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A major London children’s hospital registered a 15-fold increase in the number of apparent child abuse cases it dealt with during the COVID-19 lockdown compared to previous years, researchers reported on Thursday. From March 23 to April 23 — corresponding ...

The police have arrested a Chinese couple in Abuja for allegedly locking up their Nigerians employees in their apartment for the past four months. Eight domestic workers were rescued by the personnel of the Utako Divisional Police Station on Tuesday ...

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State on Thursday accused politicians of playing games with the lives of Nigerians amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Bello was speaking while playing host to the Board of Trustees of Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation, who ...

Rodrigo Alves has revealed she now has a ‘JLO butt’ and ‘Kim Kardashian hips’ after undergoing a Bioplasty buttock augmentation that involved her having nine litres of filler injected into her bottom at a cost of £30,000. The 36-year-old, who ...

The two officials of the United Nations mission in Israel who were seen in a viral video having s3x in an official vehicle have been suspended without pay. After the s3x video went viral, the United Nations officials wwho were ...

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested three suspected land-grabbers, who allegedly shot at seven workers at a construction site in the state. The Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. Oyeyemi ...

  For the first time in weeks, the number of persons discharged in one day exceeded the figure of new cases recorded across the country. This is the highest rate of recoveries recorded in Nigeria with 649 people discharged within ...

The Nigerian Government Thursday said preliminary results of the analysis of the Madagascar COVID-19 herbal drink by the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRID) showed that it is the same as the plant Artemisia annua, with proven efficacy ...

There was drama in Kenya earlier this week when two nominated senators Beatrice Kwamboka (ODM) and Mary Seneta (Jubilee) engaged in a scuffle before parliamentary security separated them. The scuffle over a post is said to have led to the ...

Novak Djokovic and his wife Jelena, who last week both tested positive for coronavirus following his exhibition tournament in the Balkans, have now tested negative, his press service said Thursday. Neither the 33-year-old player nor his partner felt any symptoms, ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday, arraigned Stephen Oshinowo, a former Executive Secretary of Lagos State Scholarship Board, for alleged N127million fraud. Oshinowo during the arraignment before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of an Ikeja Special Offences Court, pleaded ...

Amazon has recorded a 4.4 percent surge in its stock value, making Jeff Bezos richer than he was, after his divorce in 2019. The 56-year-old founder and CEO of Amazon is now worth $172 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires ...

Budget airline easyJet is preparing to axe 4,500 staff and permanently close three major UK airport bases as part of a huge restructuring following the global coronavirus pandemic. The company said hundreds of pilot roles are at risk – with ...

The wife of Ondo governor, Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu has tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The wife’s health status announcement is coming few days after her husband, state governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, embarked on self-isolation after testing positive for COVID-19. Members ...

  Facial recognition is one of the fastest-growing technologies in the world. Facial recognition is a biometric technology used to identify or authenticate faces by digitally mapping a person’s facial features. While the novel technology offers some noteworthy benefits, it ...

A twitter user as shared the story of a wife who wants to sue 19 of her husband’s relatives for calling her a whore, slut ashawo among others. According to the twitter user, she has recordings of them calling her ...

Nigerian gay rights activist, Bisi Alimi shared this loved-up photo of himself in bed with his husband, Anthony Davis on his instagram page

A grandmother died of shock after being held at gun point and forced to watch as her three terrified nieces were brutally r.a.p.e.d in front of her. The distraught 71-year-old woman was confronted by an intruder in a balaclava who ...

Twitter Inc has taken down an image tweeted by the U.S. President Donald Trump from its platform, after receiving a copyright complaint from the New York Times. The original tweet by Trump issued on June 30, showed a meme that ...

A New York court ruled a publisher can release President Donald Trump’s niece’s tell-all memoir about the US first family. Mary Trump’s book, Too Much and Never Enough, How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, is due for ...

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Jabi, Abuja has dismissed a suit filed against the immediate past Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole and three others. The suit, filed by Comrade Mustapha Salihu ...

Wahab Adegbenro, Ondo State Commissioner for Health, is dead. A government official confirmed the news this afternoon. The source revealed that Mr Adegbenro died on Thursday after he was rushed to a hospital in Owo after contracting Coronavirus. “The Commissioner ...

A house in Rockville, Maryland, United States, purchased by a former governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi, in 2016 for $1,347,200m — N522,713,600m (N388 per USD) — has been uncovered. The residential building located at 10821 Symphony Park Drive, which ...

Kylie Jenner is no longer the top earning celebrity on Instagram. The world’s leading Instagram scheduling tool has released it’s annual Instagram rich list – and it’s bad news for youngest of the Kardashian/Jenner clan. 22-year-old Kylie has been bumped ...

A German national accidentally purchased 28 Tesla Model 3 vehicles online amounting to a whopping  $1.4million, reportedly due to a technical glitch on the company’s website. A man, who identifies himself as “Ballon-Man” on Reddit, took to the online platform ...