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A suspected coronavirus sufferer in Kenya was beaten by a group of youths armed with stones and later died in hospital. The man, named locally as George Kotini Hezron, was going home after visiting a bar in the village of ...

The Niger State Police Command, last week, paraded a suspect, identified as Saidu Iliya, for kidnapping and r.a.p.i.n.g one pregnant Rakiya Sani. The command’s spokesman, ASP Wasiu Abiodun, said on March 5, 2020, one Mohammed Sani, lodged a complaint that ...

There’s probably no celebrity family that is so close than the Kardashian-Jenners. But with coronavirus outbreak, they’re keeping apart from each other and social distancing. In a new post, Kim says she misses her siblings, but the COVID-19 pandemic is ...

A youngster has been crushed after shoppers flooded into a supermarket in Australia to grab toilet roll. The 13-year-old girl had been at the Coles store in Perth to stock up on school snacks and loo roll, but was reportedly ...

This is the moment an aspiring grime artist was arrested at Stanstead Airport after knifing to death the cousin of an S Club 7 member in a knife rampage outside a nightclub. Vasilios Ofogeli, who can be named for the ...

A jealous boyfriend battered his lover, 20, to death with a brick after she mocked him for being a flop in bed, it is claimed. The victim, named only as Kristina, died from a bleed on the brain after the ...

On Friday a disturbed man was arrested for digging up a grave site reported to belong to Kobe Bryant and daughter Gianna in Newport Beach, MTO News has learned. Kobe Bryant tragically died last month in a helicopter accident that ...

The Lagos State Government has said that it will close down all public and private schools from Monday, March 23, 2020, as part of the preventive measures against the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic, The State announced this on its ...

As Britain desperately tries to contain the coronavirus outbreak, all schools across the whole of the United Kingdom will be closed after Friday. This was revealed by Education Secretary Gavin Williamson while speaking with MPs on Wednesday afternoon. Williamson stated ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced a new method for candidates who sat for the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). JAMB in a statement on Wednesday via its verified Twitter handle also refuted reports that it ...

The Lagos State Government on Wednesday banned all religious gathering of over 50 people within the state in a bid to curtail the spread of the deadly Coronavirus. The decision was arrived at after a meeting of the Lagos State ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Gombe Zonal Office, has arraigned a former Accountant General of Bauchi State, Yusuf Gokaru, before the Bauchi State High Court on an alleged N258m fraud. Gokaru was arraigned on Wednesday before Justice A. H. ...

A member of the National Youths Service Corps deployed to Akwa Ibom State, Mrs Queen Eziuche, died on Sunday morning at the NYSC Orientation Camp in Ikot Itie Udung in the Nsit Antai Local Government Area of the state. Eziuche, ...

A 20-year-old man, Mr Isaac Boniface, is in police custody for allegedly defiling a four-year-old girl in the Dahwol community, Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State. The suspect, who claimed to be working with a mattress manufacturing firm, ...

Two men on Wednesday died in a well located at a compound in K-Vom community, the Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State. It was gathered that the deceased were working inside the well when they suddenly collapsed inside ...

A woman fighting coronavirus said it felt like her whole body was on fire and she ‘had swallowed glass’. Mum-of-three Mandy Charlton, 46, was admitted to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle via ambulance on Friday evening with a temperature ...

A Kwara State High Court in Ilorin, has sentenced four internet fraudsters to one jail term each. The convicts are; Atanda Femi Benjamin, Sadiku Muniru Dolapo, Olapade Oladimeji Solomon and Atoyebi Samson. Ilorin zonal office of the Economic and Financial ...

Morgues in Italy are overhwhelmed as the latest figures show that 2,158 people have now died from the coronavirus in the country. Some in the hardest-hit northern areas of Italy are said to be unable to cope with the number ...

The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate satellite cable television service providers in Nigeria for refusing the calls by Nigerians to adopt ‘pay per view’ subscription plan. Members of the House took turns to particularly criticise Digital Satellite Television, ...

  North Korea boasts that it has no cases of COVID-19, even as its neighbor to the north China has experienced more than 3,200 deaths from the global pandemic. North Korean leader Kim Jung Un claims that a 30-day quarantine, ...

A 68-year-old man identified as Amos Ojedapo had reportedly committed suicide at his resident, Ile Atepatan compound, Ejigbo, Osun State. The deceased, it was learnt hanged himself with a rope on the burglary proof of his window in his room. ...

You can also fly on a private jet with 16 friends, with double beds, huge en-suites and a fuel tank which can fly you 6,000 miles non-stop. The only problem? It will set you back $110m for the entire plane. ...

Some private schools in Lagos have taken the bull by the horns by announcing closure from Thursday-without instruction to do so from the Ministry of Education. This is coming as the Federal Government announced five new cases of coronavirus, bringing ...

Burkina Faso has joined the list of African countries to have recorded coronavirus related death. Authorities announced the first COVID-19 death on Wednesday. The country’s confirmed cases as at Wednesday is at 26 with over 230 contacts being monitored. Other ...

People with Type A blood are significantly more likely to catch coronavirus than those with Type O, Chinese academics have found. The study in Wuhan – the epicentre of the disease – also found those with Type A blood are ...