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A CNN reporter Omar Jimenez has been arrested by Minnesota State Patrol while giving a live television report this morning. Jimenez and his crew – producer Bill Kirkos and photojournalist Leonel Mendez – were arrested while Jimenez was reporting on ...

An Ondo State based Pastor, Kolawole Samson, has been sentenced to death by hanging for killing one Ayo Olaniyi at a village near Okeigbo area of the state. The late Olaniyi was said to have in March 2016, gone to ...

Whatever happened to their love! #heartbroken… Popular video director, Clarence Peters is a product of their love. Ha! Shina Peters tried o, all these beautiful women. Clarion, Sammy Peters, late Toyin Lawani’s mom and more… CLAPS!

Twitter on Friday flagged a post by US President Donald Trump on the unrest in Minneapolis as ‘glorifying violence’, saying the tweet violated its rules but would not be removed. “This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about glorifying violence. However, ...

Kidnappers of Nasarawa State chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Bishop Joseph Masin, have demanded N20 million to set him free. The cleric was abducted on Wednesday night at his Lafia home by assailants who came on motorcycles. Thursday, ...

George Floyd’s fiancée and family have appealed for calm and said he wouldn’t want people to get hurt after a night of violence saw a man shot dead and clashes with police. Courteney Ross spoke out after carnage unfolded in ...

One Chisom Eze has allegedly killed his 19-year-old brother, Henry, during a fight over a bottle of soft drink at their place of residence on Johnson Street, Alaba area of Lagos State. Punch Metro gathered that 21-year-old Chisom left the ...

The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Thursday raised the alarm over increasing deaths caused by rejection of patients in the country’s hospitals. The PTF Chairman and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha,   at the task force ...

In a s.e.x fantasy gone wrong, two men with machetes entered the wrong house in New South Wales, Australia, before quickly realising their error. One of them has now been acquitted of entering a home armed with a weapon in ...

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed at removing some of the legal protections given to social media platforms. He said the firms had “unchecked power” to censure and edit the views of users. President Trump has ...

Veteran dancer, Tessy Yembra popularly known as African Tina Tuner has died. She died on Wednesday, May 27, 2020, after battling a strange illness reportedly for years. She gave up the ghost at her Lagos home. She became famous for ...

Major airports in the country will in the “next few days” roar into life after weeks of inactivity caused by the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown. The airports are the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Ikeja; Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja; Aminu Kano Arport, Kano ...

Nigerian Singer, May D, took to social media to give reasons he decided to cancel a scheduled interview by Ubi Franklin on his Instalive talk show. Ubi had earlier taken to his Twitter page to disclose that his scheduled interview ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has said there is no evidence that COVID-19 is transmitted by breastfeeding even when a nursing mother has contracted the virus. According to a statement by the health body on its website on Wednesday, nursing ...

China has evacuated 325 of its citizens from Nigeria via an Air Peace flight that was scheduled to depart at 10:05 pm on Thursday. The plane is headed for Shanghai. France, the UK, and the US are among the countries ...

The Abia State Government has declared a suspected COVID-19 patient, Emmanuel Ononiwu, wanted. Ononiwu was said to have tested positive and refused to isolatate himself as requested by appropriate medical protocol. The Commissioner of Information, John Okiyi-Kalu, in a statement ...

Kogi state doubled down on Thursday night in rejecting its inclusion in the coronavirus caseload in the country. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, announced two cases for the state on Wednesday. But the State government has rubbished the ...

A fire tore through an overcrowded maximum security prison in Cameroon’s port city of Douala on Thursday leading to the hospitalisation of three prisoners with serious burns, a local fire chief said. Firefighters backed up by police were able to ...

Nigerian Couple and reality stars, Teddy A and Bam Bam have dispelled another rumor of ‘Domestic Violence.’ The rumors were stirred earlier today after BamBam shared a recent photo of herself after she birthed her first child in March. However, ...

The prosecution in the trial of former governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State, Senator Ademola Adelake and for others on examination malpractices charges, withdrew charges against the politician on Thursday. Adeleke was arraigned before a ...

Nigeria’s tally of confirmed COVID-19 cases on Thursday rose to 8,915 as 182 new infections were announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). Five deaths were recorded from the virus on Thursday bringing the total number of confirmed ...

The Lagos State Government has given approval to Primero Transport Services Limited, operator of the high capacity Bus Rapid Transit, BRT, to carry 42 passengers seated with no standing as against earlier directive aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19 ...

Lagos State Government will from July introduce what it describes as First Mile and Last Mile (FMLM) mobility solution to replace banned Okada and tricycle. Transportation Commissioner Frederick Oladeinde, speaking yesterday at the 2020 ministerial press briefing at the JJT ...

Stuart Scott, 25, first noticed his hair was receding in his late teens and grew self conscious to the point he rarely went on nights out with his friends. But his confidence hit rock bottom when a woman on Plenty ...

A pilot study on the use of dogs, to diagnose the dreadful covid-19 pandemic ravaging many countries, may start in Nigeria in July. The pilot training programme utilising scent detection by dogs to discriminate between samples from Covid-19 positive and ...