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Access Bank has denied news making rounds that it would sack 75 per cent of its workforce and as well close over 300 branches. The bank denied this in a statement signed by Mr Sunday Ekwochi, its Company Secretary, posted ...

The palace of the Emir of Daura has been sealed after it recorded many cases of COVID-19. Daura is the hometown of President Muhammadu Buhari in Katsina State. According to Dr Mustapha Inuwa, Secretary to the State Government, the results ...

The Sokoto State Government has announced the death of the second civilian governor of the state, Dr Garba Nadama. According to a statement by the state government, Nadama died at age 82 after “an illness of natural cause”. The government ...

Working as a dental hygienist for over 40 years, Audrey Gaddis needs to be able to use her hands. So when she developed skin cancer in her thumb, she worried it would mean giving up her career. But thanks to ...

The management of Union Bank on Monday confirmed the death of one of its staff at a branch in Lagos. Chief Executive Officer of the bank, Emeka Emuwa, made this known in an internal memo seen by SaharaReporters. He said, ...

No fewer than ten medical doctors have tested positive for COVID-19 while treating patients at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, an official has said. The chairman of the hospital’s branch of the Association of Resident Doctors, Abubakar Nagoma, confirmed this on ...

Over hundred people are said to have died within the last ten days in Hadejia Local Government Area of Jigawa state. The Special Assistant to the Local Council Chairman on Media, Sani Kakabori who spoke to Channels Television says an ...

Despite ongoing efforts to combat the pandemic to a standstill, Coronavirus has continued to take a severe toll on Nigerians and the economy of the country. Like every category of workers and business owners in the country, the lull in ...

Former President, Goodluck Jonathan has penned a touching tribute to his friend and former boss, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua who died on May 5, 2010, exactly 10 years today. He wrote; ” It has been a decade since His Excellency President ...

Nine pastors have been arrested in Bayelsa State, South-South Nigeria, for holding church service in alleged contravention of the lockdown order in the state. The Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, signed an executive order recently barring people from leaving their ...

Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai has disclosed that, repatriated Almajiri children from Kano State account for 50 of the 59 active COVID-19 cases in Kaduna. Governor El-Rufai disclosed this on his accredited Twitter handle on Sunday. Kaduna State ...

A total of 2,310 violators of the presidential directives on lockdown and social distancing to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), have so far been arrested in five weeks, in Lagos State. Out of the number, 125 were ...

A man who fled to the UK from Wuhan in January has said he wishes he never left China. Matt Raw, 38, shouted ‘we’re free’ after spending two weeks in quarantine at Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral on February 13, ...

Four women have been charged in connection with the disappearance and death of a mother whose body was found days after she vanished. Nadine Chaves, Mercedes Gomez, Christina Gomez and Melissa Servin were all arrested in Mesa, Arizona on Friday. ...

Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbe was inaugurated on Sunday at a ceremony that was minimised to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. Some 200 guests – all wearing face masks and practicing social distancing – attended the ceremony. With borders ...

Parents of Leah Sharibu, who was abducted two years ago by Boko Haram insurgents, have said the Federal Government has been deceiving Nigerians and the international community with promises of rescuing her from captivity. The spokesperson for the family and ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday directed the police to arrest of all the suspects, who kidnapped and murdered three students of the University of Port Harcourt. Joy Adoki, Nelson Nwafor and Fortune Obemba were kidnapped on April 7, 2020, and ...

Despite the ravaging global pandemic, COVID-19, resident doctors of Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospi­tal (OOUTH), Sagamu, Ogun State, commence a three-day warning strike today. It would be recalled that the hospital houses one of the isolation centres desig­nated by the ...

Two sisters and their parents have been arrested in Yatta, Machakos County, Kenya for allegedly killing their close relative over a dowry payment row. According to the police report, Francis Mulwa Muthama, aged 25, was attacked by his parents and ...

The Federal Government, on Monday, confirmed the receipt of $311m looted by the late military dictator, Gen. Sani Abacha. The Punch reports that the loot was repatriated from the United States and the Bailiwick of Jersey. The Attorney General of ...

The National Bureau of Statistics has said 40.1 per cent of the country’s population live in poverty. The NBS, in the executive summary of the 2019 poverty and inequality report released on Monday, said over 82.9 million Nigerians lived below ...

Two more patients have died of coronavirus-related complications in Lagos State, The Punch reports. The Lagos State Ministry of Health made this known via its Twitter handle on Monday. This, the ministry said, brings the total number of fatalities in ...

Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, says the state is in trouble due to the presence of the coronavirus disease. Speaking on Sunday at the presentation of a COVID-19 Mobile Testing Centre donated by the Dangote Foundation to the state, Ganduje ...

A missing toddler who wandered away from her Florida home was found dead in a lake just hours after she vanished, according to authorities. The search for two-year-old Lorie Thermidor began Friday around 3:30pm near Redwood Point Drive in Tampa. ...

The enforcement of the restriction orders in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja turned dramatic on Sunday when the Pastor in Charge of Shekinah Glory Church, Jabi, along with some of his Deacons and workers scaled the fence to evade ...