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Oyo State Government has issued a warning to hoodlums attacking private and public property in the name of the just-suspended #EndSARS protests, urging them to steer clear of the state.   Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism Dr. Wasiu Olatunbosun, ...

There was no single confirmed case of covid-19 in Lagos in the last 24 hours, according to the latest data released last night by the NCDC.   On Saturday, Lagos, which has 20,807 confirmed cases so far, logged 18 cases, ...

The police on Sunday ordered their officers and men to go after those who were looting private and government establishments under the guise of #EndSARS protests.   Police commands in Akwa Ibom, Osun, Plateau, Kano and Anambra states said they ...

At least, 25 inmates out of the 1,900 that escaped from Oko and Sapele Road Correctional Centres in Benin City, Edo State last Monday have voluntarily surrendered themselves to the authorities.   An official of the Sapele Road Correctional Centre ...

  Female passengers flying from Qatar were subjected to invasive searches after a premature baby was found abandoned in an airport bathroom, in procedures the Australian government on Monday described as “grossly disturbing” and “offensive”.   A number of women ...

President Muhammadu Buhari’s daughter, Zahra Buhari-Indimi has reshared an Instagram post that suggested that the discovery of Covid-19 palliatives locked away in warehouses nationwide is proof that the President is not the country’s problem.   “Now that people confirmed Buhari ...

Brazil icon Ronaldinho confirmed on Sunday that he has tested positive for coronavirus. Ronaldinho posted a video to his Instagram story revealing his diagnosis. The former Barcelona superstar revealed he is asymptomatic and is self-isolating in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, after ...

Nigeria’s 36 governors have denied hoarding the food items donated by the organised private sector to ease the economic hardship imposed on the poor by the COVID-19 lockdown.   A group of Nigerian businesspersons and corporate organizations, which calls itself ...

Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has reviewed the curfew on the people of Ilorin, the state capital from 24 hours to 12 hours.   A statement by Rafiu Ajakaye, Chief Press Secretary to the governor, late last night said the ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has given a marching order to members of his cabinet to relocate to their home states for the purpose of dousing the tension created by the #EndSARS protests and the destruction of property by hoodlums hiding under ...

Federal Government is reportedly considering supplying electricity to the Republic of Chad following a recent request by the neighbouring country, it has emerged. Government-owned Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) disclosed on Sunday that a meeting was held last week to ...

  As looting continues nationwide, especially the breaking of warehouses storing Covid-19 palliatives, Osun State Governor, Mr Adegboyega Oyetola on Sunday issued 72-hour period of amnesty for looters to return stolen property or face full wrath of the law.   ...

A British music teacher allegedly killed his French partner before taking his own life on a Spanish motorway after posting about his struggles during lockdown.   Caspar Veres died after driving nearly two miles on the wrong side of the ...

Femi Fani-Kayode has attacked the National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu for saying that he did not travel out and that he is ‘still the Asiwaju of Lagos and Jagaban.’   A reporter had asked ...

The Special Military Task Force, Operation Safe Haven (OPSH),maintaining peace in Plateau has arrested 123 suspects for vandalising and looting items from private businesses and government properties in Jos.   The Commander of the task force, Maj.-Gen. Chukwuemeka Okonkwo, presented ...

Pope Francis today called for urgent prayer for Nigeria to avert every form of violence.   Nigeria has been engulfed by lots of violence, looting, destruction of properties and killing innocent people in the aftermath of #EndSARS protest. But Pope ...

Senator Teslim Folarin representing Oyo Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, has counted what he lost after angry youths invaded and looted his home at the weekend.   The lawmaker revealed in a statement on Saturday that over 1,100 ...

  A Nigerian actor and producer, Emeka Amakeze, who has been on our screens for quite some time, took to his Twitter account to reveal his thoughts as regards to politicians, civil servants and corruption in Nigeria.   He stated ...

The Kwara State Government has announced the state government plans to support business owners who had their businesses vandalised or looted by hoodlums following the violence that erupted from the aftermath of the #EndSARS protests.   Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman ...

Lee Kun-Hee, Samsung’s Electronics chairman is dead. He died on sunday, aged 85.   The company announced his demise in a statement. It said Lee passed away with his family, including Vice Chairman, Jay Y. Lee, by his side. “Chairman ...

  Barely 24 hours after the bloody EndSARS protests embarked upon by angry youths in the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra State, armed robbers have started terrorizing residents of the commercial city even in broad daylight.   Between the later ...

Florence Ita-Giwa who represented Cross River South Senatorial District in the Senate, has gone on her kneels appealing to Nigerians particularly Cross River indegenes to stop the destruction of properties in the State.   On Saturday, 24th of October, angry ...

13 years after taking part in the Gulder Ultimate Search, and winning the game, Dominic Mudabai has just announced he is a proud father to a baby boy who just joined the world.   While announcing the good news to ...

Martin Luther King III, the son of late Martin Luther King Jr, has appealed to the Federal Government of Nigeria led by President Buhari to guarantee the freedoms of peaceful protesters in Nigeria as the #EndSARS protests draw more International ...

  Former governor of Imo state and Senator representing Imo West in the National Assembly, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has said the #EndSARS movement by the Nigerian youths was a reaction to years of bad leadership in the country. Okorocha, who ...