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No fewer than eight staffers of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Idi-Aba, Abeokuta have tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The affected staff consisted of medical doctors, nurses and an administrative staff. This was contained in a press statement ...

Ikeja Electric Plc on Friday said it would begin implementation of its revised electricity tariff from July 1. The electricity distribution company made the announcement in a statement signed by its Head of Corporate Communications, Mr Felix Ofulue. Ofulue said ...

Mr Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), says many Nigerian looters are hiding in neighbouring Ghana. Speaking in Abuja on Friday, Magu said the commission was putting resources together to go after them and ...

A 50-year-old father in Osun State was paraded by the state’s Police Command for raping his 13-year-old daughter. This was disclosed by the Commissioner of Police, Undie Adie, who vowed that the command would not relent in ensuring that rapists ...

Authorities in Mexico found 14 bodies dumped on the side of a road in northern Zacatecas state, where notorious criminal gangs operate, the regional government said on Friday. Images on local media showed the bodies by the side of a ...

Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, has said former Oyo Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, died of multiple organ failure. Professor Akin Abayomi explained, in a tweet, that COVID-19 complications triggered multiple organs failure. Ajimobi died around 4p.m., on ...

A gang who raided the home of Leicester’s Demarai Gray have been sentenced to a combined 85 years in prison. Gray’s girlfriend, Emma Hickman, and baby were inside the home at the time of the burglary which was part of ...

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Former soldier killed himself just hours after telling his girlfriend he was planning to propose. Macauley Jepson, 23, discharged himself from the Army in April, 2019 after suffering chest pains during physical training. An inquest heard how Macauley’s family had ...

Dencia has joined hundreds of Nigerians to mock Instagram big boy Hushpuppi. Hushpuppi was recently arrested in Dubai for financial crimes which runs into millions of dollars. Before now, he flaunted powerful cars on Instagram and boasted about being rich. ...

Fifteen residents of an indigenous village in southern Mexico have been massacred in a horrific attack, authorities have said. The victims were reportedly on their way to a meeting when they were ambushed by a gang of thugs at a ...

A Russian pensioner forced her daughter to live off cat food while caged at her home for 26 years. Nadezhda Bushueva was kept isolated with her elderly mother in a hovel the pair shared with cats. Nadezhda had been kept ...

Tennis star Venus Williams found herself screaming in terror as she was draped with a giant snake across her body after losing Wednesday’s episode of Game On! on CBS. The five-time Wimbledon winner and team captain once again pitted her ...

The funeral of former Oyo Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has been postponed. His spokesman, Bolaji Tunji, told reporters in his Oluyole, Ibadan residence this morning the family would soon make an announcement of the burial programme. Tunji said: “The funeral ...

The federal government has banned what it described as non-critical and administrative capital spending, including the purchase of vehicles. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, in a document tagged, “What you need to know ...

Congratulations are in order for Nigerian actress Stella Damasus Ademinokan as her second daughter Angelica Aboderin graduates from high school. The proud mum of two girls shared on her page, the good news with pictures of her look alike baby ...

Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has described the death of the former governor of Oyo State, Sen. Abiola Ajimobi, as shocking and devastating. Ajimobi died on Thursday at a private medical facility in Lagos after a brief sickness. The ...

Justin Bieber is seeking legal recourse against two anonymous women who previously accused him on social media of s.e.xual assault. In a filing of a defamation lawsuit against the two Jane Does (who remain anonymous save for their Twitter handles ...

Sequel to a tanker accident that claimed two lives on Kara bridge, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, on Sunday, the Federal Ministry of Works has said the road will be shut for integrity tests. A letter addressed to the Lagos State Government and ...

The Commissioner for Youth Development and Sports in Oyo State, Mr. Seun Fakorede, has tested positive for covid-19. Fakorede, a 28-year-old, said he had gone into isolation in order not to spread the disease. Fakorede, who is the youngest commissioner ...

Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has confirmed that one of his daughters has tested positive for Coronavirus. The governor added that he and his wife, Edith, are now self-isolating for the next 14 days. He disclosed this on his official ...

Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has found the 9-year old Imo singing angel. The 9-year old had gone viral after a video of him singing catholic hymns was posted online. The video also caught the attention of the Imo ...

A 35-year-old pastor in Akwa Ibom State has been arrested by the police for allegedly r.a.p.ing a 16-year-old girl inside his church. The police said Nnamso Friday Jacob, otherwise known as ‘Major Prophet Honesty Jesus,’ drugged the girl before he ...

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has boasted that he would be governor again for another four years. The Governor made the boast Friday morning, while making his acceptance remarks, after being declared winner of the People’s Democratic Party’s primary ...

Police in Navakholo, Kakamega County, Kenya are holding in custody a 57-year-old man accused of physically assaulting his 38-year-old wife. Issa Arafat, a resident of Emukhambi Village, is said to have battered his spouse over allegations that she was cheating ...