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Domestic flight operations has resumed at Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA), Kano amidst strict adherence to COVID-19 protocols. Although the new normal activities restarted with full deployment of aviation security to enforce compliance with guidelines, the flight operations kick ...

At least 17 sailors and four civilians were injured after a fire started onboard aboard the military ship, USS Bonhomme Richard, at the US Naval Base in San Diego. According to Navy officials, the victims were taken to a San ...

A 25-year-old man, Yusuf Bello, has confessed to luring an 11-year-old boy to a public toilet and sodomising him. Bello said this followed his inability to control his libido after consuming a concoction he bought from a herbalist in Lafia, ...

South Africa will immediately re-enforce a ban on the sale and distribution of alcohol to reduce the volume of trauma patients so hospitals have more beds open to treat COVID-19 patients, President Cyril Ramaphosa has said. Confronted by surging hospitalisations ...

Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has alleged that the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, are godfathers of the suspended Chairman of EFCC, Ibrahim Magu. Fani-Kayode in a Tweet ...

American actress Kelly Preston, the 57 year old wife of John Travolta has died after losing the battle with breast cancer. She died on Sunday, July 12, her husband announced. “It is with a very heavy heart that I inform ...

Manchester City will be playing Champions League football next season after a successful appeal against Uefa’s ban was announced this morning. City were handed a two-year ban from Uefa’s competition and a £24.9million fine in February after being found guilty ...

A 36-year-old woman from Machakos County, Kenya on Friday evening gave birth while answering a short call of nature at the Mwala Level 4 Hospital. The woman, who lives with partial paralysis following a stroke, had been assisted by her ...

After more than 30 years of Islamist rule, Sudan has outlined wide-reaching reforms including allowing non-Muslims to drink alcohol, and scrapping the apostasy law and public flogging. “We [will] drop all the laws violating the human rights in Sudan,” Justice ...

Police officers in Machakos County, Kenya on Saturday arrested a 69-year-old-man accused of defiling hi seven-year-old granddaughter. According to Kathiani B village elder, Beatrice Mbindyo, the seven-year-old girl was tending her family’s herd of cattle when her grandfather accosted and ...

British MMA star Jahreau Shepherd has tragically died, aged 30. Shepherd, from London, is believed to have died suddenly yesterday but the cause has not yet been announced. Tributes have been paid to Shepherd, who was welterweight champion with MMA ...

Ibadan-based businessman, Mr Omololu Akinyosoye, tells Punch that he has been told that one needs to lobby to get the result of coronavirus test Why did you go for a COVID-19 test? I had a friend who died of COVID-19 ...

Billionaire Philanthropist, Ned Nwoko has revealed that he got married to all his six wives including Regina Daniels as virgins. He made the disclosure in an interview with Punch. Ned Nwoko also talked about falling for Regina the first day ...

YouTube star Nicole Thea has died along with her unborn son, according to a statement on her Instagram account. The news was announced to the popular dancer’s 105,000 followers on Sunday afternoon. The soon to be mum, who lived in ...

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 24-year-old man, Badmus Folarin, for burning the buttocks of a 10-year- old boy, Sunday David, for allegedly licking from a tin of tea. Folarin allegedly used a hot knife to ...

Police operatives have rescued a citizen of the United States of America who was allegedly confined to a Lagos hotel against her wish for over one year. The victim, who came from Washington DC, arrived in Nigeria on February 13, ...

Nigeria, on Sunday recorded 571 new cases of Coronavirus and 16 deaths, with Lagos and Ebonyi taking huge lead. The new cases put the nation’s total coronavirus figures at 32,558 and 740 deaths. In the figures released by the Nigerian ...

Nina welcomed a son with her husband Tony in the United States.The excited father shared the news of their baby’s arrival on his instagram page disclosing that they named their son Denzel Kelechukwu. Tony wrote; ”Sometimes the smallest things take ...

A cloud of mourning has swept over Kaumoni village in Matungulu, Machakos County, Kenya after bodies of two lovers were found hanging side by side just days after eloping from the capital city. Eyewitnesses said that the duo has been ...

Zindzi Mandela, the daughter of South Africa’s anti-apartheid icons Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, has died. She died in Johannesburg on Monday morning aged 59. The death has been confirmed by a family source, SABC reports. She was the South ...

Will Smith isn’t known for foul language but had no problem dropping the f-bomb on 50 Cent after the rapper took shots at his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. The “Power” producer, 45, posted a private message between himself and the ...

Germany’s prost!tutes demonstrated in Hamburg’s red light district late on Saturday evening demanding that the brothels be allowed to reopen after months of closure to curb the spread of coronavirus. With shops, restaurants and bars all open again in Germany, ...

Former Miss World and Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and her 8-year-old daughter tested positive for the Coronavirus on Sunday. Her status became known a day after her father-in-law and top Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan and her husband and actor ...

Singer, Abolore Adigun, aka 9ice, has said that contrary to popular opinion, he never promised fans to win a Grammy award for them. In an interview with Sunday Scoop, he said, “People are getting it wrong. I didn’t promise anyone ...

Doctors employed by the Lagos State Government will on Monday begin a three-day warning strike, The Punch has learnt. The Chairman of the Medical Guild, Lagos, Dr Oluwajimi Sodipo, at a briefing on Sunday, said the doctors were embarking on ...