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The World Health Organisation has warned the demand for oxygen is outstripping supplies as COVID-19 cases race towards the 10 million mark. WHO director-general Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus said global cases are rising by about one million cases per week. This, ...

The Nigerian police have chased out staff of the All Progressives Congress at its national secretariat in Abuja, as they sealed off the office for the second time this week. Two police patrol vans and two Peugeot 604 cars were ...

Popular Nigerian online comedy group, Ikorodu Bois, have received an invitation to the premiere of Hollywood thriller, Extraction 2. Ikorodu Bois is a Nigerian online comedy group that recreates and mimics “multi-million dollar music videos and Hollywood movie trailers”. Ikorodu ...

A 43-year-old father has been arrested for allegedly raping his 3-year-old daughter while his wife was in the hospital to deliver their child. Mr Ikechukwu Ekenta, from Ikeduru- Ogwah, Mbaitolu Local Government Area of Imo state, is accused of defiling ...

Veteran Yoruba actor, Gbolagade Akinpelu popularly known as Ogun Majek, has passed away. It was  gathered that Ogun Majek died on Thursday morning at his Imalefalafia, Oke-Ado, Ibadan home. The President of Theatre Arts and Movie Practitioners Association of Nigeria, ...

  Femi Fani-Kayode on Thursday wrote an open letter to Senator Bola Tinubu, reminding him of his words and how his political party, the All Progressive Congress (APC), is falling apart. In a letter titled ”An Open Letter To Jagaban”, ...

The Rivers State Government has approved COVID-19 guidelines for marriages and weddings with N10million fine to be paid by violators. The Commissioner for Information and Communications, Pastor Paulinus Nsirim, said the guidelines were approved by the state Executive Council in ...

Jennifer Aniston has given fans a rare glimpse of a mysterious new tattoo during a video call with former Friends co-star Lisa Kudrow. The actress, 51, was chatting to her former co-star during Variety ‘s Actors on Actors issue, in ...

The biggest global increase in coronavirus cases has been announced as 183,020 cases were recorded in just 24 hours by the World Health Organisation. According to a daily report, the biggest increase in cases of the deadly bug came from ...

The New York City Marathon, the world’s largest marathon and one of the city’s biggest annual spectacles, has been canceled this year as concerns about the spread of the coronavirus continue to dash hopes of holding large-scale events, organizers announced ...

Amidst growing concerned on the effect of ravaging coronavirus on the country’s economy, Bowen University, Iwo, Osun State has reportedly sacked over 100 staffs of the institution. It was gathered that the sacked staffers received their letters of disengagement through ...

A 36-year-old father of five, Fatai Oyedele, was arrested on Wednesday after a failed suicide attempt. Oyedele, who is a cloth seller, was rescued from the Ogun River in the Akin-Olugbade area of Abeokuta around 1.15pm. He reportedly left his ...

The Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi, is facing one of his toughest times on the throne as his subjects have not only turned against him but also demanded his immediate dethronement over various infractions. In a letter to the ...

Akwa Ibom State Government said on Wednesday that it had dropped all the charges preferred against Emmanuel Effiong, a pastor of the Christ Embassy Church, located at Nung Akpa Ime, off Nsikak Eduok Avenue, Uyo. Effiong was arrested on Sunday, ...

Three members of the Oyo State Executive Council are have contracted COVID-19. The state Governor, Seyi Makinde, made this known in a series of tweets on Wednesday. The identity of the executive council members was, however, not disclosed. Makinde explained ...

A couple flew their pets 8,000 miles from China because they missed them so much. Expats Scott Turner-Griffiths, 35, and husband Joshua, 29, paid £12,000 to be reunited with their two dogs and two cats. After eight years in Beijing ...

Fellow singer, Mocheddah has slammed D’banj for allegedly bullying his r.a.p.e accuser. The singer slammed D’banj shortly after Seyitan accused D’banj of using the police to detain her without allowing her to immediately have access to her lawyers and family. ...

The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria has now exceeded 22,000 as the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, announces that 649 new cases were recorded on Wednesday. The 649 new cases of COVID-19 are reported as follows; ...

The Kogi State House of Assembly has lost one of its members, John Abah. He was a lawmaker representing Ibaji Constituency in the Assembly where he was serving a second term. Abah died on Wednesday in an Abuja hospital after ...

A Facebook user, Hugo Abuudo has slammed men who desperately want a DNA test conducted on their children. Hugo took to Facebook to say most men, including our great grandfathers are most likely not the true sons of their fathers, ...

A bill to decriminalise h.o.m.o.s.e.x.u.a.l activity is making headway in Gabon, where such contact has been banned for nearly a year. The central African country’s National Assembly voted late Tuesday to adopt an amendment to criminal legislation to remove a ...

Late Bimbo Odukoya’s daughter, Tolu Odukoya-Ijogun is a mom again. Tolu who is also in the way of Christ just like her late mother announced the arrival of her third child — a baby boy today. Tolu who married her ...

Two persons have been charged following their arrest over the demolition of the Nigerian high commission building in Accra, the capital of Ghana. According to a press release from the Criminal Investigation Department in that country, the suspects are being ...

BBN star, Cee-C’s car brake allegedly failed today in Enugu state. The car the ex-reality star was driving is believed to have ran into a building with many crying out for help. In the video, the star was seen running ...

Khloe Kardashian looked utterly astonishing in her latest Instagram offering. The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star, 35, treated her fans to the raunchy photograph on Instagram on Wednesday. Under the blistering hot sun, the mother-of-one modelled the skimpy black ...