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The Federal Government has declared war against university lecturers using the biting hunger over COVID-19, the Academic Staff Union of Universities has said. The union said if the government used the decisiveness and determination with which it was addressing the ...

Angry youths in Ohafia, Abia State, have set ablaze three police vans, a police barracks and a magistrates’ court to protest against the killing of an indigene, Friday Arunsi, by a police corporal. The policeman reportedly shot Arunsi dead on ...

Some top aides of President Muhammadu Buhari have been denied access into the Presidential Villa in Abuja after returning from the burial of late Chief of Staff to Buhari, Abba Kyari, on Saturday. The burial at Gudu Cemetery was attended ...

Lesotho’s prime minister, who is accused of murdering his estranged wife, has deployed the army on the streets to “restore order”. In a TV address, Thomas Thabane accused unnamed law enforcement elements of seeking to undermine democracy. The decision comes ...

Spanish children have been kept indoors since 14 March, under strict measures to curb the spread of Covid-19. Now Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez aims to relax the rule on 27 April so they can “get some fresh air”. Barcelona Mayor ...

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has confirmed that the late Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari, died at the First Consultant Cardiologists Hospital, Lagos. Abayomi had at a briefing denied knowing the whereabouts ...

North Korean authorities have revealed to citizens in public lectures that there were confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the country as early as the end of March. The news comes following initial denials by the secretive state, who in ...

A fleeing Coronavirus suspect, Vincent Prosper has been captured in Abia State, the government revealed on Saturday. A statement issued by Abia State Commissioner for Information, John Okiyi-Kalu said the COVID-19 medical Rapid Response (RR) Team in the state received ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, on Saturday, said of the total 493 infections recorded in Nigeria since the pandemic began, 348 were males while 145 were females. This was contained in the Centre’s situation report on the pandemic in ...

A group of 44 suspected members of Boko Haram, arrested during a recent operation against the terrorist group, have been found dead in their prison cell, Chad’s chief prosecutor announced today. Speaking on national television, Youssouf Tom said the 44 ...

At least five women and children died on Saturday in a stampede when cash and clothes were handed out to thousands of displaced people in northeastern Nigeria, militia and local people told AFP. A large crowd surged forward for the ...

The Nigerian Navy on Friday night invaded an Ebonyi Community where a naval officer had gone missing last month. The invasion followed a painstaking investigation into the missing of the naval officer who went missing in Umuogodoakpu Mgbo in Ohaukwu ...

The Health and Human Services Secretariat of the FCTA has said the man who was seen in a viral video putting off his PPE unprofessionally after participating in the burial of late Mallam Abba Kyari has been quarantined. This was ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC has confirmed 49 new COVID-19 cases in Nigeria. Of the 49 cases, 23 were recorded in Lagos, 12 in FCT, 10 in Kano, 2 in Ogun and 1 each in Oyo and Ekiti ...

Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Hakeem Odumosu, has urged residents in the state to disregard letters addressed to their communities by a gang of armed robbers popularly known as One Million Boys. He said the letters were written to ...

A lady, Tola Azeez, was flogged by policemen in Iwo for allegedly violating the coronavirus lockdown in Osun State. Azeez, who made this known on Twitter on Saturday, said the incident happened on her way to get drugs. “This is ...

The Edo State Government has announced the discharge of the sixth coronavirus (COVID-19) patient in the state after the patient tested negative twice for the virus and was cleared for discharge at one of the state’s isolation centres. In a ...

The Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, on Saturday, revealed that a 29- year old woman from Lagos, has fallen victim to the third case of COVID -19 case recorded in the state. The governor also regretted the alleged compromise ...

The parents of the second most premature twins babies ever to survive have released astonishing pictures showing how tiny and fragile the newborns were. Tracey Hernandez and Anthony Hope were told their twin girls would have zero chance of survival ...

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 ...