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A mild drama, reportedly played out on Thursday at the Lagos office of the Embassy of the United States after Bishop David Oyedepo of Winners’ Chapel International, was denied visa. THISDAY newspaper gathered that the embassy did not give any ...

Operatives of Operation Puff Adder of the Bayelsa State Police Command have foiled a kidnap attempt at Imiringi community in Ogbia Local Government Area. According to reports, the operatives were engaged in a heavy shootout with the kidnappers to rescue ...

First Lady of Nigeria, Aisha Buhari, Patience Jonathan, Turai Yaradua and other former First ladies attended the 10th anniversary of Maryam Babangida’s demise yesterday in Abuja. The former first lady Maryam Babangida died 10 years ago in Los Angeles after a ...

Up to 24 people were killed on Thursday in a fresh attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s east attributed to the Allied Democratic Forces militia, taking the number of civilians killed this week to over 60, officials and a ...

An Osun State High court sitting in Ikirun has sentenced Nuhu Jimoh, Ndubisi David and Aderibigbe Oluwasenu to death by hanging. The trio was arrested in connection with the armed robbery attack on First Bank, Union Bank, and Skye Bank, ...

A man accused of murdering his missing wife has died in hospital following an alleged suicide attempt, his lawyer has said. Fotis Dulos’ lawyer Norm Pattis said his client died just after 5.30pm at Jacobi Medical Center on Thursday in ...

The cause of death of NBA legend Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna has been confirmed by the LA County coroner’s office. LA Lakers icon Bryant, 41, and his 13-year-old daughter tragically died when the helicopter they were travelling in ...

Chinese tycoons have put their hands in their pockets to help scientists develop a vaccine for coronavirus. The latest is China’s richest man, Jack Ma, who has donated 100 million yuan (£11 million) through his foundation. Some of the money ...

E. Jean Carroll, a New York-based writer who last summer accused President Trump of r3ping her in the 1990s, requested Thursday that he submit a DNA sample to determine whether his genetic material is on the black coat dress she ...

A viral news that claimed that an Abuja based pastor, J.S. Yusuf has been anointing the bras and pants of spinsters with his image, has been debunked as ‘fake news’. The fake report with photoshopped bras and pants, emblazoned with ...

Justice Oladiran Akintola of the Oyo State High Court on Thursday ordered that Semiu Oluwole Ololade and Adegboyega Adefuye be remanded in Agodi correctional custody till February 4 when the bail applications filed on their behalf in a criminal suit ...

A Trade at Ereko Plaza, Ereko Market on Lagos Island, Lagos, Chinedu Onuegbu, 28, has been arraigned before a Lagos Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stabbing his colleague, Okechukwu Nnaji with jack Knife in his left arm and back. He was ...

A married woman who got N30,000 for acting a pornographic video which went viral in Jos, Plateau state, has committed suicide. According to NAN, the video which was uploaded on the internet weeks ago showed some young girls and married ...

The World Health Organisation has declared Coronavirus epidemic as an international Public Health Emergency. The decision Thursday came as the number of people diagnosed with the 2019-nCoV virus had skyrocketed to more than 8,200, surpassing the SARS case toll. There ...

  The University of Calabar has suspended three undergraduates for sending threat messages to one of their lecturers and for the alleged possession hard drugs suspected to be Indian hemp. While Uzoagba Chinaemerem Goodluck, a 200-level of the Department of ...

The police in Katsina State have arrested a middle-aged man, identified simply as Samaila, for allegedly chaining and torturing his two wives, Fatima Salisu and Hadiza Musa, in his home for 10 months. Fatima hails from the Markemagaji Gari village, ...

A billionaire has scrapped his public search for a girlfriend to fly to space with him after more than 27,000 women came forward. Yusaku Maezawa had appealed for a partner to join him for a trip to the moon as ...

A mum who set up an Instagram account for her adorable toddler accidentally stole the limelight after fans spotted her incredible likeness to Meghan Markle. Mother-of-two Akeisha Land, 39, from Missouri, says she always gets compared to the Duchess both ...

India reported its first case of the new coronavirus on Thursday, saying a woman in the southern state of Kerala had tested positive in an outbreak that originated in China, killing 170 people, and spread abroad. The patient was an ...

African states, including the continent’s biggest economy Nigeria, on Wednesday said they had begun to introduce measures aimed at stopping the spread of the new coronavirus. No verified case of coronavirus has been reported to date in sub-Saharan Africa, but ...

Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday received former President, Goodluck Jonathan at the State House, Abuja. Two more photos below….  

A brave bride-to-be lost her battle with cancer just hours before she was to have the wedding of her dreams. When Hazel Jack, from Carnwath, Lanarkshire, was told she was living on borrowed time her last wish was to marry ...

An Egyptian toyboy planning to wed his 80-year-old girlfriend has broken his silence on their relationship and gushed: “love makes you blind”. Mohamed Ahmed Irbriham has spoken publicly for the first time after his unlikely romance with British pensioner Iris ...

  A teacher at a US elementary school has been suspended after casting two of her pupils of colour as slaves in a school play. They were to be whipped by other children as part of the play featuring fifth ...

Yesterday part of popular Lagos market, Balogun market caught fire. In total, 9 buildings were razed as and some collapsed in the process. Below are photos of the aftermath of the fire.