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Iraqi football legend Ahmed Radhi has died as a result of complications after he was diagnosed with covid-19. The Iraqi health ministry announced his death. Radhi, 56, had been hospitalised last week in Baghdad after testing positive for the virus ...

A 19-year-old footballer who moved to America on a scholarship has died just a few weeks after discovering he had blood cancer. Joe Aspinall, who attended Coastal Bend College in Texas, passed away on June 10 at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary. ...

The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire and Directoar General Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Chikwe Ihekweazu have been sued over “their failure to account for the public funds so far spent to combat the spread of COVID-19 in Nigeria. ...

Asue Ighodalo, brother of Pastor Ituah Ighodalo of Trinity House, has said the mother of the late Ibidunni planned to give her a surprise gift on her 40th birthday. The punch had earlier reported that the late businesswoman cum philanthropist ...

Churches in Oyo State have reopened after three months of closure due to the ban placed on religious gatherings by the government. You would recall that the state government had in March, placed a ban on religious gathering as part ...

Resident Doctors will return to work tomorrow 22 June. This followed the suspension of their strike by their umbrella organization. The National Association of Resident Doctors said it took the decision to enable the government time to fulfill outstanding demands. ...

Nollywood actor and comedian, Babatunde Bernard popularly known as Baba Tee, has welcomed a son with his wife. The 40-year-old announced this while kissing his wife, Dupe’s bare baby bump and wished himself a Happy Father’s Day. “Original kayeefi… Happy ...

The embattled Students’ Union Government (SUG) President of the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro (FPI), Ogun state, Adegboye Emmanuel Olatunji who was arrested by men of the state police command for alleged cultism on February 9, 2020 has threatened to commit suicide. ...

Drama ensued at the Government House in Ondo on Saturday night as a team of policemen led by Commissioner of Police Bolaji Salami stopped the Deputy Governor Agboola Ajayi from exiting with official vehicles. Ajayi, who has been at loggerheads ...

With the rising number of Covid-19 cases, Lagos and Kwara state governments have announced plans to convert their Hajj and pilgrims’ camps to isolation centres to ease the burden on hospital facilities and the limited number of bed spaces. There ...

A tragedy was averted on Saturday as a tanker, laden with 33,000 litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) overturned at Lombardy Area, Oju-Ore, in Ogun state. Mr Akeem Ganiyu, FRSC’s Sango-Ota Unit Commander confirmed that the incident occurred at about ...

Unidentified gunmen have killed a pharmacist Mr Sunday Ike, in Gwarimpa area of Abuja. He was shot in the head and robbed of his light blue Toyota Camry. The assailants struck Friday at 11.00p.m. at the victim’s shop located on ...

The body of ex-beauty queen and event planner extraordinaire, Ibidun Ajayi-Ighodalo, has been laid to rest yesterday, Saturday, 20th June 2020. The 39-year-old wife of popular Pastor Ituah Ighodalo of Trinity House Church passed away on Sunday, June 14 in ...

Some armed men invaded the Nigerian high commission in Accra, Ghana, on Friday, destroying some apartments under construction. The affected buildings were reportedly being constructed to house staff and visitors. A Ghanaian businessman had accused the commission of encroaching on ...

Speaker of Enugu State House of Assembly, Mr Edward Ubosi, has ordered the shutdown and fumigation of the assembly complex, after a member died of COVID-19. Mr Jeff Mbah, Chairman of the House Committee on Information and Communication, announced this ...

Within one week, 107 people have died from COVID-19 complications across the country. According to the latest figures by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Saturday, more than 500 people have now died of COVID-19. As of June ...

Many persons were trapped when a tanker exploded at the Kara axis of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Sunday morning. Although the incident happened after midnight, a lot of vehicles were on the bridge as a result of the curfew imposed ...

The Executive Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ward 10, Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo, has lifted the suspension placed on Adams Oshiomhole. Seventeen members of the executive committee, led by the ward’s Vice Chairman, Mrs ...

The Secretary of Adamawa Christians Association of Nigeria (CAN), Mr Anthony Elishama, has been suspended for three months over alleged mismanagement of N1.35 million. The association also directed the suspended scribe to refund the amount during his suspension. Elishama was ...

Thieves looking for valuables in a Hungary capital courtyard were shocked to discover multiple plastic containers full of human body parts. The Blikk newspaper reported on Saturday that the thieves have been detained by the police. They told the officers ...

Abike Dabiri-Erewa, chairman and chief executive officer of Nigerians in the Diaspora Commission have disclosed that 300 stranded Nigerian travellers who arrive Abuja Airport on Friday from Dubai all tested negative for COVID 19 before boarding. Dabiri-Erewa stated this on ...

It’s been one week since Mrs Ibidunni Ighodalo, popular businesswoman and wife of the Senior Pastor of Trinity House, Ituah Ighodalo, died. Since her death, family, friends and close associates have been sharing heartfelt tributes via their social media handles ...

The Ogun state government has suspended plans to reopen worship centres. Dapo Abiodun, governor of the state, broke the news while addressing journalists in Abeokuta, the state capital, on Friday. The government had earlier scheduled the reopening of worship centres ...

A report by Israeli TV Channel 12 said many of the discharged COVID-19 patients are discovering new health problems such as long-term debilitating physical, cognitive and psychiatric damage. According to an investigation by the Channel, recovered patients, including those with ...

The Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Isolo-Ejigbo branch B, Alhaji Bashir Femi Olowu, has revealed how the Nigerian cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, lied to his father, Alhaji Musibau Okuneye, about his changed ...