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Some Nigerians currently in Wuhan, the Chinese city where coronavirus broke out two weeks ago, are appealing to the President Muhammadu Buhari administration to evacuate them, a report by TheCable claims. As of Monday morning, the virus had killed 362 ...

Bishop David Oyedepo, founder and presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, has said the botched bombing of a branch of his church in Kaduna, was proof of God’s omnipresence and Jesus miracle. He spoke yesterday at the Church’s ...

Former Kenyan president Daniel arap Moi, who ruled the country with an iron fist between 1978 and 2002, has died aged 95, President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced. Moi’s 24-year rule saw his country become a one-party state where critical voices ...

A day after a branch of INEC office in Anambra state was gutted by fire — reports say fire set to a bush near by extended to the building, suspected political thugs have now set ablaze the office of the ...

For allegedly damaging the perimeter of a public school fence, two teenagers, Samson Adedeji, 19, and Nurudeen Lawal, 19, were on Monday arraigned before a Magistrate court sitting in Osogbo. The charge sheet disclosed that the duo willfully and unlawfully ...

Adewale Adeleke shared the beautiful wedding photo of himself posing with his wife. Captioning the photo, he wrote; ‘Mr. & Mrs. Adeleke.’  

The Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has written to the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to seek the “immediate” arrest and prosecution of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole. The Deputy Governor, Philip Shuaibu, who broke ...

A throwback video of the Lagos state governor, Sanwo-Olu saying he would regulate okada riders has surfaced online. Nigerians went in search of the video to counter the ongoing okada ban in Lagos, which a lot of people have frowned ...

Malawi’s constitutional court on Monday has ordered a new presidential poll after annulling the results of a vote that re-elected President Peter Mutharika last May, citing widespread irregularities including the use of correction fluid on ballot papers. Mutharika, who will ...

Two people were killed and a third was wounded Monday in a shooting at a residence hall at Texas A&M University-Commerce, according to reports. Campus police said the shooting occurred before noon at the Pride Rock Residence Hall, a three-story ...

  A man who banned his brother from attending his wedding is standing firm on the decision after he faced a backlash from his angry family. The 28 year old is set to marry his partner later this month, and ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday arraigned the member representing Bomadi/Patani Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Nicholas Mutu, for alleged abuse of office and fraud involving about N320m. Mutu, a former Chairman of the House of ...

A fuel tanker has fallen at the toll gate inward Berger, spilling its content. The Lagos State Traffic Management Agency, who tweeted this, said traffic officials were already at the scene of the incident. Two more photos below…    

Nasarawa state command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested a quack medical practitioner for allegedly killing a three-year-old girl through illegal blood transfusion. Mohammed Mahmoud-Fari, state commandant of NSCDC paraded the 27 year-old suspect, Muddansir ...

  A man who was wrongfully convicted in a 1985 New York City sexual assault case has been cleared of all charges against him Tuesday. The Supreme Court of the State of New York granted a joint motion to vacate ...

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, has made a strong case for state police. In the Maiden Memorial Public Lecture in memory of Late Professor Olumuyiwa Awe delivered today at the Trechard Hall, University of Ibadan, ...

Traditional rulers in Imo State have said that they may no longer fold their arms and watch the protests against Governor Hope Uzodinma persist. Speaking to newsmen on behalf of some traditional rulers from Owerri North council area of Imo ...

  Three persons died while 14 others sustained injuries in an accident around Saapade area on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Monday. The spokesman of the Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), Babatunde Akinbiyi, confirmed the incident to journalists in Abeokuta, ...

  The Police from Ijora Badia, Area B Command, on Monday, arrested 24 suspects for blocking major roads in Ijora, Lagos following the recent ban of motorcycle (Okada) and tricycle (Keke) by the State Government. The Lagos Police Public Relations ...

Daredevil kidnappers on Sunday, January 2, 2020, at about 7.30 pm, opened fire on a passenger bus, a Toyota Previa that carries eight passengers at Kwali, en route Lokoja to Abuja. The action of the kidnappers who suddenly jumped into ...

Thirteen children have died and more than 40 others were injured in a stampede that occurred as they left school in western Kenya today. “We have lost 13 children in this stampede and we have others in the hospital with ...

  Lagosians are comedians, lol. So a lot of horses were seen on major roads today in Lagos. No jokes… One of the horses used to convey people from a spot to another has now collapsed. In a viral video, ...

Six Turkish soldiers have been killed and nine wounded in shelling by Syrian government forces in Syria’s north-western Idlib province, Turkey said. It said up to 35 Syrian troops had been killed in retaliatory fire. Syria’s media said there were ...

  The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, on Monday, said the federal government does not have the jurisdiction to intervene in the recent ban of okada and tricycles in some parts of Lagos State. The Lagos state government started to ...

The FCT Department of Public Health has reiterated that there is no confirmed case of Coronavirus in the territory and advised residents to remain calm. According to a statement by Anthony Ogunleye, the Chief Press Secretary to the FCT Minister,  ...