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Prof. Balarabe Maikaba, a prominent scholar and former Head of the Department of Mass Communication, Bayero University, Kano (BUK), is dead. Maikaba died on Sunday at a private clinic in Kano metropolis, after a brief illness. A relative of the ...

As the coronavirus lockdown nears its sixth week in UK and with a weather improve, many Brits are growing impatient of the Government’s orders to stay at home whenever possible. Hundreds of locals were seen strolling along the seafront of ...

One person has been confirmed dead, while three others sustained injuries in an accident involving two trucks around Kara, Ayetoro, Ogun State axis of the Lagos–Ibadan highway. The Spokesperson of the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement (TRACE) Corps, Babatunde ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Saturday said Imo State has recorded its first case of coronavirus (COVID-19). The centre also said that Nigeria recorded 87 new cases of the coronavirus on Saturday including the one recorded in ...

A 30-year-old farmer, Salahatu Haruna, has explained the role he played in the kidnap of his half-brother, Yakubu, whose seven-year-old son was shot dead during the operation. Haruna reportedly masterminded Yakubu’s abduction to raise some money having become broke and ...

A Nigerian man who has tested posivite for COVID-19 in the UK has appealed to Nigerians to take the killer bug seriously saying it is real. He also appealed to Nigerians that this is not the time to bash President ...

After US lawyers sued China for trillions of dollars,  a coalition of Nigerian legal experts have also filed a class action suit against the Peoples Republic of China over the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic effect on Nigerians. They are ...

It is said that blood is thicker than water, but definitely  not so with David Igbu, who has confessed to terminating the life of his only daughter in fulfillment of a condition to taking a second wife. No fiction could ...

Seventeen police officers in Peru have died after contracting novel coronavirus while enforcing the nation’s pandemic lockdown, officials and state media said. Authorities admitted earlier this week that at least 1,300 officers had been infected by COVID-19. On Saturday new ...

Founder of Omega Fire Ministry, Johnson Suleman, has called on the Federal Government to allow pastors heal coronavirus patients through prayers. In his sermon the Apostle said their are genuine men of God that can actually heal the sick, and the ...

Ondo State has reported three new positive cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of infections in the state to seven. The state governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, announced this in a series of tweets today. He disclosed that one of the ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will return to work on Monday officially. He has been recuperating at Chequers, the prime minister’s residence outside London, after he was released from hospital on April 12. Johnson spent a week undergoing treatment for ...

Another batch of 13 Nigerian returnees from Togo Republic have arrived at Seme Border Post in Lagos State in the early hours of Sunday, NAN reports. The 13 returnees arrived the border post in a Toyota Coaster bus with Togolese ...

A cruel dad allegedly beat up his six-year-old son for refusing to do push-ups during a home workout. Emilbek Zhunusov, 35, has been arrested after he allegedly attacked the child during their work out at home in Moscow, Russia, on ...

Residents of Ilorin in Kwara have taken to early morning exercises in order to keep fit even as the lockdown is extended. News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reported that people were seen in small groups of twos or threes comprising ...

Chanel Chin, the ex-queen to the controversial monarch, Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi, has accused the monarch of domestic violence, adding that he even cheated on her with their maid while they were married. This is coming after the ...

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has directed that the State Secretariat reopen for workers from level 13 upward to resume work on Monday 27 April 2020. According to him, “The State Secretariat will be reopened on Monday, April 27th, ...

The Anambra State Police Command says it has begun investigation into the alleged killing of Mr Godwin Ezeofor, 70, by his 37-year-old son, Chigorom Ezeofor, with an axe. The state Police Spokesman, Mr Haruna Mohammed, said in a statement in ...

A video we sighted on social media has shown the moment a 21-year-old boy was caught while trying to use his twin for ritual. In the video, the alleged culprit was being rounded up be members of the community and ...

  A video going viral on social media has shown the moment residents of a community hijacked a mini truck carrying food items to steal from it. It is not clear where the incident happened, but the appearance of the ...

  Two Twitter users have come on the platform to drag a female friend they had threesome with. The lady is reported to be a popular influencer on Twitter and she used to be in a cordial relationship with the duo. According ...

  A national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and his close aides took the coronavirus test on Saturday following the death of his chief security officer (CSO). The late CSO to the former governor of Lagos ...

  A woman in Abuja cried out, alleging her son-in-law died in Kano from a disease suspected to be COVID-19 due to slow response by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the COVID-19 rapid response unit in Kano ...

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo state has appointed Osaze Ethan Uzamere as his Chief of Staff. He replaces the former Chief of Staff, Taiwo Akerele, who resigned from Obaseki’s kitchen cabinet on Friday. The 38-year-old investment banker is son of ...

  The disparity in the report of the new confirmed cases in Kano state by Governor Gaduje and NCDC has thrown many into confusion.   On Saturday, 25 April, 2020, Governor Gaduje during a press briefing, announced there are 74 ...