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French Culture Minister Franck Riester has contracted the novel coronavirus and is staying in his Paris home but is “doing fine”, his office said Monday. “The minister tested positive today,” after displaying symptoms, the ministry said. It noted that Riester ...

A 13-year-old boy has killed his elder brother, 20, in Bayelsa State. It was gathered that the little boy named Ebikari Andrew stabbed his elder brother, Fineboy Andrew, with a kitchen knife. They were said to have had “a misunderstanding” ...

The family of Olayemi Adetola-Odekoya has been thrown into mourning following her death as a result of a misunderstanding between her and one of her tenants, Saheed Lateef, at their place of residence on Apata Street in the Palmgrove area ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Monday, arraigned the 41-year-old Managing Director of Bravem Services Limited, Ebioenang George, before the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, for his alleged involvement in a N37m oil fraud. George was ...

The Lagos State Government has declared two people wanted who boarded the Turkish Airline with the Italian who brought Coronavirus to Nigeria. Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi had last week threatened to release the names of the two contacts ...

Several hundred people have been ordered to self-quarantine after the rector of a prominent church in Washington DC was confirmed as the city’s first coronavirus patient. Reverend Timothy Cole of Christ Church Episcopal in Georgetown remains hospitalised after DC health ...

Police officers are investigating the killing of an elderly man inside a police station on Sunday in Kakamega County, Kenya. Benson Waluvengo Benjamin, 62, died at the Kabras Police Station on the same day he was arrested for allegedly assaulting ...

  Gunmen have kidnapped a young man, who is reputed to be a billionaire, Mr Elvis Ojeogwu, his father and one other person from their hometown of Obior in the Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State. A family ...

A fifth person has died from coronavirus in the UK just hours after another patient in his 70s passed away. The latest victim, also in their 70s, was being treated at St Helier Hospital, in Carshalton, Sutton, London. The fatality ...

  Nigerian evangelist and founder of Mount Zion Drama Ministry, Mike Bamiloye, has stated that career is putting couples asunder. The Mount Zion TV founder, who has been active on social media recently blamed career and trips abroad for destroying marriages ...

  Deposed Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, has broken his silence after his dethronement by the Kano state government. In a 4.39 minute video posted on social media, the Emir who spoke in Hausa, said it is God that made him the ...

A woman and her three children who were doused in petrol and set on fire by their father have been buried together today. Hannah Clarke and her children Aaliyah, Laianah and Trey were laid to rest in one large white ...

Two new developments have taken place since the last briefing in Abuja on the coronavirus situation in Nigeria. The first is that a team of researchers from various institutions in Nigeria, including scientists from the Centre for Human and Zoology ...

On September 25, 2014, Corporal Edward Wanyonyi Makokha walked into a kiosk in Benane town, Garissa County, Kenya and grabbed a mobile phone from a Form Four student. The student, Ibrahim Hassan Shid, followed the officer and demanded to be ...

His Highness, Aminu Ado Bayero, the Emir of Bichi and son of late Emir Abdullahi Ado Bayero has been appointed the new Emir of Kano by Kano state government. Announcing his appointment today, after Emir Sanusi was dethroned, Secretary to ...

The former lawmaker representing Kaduna Central in the Senate and President of the Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria (CRCN), Shehu Sani, has reacted to the dethronement of Muhammad Sanusi II as the Emir of Kano today. Reacting to the removal ...

Three suspected ritualists have been arrested with a human skull removed from a public cemetery in Lagos. The suspects were apprehended on Sunday by a team of policemen from Area E Command, Festac. While on routine stop and search patrol ...

The Katsina State Police Command has arrested a 27-year-old man, Shafi’u Haruna, for allegedly killing his girlfriend over dispute on the ownership of her pregnancy. Haruna was arrested last Tuesday following a tip off. The spokesman for the command, SP ...

The Kano state Government on Monday finally dethroned Muhammad Sanusi ll as the Emir of Kano. Secretary to the state government (SSG), Alhaji Usman Alhaji in Press Statement on Monday, said Ganduje approved the immediate removal/dethronement of the Emir of ...

A German tourist died on Sunday of the novel coronavirus in a Sinai resort of eastern Egypt, the health ministry announced, the first death from the epidemic recorded in Africa. “The 60-year-old German citizen showed symptoms of a fever (and) ...

The Kano State government has dethroned Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II. The dethronement of the Emir followed the State Council executive meeting presided over by the Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje today

A team of security operatives on Monday stormed the palace of the Emir of Kano in Kano State. This followed the removal of the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, from office by the state government. The team of security ...

A former newscaster with the African Independent Television (AIT), Peter Kumba, has dragged DAAR Communications Plc before the National Industrial Court, Abuja, challenging his compulsory retirement. At the resumed sitting on Monday, the claimant’s counsel, Adesola Ajayi, told the court ...

Drama as a 47-year-old mother in Malawai has married her biological 30-year-old son in a simple white wedding. The news about their marriage has caused disgust amongst netizens in Malawi and beyond. In a publication in one of the Malawian ...

An Ogun State-based geologist, Ayo Adeniran, has decried the refusal of the University of Ilorin to issue him his original BSc certificate 24 years after he graduated from the school. Adeniran said the refusal of the institution to release his ...