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The deposed Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi, on Thursday instituted a suit before the Federal High Court in Abuja seeking an order for his release from the post-dethronement detention and confinement. The PUNCH learnt late on Thursday that former Emir’s ...

Pornhub is offering free access to its premium service to people who live in Italy until April 3. In a press release shared on Thursday, the site revealed it’ll donate proceeds from the Modelhub platform after the European country implemented ...

Kim Jong Un has fled the North Korean capital for the coast in a bid to escape coronavirus, an insider has claimed. A source in South Korea said the Supreme Leader fled Pyongyang for Wonsan on the nation’s east coast ...

Gabon and Ghana confirmed their first cases of coronavirus on Thursday, becoming the ninth and tenth countries in sub-Saharan Africa to register positive cases. The region has so far been less badly hit by coronavirus than Europe or China. Ivory ...

Chukwuebuka Dikeocha, the blogger behind the ‘fake EFCC’ cell tweet, has been granted N1m bail. Justice M.L Abubakar of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Thursday, ruled on the bail application of the defendant. Dikeocha ...

There was a moment of panic in Kebbi yesterday as President Muhammadu Buhari’s security was breached by a young man who moved briskly and menacingly towards him while taking photograph with host Governor Atiku Bagudu and Jigawa governor, Muhammad Badaru ...

A 45-year old farmer who was found with burnt human head and hands, Mr. Idris Shaye, has alleged that it was his wife’s brother, Alhassan Ishaku that asked him to bring the items. Shaye who denied killing the victim said ...

A 40-year old man, Olanrewaju Adeyinka, has been arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly stabbing his younger brother, Gabriel, to death with a window louver for bringing two life parrots home. Olanrewaju was paraded on ...

  Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has tested positive for coronavirus. The Spaniard is the first high-profile sporting individual to test positive, after the club placed several players into self-isolation. It comes after Evangelos Marinakis, the Olympiakos and Nottingham Forest owner, ...

  Chelsea’s full squad have gone into self-isolation after winger Callum Hudson-Odoi tested positive to the coronavirus, the club said in a statement. Hudson-Odoi displayed cold symptoms on Monday morning and has stayed away from the club since then. His ...

  Pastor Mrs. Veronica who is the founder of Life of Faith and Prosperity Ministry, Asaba, Delta State, has made a wonderful statement and offer a solution to men who have infertility problems. She said this yesterday during a church ...

The Senate, on Thursday, passed for second reading, a constitution amendment bill which prescribes Higher National Diploma or its equivalent as the educational qualification required for anyone seeking to contest the office of the Nigerian President or state governors. The ...

Over 40,000 books and journals catalogued at the expansive library of the deposed emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi, have been allegedly evacuated from the palace. According to twitter user Abubakar Sadiq Kurbe (@iamKurbe) who seem to know a lot, the ...

This grisly scene is what happened when a tank containing 5,000 litres of cow blood suddenly burst and spilt its sticky contents down a residential street. In the video, which was filmed by a horrified witness in Buenos Aires, Argentina, ...

Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire has said that the index case of Cornavirus in Nigeria, an Italian will be discharged soon. TVC News reports that the Health minister disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja during a conference with the diplomatic ...

Spain’s equality minister has tested positive for coronavirus and has been quarantined with her partner, deputy prime minister and Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias, a government statement said on Thursday. “The minister (Irene Montero) is in a good condition and second ...

US President Donald Trump has announced sweeping travel restrictions on 26 European countries in a bid to combat the spread of the coronavirus. The ban applies to travellers from countries which are members of the Schengen border-free travel area. The ...

A devastated brother released a heartbreaking video after being forced to self-isolate with his sister’s body after she died from coronavirus. Funeral services reportedly refused to remove the body of tragic Teresa Franzese, 47, who died on Saturday evening in ...

Algeria’s government has canceled political gatherings because of the coronavirus, it said on Tuesday, though it was not immediately clear if this would entail a ban on the mass protests that have convulsed the state for more than a year. ...

A British woman is understood to have died in Indonesia after contracting coronavirus. Indonesian authorities said the 53-year-old was the first recorded death from the virus in the country, which has 26 other confirmed cases. A health ministry official said ...

Hundreds of starving monkeys fought over a single banana that was left in the street, as tourists who regularly feed them shun Thailand. The normally well-fed primates swarmed across a street in Lopubri, central Thailand, after they spotted a fellow ...

Most of you have been looking for a way to disagree with Senator Bima Enagi who is sponsoring the bill to ban generator in Nigeria or even ‘insult’ him, but guess what? We don’t think you still need to do ...

– Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote on Wednesday lost more than N240 billion in five hours as the effect of the coronavirus hit harder on the Stock Exchange. The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday declared coronavirus a pandemic. A ...

Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court has sentenced one Abdulrasheed Imam (aka Alkanun Da Woru) to four months imprisonment for impersonation and fraud. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Imam was prosecuted by the Economic and ...

Italy has said all shops except pharmacies and food outlets will be closed in response to the country’s coronavirus outbreak as the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in Italy jumped in the last 24 hours by 196 to 827. ...