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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 ...

The Federal Government has slashed its  visa application charges for citizens of the United States from $180 to $160. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the old amount comprised $160 as visa fee and $20 as “processing and ...

A French surfing champion has tragically died at the age of 24 – just months after leaving Europe for a new life in Australia. The French Surfing Federation announced, with the permission of her family, the death of Poeti Norac, ...

Here are photos of the woman who was stabbed to death by her 23-year-old son in Ejigbo, Lagos. Mrs Toyin Okhide and her husband Barr. Clement Okhide, 60, were stabbed to death at their home. Mrs Toyin’s friends took to ...

  The Federal Government of Nigeria has said that it will cost the nation N620milion special intervention fund to monitor, detect and contain the deadly Coronavirus. This was made known by the Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, who appeared before ...

  A Nigerian man has exposed a police officer who was telling his colleagues to allow him to collect bribe from the man. According to the man identified as Damilare, he was arrested by the officer for doing nothing, and ...

  Some policemen were reportedly disgraced on Thursday after they seized a power bike belonging to a man while on his way to work. According to the man identified as Nmutaka Chikwendu, he was accosted by the officers after they ...