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The wife of a policeman based at the Machinery Police Station in Makueni County,Kenya sustained severe burns after reportedly setting herself on fire. Police Constable Joshua Makanga, in his report at the same police station, said that his wife, Dorina ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has reportedly asked the Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Mr. Festus Keyamo, SAN, to go ahead with the recruitment process of the 774,000 jobs across the country under the government special public works programme. Recall that ...

A young Indiana mother was shot dead in front of her fiancé after she reportedly told a group of Black Lives Matter supporters ‘all lives matter’ over Fourth of July weekend. Jessica Doty Whitaker, 24, was taking a stroll with ...

Members of civil society groups under the aegis of Joint Forces for the Defence of Democracy (JOFDES) have protested in Benin and its environs against Edo Governor Godwin Obaseki’s move to obtain N20 billion loan. They alleged the loan was ...

The Supreme Court has held that the holding of virtual sitting by courts in the country, in accordance with the practice direction by heads of courts, is not unconstitutional at the moment. A seven-man panel of the court held the ...

A fourteen-year-old girl Anita Haledu Ibrahim of Angwan Dorowa Gbuja, in Akwanga LGA of Nasarawa state, has committed suicide over an unwanted pregnancy. Investigation revealed the deceased, a student of Government Science school Andaha, near Akwanga, took herbicide to kill ...

The Osun government has approved easing of lockdown imposed on four local government areas in the state to contain the spread of coronavirus. A statement by Mr Wole Oyebamiji, the Secretary to the State Government in Osogbo, on Monday, said ...

The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 has recommended testing of all Nigerians as a way to track the prevalence of COVID-19 infection and understand how to tackle it. This is at it says that it has increased testing capacity by ...

A 60-year-old man, Haruna Lawal, who allegedly r*ped an eight-year-old girl after luring her with N100, has been arrested by operatives of Niger State Police Command. The suspect, said to be a scavenger, was arrested in Wushishi town, headquarters of ...

The Senate today raised the punishment for anyone found guilty on the offence of kidnapping from 10 years to life imprisonment. The upper chamber also deleted the statute of limitation on defilement as well removed gender restrictions on the offences ...

Empire actor Bryshere Gray was arrested on domestic violence charges following a standoff with police at his Arizona home. Gray, who played Hakeem Lyon on the Fox TV series, was taken into custody on Monday at about 7am at his ...

Two military officers were killed on Monday when a helicopter crashed in Machakos county, eastern Kenya, a Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) official said. The U.S.-made MD-530F gunship, which went down at about 11.00 a.m. in Kanyonga village, was on a ...

The Oyo State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), on Monday, paraded eight suspects for alleged armed robbery. The Command said it also recovered three motorcycles from the suspects. The NSCDC state Commandant, Iskilu Akinsanya, while ...

Justice Abiola Soladoye of the Lagos State Special Offences Court, on Monday, sentenced a cultist, Tayo Bakare, to 20 years’ imprisonment for r*ping an undergraduate of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti, and her friend. Punch Metro had reported that Bakare ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria has directed foreign exchange dealers to stop processing ‘Forms M’ for the importation of maize in order to boost local production. The CBN stated this in a circular on Monday to all authorised dealers and ...

Nollywood actress and brand influencer, Mercy Aigbe took has taking to social media to share a picture of herself 20 years ago. The mum of two, thanked God for life and growth in a caption where she wrote: 2000 vs ...

The Enugu State Command of the Nigeria Police Force have arrested one Effiok Umo and his wife, Nnenna Umo, both of Okwojo Ngwo, Udi LGA, for allegedly abusing and assaulting their 12-year old daughter, Mercy Umo and inflicting serious injuries ...

Zindzi Mandela, daughter of former South African president died same day with her elder brother, 51 years apart. The eldest son of Nelson Mandela, Madiba Thembekile, a.k.a Thembi died in a car accident on 13 July 1969, when Mandela was ...

Former Somali Prime Minister Hassan Abshir Farah has died in Turkey at the age of 75. He held the post between 2001 and 2003 under interim President Abdiqasim Salat Hassan. He also served as the mayor of the capital, Mogadishu, ...

The Minister of State for Education, Mr Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, on Monday clarified that the decision of the Federal Government not to reopen its 104 Unity Colleges for the forthcoming West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination is not binding on ...

Private school owners in the country have said some parents of their students, who registered for this year’s school-based West African Senior Secondary School Examination (WASSCE) being conducted by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) as well as that of ...

A long-forgotten Chinese vase, once sold at auction for just $56, went under the hammer for over 70 million Hong Kong dollars ($9 million) over the weekend after being discovered in an elderly woman’s country home. Described by Sotheby’s as ...

A young couple in Burundi’s northern city of Kirundo, Burundi have surprised many by proceeding with their wedding plans despite the groom being involved in a serious accident three days earlier. Charlotte Mukantwari married Gabin Ndayizigiye at the hospital where ...

While President Donald Trump obsesses about his reelection hopes in his White House bubble, state and local leaders are frantically reversing state reopenings that he demanded, which turned America into the world’s biggest coronavirus hotspot. As emergency rooms filled and ...

A 35-year-old man from Butali Village in Malava Constituency, Kakamega County, Kenya was on Monday circumcised after evading the knife for over 20 years. The father-of-two, Douglas Olumwachi, was circumcised in front of his family. The man’s father, Francis Olumwachi, ...