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The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has announced the postponement of its 9th convocation ceremony slated for Saturday, March 21, at its Headquarters in Jabi, Abuja, on health grounds. About 25, 000 graduating students were expected to participate in ...

The third case of coronavirus has been confirmed in Lagos. The Lagos State Ministry of Health, which confirmed the case, said the patient is unconnected with the index case. The infected, a 30-year-old Nigerian female who returned from the United ...

Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, has urged the Lagos State Government and Federal Government to conduct a thorough investigation of the Sunday explosion in the Abule Ado area of Lagos State to determine what really happened. The OPC ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has released the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination results of about 312,000 candidates who sat for the UTME on March 14, the first day of the examination. According to the board, the results were released ...

The University of Ilorin has instructed its returning international students to submit themselves for coronavirus tests at the school clinic before resuming for the second semester. The Director, Centre for International Education, UNILORIN, Prof. Felicia Olasheinde-Williams, gave the directive in ...

Three members of the Oodua People’s Congress, on Monday, appeared before an Osun State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Osogbo for subjecting one Nurudeen Adeniyi to torture over a missing mobile phone at a palm wine joint. Adeniyi was accused of ...

Facebook says it has removed 49 accounts, 69 Pages and 85 Instagram accounts for engaging in foreign interference. They accounts are reportedly run on behalf of a foreign actor on Facebook, Instagram and other internet platforms. The Head of Security ...

There was pandemonium Monday morning when the body of a week-old-baby was found dead inside a carton near a dustbin in Calabar. The incident, Vanguard, gathered occurred at Otu Ansa Street by Immigration office in, Atimbo, Calabar Municipality LGA, Cross ...

A district head in Bauchi State has been killed by Lassa fever, Governor Bala Mohammed has disclosed. This was contained in a statement by the Special Assistant to the Governor on New Media, Lawal Muazu, on Monday. According to the ...

A man has asked if it’s OK to pay his wife for s.e.x, because he “needs it” multiple times-a-day, but has been slammed by a relationship expert. Writing for news.com.au, Isiah McKimmie said the agreement was “concerning” on multiple levels ...

A Nigerian man identified as Henry Shield has revealed on micro-blogging social media platform, Twitter that he has to pay a fine if he fails to attend a certain party he has been invited to. According to him, the party ...

Jewellery shaped into winged p3nises were worn by Ancient Romans as necklaces and hung as decoration to ward off anything untoward, an expert has revealed. Romans would use the phallic amulets, called “bullae”, to repel disease and curses. According to ...

Two Tennessee brothers who bought 17,700 bottles of hand sanitizer and sold some of them for as much as $70 each to profit off the coronavirus outbreak say they have received death threats after being shamed on social media. Matt ...

Ghana today closed all schools and universities and suspended public events to stop the spread of coronavirus. President Nana Akufo-Addo announced in an address to the West African nation that the authorities were shutting schools and universities “until further notice”. ...

The scheduled hearing in the appeal by the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole has been put off by the Court of Appeal, Abuja. The court had, last week sent notices of hearing to parties in ...

The Kano State House of Assembly today suspended five of it members for six months in connection with last week fracas in the house. The Speaker, Abdulazeez Gafasa who announced the suspension of the members at the resumption of today’s ...

Popular Iranian cleric, Ayatollah Hashem Bathaei has die. He died on Monday after being infected with COVID-19 in the city of Qom. State news agency IRNA reported that Bathaei was admitted in hospital on Saturday and had become the latest ...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Monday announced the setting up of N2 billion relief fund for victims of Sunday’s explosion at Abule Ado area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria. Massive explosion rocked Abule Ado area on Sunday, with 17 people ...

Spain has registered nearly 1,000 new coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours, raising the total number of cases to 8,744, the country’s health ministry revealed today. Over the same period, the number of deaths rose by nine to 297, ...

Nike announced Sunday it will close all of its retail stores in the United States and a few additional countries in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Stores across the U.S., Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New ...

Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has alleged that the truth concerning the Lagos pipeline explosion has been hidden. According to NNPC, the explosion occurred around 9 a.m on Sunday after a truck hit some gas cylinders in a gas ...

A gran earns an absolute fortune from selling n.a.k.e.d photos of herself online. The 70-year-old, known as Nu..d.i.s.t Hottie online, is happily married since meeting her photographer husband at university. She has been stripping off for saucy pictures since her ...

Six soldiers have been reported killed in a Boko Haram ambush attack in Borno State on Sunday. The incident was said to have occurred in Banki town, 130 kilometres southeast of Maiduguri, the Borno state capital. The deceased, who were ...

7 Ghanaian nationals suspected of drug trafficking has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command in Abule-Egba. The suspects who were arrested on March 14 by policemen attached to Oke Odo Police Station of the Lagos State Police Command, ...

The French government is today considering putting Paris into full lockdown as coronavirus cases ‘doubled every three days’. Jérôme Salomon, the country’s Director General of Health, said ‘the situation is extremely worrying and deteriorating very quickly’ after thousands visited parks ...