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Anderson Cooper has announced the birth of his child, a boy named Wyatt Cooper. The CNN town hall anchor shared the first picture of his son Thursday night, telling viewers: ‘As a gay kid I never thought I’d have a ...

Two vehicles attempting to sneak passengers from Kano into Kaduna have been intercepted at the Kaduna-Kano border. The lorries had reportedly slipped through the security checks at the border, sneaking in their human cargo concealed behind livestock, motorcycles and other ...

A middle-aged man died on Wednesday night after the vehicle he was driving plunged into Kotoruk River on the Makutano-Kapkoris Road in Kapenguria Town, West Pokot County, Kenya. Sammy Ruto’s body was discovered in the watercourse Thursday morning meters from ...

A 28-year-old man, Godday Robinson, has been arrested by the men of the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly r.a.p.i.n.g a 17-year-old girl into a state of unconsciousness and throwing her into a pit. Robinson was reported to have dragged ...

Meghan Markle’s ex-husband is expecting his first baby with his new wife. Trevor Engelson, who the Duchess of Sussex was married to from 2011 to 2013, confirmed the news on his Instagram on Wednesday . The 43-year-old shared a picture ...

Chinese doctors removed a live six-inch worm (parasite) from a 23-year-old Chinese female patient who was complaining of having continuous headaches. Xiao Yi (pseudonym) was reported to have visited a local clinic in Jiangsu province of eastern China in January ...

Leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Shaikh Ibraheem Zakzaky has sent foodstuffs worth millions of Naira to the needy across Kaduna state. He said it was his age long family practice to identify with the underprivileged and life in ...

The Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo has vowed to resign if the recruitment of 774, 000 persons is hijacked by politicians. Keyamo said this while inaugurating the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Extended Special Public Works Across the 774 ...

The Federal Government has ordered civil servants from Grade level 14 and above to resume on Monday. In circular by Head of Service of the Federation Dr. Folashade Yemi-Esan, it said the Federal secretariat complexes have been decontaminated while efforts ...

An Ilorin Magistrate’s Court on Thursday sentenced four persons to 14 days self-isolation for attempting to escape with one Kazeem Oladayo, a COVID-19 patient, at Sobi Isolation Centre in Ilorin. The Chief Magistrate, Mr Bio Solihu, also ordered the convicts ...

A man was arrested early Thursday after opening fire on the Cuban embassy in Washington, the US Secret Service said. No one was injured. The unidentified person fired multiple rounds from what some reports said was a high-powered assault rifle. ...

Property worth millions of naira were, today destroyed by an early morning inferno, which occurred at Ita-Ama in Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara. The fire, which destroyed five shops and some rooms, lasted over three hours. It took ...

Some 21 people have died and 13 others have been seriously injured in the Mexican state of Jalisco after ingesting contaminated liquor, regional authorities have said. In total, 56 people have been affected in two municipalities in the western state ...

Well we should do so to. Any coronavirus prevention will be read on this blog, lol. All of us must stay alive, Amen. The threat of the coronavirus pandemic requires improved habits of hygiene and adoption of other essential habits ...

The Abia State taskforce on COVID-19 has arrested a Toyota Siena bus conveying bags of substance suspected to be cannabis at the Ogbudiukwu community, in the Umuahia South council area. Confirming the incident, Secretary to the State Government, Mr. Chris ...

An 11-year-old boy from Mulalio Village in Ikolomani Constituency in Kakamega County, Kenya allegedly committed suicide after he lost a fight over TV remote control early Wednesday, April 29. Canton Litiku, a Class Five pupil at Kakamega Hill School, is ...

The Federal Government says it is not in a hurry to re-open airports in the country. Minister of Environment, Mahmood Abubakar, made this known on Wednesday during a briefing by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja. He said ...

A Wuhan laboratory is the “most likely” source of the COVID-19 outbreak now ravaging the globe, according to a U.S. government analysis that catalogues the evidence and concludes that other explanations for the origin of the coronavirus are less credible. ...

US presidential hopeful Joe Biden said Wednesday he has a proud history of campaigning against s.e.x.u.a.l violence, as he faces mounting pressure to respond to an assault allegation made by a former aide. The presumptive Democratic nominee has been accused ...

The Chief Medical Director of Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba, Lagos, Dr Bowale Abimbola, has tested positive for Coronavirus. SaharaReporters gathered that Abimbola is presently being treated in one of the wards in the hospital. “Yes, he is positive, that’s why ...

Officials of the gender-based violence response team of the Vicar Hope Foundation, Umuahia, have rescued a two-year-old child suspected to have been locked up for several days in an uncompleted building at the Zone 5 Agbama Housing Estate, Umuahia, Abia ...

A 25-year-old man has died of coronavirus-related complications in Lagos State. The state’s Commissioner for Health made this known via his Twitter handle on Thursday. He said, “87 new #COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Lagos on April 29, 2020. The ...

Denis Goldberg, a veteran anti-apartheid activist in South Africa who was imprisoned for 22 years, has died at the age of 87. “His was a life well-lived in the struggle for freedom in SA. We will miss him,” the BusinessLIVE ...

Due to the global pandemic, many artistes’ shows have either been postponed to new dates or indefinitely. But fortunately, their inability to tour is gaining a new way for them to make money during the COVID-19 pandemic. Facebook has announced ...

Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Lagos State Council, Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya popularly known as MC Oluomo has lost his mother, Alhaja Zinat Abebi Omotowo. According to Mc Oluomo, she passed on around 7am today. Her ...