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There was pandemonium in Gwagwalada in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Saturday morning after a trailer killed three persons and injured another seven. The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC)’s Corps Public Education Officer (CPEO), Mr Bisi Kazeem, who ...

Malam Abubakar Ya’u from Augie Local Government Area of Kebbi on Saturday got N10 million, two new cars and two Hajj seats for catching the biggest fish weighing 78 kilogrammes at the 2020 Argungu fishing festival. Reports have it that ...

Bodies of three men suspected to be robbers were found early Friday burnt near the perimeter fence of the Federal University of Agriculture in Makurdi (FUAM), but police say there were lynched. A number of sources indicate the three burnt ...

US president Donald Trump has tested for coronavirus, but the results are yet to return, Fox News reported on Saturday. Just before a briefing with the White House press corps, Trump said he had his “temperature taken and was fine,” ...

Former BBA star, Beverly Osu has said she is not getting married anytime soon and she just wants to be great. Speaking with Punch the dark-skinned actress cum video vixen said; “I am not thinking about marriage at the moment. ...

Veteran Nollywood actor who has been giving the youths a ‘heart-attack’ lately, telling them how not to propose to a woman, except the man is a fool and also addressing single mothers is at it again. According to respected Pete ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States Department of Justice has presented commendation certificates to four officials of the Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The certificate is in recognition of their efforts ...

The Corps Marshal Federal Road Safety Corps, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, has ordered the corps’ field operatives to clampdown on overloaded private school buses plying Nigerian roads as part of organised efforts to reduce crashes involving school children. The spokesman of ...

The Police in Anambra have arrested two persons for allegedly killing a Facebook friend and dumping the corpse in a bush in Nanka, Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State. The Commissioner of Police, John Abang, disclosed this on ...

The Edo State Government says it has shut Famous Faithland Orphanage for allegedly selling a baby girl for over N1.7m. The government has also withdrawn the operational licence of the facility. The state’s Commissioner for Social Development and Gender Issues, ...

A mother has been jailed for six months for letting her four year-old son shoot himself dead as she slept. Tiara Danielle Jefferson, 26, was sent to jail on thursday over the May 2018 death of her son Demetrius, who ...

The Katsina State Government on Friday engaged Muslim clerics and Ulamas (Muslim leaders) leaders in a one-day sensitization meeting on measures that have been put in place to checkmate the spread of Lassa fever and coronavirus otherwise referred to as ...

Tunisia’s ministry of health has ordered all incoming travellers, regardless of where they have travelled from, to immediately self-isolate upon arrival to the country. This latest preventative measure against the spread of Covid-19 is a step up from earlier in ...

Algeria and Morocco have suspended flights between the two countries to prevent the spread of coronavirus. A statement from the Algerian president’s office said an agreement had been reached with the Moroccan government to suspend flights between the two countries ...

A woman was left red-faced when a giant s.e.x toy gifted by her friends as a joke came back to haunt her. Jem Calvert was cleaning her bathroom one night and came across the s.e.x toy she had forgotten about ...

A 33-year-old housewife, Salami Ruth, was beaten to coma by her husband, Salami Olajide (a.k.a Stubborn) at their home on Ijede Road, Ikorodu on Saturday, 7 March, 2020. The fight followed Ruth’s pronouncement of her resolve to quit the distressed ...

Sudan’s Health Ministry on Friday reported the first coronavirus case and and his death. The ministry identified the case as a “50-year-old man who lived in the capital Khartoum, and died on Thursday.” He had visited the United Arab Emirates, ...

  The first reported case of the Coronavirus in South Africa has been exposed as nothing more than a common hangover by the alleged victim’s wife. Joe Malatji (31) was placed in a special isolation unit at Steve Biko Academic ...

Founder and leader of the Alabaster International Ministry, Prophet Kofi Oduro has cautioned the youth on the need to remain faithful in relationships and marriage if they want to live for long. He says cheating can ruin and destroy valuable ...

Lagos State Government said it will on Friday begin an eight-week massive deratisation and fumigation of no fewer than 27 model colleges with hostel facilities, abattoirs and slaughter houses, agricultural produce markets as well as regular markets in the State. ...

A London Underground driver has today tested positive for coronavirus. The Jubilee Line driver has self-isolated after becoming one of the 590 cases in Britain. Transport for London said in a statement: “The safety of our staff and customers is ...

An Aer Lingus passenger who made cabin crew cry by lying that his mum had coronavirus has been jailed for two months. Job van den Broek, 30, made the hoax claim after he was asked to put his phone down ...

A driver has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after allegedly reversing into a group of pedestrians, including a police officer. Three people were hurt when the suspect crashed into them at a Sainsbury’s car park in Exeter at ...

Banners displaying the pictures of the embattled chairman of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole at the party secretariat in Abuja, have been removed. The billboard with the picture of President Muhammadu Buhari and Oshiomhole, at the entrance ...

Suspected cultists on Wednesday night killed a 200level student on the campus of the Benue State University (BSU) in Makurdi. Witnesses said the victim was pursued from outside of the first campus gate at about 7:00pm into the institution premises ...