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Pete Buttigieg, the former Indiana mayor who made an ambitious run for president, has announced he is ending his campaign for the White House. The 38-year-old became the first openly g,a,y presidential candidate from a major party when he announced ...

The 6th edition of Kaduna State Sports Festival earlier scheduled for February 24th will kick-start today, the State Commissioner of Sports Development, Kabir Mato stated at the weekend. Mato said the festival which is the first in 10 years was ...

Police in Kiambu County, Kenya have arrested a 26-year-old man, who allegedly killed his girlfriend on Wednesday, February 26, in Ruaka. Tairus Mwangi, who is a prison warder at Malindi GK Prison in Kilifi County, is alleged to have bludgeoned ...

Veteran Nollywood actress Toyin Afolayan also known as Lola Idije has revealed how her love for her female children prevented her from remarrying after losing her husband. In an interview with Sunday Scoop, the veteran actress expressed that she didn’t ...

A 27-year-old man, Ejike Okata, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly hacking his neighbour, Adeyiba Oladipupo, to death. It was gathered that Okata had confessed to killing the 50-year-old woman because she allegedly accused him ...

A female National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member identified as Amaka Asikaogu has reportedly died in an Abuja hotel a few days to the end of her service, following her meeting with a yet to be identified male companion. Preliminary ...

The global coronavirus death toll has hit 3,000 following a sudden spike in Italian cases. Five fatalities were announced in Italy today, taking its death toll to 34 as infection continues to cripple the country’s northern regions. Total patient numbers ...

Public Health England has announced that a further 12 people have coronavirus in the UK. The number of people who have the disease in the country now stands at 35. Four of those who tested positive in the past 24 ...

Nigeria women table tennis star, Funke Oshonaike has said suffered depression but had to stand strong in order to qualify for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. In a Facebook live feed, Oshonaike expressed her joy by becoming the first ...

A lady, Farida Ladipo-Ajayi has cried out on Twitter after a pharmacy in Gbagada, Lagos sold a bottle of hand sanitizer to her for N19,950. Farida says she didn;t notice the price but was surprised when she got an alert ...

  A Nigerian lady has gone to social media to share how she had to end her relationship with her boyfriend because in his village people are not allowed to cheat. Once a cheater is caught, because of the tradition ...

An Ilorin, Kwara state based private tertiary institution, Al-hikmah University management has warned its new students not to attend any ‘unholy gathering’ during their stay in the institution. Management specifically, cautioned “any student from attending a fresher’s night being put ...

A morning fire razed five offices at Freedom Radio in Kaduna State in the wee hours of Sunday. The fire was said to have emanated from the inverter room that houses the station’s electrical equipment. Daily Trust gathered that the ...

Professor of Virology, Maduike Ezeibe of the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, MOUAU, who once claimed to have discovered therapy for the cure of HIV/AIDS, said that his therapy has the potency to cure the dreaded coronavirus ravaging China ...

Three Chinese citizens suspected of having Coronavirus symptoms have been quarantined in Wase Local Government Area of Plateau State. The State commissioner of Health, Nimkong Ndam, who confirmed this said the Chinese arrived the state on Friday from Ethiopia. He ...

Boris Johnson and his girlfriend Carrie Symonds are engaged and expecting a baby in early summer. The Prime Minister is already a father-of-five, however, this will be the first child born to his 31-year-old partner. Mr Johnson recently finalised his ...

  The Berger/Kara Bridge section of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway will be opened to motorists today, Sunday, March 1. This was made known by the Federal Controller of Works, Lagos, Mr Adedamola Kuti on Saturday. He said that construction work had ...

A 19-year-old internet fraudster, Chigemezu Arikibe, has been arrested by operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Responses Team, IRT, in Imo State, for defrauding a Cambodian woman of the sum of $75,000. Saturday Vanguard gathered that the ...

Director General of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said the first results of over 20 Vaccines and therapeutics being developed for the cure of the Coronavirus, are expected in a few weeks. He disclosed this in his opening ...

Amidst panic over the detection of coronavirus in the country, resident doctors of the Enugu State University Teaching Hospital on Saturday embarked on a five-day warning strike to press home their demand for an enhanced pay package. Many residents of ...

Holy water fonts are being drained and the sign of peace suspended as the Catholic Church does its bit to combat coronavirus. The Catholic Church has issued advice to priests and those attending Mass across Ireland following the detection of ...

A Nigerian woman’s four-night hotel reservation was cancelled by an Abuja hotel due to “global threat corona virus”. Nigeria recorded its first case of coronavirus on Thursday after an Italian, who worked with a Lafarge Africa vendor, tested positive to ...

  In furtherance to the placing of the patient of the Coronavirus disease, a 44-year-old Italian, in a quarantine centre, Lagos and Ogun state governments have identified at least 100 persons who had contact with the index case of the ...

Ogun State Government has denied reports that a taxi driver who drove the Coronavirus victim from Lagos to Ewekoro, had escaped. Report had gone viral on social media that the driver had demanded N100 million, threatening to spread the chronic ...

The United States signed a landmark deal with the Taliban on Saturday, laying out a timetable for a full troop withdrawal from Afghanistan within 14 months as it seeks an exit from its longest-ever war. The agreement is expected to ...