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A British lorry driver has been arrested in Morocco after trying to smuggle 100,000 face masks worth £2.6 million out of the country, reports suggest. The trucker was held in the Port of Tanger Med, a cargo port located about ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Wednesday, arraigned a couple, Oladeji and Omotayo Henry, before the Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja for an alleged N555.82m fraud. The couple were arraigned alongside their company, Built Global Concepts, on ...

Two suspects dealing in arms and ammunition, Dung Rwang and Dachollum Yohanna, have been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency with 1,360 rounds of live ammunition. The suspects were arrested by operatives of the Bauchi State Command of ...

A five-year-old girl was left fighting for her life after knocking over a deep fat fryer and burning 38 per cent of her body. Grace Shaw was playing with her younger sister Farrah when she fell and pulled the contents ...

The police on Wednesday arraigned Lere Olayinka, 47, the spokesman to former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, in an Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court for alleged N13.5 million fraud. The defendant, of no fixed address, according to the prosecutor, Johnson Okunade, ...

Nigeria may experience drug shortage as India has suspended the exportation of drugs to the country and others around the world. A fortnight ago, the Director-General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Mojisola Adeyeye, had said ...

Rumour has it that these days young man has developed a newfound trick to living in rented apartments without paying rent. A young man has revealed that he has been satisfying his landlady sexually for eight years without paying for ...

Iran has temporarily released more than 54,000 prisoners in an effort to combat the spread of the new coronavirus disease in crowded jails. Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili told reporters the inmates were allowed out of prison after testing negative for ...

As the virus continues to spread around the world, the UK Government has now taken it upon it self to educate people and how the virus can be contacted and most importantly how to avoid it. Announcing measured to help ...

Did Hafusat Ibuloye kill herself and her 15-year-old daughter Aduke to spite her husband for abandoning them? Ibuloye, an Idumota, Lagos Island resident, allegedly woke Aduke up in the wee hours of penultimate Thursday and gave her a cup laced ...

Kate Middleton put on a dazzling display as she joined Prince William for an evening reception at the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin last night. The Duchess of Cambridge, 38, wore a £1,595 glittering emerald gown by trendy designer The Vampire’s ...

A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Jabi has ordered suspension of the National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, pending the determination of a substantive suit. The Judge, Danlami Senchi, gave the order following an ...

  Italy will close all schools and universities, the government said today, to protect against the coronavirus which has infected more than 2,500 in the country and killed 79. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s government is also expected to release new ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), today re-arraigned Ismaila Mustapha and his firm, Ismalob Global Investiment Ltd, at a Federal High Court, Lagos, on an amended 22-count money laundering charge. Mompha and his firm were first arraigned on a ...

The Queen wore gloves at an investiture at Buckingham Palace yesterday, the first time she has done so since she began carrying out the ceremonies in 1952, amid warnings about the spread of coronavirus and the deadly danger it poses ...

US President Donald Trump, who has donated every one of his salary payments to government agencies or efforts since becoming president, has donated his 2019 fourth quarterly salary to the Department of Health and Human Services to help fight the ...

Federal High Court in Maiduguri on Tuesday admitted Aisha Wakil, popularly called ‘Mama Boko Haram’ and three others to bail in the sum of N1.3 million each, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported. Wakil was arraigned before the court on ...

  South Africa has fallen into its second recession in two years as severe rolling power blackouts frustrate President Cyril Ramaphosa’s attempt to revive growth. The economy contracted 1.4 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2019, according to official ...

The Kwara State House of Assembly on Tuesday amended the Kwara State University Law and changed the name of the institution from Abubakar Olusola Saraki University to Kwara State University. The Kwara State University (Amendment) Bill 2020 was one of ...

A second person in Senegal has tested positive for coronavirus, the country’s health ministry confirms. It says the patient is an 80-year-old French national who arrived in the West African country on 29 February. He is being treated at the ...

The World Bank has committed $12bn in aid for developing countries grappling with the spread of the coronavirus. The emergency package includes low-cost loans, grants and technical assistance. The action comes as leaders around the world pledge to shield their ...

A 48-year-old father of six, Mr Felix Edore, has reportedly committed suicide in the Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State. It was learnt that the man took his life after finding out that his wife of over 16 years ...

Boris Johnson has insisted the coronavirus threat would not stop him greeting people with a handshake. The Prime Minister even said he had shaken the hands of everyone at a hospital where infected patients were being treated. He was speaking ...

South Africa, iis now confirmed as the continent’s second-largest economy. The answer to the question of whether South Africa or Nigeria, the two countries that account for almost half of sub-Saharan Africa’s gross domestic product, is the biggest economy on ...

Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry, Enugu, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, on Tuesday, said he spent an average of $2m monthly on charity. The Catholic priest disclosed this while presenting N18.8m bank draft to the management of the Annunciation Specialist Hospital, ...