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Scores are feared killed in Katsina state as bandits launched multiple attacks in three local government areas of Safana, Danmusa and Dutsinma. Sources say the attacks were coming few days after relief materials were shared to some Internally Displaced Persons ...

Kano state Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has relieved the appointment of the commissioner of Works and Infrastructure, Engr. Mu’azu Magaji with immediate effect. According to a statement signed by the Commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba, the commissioner was ...

The Federal Government has said that the Chinese medical team currently in the country to support the COVID-19 fight are still observing the 14-day quarantine policy The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, this on Friday in Abuja, at the ...

Following measures taken by the Ebonyi state government to curtail the spread of coronavirus, Ebonyi state Police Command yesterday has admitted that there has been an increase in crime in the state as a result of the lockdown and banning ...

The Edo Police Command on Saturday confirmed the abduction of Mr Emmanuel Agbale, the Commissioner for Science and Technology in the state. DSP Chidi Nwabuzor, the command’s Public Relations Officer, confirmed the development in an interview with the News Agency ...

Commissioner of Health, Prof Akin Abayomi, announced this on Saturday. According to him, the deceased are two males and a female aged 52, 63 and 67 respectively. He added that two of the victims had underlying health issues. “32 new ...

The Adamawa State Government has isolated nearly a hundred citizens returning from Lagos and Ogun states. The returnees, who were mostly people working in factories in the states, were placed in two isolation facilities near the capital, Yola, for a ...

A Scottish man died from coronavirus just six months after he and his partner of 25 years had their dream wedding. Andy Wyness, 53, is thought to have caught the virus while on a bowling trip to Wales. He initially ...

  The Chief of staff of the President, Abba Kyari was buried today in Abuja after he died of COVID-19. A lot of people however attended his funeral as watched on tv. Now, Nigerians have called for the arrest of ...

As many as 21 Indian Navy (IN) personnel at “INS Angre”, a shore establishment at Mumbai city in the southwestern state of Maharashtra, have tested positive for novel coronavirus, a senior IN official in New Delhi confirmed to Xinhua on ...

  A wife ran out of her marital home, crying out for help claiming her husband has been having sex with her nonstop since midnight and she cannot continue again.     In a video that has surfaced online, the ...

  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has disclosed that monetary contributions to its relief fund under the auspices of Private Sector Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID) had risen to N25.8 billion. CBN Director of Corporate Communications, Isaac Okoroafor, said in ...

  The remains of the late Mallam Abba Kyari, former Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, is slated for burial today in Abuja. His body arrived in the Federal Capital Terittory, FCT some hours ago and he is currently ...

  Details have emerged on why Abba Kyari, former chief of staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, could not recover from the deadly coronavirus disease.   Kyari was reported dead on Friday weeks after contracting the disease.   Though, Femi Adesina, presidential ...

The remains of the late Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Mallam Abba Kyari, would be laid to rest in Abuja today. A tweet by Personal Assistant on New Media to President Muhammadu Buhari, Bashir Ahmad, confirmed that the ...

Master Chidera Nwankwo is a 10-year-old boy who was kidnapped along with his younger brother, a two-year-old boy. But Chidera was later found after he was left on a road at Ngwa in Abia State by the kidnappers, who took ...

One of the sons of Governor Nasir El-rufai of Kaduna State has apologised over a tweet suggesting the r.a.p.e of a Twitter user’s mother. Bello El-rufai, 32, on Sunday threatened to “pass to his friends” the mother of @thanos_zer after ...

The death of Jonathan Amarachi has been announced. Jonathan died of the deadly virus in New York. This, is according to his friend, show promoter, Paul Okoye popularly known as Paulo. Paulo took to social media to announce his death ...

China’s National Health Commission reported 27 new confirmed coronavirus cases on April 17, up from 26 the day earlier, according to data published on Saturday. Of that figure, 17 cases were imported via individuals arriving overseas, up from 15 the ...

Malawi’s High Court on Friday temporarily barred the government from implementing a 21-day lockdown to curb coronavirus following a petition by a human rights group. The Human Rights Defenders Coalitionarguedthat the government had failed to announce any measures to cushion ...

  A Nigerian man abroad laid curses on Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari after he received over N300,000 stimulus payment from the European’s Union government. In a video currently going viral, the young man could be heard saying Ogún (the powerful ...

  A lady has shared how she was allegedly kicked out of a Chinese restaurant for being a foreigner while her family who are Chinese are allowed to eat inside. Apparently, the lady who was kicked outside the restaurant had ...

  Abia State has declared a suspected COVID-19 patient, Vincent Prosper wanted. In a statement by the Information Commissioner for Information, Chief John Okiyi-Kalu, disclosed that Vincent Prosper reportedly sneaked into Abia State from a-yet-to-be mentioned neighbouring state. The statement ...

  Governor Mike Sonko has stirred controversies after he added bottles of alcohol, precisely Hennessy, to his COVID-19 care packages to the people of Nairobi in Kenya. Mike Sonko, the governor of Nairobi while justifying his adding small bottles of ...

A commercial driver on Friday knocked down an officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Victor Fayemi, while trying to escape arrest after defying the lockdown order in Abuja. Media Assistant to the NSCDC Commandant General, Ekunola Gbenga, ...