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A gigantic ‘skeleton’ was found washed up on a Scottish beach during Storm Ciara. And locals near Aberdeen have speculated that it could be the remains of the mythical Loch Ness Monster – despite the notorious body of water being ...

A woman’s engagement ring was lost and found … in her intestine, according to the woman’s viral Facebook post. Jenna Evans of San Diego wrote on Facebook that she swallowed the ring in her sleep. She said she had a ...

Scientists have identified an enigmatic virus whose genome seems to be almost entirely new to science, populated by unfamiliar genes that have never before been documented in viral research. The so-called Yaravirus, named after Yara – or Iara, a water-queen ...

  President of the Eastwood Anaba Ministries (EAM) headquartered at Bolgatanga, Pastor Eastwood has passed an interesting comments about girlfriends and it is super amazing. During a sermon, the highly respected Man of God went against all Counselors who preach ...

Some soldiers at the war front in the north-east have expressed disappointment over the release of 1,400 ”repentant” Boko Haram suspects. Babakura Jato, commissioner of information in Borno state, told The Punch that 1,400 had been released in three tranches ...

Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, on Wednesday in Kano confirmed that two suspected cases of Coronavirus have so far tested negative in the country. Ehanire disclosed this while declaring the two- day Kano State Primary Health Summit open at ...

  Two explosions have hit postal offices in the Netherlands after suspected letter bombs were delivered. Blasts went off in two separate mail depots, one in Amsterdam city centre and another in the city of Kerkrade, 120 miles to the ...

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday supported the calls by Nigerians in the Diaspora to vote in future elections. But he said such a decision should pass through a legislative process. The President spoke at a meeting with the Nigerian Community in ...

The Ekiti State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has threatened to petition the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), if former governor Ayodele Fayose fails to give a satisfactory explanation about the N400m earmarked for Akure-Ado-Ekiti road. The ...

Nigeria and Ethiopia have signed a visa waiver agreement for diplomatic and official passport holders, and a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Cooperation in the field of Defence. President Muhammadu Buhari and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed witnessed the signing of ...

The Minister of humanitarian affairs, Sadiya Farouq, has finally spoken on her alleged marriage to President Buhari. Recall last year, news went round that the President was about to take a second wife and she is Sadiya Farouq. In an ...

Around 300 employees have been evacuated from Singapore’s biggest bank, DBS, after one person fell ill with the new coronavirus. All 300 had been working on the same floor, the 43rd, and were sent home on Wednesday. “As a precautionary ...

  Hearing will continue today at the Federal High Court in Abuja in the trial against #RevolutionNow Convener Omoyele Sowore. On December 6, 2019, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu adjourned till February 11, 12 and 13, 2020, for definite hearing in the ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has renamed the new coronavirus as Covid-19. WHO announced the new name in its tweeter handle at @WHO that “we now have a name for 2019nCov disease. “The new name is COVID-19.The CO stands for ...

The Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Bishop Matthew Kukah,  on Tuesday hit President Mohammed Buhari hard. The cleric assessed the Buhari regime and concluded the President had not only relegated the national interest to the background, but he had also ...

  The Benue Government has continued to keep mute over what has been described as a “strange disease,” which has reportedly killed more than 10 persons between January 30 and now, the Punch reports. The President-elect of the Igede National ...

  A 35-year-old headmaster at Alhazawa Primary School, Danja, in the Danja Local Government Area of Katsina State, Kabiru Husaini, has been remanded in a correctional centre for the alleged rape of a minor in his school. Husaini, who resided ...

The family of Clement and Toyin Okhide, who were killed in the Ejigbo area of Lagos State by their son Michael, has begged the media to mind their business as it mourns the dead. The Okhides were killed by their ...

Scores of medical doctors and health workers, including pharmacists and nurses on Tuesday embarked on a peaceful protest in Owerri, the Imo State to demand 100 percent restoration of their salary as was promised by Governor Hope Uzodinma. The protesters, ...

  Three security guards were Tuesday arraigned before a Lagos Magistrates’ Court, Igbosere for allegedly stealing N8, 460,000, from their employer, one Kola Ayeye. The defendants are Justine Abatore 52, Michael Chima 21, and Mustapha Ibrahim, 38. They are facing ...

Unidentified hoodlums have bombed a major trunkline belonging to the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) in Bayelsa State. It was gathered that the pipeline linking the Tebidaba flow station at Olugbobiri, Southern Ijaw Local Area, was attacked on Monday night. ...

A Lagos woman on Tuesday stunned an Ikeja S.e.xual Offences and Domestic Violence Court that her three daughters, aged 12, nine and seven were serially defiled by a muslim cleric, the family housed free between seven and eight years The ...

The Jigawa State Shari’a Enforcement Command (Hisbah), says it has arrested 34 suspected commercial se.x workers and confiscated 147 bottles of beer in Kazaure Local Government area of the state. The Hisbah Commander in the state, Malam Ibrahim Dahiru, made ...

  A heartbreakign video currently going viral on social media has shown the moment a Nigerian man in South Africa killed another man reported to be his relative.   In the video, the two men appeared to have been involved ...

  A Nigerian man and 5 others have reportedly been taken into police custody for duping about 200 sick patients in need of kidneys   The men pretended to be World Health Organisation, W.H.O, certified buyers and sellers of kidneys based in ...