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A federal judge has delayed R. Kelly’s racketeering, s3xual abuse and bribery trial in Brooklyn, New York to July 7, so it would not conflict with the singer’s upcoming trial in a separate Chicago case. U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly ...

  The world is running out of masks and other protective equipment against the novel coronavirus, the World Health Organization chief warned today. “The world is facing a chronic shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE),” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the ...

A man in Kathonzweni, Makueni County, Kenya has been disarmed after he deflated a Catholic priest’s car tyres alleging that he caught the clergyman red-handed with his wife. According to the police report, Thomas Kimeu Mulwa, a licensed firearm holder ...

Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Special Offence court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos has sentenced one Abdulrauf Alade Owolabi to one year imprisonment, with an option of N250,000 for being in possession of false documents and obtaining money by false pretence ...

Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has revealed how the late former President of Kenya, Arap Moi, educated him on the Sudan crisis. Obasanjo acknowledged the contributions of the late Africanist, who passed on February 4, towards the search for international peace, ...

The Adamawa State Police Command says it has arrested 26 suspected kidnappers who specialized in terrorizing communities in the state. The spokesman of the command, DSP Sulaiman Nguroje, made disclosure while parading the suspects on Friday in Yola. Nguroje disclosed ...

A lady identified as Chinwendu Chita has been arraigned before Ejigbo Magistrates Court on charges of alleged assault of her husband, Okechukwu Chita and a Police woman, at their residence in Alhaji Agbeke Street, Ago Palace in Okota area of ...

  The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire has announced that the Lassa Fever epidemic has been confirmed in 27 states in Nigeria. The Minister of Health speaking at the opening ceremony of a two-day seminar for 36 State Health ...

Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, on Monday sought help for the 50,000 children orphaned by Boko Haram insurgency. He said unless they are given proper care that dignifies their persons in the society, the children might grow ...

Ogun State Government has revoked the appointments of 75 minor chiefs elevated to Coronet Obas by Governor Ibikunle Amosun days to expiration of his administration. The revocation is sequel to the report of Oba Kehinde Olugbenle-led Chieftaincy Review Committee, which ...

  The two children of kaduna-based medical doctor, Philip Ataga, have been released by their abductors two weeks after they were abducted alongside their deceased mother from their home in Juji, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna metropolis on January ...

Members of the House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts were stunned yesterday when the University of Ibadan (UI) Bursar Michael Alatise said the university could not submit its audited accounts to the Auditor-General of the Federation as the auditor ...

Secretary General of Nigerian Red Cross, Mr Abubakar Kende, has said the organisation had placed on alert nearly one million of its volunteers across the country, following the global outbreak of Coronavirus. Kende, who addressed reporters in Abuja, urged Nigerians ...

Two students of the Ebonyi State University (EBSU), Abakaliki, who underwent Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), have been hospitalised at the National Obstetric Fistula Centre (NOFIC), Abakaliki. NOFIC’s Director Dr. Emma Abah addressed pupils of Urban Model Comprehensive Girls Secondary School, ...

This adorable puppy is a real-life cyclops after being born with a genetic mutation that left him with just one eye in the middle of his forehead. The mutant mutt – nicknamed Kevin after the Minions cartoon character – was ...

Donald Trump may still be US President, but First Lady Melania Trump, still won’t meet his lips! Atleast, that’s how she felt. It was one day after the POTUS had been acquitted of his impeachment articles on Feb. 5, and ...

US President Donald Trump has taken a victory lap one day after his impeachment acquittal, in a tirade against his political enemies. “I’ve done things wrong in my life, I will admit… but this is what the end result is,” ...

A Scottish manual worker killed his partner before r.a.p.i.n.g and killing her teenage daughter in a ‘barbaric’ double murder-suicide, an inquest in Northern Ireland has heard. The bodies of the mother and daughter were discovered in an apartment in Newry ...

The White House announced on Thursday, that US counterterrorism operation in Yemen had killed Qassim al-Rimi, the head of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the first official confirmation since a drone attack on 25 January. “At the direction of ...

Fourteen people were injured in central Jerusalem on Thursday, including one critically, in a possible car-ramming at a popular nightspot, emergency responders and the military said. Israel’s Magen David emergency medical service said it had “treated and evacuated” 14 people ...

  At least two Zimbabwe miners were killed and 20 others trapped underground after a shaft collapsed in a gold mine in the centre of the country on Thursday. The incident occurred overnight at the Globe and Phoenix mine in ...

Bashir Ahmad, Personal Assistant on New Media to President Muhammadu Buhari and Senator Shehu Sani on Thursday tangled over the comment made by the president which says 90 percent of Boko Haram’s victims are Muslims. Senator Shehu Sani said the ...

A fox has caused chaos after wandering into Parliament and climbing to the third floor of an office building. Police tried to capture the animal after staff spotted it on a staircase in Portcullis House, but the crafty animal managed ...

President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja today to attend the 33rd Ordinary Session of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The President will join leaders from the 55-member countries of the African ...

A Chinese doctor who tried to issue the first warnings about the deadly coronavirus outbreak has died, the hospital treating him has said. Li Wenliang contracted the virus while working at Wuhan Central Hospital. He had sent out a warning ...