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Troops of the Operation Hadarin Daji have rescued nine victims kidnapped by bandits in Bindim and Koli towns, Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The victims – seven males and two females – have been handed over to their ...

Spain on Saturday reported a 32 per cent spike in new deaths from the coronavirus, bringing the country total to 1,326 fatalities, the second-highest in Europe after Italy. The number of infections across the country also shot up to 24,926, ...

The federal government of Nigeria, on Saturday, announced the shut down of international flights coming into Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, and Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. This was confirmed in a statement signed by the Director-General of the Nigerian ...

Italy on Saturday reported 793 new coronavirus deaths, a one-day record that saw its toll shoot up to 4,825 — 38.3 percent of the world’s total. The number of COVID-19 infections rose by 6,557 to 53,578, another record. The total ...

North Korea fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast on Saturday, the latest in a series of such launches by Pyongyang as the world struggles with the coronavirus pandemic. The South Korean military condemned ...

Juventus striker, Paulo Dybala, and his girlfriend, Oriana Sabatin, have tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19). He made this known via his Twitter handle on Saturday. He tweeted, “Hi everyone, I just wanted to inform you that we have received the ...

Hundreds of passengers were stranded in Seme on Saturday as the Benin Republic closed its border over the global coronavirus pandemic. A News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent who visited Seme border reports that the Benin Republic had closed the ...

A groom-to-be, Samuel Yarling, of Lamingo, Jos, has reportedly died on his wedding day leaving his bride-to-be and both families devastated. The wedding which was slated for March 21, at the ECWA Church Seminary, had sent two families into mourning ...

The Nigerian Railway Corporation plans to suspend all passenger services in the country effective Monday, March 23, says the Federal Government. The suspension is not unconnected to the spread of the novel COVID-19 which increased from 12 to 22 in ...

The Lagos State Government has banned all religious and social gathering of over 20 people. The state government announced this on its Facebook page after 22 cases of coronavirus were recorded in the country on Saturday. Before the new development, ...

  Shocking news emerged of a pastor selling Zobo in a higher rate. Is it to make money or for pure deliverance? Continue reading below to find out: A 42 year old man, Pastor Ezekiel Godstime has been arrested by ...

Three persons have tested positive for Coronavirus in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja. According to a report by The Punch,  the capital index case is an official of the Federal Inland Revenue Service. He was one of the passengers on the British ...

The spiritual and traditional head of the Aborigine Ogboni worldwide, Oba Olakisan Adetoyese has offered to perform rituals to appease to gods in bid to end the scourge of coronavirus in the country. Oba Adetoyese said that the federal government ...

The Spanish Government is ordering the closure of all hotels across the country by next Thursday so they can be converted into hospitals after the country’s death toll rose by 169 in a day to 1,002 The Ministry of Health ...

There are 10 new cases of confirmed coronavirus in Nigeria, the Federal Government has announced. Three of the new cases are in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja and seven new cases in Lagos State. This brings the total number ...

2019 Big Brother Naija former housemate, Diane Yashim, popularly called Diane Russet, has recounted how she once ‘hated God’ because of what she went through after the death of her father. The reality star in a recent interview with The ...

A cluster of 35 coronavirus cases linked to a marriage ceremony near Sydney and new government measures have hit Australia’s multi-billion-dollar wedding industry and forced many tearful couples to cancel the big day. Restrictions on gatherings of more than 100 ...

The Anambra state police command have arrested 75-year- old man, Raphael Mbanyereude aka Papa Okoye, pictured above, for allegedly defiling two sisters aged two and four in Okija, Ihiala Local government area of Anambra state. In a statement released on ...

Gboyega Akosile, chief press secretary to the governor says some hospitals in Lagos state have started receiving patients suffering from chloroquine poisoning. Akosile who quoted Oreoluwa Finnih, senior special assistant to the governor on health, urged people to stay away ...

A man in Spain has been arrested for walking the streets wearing a T-Rex dinosaur outfit to take his trash outside while the country is on lockdown. It is gathered that the man who tested positive for coronavirus was arrested ...

Canada’s cases of the COVID-19 respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus passed more than 1,000 on Friday. The sobering reality of the pandemic has made Prime Minister Justin Trudeau roll out a series of measures to stop further spread of ...

An Osogbo Magistrates’ Court on Friday ordered the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi, to appear in person for the hearing of a matter bordering on allegations of assault filed against him by the Agbowu of Ogbaagba, Oba Dirkrullahi Akinropo. ...

American country music legend Kenny Rogers has died aged 81. A family representative said he “passed away peacefully at home from natural causes”. Rogers topped pop and country charts during the 1970s and 1980s, and won three Grammy awards. Known ...

There was chaos on Friday in Minna, Niger State, when angry commercial motorcyclists, popularly known as okada riders, burnt down the office of the Federal Road Safety Corps . The okada riders were angry over the death of one of ...

A former General Evangelist, Christ Apostolic Church, Prophet Samuel Abiara, has urged world leaders to seek God’s intervention by convening national prayer sessions in addition to proactive medical measures being taken to end the COVID 19 pandemic. Abiara, who said ...