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  Five British nationals including a child have tested positive for the new coronavirus in France, the health minister said today, adding that they had all stayed at the same ski chalet. France has now detected a total of 11 ...

A 25-year-old woman from Kilimani, Nairobi was on Friday, February 7, charged in court with physically assaulting her 42-year-old ex-boyfriend outside the Milimani Law Courts. Mildred Aoko Okello is said to have beaten up Anti-Jussi Ahveninen on January 7, 2020, ...

The residents of the Okesha area of Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, were embroiled in fear today as a bomb went off next door to the governor’s office. The explosion brought down a building around the area and also affected a section ...

Two Russian sisters have been reunited 78 years after they were separated by the turmoil of World War II, thanks to a television show and a police search. In footage of their meeting late last month provided by the interior ...

A coalition of 200 women organisations on Thursday in Abuja took to the streets to protest against the brutalisation of a lawyer and gender activist, Goodness Ibangha, by the police in Enugu State. The women under the aegis of the ...

A baby has narrowly escaped death after a stray bullet was fired by a police office and hit him (slightly) The incident reportedly happened at Mkpogu community of Trans Amadi, Port Harcourt. According to Twitter user @chiukwujioke, the victim of ...

  The Supreme court has affirmed the judgment of the Court of Appeal which reduced the jail term of former Taraba governor, Jolly Nyame, from 14 years to 12 years. The Apex court also removed the N495 million imposed by ...

  One person has been confirmed dead in an attempt to kidnap the Provost of Taraba College of Education Zing, Dr Mike Dio-Jen, at his residence in Jalingo. The incident occurred in the early hours of Friday at the Green ...

The Ondo State Governor, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu, has said the recruitment forms for the Operation Amotekun outfit will be ready next week. The governor, who spoke through his Special Adviser on Security Matter, Alhaji Jimoh Dojumo, said the recruitment on ...

Police have arrested a Man O’war volunteer, Toyeeb Daodu, for allegedly beating his colleague, Ibrahim Aliu, to death in Ope-Ilu, Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State. City Round learnt that the incident happened around 7pm on Thursday following an ...

Property worth millions of naira were burnt beyond recognition as fire razed the staff quarters of the Maryam Babangida Girls Science Secondary School. Property burnt included a private car parked in one of the garages of the quarters, furniture and ...

  In accordance with Shari‘a law, Pakistan court has ruled that men can marry underage girls as long as they have had their first period. After #Italy decided to bear legal fees to defend Huma Younus, 14-year-old #Catholic bride kidnapped ...

Seven suspected internet fraudsters were on Thursday arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Port Harcourt Zonal for bitcoin scam. EFCC spokesman, Tony Orilade, in a statement said the suspects were identified as Kufre Miller Okoh, ...

The police say they have lost two officers involved in a raid on a camp hosting members of the Ansaru terrorist group in Kaduna State. The Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG) in charge of Operations, Abdulmajid Ali, disclosed this on ...

The endangered pangolin may be the link that facilitated the spread of the novel coronavirus across China, Chinese scientists said Friday. Researchers have long suspected that the virus, which has now killed more than 630 people and infected some 31,000, ...

Residents of Pakawa, Pipeline in Nakuru County, Kenya are in shock after a mutilated body of a young woman was found in her house on Wedneday. Ms Agnes Muthoni, who is the caretaker of the plot where the deceased lived, ...

  The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed an appeal by the family of the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, who had prayed for an order unfreezing some bank accounts of the late dictator and other members of the ...

Some residents of Lagos State who are physically challenged today occupied a section of Mobolaji Johnson Avenue, Alausa in Ikeja, the state capital in protest. The protesters who are majorly commercial tricycle riders are protesting over the restriction of motorcycles ...

The United States today offered up to $100 million to China and other impacted countries to combat the fast-spreading coronavirus. “This commitment along with the hundreds of millions generously donated by the American private sector demonstrates strong US leadership in ...

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 ...