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Residents of Abatakan community, Ojoo, Ibadan, Oyo State, were thrown into panic on Saturday as gunmen reportedly stormed the home of Sheikh Taofeeq Akeugbagold, a popular Islamic cleric, and abducted his twin children. The victims, Taiwo and Kehinde, aged two ...

Aisha, one of the children of the late Chief of Staff of the President, Major General Mohammadu Buhari (retd.), Abba Kyari, has asked her father’s critics to let him rest in peace. She stated this on her Instagram status update ...

A picture purportedly showing the leader of North Korea lying dead in a coffin is being shared online amidst feverish rumours of his demise. In the picture – which appears to be doctored – Kim Jong-un can be seen facing ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the phased and gradual easing of the lockdown in Lagos and Ogun states as well as the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The President announced this during his third nationwide broadcast on COVID-19. “Based on the ...

A newly appointed Commissioner 1 in the Kwara State Local Government Service Commission, Olatunji Abel, has died in his sleep 48 hours to resumption. Abel, who hails from Igbaja in Ifelodun area of Kwara died on Saturday of suspected heart ...

The Chairman of DAAR Communications Plc, Raymond Dokpesi Jnr., has tested positive for Coronavirus. Dokpesi disclosed this in a short message to members of staff in Abuja on Monday. The Chairman, who has been on self-isolation for about a week, ...

This brings the confirmed fatalities in the state to three, according to the state Ministry of Health. Announcing the development via Twitter on Monday afternoon, it said: “As at 12:15 pm 27th April 2020, @KanostateNg records an additional 2 deaths ...

New Zealand says it has stopped community transmission of Covid-19, effectively eliminating the virus. With new cases in single figures for several days – one on Sunday – Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the virus was “currently” eliminated. But officials ...

National leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and his wife, Remi, have tested negative to Coronavirus. This followed the death of Lateef Raheem, the late Chief Security Officer to Tinubu, who had COVID-19. In a statement on ...

At least five police officers were injured on Monday as a protest against security agents turned bloody at Eleko community in Ibeju-Lekki local government of Lagos State. It was gathered that the youth in the community had a face-off with ...

Older students in China’s biggest cities are starting to return to school following the coronavirus outbreak. Shanghai welcomed back pupils in their final years of middle and high school, while Beijing allowed students preparing for China’s university entrance exam in ...

Two Chinese men have been arrested by the police in Zamfara State for their alleged involvement in illegal mining of Gold. The suspects identified as Wang and Chu were apprehended on Sunday by a team led by Commission of Police ...

Mohammed Atiku-Abubakar, a son of Nigeria’s former vice-president, has now tested negative for coronavirus. “I have just received my second consecutive negative result,” Mr Atiku-Abubakar has revealed. “My discharge is currently being processed, and I hope to be home this ...

No fewer than 18 commercial s.e,x workers have been arrested in Ondo State for flouting the state government’s lockdown order put in place to prevent the spread of Coronavirus in the state. Doyin Odebowale, Chairman of the Special Task Force ...

A Nigerian woman has died while giving birth to twins 4 days ago. Patience Eze Chukwu waved the world bye after giving birth to twins — a boy and a girl. The deceased hailed from Nkporo in Ohafia, Abia state. ...

The last patient to be treated for coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan has been discharged from hospital, a health official has said. The news, released on Chinese state-run media, means the orignal epicentre of the deadly virus has ...

  The All Progressives Congress, APC, has condemned the latest attempt by the opposition, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to rubbish the efforts of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in tackling the scourge of COVID-19 pandemic in the country. According to a ...

Policemen enforcing the COVID- 19 lockdown at Opobo junction along Ikot Ekpene road, Ogbor Hill, Aba, Abia state, had a hectic time on Sunday dispersing hundreds of joggers who came for their usual morning exercise in the area. Some of ...

Sen. Tom Cotton has suggested that Chinese students should be banned from studying technology and science in the US and said he has “little doubt” that Beijing is trying to steal a coronavirus vaccine from America. “In the middle of ...

The NNPC filling station at Yaya Abatan area of Ogba, Lagos is on fire. The fire has reportedly started affecting nearby buildings. The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained. See photos from the scene below…

The coronavirus pandemic in New Jersey has claimed 5,863 lives — more state residents than were killed in World War I, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War combined. “When we say we’re in a war, we mean it,” Gov. ...

The Coordinator of Kano Taskforce on COVID 19, Dr Tijjani Hussain, disclosed this to The Nation. He said the three coronavirus patients disappeared from their respective houses and have been unreachable. According to him, the patients have switched off their ...

Mad o! Someone still has the balls to hold a party? lol. The Toffees are to set hit Everton star Moise Kean, 20, with a maximum two-week fine after the striker flouted lockdown laws. And boss Carlo Ancelotti also plans ...

With any passionate relationship, there is a fear of losing the one you love – and that can make you go to extreme lengths to keep hold of them. That was certainly the case with Raphael Lolos. He was a ...

Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 45-year-old man, Kolese Womiloju and his 25-year-old son, Taiwo Womiloju, over alleged killing of a Herdman, Abubakar Sidi Usman, at Gbagba Elewure village in Odeda Local Government Area of the state. The suspects ...