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An explosion on Oil Mining Lease 40 operated by the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company has killed seven workers, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation announced today. NPDC is the flagship subsidiary of NNPC. The explosion occurred on Tuesday at the petroleum ...

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, the Uyo Zonal Office have arrested the operator of a grand Ponzi Scheme: “No Burn Global Limited”, Umanah Umanah. He was arrested in a hotel located at the Osongoma area of ...

Pastor Temitope Joshua of Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) has said that he is ready to virtually offer prayer for COVID-19 patients in isolation centres around the world. In an announcement posted to Joshua’s YouTube channel, Emmanuel TV, the ...

Black Lives Matter protests that have erupted across the United States may be the largest demonstrations in the country’s history, with upwards of 26million people participating. The figures come from four recent polls – including one released by Civis Analytics ...

A female Air Force Lt. Col. has been slammed for suggesting murdered soldier Vanessa Guillen deserved to be s3xually harassed because it’s ‘the price of admission’ for women in the army and ‘if you’re gonna cry like a snowflake about ...

Kayode Olasehinde, aka Pa James, is undoubtedly one of the respected veteran actors in the country. However, he currently needs help to improve his living conditions. From the pictures shared online, the whole house of the veteran actor and its ...

Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, a.k.a Hushpuppi has hired Gal Pissetzky, one of the best criminal defence lawyers in Chicago area to defend him. Hushpuppi, who was extradited to US from Dubai last week Thursday faces trial in Los Angeles, where his ...

Reports indicate that the Assembly of Sunshine Bearer Larger Church of Lucifer simply called Church of Lucifer led by founder, Ifekwe Udo has been shut down and vandalized by irate youth in the community. It was revealed that the founder ...

Some suspected ritualists have been arrested by the police for the serial killings in Akinyele area of Ibadan, The Nation has learnt. The Special Adviser to Governor Seyi Makinde on Security, Mr Fatai Owoseni, disclosed this while addressing a town ...

Kylie Jenner has been caught out with a major photoshop fail in her latest saucy snap. The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star, 22, is currently enjoying a lavish vacation at the exclusive Amangiri resort in Canyon Point, Utah alongside ...

A Brazilian man may be the first person to be “cured” of HIV after receiving an intensive experimental drug therapy. The 34-year-old, who was diagnosed with HIV in 2012, is the first person to maintain long-term HIV remission after being ...

Mexican military officials found a smugglers’ plane ablaze on a jungle road after it made an illegal landing when military aircraft started following it. The jet, which is suspected of carrying hundreds of kilos of drugs was discovered in flames ...

Police are investigating after a two-year-old girl was allegedly raped on a coronavirus isolation ward in South Africa. The sickening attack is said to have happened at the Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital in Pretoria. An aunt of the toddler ...

Nigeria, on Tuesday, recorded 503 new cases of COVID-19 in 20 states, bring the total confirmed cases to 29,879, with 669 deaths. Of the new cases reported by the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Lagos which is the epicenter, ...

An amorous couple were arrested for a performing a s.e.x act on a beach promenade in Malaga in full view of children and holidaymakers. Moments earlier beach workers  – hired to enforce strict new social distancing rules – had thrown ...

A State High Court sitting in Ile-Ife, in Osun State, on Tuesday sentenced Oluleke Ogunyemi, 37, to death by hanging over murder. Oluleke was arraigned on March 6, 2013, on two counts charge murder and conspiracy to murder contrary to ...

Senator Dino Melaye has released a new track to mock suspended EFCC boss, Ibrahim Magu. He said he had warned the President about him and many ”Magu” in his Government, but now the President can see for himself. Watch the ...

A combined team of riot policemen and operatives of the State Security Services (SSS) yesterday searched the residence of Ibrahim Magu, the suspended boss of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. A source close to the presidential panel set up ...

A 44-year old pastor of Christ Apostolic Church (CAC), Ogo Oluwa Parish, Oluwafemi Oyebola, has been arrested for r3ping his daughter over five years. Pastor Oyebola was arrested by police in Ogun following a complaint by his daughter. She told ...

Aminu Adisa Logun, the chief of staff to Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of Kwara has died, the state government announced Tuesday evening. The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Rafiu Ajakaye, said in a statement. “With total submission to the will ...

Dozens of people have been quarantined after the Bubonic Plague was confirmed in China. Cases of the disease were reported in Bayan-Ulgii aimag, a province in Mongolia, with a 15-year-old boy infected after eating a marmot hunted by a dog. ...

Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro – who has held large rallies calling for lockdowns to be lifted – has been diagnosed with coronavirus. The far-right rabble rouser today revealed he had tested positive for the virus after he became unwell. He ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has ‘finished’ the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Campaign Council for the Edo governorship election, Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, describing him as a barefaced treasury looter, who has no moral rectitude to speak ...

A hospital in Rome said on Tuesday it had successfully separated two-year-old twins joined above the nape of their necks, after three risky surgeries. Joined skull to skull, sisters Ervina and Prefina were born with a condition the Bambino Gesu ...

A popular Ghanaian actress, Akuapem Poloo who went n.u.d.e in front of her son to celebrate his 7th birthday has been arrested by the Ghanaian police. According to the reports, Poloo was arrested and sent to the headquarters of the ...