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A senior Al-Shabaab commander was killed in a recent US airstrike in Somalia, the director of US African Command (Africom) said on Sunday. “Bashir Mohamed Mahamoud was a senior operational leader responsible for exporting terror in Somalia as well as ...

Reckless thieves have been helping themselves to hand sanitiser from hospitals as national panic over coronavirus heightens. Medics yesterday pleaded with the public not to steal because it puts patients at risk. In a Facebook plea, Northampton General Hospital said ...

The Duchess of Sussex was left speechless by a cheeky teenager after he stole a kiss on the cheek and declared to a packed assembly hall: ‘She really is beautiful.’ Meghan spoke with delighted pupils at the Robert Clack Upper ...

A student at Oxford University has tested positive for the coronavirus after returning from travelling abroad, it has been reported. Public Health England confirmed the case to the university yesterday and the Vice-Chancellor informed staff, the Mail Online reports. In ...

  4-year-old Abdulahi Umar, is unique and talented. Despite being armless, the young Nigerian schoolboy writes with his toes, as he remains determined to get educated. Abdulahi Umar was born without hands, and according to reports, he resisted attempts by ...

Shoppers have found themselves facing aisles of empty shelves as families panic buy across the UK – with toilet rolls even running out in some shops. But some mums have hailed reusable toilet roll ‘the solution’ after one shared the ...

Volunteers willing to risk it all by purposefully getting infected with the coronavirus in a bid to find a cure will reportedly receive payment of £3,500. An experiment will see brave volunteers being paid £3,500 to be infected with a ...

Angry youths in Imo State are said to have attacked the convoy of the Imo State Governor, Mr Hope Uzodinma. The attack took place during his visit to Mmahu in Ohaji Egbema Local Government Area of the state on Sunday. ...

The Presiding Bishop of Living Faith Church Worldwide also known as Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, has described the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), as the worst in the history of Nigeria. Oyedepo said this on ...

  A third patient in the UK who tested positive for coronavirus has died, it emerged tonight, as the number of cases in Britain shot up to 278 in just 24 hours. The male patient, aged over 60, had ‘significant ...

Coronavirus cases in the UK have today rocketed to 273 in the biggest increase yet after ministers warned 100,000 Brits could die from the deadly bug. Medical experts are now expected to recommend the government move into its second “delay” ...

Iranian state TV today confirmed that 194 people have died from the killer coronavirus and 6,566 are now infected in the Islamic Republic. As the Persian New Year approaches, the Health Ministry warned Iranians to avoid large gatherings and stay ...

Mr Ikenna Unegbu, the Imo state director of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), has been docked at a family court in Owerri for raping a two- year old girl in his office. The Nation reported that Chinonye Obioma, mother ...

Nine people were killed in a bloody confrontation on Friday in western Mexico between a criminal gang and agents investigating a suspected kidnapping, officials said. The dead included two officers and six people believed to have been held captive in ...

As the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK hits 164, many of us are rightly seeking to follow the best measures in an attempt to stay safe. Masks are becoming a common sight and shops are reported ...

Two dozen people have been rescued from the rubble after a five-storey hotel housing quarantined coronavirus patients in China collapsed. The Xinjia Hotel in Quanzhou in the Southeast Fujian province collapsed on Saturday, leaving around 70 people trapped. Video from ...

A Kano High court sitting at Audu Bako secretariat on Friday sentenced one Saude Yahya of Utai quarters in Wudil local government to three years in jail, for strangulating her child to death. According to the charge sheet, Saude, who ...

Pope Francis decided to deliver Sunday’s prayer by livestream and Italy called in retired doctors as the new coronavirus epidemic gathered strength and emptied streets in Europe’s worst affected country. The 83-year-old pontiff broke with centuries of tradition by enlisting ...

  Social media giant Facebook has closed its three London offices from Friday afternoon through Monday for deep cleaning, after a visiting Singapore-based employee tested positive for coronavirus. “An employee based in our Singapore office who has been diagnosed with ...

A 44-year-old woman, Mrs. Bose Olasukanmi who was used by several ‘fraudulent’ pastors to perform fake miracle has been arrested by operatives of the Inspector General of police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) in Lagos after months of trail on her ...

  Three persons have been confirmed dead after rival cult gangs clashed in Elezuo/Umuchima Street in Okigwe, Imo State. The gangs were in supremacy struggle over who controls the territory when an argument resulted into a free for all, according ...

A member of a nine man armed robbery gang, Gambo Isa, who is currently being investigated by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS Lagos State Police Command has revealed that he was part of the robbery operation that disarmed ...

They came on motorcycles, in the quiet breeze of the early morning when many had left the comfort of their beds to congregate for the Subhi (early morning) prayer. It was 5:30am and the sounds of the assailants’ gunshots created ...

Residents of Owode Quarters in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, were stunned on Wednesday when an apprentice, Peter David, was caught having s.e.x with a pregnant goat at an uncompleted building in the neighbourhood. David, who claimed to be an indigene ...

Gunmen on Thursday night, abducted Madam Beauty Nimizuoa, the 80-year-old mother of the Chairman of Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, Uroupaye Nimizuoa. According to eyewitnesses, the octogenarian was kidnapped at about 11.40pm at her Agudama-Ekpetiama country home in ...