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Oyo State has recorded two more deaths from COVID-19, bringing the state’s total to six. Head of the state COVID-19 task force, Governor Seyi Makinde made this disclosure while giving an update on Wednesday morning. The two deaths were from ...

For the fifth consecutive day, there are no new cases of COVID-19 cases in New Zealand, ministry of health officials announced on Wednesday. The positive metrics do not end there – there are also no COVID-19 hospitalizations in the country, ...

Ondo State Government has lifted the ban on religious gatherings, in churches and mosques. Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu made the announcement at a press briefing on Wednesday. He said churches will only operate on Sundays, while mosques will open for worship ...

Rapper Houdini has died at the age of 21, after he was gunned down in a shooting in Toronto on Tuesday. It emerged on 26 May a man succumbed to his injuries in hospital following a shooting around 4pm in ...

President Buhari’s daughter Zahra shared this lovely photo of herself and her husband, Ahmed, on her instagram page.

Turning that frown upside-down has been tricky in 2020. A hilarious set of baby passport photos aptly sum up the year so far, with three-month-old Olive pulling a variety of disgruntled facial expressions. Olive’s mum Alice Tranfield told Metro.co.uk: ‘I ...

Morecambe defender Christian Mbulu has died at the age of 23. Tributes have been paid to the former Millwall, Motherwell and Crewe Alexandra defender who was found dead at his home. Police were called to the address at Cottam near ...

The Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem will reopen on Sunday after a two-month closure due to the novel coronavirus, a senior official said Wednesday. “All the doors of the Al-Aqsa mosque (compound) will be opened at dawn on Sunday,” Omar ...

  Dr. Akinwumi Adesina is expected to step back as the president of African Development Bank after the board supported an independent probe as requested by the U.S. The U.S. treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin rejected an internal investigation that cleared ...

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has fined three stations over broadcast of misleading content on COVID-19 and also sanctioned 28 others for other violations against the Nigeria Broadcasting Code. The three stations fined are Adaba FM and Breeze FM, all ...

The brother of Senegalese president, Macky Sall has announced he has tested positive for Coronavirus. Aliou Sarr who is the mayor of Guédiawaye is being treated at the Dalal Diamm hospital in Dakar. His wife is also reported to have ...

Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki says he is confident of returning to power as the first man of the state because “power comes from God.” The governor who disclosed this on Wednesday, in an interview on Channels Television breakfast programme, ...

Twenty three-year-old Charity Wairimu, who was s.e.xually assaulted by her husband, James Kifo Muriuki, on May 16, has revealed that she is yet to get medical treatment ten days after the beastly incident happened. Kifo is alleged to have sprayed ...

Emergency nurse Jann Tipping and doctor Annalan Navaratnam had planned to get married in August. But with the coronavirus crisis, they decided to cancel as they worried their Jann’s family wouldn’t be able to travel from Northern Ireland and Annalan’s ...

Joe Biden attacked US President, Donald Trump, as an “absolute fool” Tuesday for belittling his election rival over recently wearing a mask, an issue that has become a partisan flashpoint during the coronavirus pandemic. The Democratic Party’s presumptive 2020 presidential ...

Barely 24 hours after the World Health Organisation, WHO, suspended all clinical trials for hydroxychloroquine as a potential treatment for COVID-19, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has said the trial will continue in Nigeria. ...

TikTok stars Bryce Hall and Jaden Hossler, both members of the creative collective Sway House, reportedly have been arrested on charges of drug possession. The arrests took place in Lee County, Texas, on Monday, according to multiple reports. Hall, 20, ...

A tiny French village made history over the weekend by electing the country’s first openly transgender mayor. Marie Cau, who won the election Saturday in Tilloy-lez-Marchiennes, in northern France, said her gender wasn’t an issue during the campaign and that ...

Anita Joseph is setting the record straight about relationships after finding love and getting married. The newly wedded actress advised her followers saying, if their partners doesn’t talk to them EVERYDAY, then they share no love. She made this known ...

Two civilians were on Tuesday kidnapped after an ambush by a group of pirates along Degema waterways in the Degema Local Government Areas of Rivers State. The pirates, who were in two gunboats, had opened fire on another boat said ...

Presidential spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, says Nigerians are lucky to have President Muhammadu Buhari, as their leader. Adesina has come under fire following some of his comments. He insists his boss is performing well, despite the contrary opinions held by ...

Nigerians stranded in Malaysia amid the pandemic are expected to return to the country this week. It was gathered that interested persons have started paying the $1,000 (N390,000) charged by Air Peace Airlines for the return ticket for economy class ...

Chairman of Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic, ASUP, Delta State Polytechnic, Ozoro Chapter, Mr America Akpituren lost his life over the weekend in a ghastly motor accident. It was gathered that Akpituren, who drove in a Toyota Highlander jeep, died ...

A total of 875 people have committed suicide during the lockdown period in Nepal. The country has been under lockdown since March 24. According to the data compiled by the Nepal Police, the suicide cases across the country increased by ...

Nigerian artiste, Johnson Oyindamola also known as Dammy Krane has declared himself as the most consistent artiste of his generation after his name was mentioned among artistes whose careers need urgent revival. The singer and three of his colleagues namely ...