has been arrested for allegedly killing his 56-year-old wife. The suspect, Elphas Munyanda, returned home Monday night while, allegedly, drunk and started beating up his wife, Elizabeth ...

The police authorities in Ghana have arrested a prostitute and her colleagues after she allegedly pushed a man with a condom on, from her room window during an argument. Eleven s.e.x workers were arrested by Asokwa District Police Command in ...

A 113-year-old woman, the oldest person living in Spain, has now become the oldest reported survivor of the coronavirus. Maria Branyas, a mother-of-three, survived Covid-19 whilst in the Santa Maria del Tura care home where she lives in the city ...

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, on Wednesday, had a face-off with Dubai returnees who staged a protest at a hotel in Lekki where they are being isolated. According to the evacuees that spoke with The Punch, ...

A hungry elephant has been filmed casually walking into the reception of a hotel in Zambia to reach its favourite fruit tree. The incredible sight was filmed by Ian Salisbury, 68, a safari guide at Mfuwe Lodge, South Luangwa National ...

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has announced that his employees can work from home for as long as they want, even after the coronavirus pandemic. Dorsey, on Tuesday, told his employees that many of them will be allowed to work from ...

In a newly released audio, the leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, who usually sounds pompous, wasn;t sounding anything near that as he was heard crying all through. He also seeked Allah’s protection for him and his rag-tag terror gang ...

Insistence by the Federal Government to continue its homegrown school feeding programme, even when schools in the country are currently shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic, may not only fail abysmally, but become a drain pipe on the lean ...

This is the terrifying moment revelers ran for their lives after a gunman opened fire shooting five during a 600-strong party in a Texas park. Two people were critically wounded and three injured in the shooting at Village Creek Park ...

Controversy is currently trailing a Russian influencer Marina Balmasheva after she announced her upcoming marriage to a stepson she helped raise for 10 years. The 35-year-old identified is famous in Russia for documenting her weight-loss online and she now faces ...

An Iranian warship has accidentally opened fire on one of its own support vessels during a training exercise in the Gulf of Oman, killing 19 and leaving 15 injured. The Jamaran, a frigate, had been attempting to hit a target ...

Chukwuka Utazi, senator representing Enugu north, says in Africa, people do not marry for love, but to have children. Utazi made the comment while contributing to a debate on a bill seeking to prevent, control and manage sickle cell anaemia ...

A railway ticket office worker has died with coronavirus after being spat at by a man who claimed he had Covid-19. Belly Mujinga, 47, who had underlying respiratory problems, was working at Victoria station in London in March when she ...

The House of Representatives yesterday called on the Federal Government to ignore the World Health Organization, WHO, in efforts to find cure for COVID-19 and approve use of alternative remedies to cure the disease. It also called on governors of ...

The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, on Tuesday disclosed that Susan Idoko-Okpe, alleged to be Benue State’s Covid-19 index case, has refused officials of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) permission to collect her sample for COVID-19 test, ...

Nigeria recorded a drop in daily Coronavirus infections on Tuesday, recording 146 new cases, taking its total to 4,787. In the last one week, the nation has been recording over 200 cases on daily basis. But on Tuesday, it recorded ...

Edward Nino Hernandez, of Colombia, is the world’s shortest man living, Guinness World Records said Tuesday. The world record title was awarded amid his birthday celebration as he turned 34 on Monday, Guinness World Records said in a statement. Hernandez ...

There is currently confusion surrounding the custody of the four suspects linked with the murder of Olufunke Olakunrin, daughter of the 94-year-old leader of Afenifere, Reuben Fasoranti. This is because the Nigerian Correctional Services has reportedly refused to admit them ...

Lagos State Government has announced the death of a 32-year-old male who was among the 256 Nigerians recently evacuated from the United Arab Emirate after succumbing to COVID-19 related complications. The State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, made this ...

Babafemi Adebayo, a Nigerian, who lives in Brazil, has died of complications from Coronavirus. Adebayo died at a hospital in Sao Paulo where he was being quarantined. He had been in isolation for 13 days but died from complications on ...