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Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has said 27 more members of staff of iSON Xperiences located in the Ibadan South West Local Government Area of the state have tested positive for COVID-19. At least 63 members of staff had ...

Drake and Future just gave Kylie Jenner the most unexpected shout-out. On Wednesday night, an undisclosed song from the two rappers went viral after it was debuted during Night Owl Sound’s Instagram Live. In it, Drake and Future namedrop the ...

It was a short and familiar car ride for Satoshi Uematsu from his home to a care facility where he’d spent many hours as a caretaker for the disabled residents. It was the early hours of July 26, 2016, and ...

A taxi driver in Owerri, identified as Anayochukwu Njoku, from Umuakagu, Agbahara Nsu in Ehime Mbano council area took to his heels and abandoned his wife when he realised that she gave birth to conjoined twins. Njoku’s wife, Chidinma, was ...

A teenager who lost both her hands to meningitis has defied the odds by learning to play the piano. Tilly Lockey, 14, was determined to prove a physiotherapist wrong after she said she would never master it. Tilly said she ...

With the Eid-el-Fitr celebrations around the corner and the month-long Ramadan fast coming to an end, President Muhammadu Buhari will be conducting his Eid prayers with his family at home. This is in observance of the lockdown measures in the ...

Nigerian chess player, International Master Oladapo Adu, has been stranded in Abidjan, the capital of Ivory Coast, for nine weeks following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. Adu was in Freetown, Sierra Leone, where he went to compete at the ...

The coast is now clear for Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu to contest for the governorship ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State as the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party on Thursday night granted him a ...

An Instagram influencer has sparked outrage after she offered to sell off her virginity for more than £100,000 to raise money for coronavirus frontline workers. Indonesian influencer Sarah Salsabila, who goes by Sarah Keihl on Instagram, reportedly made the offer ...

The Federal Government has disclosed that there are plans to soon reopen schools nationwide, saying, however, that this will not be done in two weeks as being speculated in some quarters. Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, made the ...

A 60-year-old man, Yikatey Somatey, has been arrested for killing his wife at Gando near Nyanyema, a suburb of the Sawla-Tuna Kalba District, Ghana after he accused her of having an affair with another man. The suspect accused his wife, ...

A 30-year-old Tharaka Nithi man who assaulted his wife and sealed her genitalia, mouth and ears in a fit of jealousy has been arrested. The man, identified as Kifo Muriuki was smoked from his hideout in Kaningo, Kitui County by ...

A police Inspector, Charles Okoro, has been arrested for killing a Muslim cleric, Fatai Oladipupo, around Igando Road, Ikotun area of Lagos State. The Lagos State police spokesman, Bala Elkana, confirmed his arrest.   According to Elkana, the Lagos police ...

Show promoter, Cubana Chief Priest, who goes by the name  Pascal Chibuike Okechukwu, has taking to social media to complain bitterly about how life is not balanced. According to him, his mother who has always believed in him is no ...

The nation’s finance minister, Zainab Ahmed, says the coronavirus pandemic and falling oil prices are set to force the economy into negative growth. Ms. Ahmed made the comments after the National Economic Summit meeting in Abuja on Thursday. “On the ...

There was chaos at Udensi Roundabout, few poles to Ebonyi State Government House, Abakaliki, on Thursday when policemen and armed soldiers clashed over alleged violation of traffic rule by the latter. The fracas started when some police traffic wardens impounded ...

The Federal Government said yesterday it was considering issuing a new set of guidelines with regards to covid-19 case management in the country, saying Lagos State, Nigeria’s epicentre of the pandemic, has currently ran out of isolation and treatment spaces. ...

A Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Ilemba Hausa Division, Ajamgbadi, Lagos State, Mr. Yahaya Adesina, a Chief Superintendent (CSP), has been arrested and detained at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) for allegedly murdering a sergeant in his division. Until ...

The sons of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi said Friday they ‘forgive’ the killers of their father, an announcement analysts said effectively grants clemency to five convicted people on death row. Khashoggi – a royal family insider turned critic – ...

A Tyson Foods chicken-processing plant in North Carolina that reopened following a deep clean announced almost 600 workers have now tested positive for coronavirus. The company has confirmed that 570 of its 2,244 full-time and contract employees have been infected ...

Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri has agreed   to allow  churches with big auditoriums to have  not more  than 200 members during Sunday services. This was contained in a statement   on Wednesday by the Chairman of the state Covid-19 Task Force’s ...

Twelve Nigerians awaiting evacuation in Côte d’Ivoire have reportedly paid N7m for a charter flight. The stranded men weewre said to be desperate to return home on account of the coronavirus pandemic. A senior official informed Punch that the Nigerian ...

The first mass graves could be dug in the UK to cope with a rise in bodies due to the coronavirus. Aberdeenshire Council is considering making them capable of holding hundreds of coffins as part of measures to deal with ...

Seyi Shay has said her Instagram account was hacked, and the nudes released earlier today were from the hacker. She disclosed she had tagged the photos private. She also said she was unable to access the account for almost five ...

Hagen Mills was reportedly trying to kill the mother of his child when he turned the gun on himself and took his own life. The actor, who starred in Baskets alongside Zach Galifianakis, died Tuesday in Mayfield, Kentucky, at the ...