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A potential vaccine against the killer coronavirus could be tested on animals as soon as next week in a breakthrough in the global fight against the outbreak. Hundreds of experts are set to meet in Geneva next week to set ...

The vice-chairman of Kolokuma/Opokuma local government area of Bayelsa State, Brian Wotari, has appointed an 118-year-old woman, Omonigbalebo Dani Orogono, as his “special adviser on elder matters.” Orogono’s appointment was contained in a letter dated February 4, 2020, and signed ...

It’s a new decade and a new Selena Gomez. The singer and actress, 27, was featured prominently in a new profile from Dazed‘s spring issue, published digitally on Feb. 5, where she addressed thoughtful questions from the likes of Elle ...

An overhead tank on Wednesday crushed two schoolchildren to death in Anambra State. Two other pupils, it was gathered, sustained injuries. It was gathered that the tank fell inside their classroom at the Royal Kings Foundation Nursery and Primary Schools, ...

A man, Micheal Okhide, has absconded after allegedly stabbing his father, Clement, and mother, Toyin, to death in their house located on No 6, Akeem Gbadamosi Street, in the Ejigbo area of Lagos State. Punch Metro gathered that Michael and ...

An individual may no longer be able to own more than three phone lines going by a directive handed down to the Nigerian Communications Commission by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isah Pantami. The directive was based ...

Suspected Fulani herdsmen have reportedly hacked three policemen to death along the Ugbolu -Illah Road, in the Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State. It was gathered that the incident occurred on Tuesday at the police checkpoint along the ...

Tanzania’s Boniface Mwamposa has been released on bail after he was arrested over a stampede that killed 20 people on Sunday during an outdoor religious service he was leading in the northern town of Moshi. Mr Mwamposa — who refers ...

The US Senate prepared on Wednesday to acquit Donald Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, ending the impeachment process and further clearing the skies over the White House as the president angles for re-election. The ...

Olayemisi Ifelowo Ogunbi’s husband has debunked the claim that he beat his heavily pregnant wife to death, leaving behind three kids. Olayemisi Ifelowo Ogunbi who died on January 28, 2020 was said to have been heavily pregnant when her husband ...

  Edo State Government on Wednesday made good its threat when it demolished Latifa Hotel belonging to Mr. Tony Adun, a former aide of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. The government of Godwin ...

  A Chinese baby has been diagnosed with coronavirus just 30 hours after a woman who had tested positive for the deadly disease gave birth in the epicenter city of Wuhan, according to state media. Doctors at the Wuhan Children’s ...

A woman has spent £50,000 on plastic surgery to turn her face into a Snapchat filter – and says her goal is to get rid of all her original features. Tessa Texas, 29, grew up feeling insecure and spent her ...

The authorities of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, have suspended another lecturer, Mr Monday Omo-Etan, over alleged sexual molestation of a 19-year-old female student of the university’s Centre for Distance Learning. Public Relations Officer of the University, Abiodun Olarewaju, said ...

    A plane skidded off the runway and burst into flames at an Istanbul airport on Wednesday afternoon. The internal flight from Izmir to Istanbul was touching down at Sabiha Gokcen airport in Turkey’s capital when the plane overshot ...

A young school pupil has been killed after being hit by a stray bullet during a clash by police and commercial motorcycle riders today at Iyana-Ipaja. Policemen trying to disperse the protest, which has since been hijacked by hoodlums, fired ...

A lady has been arrested for allegedly beating her step daughter to death in Port Harcourt, Rivers state. According to Facebook user, Victoria Igbokwe who shared the very sad photos and reported the news, the incident happened at Bori camp. ...

Princess Beatrice is said to be ‘furious’ at postponing her wedding again over ongoing issues with Prince Andrew. The Queen is said to have twice pushed back a date for Beatrice to marry property developer fiance Edo Mapelli Mozzi. According ...

Nathaniel Samuel, the suspect who was arrested for being in possession of an improvised explosive device (IED) at a Living Faith Church a.k.a Winners Chapel in Sabon Tasha area of Chikun local government area in Kaduna State, has claimed he ...

A fake doctor tried to kill his family fearing his lies would be rumbled after his wife suggested they go on holiday – which he had no money to pay for. Failed medical student Satya Thakor had pretended to be ...

Operatives of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons have arrested two women for selling and buying a day-old baby belonging to a mentally-ill woman in Lagos. This was disclosed by the Lagos Commander of NAPTIP, Daniel ...

A woman managed to scare away a potential r3pist by coughing and telling him she had just returned from Wuhan. Police said the suspect, a man named Xiao, 25, broke into her bedroom last Friday in the city of Jingshan, ...

  Six months after he was arrested in Kano, Hamisu Bala, suspected Taraba kidnap kingpin has been charged with 16 counts of terrorism, murder and kidnapping. From the court filings, the bedrock of the police case is the kidnapping in ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday declared that 90 per cent of Boko Haram’s victims in the past years were Muslims. “It is the reality that some 90 per cent of all Boko Haram’s victims have been Muslims. They include a ...

An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, on Tuesday, remanded a 30-year-old bus conductor, Wale Hassan, in a correctional facility for allegedly robbing the occupants of an apartment in Ikorodu, Lagos and r3ping a 59-year-old woman. The News Agency ...