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Human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), said on Monday that he knew a former governor in one of the South-West states who had a killer squad. Falana, who spoke at the University of Ibadan, said the former governor’s killer ...

China has opened its first coronavirus hospital after around 500 workers and volunteers spent just 48 hours converting an empty building. The medical building had been set to open in May, but following the deadly outbreak, it was all hands ...

Jimi Agbaje, the People’s Democratic Party’s 2015 and 2019 gubernatorial election candidate for Lagos state has reacted to the ban of Okada (motorcycles) and Keke napep (tricycles) on highways, bridges, and expressways as directed by Lagos State government. Agbaje opined ...

  Iran said on Tuesday that its top court had confirmed a death sentence for an Iranian man accused of spying for US intelligence. Amir Rahimpour was found guilty of passing along information about Iran’s nuclear program to the CIA. ...

An intrepid couple have explored 28 countries in their campervan with the purrfect travelling companion… their CAT. Touring tabby Ginjey Bear and owners Bee Roper and Theo Gove-Humphries went on a six-year adventure across Europe. The puss spent six months ...

A drug dealer accidentally texted his price list to a police officer at a music festival. Martynas Benosenko was caught at Leeds Festival with more than £3,000 worth of cocaine and MDMA. The 22-year-old also had business cards with ‘Flavour ...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says there is an ongoing effort to improve the security situation in the country including plans to recruit more troops and officers to beef up the personnel of security agencies. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a ...

  The Tanzanian government has arrested Pastor Boniface Mwamposa after twenty people were killed and a dozen others injured in a stampede during a church meeting in the northern Tanzanian city of Moshi. He was arrested in Dar es Salaam, ...

There is no cure for the deadly Wuhan coronavirus, but several big biotech companies are hoping they can treat the symptoms with existing antiviral medications. Gilead Sciences, a biopharmaceutical firm with an experimental drug called remdesivir that is used to ...

Oyo State government, on Monday, said it would strictly control the influx of commercial motorcycles into the state and their operations. This was contained in a statement issued in Ibadan by the state Ministry of Information, quoting Mr Akin Fagbemi, ...

  Turkish citizens flocked to social media late Monday leading to the hashtag “#WeStandWithObi” trending across Twitter in support of Trabzonspor’s Nigerian midfielder John Obi Mikel against racial slurs the latter incurred after Sunday’s match with arch-rival Fenerbahçe. The club ...

China’s top leadership has admitted “shortcomings and deficiencies” in the country’s response to the deadly coronavirus outbreak. The rare admission came from the Politburo Standing Committee, which called for an improvement in China’s emergency management system. It also ordered a ...

A pregnant young woman in her twenties has reportedly ran mad in Imo state. According to an eye witness, the pregnant lady was dropped off around 9am by boys suspected to be yahoo boys who are also into rituals. Sympathisers ...

Former presidents of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, and Olusegun Obasanjo met at the ongoing World Summit 2020 focused on ways to ensuring peace around the world. And ofcus, Mama Peace was there. What will she be doing at home?

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC)’s president Professor Ishaq Akintola has reacted to the arrest of a suspected suicide bomber, Nathaniel Samuel, an alleged Christian, after a failed attempt on Bishop David Oyedepo’s church in Kaduna state on Sunday. According to ...

  Facebook’s number two executive Sheryl Sandberg has said she is engaged to marry, nearly five years after being widowed. In a post on her page at the leading online social network, Sandberg proclaimed herself engaged to marketing executive Tom ...

A South African court has issued an arrest warrant for former President Jacob Zuma after he did not appear at a pre-trial hearing in a corruption case on grounds of needing medical treatment. The judge, however, stayed the warrant until ...

Two deputy editors of ThisDay newspaper have been suspended indefinitely over the false story: “Drama as US Embassy Denies Bishop Oyedepo Visa,” published last week Friday. ThisDay management announced the suspension of Mr. Yemi Ajayi and Mr. Olawale Olaleye in ...

The Igbo apex socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has warned the Nigerian Army not to do anything that could cause panic and breach of the peace in Afara-Ukwu and Umuahia, the home town of the leader of the Indigenous People of ...

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.’