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The Lagos State Police Command has started an investigation into the murder of Muyiwa Opaleye, son of a former military administrator of Ondo State, Brig-Gen Ekundayo Opaleye. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Bala Elkana, said the victim’s killers would ...

An elderly couple who were gunned down at a veteran’s cemetery in Delaware last week had been visiting their son’s grave at the time, their heartbroken children have revealed. Paul, 86, and Lidia Marino, 85, from Elkton, Maryland, have been ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Saturday described the virtual matriculation organised by the Vice-Chancellor of Osun State University, Professor Labode Popoola as a scam. Dailypost gathered that Osun State University recently conducted a virtual matriculation exercise attended ...

Bishop David Oyedepo of the Living Faith Church, also known as Winners Chapel, has revealed that the church received 62 testimonies of persons healed of COVID-19. Oyedepo during a live broadcast on Saturday expressed gratitude to God for the healing ...

  A 25-year-old pizza deliveryman from Long Island has been identified as the man who was allegedly killed by an off-duty rookie NYPD cop earlier this week. Christoper Curro was fatally shot twice in the head and twice in the ...

Wawu! Hackers who targeted a top law firm posting purportedly secret documents naming A-list celebrity clients have doubled their ransom to $42 million, it has been claimed. Notorious hacker group ‘REvil’, allegedly from Eastern Europe, are said to have stolen ...

A pregnant coronavirus patient has given birth to a baby boy in Lagos State’s Isolation Centre. ”Today, a pregnant COVID19 positive patient was delivered of a baby boy through the caeserian section at the Gbagada Isolation Centre,” Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu ...

All COVID-19 patients in Taraba State have been discharged after testing negative, SaharaReporters gathered. The state governor, Darius Ishaku, disclosed this in Jalingo, the state capital, on Friday while inspecting a 100 bed isolation center. He said, “At the moment, ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Sokoto Zonal office on Friday arraigned the duo of Meng Wei Kun and Xui Kuoi, both Chinese, on two-count charge of conspiracy and offering bribe to a public servant to the tune of ...

Governor David Umahi on Friday lifted the ban on religious gathering in Ebonyi state. He said religious centre can now conduct services once a week but must observe the ptrvrntion protocol against COVID-19. The  state’s Commissioner for Information and State ...

No fewer than fifteen Covid-19 patients who have tested positive on Friday attempted to escape from Isolation centre at Sobi specialist hospital in Ilorin. Saturday Vanguard reliably gathered that the patients jumped over the fence of the hospital to escape ...

The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development said the list of all participating vendors in the modified School Feeding Programme will be submitted to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The Humanitarian Affairs Minister, Sadiya Farouq, ...

Logan Williams, the 16-year-old actor who died suddenly in April, overdosed on fentanyl, according to his mother. In an interview with the New York Post, Logan’s mother Marlyse Williams said her son had a three-year battle with addiction. She hopes ...

Single men and women in the Netherlands have been advised to find a s.e.x buddy for those seeking intimacy during the coronavirus lockdown. The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) said that single people should come to ...

Brazilian Health Minister Nelson Teich resigned on Friday over what a ministry official said was “incompatibility” with President Jair Bolsonaro’s approach to fighting the country’s spiralling coronavirus crisis. Teich, a 62-year-old oncologist, served in the far-right president’s cabinet for less ...

The pilot of the helicopter that crashed while carrying Kobe Bryant and his daughter to a basketball tournament in California did not have alcohol or drugs in his system, according to the autopsy report released on Friday. Ara Zobayan, 50, ...

The Kaduna State Ministry of Health has said a four-month-old girl is among the 20 new coronavirus cases recorded in the state on Friday. The State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Amina Mohammed-Baloni, in a statement on Saturday, also said 15 ...

French police arrested one of the last key suspects sought over the Rwandan genocide on Saturday, prosecutors and police said. Felicien Kabuga, once one of Rwanda’s richest men and accused of financing the genocide, was living under a false identity ...

People who have had coronavirus should avoid having s.e.x for 30 days after recovering, an expert has claimed according to a report by The Mirror. Veerawat Manosutthi, a senior medical expert at the Thai Disease Control Department, has advised that ...

An Afghanistan man cuts off his wife’s nose with a kitchen knife after she asked for divorce amid a surge in domestic violence triggered by the coronavirus lockdown. In a news reported by The Daily Mail, The mother of a ...

Super Eagles midfielder, Wilfred Ndidi, and his wife Dinma have welcomed their first child together, a baby girl. The proud dad shared the news on his instagram writing; ”I’m Fortunate to know that ‘’God is gracious’’ – JAINA.”    

A Nigerian doctor and his wife have been struck dead by Coronavirus in the United Kingdom 10 days apart. Dr James Oniah, a retired radiologist, succumbed to Covid-19 on April 24 while Mary passed away from the virus on May ...

For a mother whose daughter has remained in captivity on account of refusal to renounce her faith, even after her fellow abductees have been set free, and who is alleged to have been impregnated by one of her captors, nothing ...

Oh dear, we don’t even know what to believe again o. Stiop dring coke, drink fruit juice and now this? .  Women who have at least one fruit drink a day are more likely to suffer heart disease than those ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday handed over a property forfeited by former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Allison-Madueke to the Lagos State government for use as an isolation centre for COVID-19 patients. The property consisting six ...