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    A “vulnerable” man was starved to death by a carer who wanted to inherit part of his £3.5milestate, a court has heard. James Anthony Sootheran, 59, was found dead in his bedroom at High Havens Farm in South ...

  The Kaduna State Government advised parents to send their children to school or face prosecution in accordance with extant laws. Mrs. Phoebe Yayi, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education advised Kaduna in an interview with the News Agency of ...

As deaths from coronavirus soared to 26 on Friday, Chinese authorities rapidly expanded to 13 cities and 41 million people a mammoth quarantine effort aimed at containing the deadly contagion as nervous residents were checked for fevers. While the World ...

Three US firefighters who died when their air tanker crashed while battling blazes in Australia have been identified. Captain Ian McBeth, 45, first officer Paul Clyde Hudson, 43, and flight engineer Rick A DeMorgan Jr, 44, were killed in New ...

Juventus coach Maurizio Sarri complimented Cristiano Ronaldo’s mother as the Portuguese star extended his scoring streak in a 3-1 win over AS Roma to advance to the Italian Cup semi-finals yesterday morning (Singapore time). The Portuguese star picked up a ...

At least six Malian soldiers were killed and several wounded in an overnight attack in central Mali, the army said on Thursday. The troops came under fire from “unidentified armed men” in Dioungani, an area in the country’s volatile Mopti ...

Police in Niger said one Suleiman Gimba of Maratu village in Nasko Local Government Area of the state, had allegedly killed his wife, Aishatu Suleiman, after a minor misunderstanding. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Alhaji Adamu Usman, disclosed ...

The Oyo State Police Command said on Friday, that the two Police escorts attached to a popular Yoruba herbal manufacturer, Alhaji Fatai Yusuff, killed by some unknown gunmen are being questioned at the homicide section of State Criminal Investigation Department, ...

US actress Annabella Sciorra has testified in Harvey Weinstein’s trial that the film producer pinioned and r.a.p.e.d her at her home 25 years ago. Ms Sciorra, best known for her role in The Sopranos, said Mr Weinstein forced himself into ...

US senators have been accused of falling asleep, playing games and breaking other rules during President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. Jim Risch and Jim Inhofe are among members who have apparently nodded off during the lengthy hearings. Crossword puzzles, fidget ...

Footballer Ahmed Musa took to his instagram page to remember his late mum on the 1 year anniversary of her death.  Mrs Sara Moses passed on in 2019, at the age of 66. Sharing photos from her funeral , he ...

The Church of England has today declared civil partnerships between men and women are not as good as marriage. A statement issued by the House of Bishops today, led by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, addressed ...

The Indigenous People of Biafra has flayed  Facebook Nigeria for allegedly shutting down the  page of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu. The group’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, in a statement, said  the action was taken by Facebook Nigeria to ...

  The Plateau Commissioner of Health, Dr. Nimkong Ndam, has confirmed five cases of Lassa fever in the state. Ndam told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Jos that the patients of the ailment had been admitted in two ...

China is embarking on an ambitious project to build within six days a new 1,000-bed hospital to treat victims of a new coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Chinese state media have said they are mobilising machinery to get ...

A South African Pastor has slumped and died while preaching. Reverend Bassie Jackals died while giving a vigorous sermon on Sunday at the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Kuruman, Northern Cape. In the trending video, Reverend Bassie energetically gave his ...

A 30-year-old man has been shot dead at Papaase in the Asante Mampong, Ashanti Region of Ghana. The man was killed over sharing of dog meat. The deceased identified as Attah Azimma was shot dead in his head following a ...

Thousands of people have convened in the capital city of Baghdad to deplore the U.S. military presence in the country. According to Iraq’s local media, people from “all of the Iraqi provinces” have gathered in the ongoing rally to condemn ...

In Malawi, 14 million people rely mainly on agriculture as a means of subsistence. In 2017, drought in the country affected more than half the population. Since 2016, Malawi has stood at the forefront of utilizing unmanned aircraft systems — ...

  Angola’s billionaire former first daughter Isabel dos Santos has been charged with money laundering and mismanagement during her stewardship of state-owned oil firm Sonangol. Documents leaked this week alleged the daughter of ex-president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, plundered state ...

A 26-year-old Singaporean man was charged in Australia with importing contraband after customs officials discovered a “child-like sex doll” on his way from China. The unnamed man was arrested Thursday in Perth, Western Australia, after a parcel scan at a ...

  A man simply identified as Ifeanyi has died after leaving his own house to settle a fight. According to an eyewitness, the incident happened yesterday at a beer parlour in Alausa, Lagos state. A man at the beer parlour ...

The Enugu state Police Command has paraded two suspected child traffickers who specialised in trafficking children from Plateau to Rivers state. The suspects were arrested by men of the Army’s 82 division while transporting eleven children from Barki-Ladi to a ...

    Singapore has been ranked the fourth least corrupt country in the Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2019. The CPI, which started in 1995, ranks the countries by its perceived levels of public sector corruption. Countries are ...

A businesswoman simply identified as Mama Ada has been arrested by the police in Lagos. She way arrested yesterday after the police force were notified about her brutality on her house help. Mama Ada, who resides at No 23 Simarch ...