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A newborn baby boy was eaten by monitor lizards after being dumped next to a pond. The infant was discovered by a group of boys who went to play by the waterside in Nakhon Si Thammarat, southern Thailand on Monday ...

A man, Afobaje Maiyegun, has been arrested by the police in Lagos for beating his wife. Lagos Coordinator of Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team (DSVRT), Mrs Titilola Vivour-Adeniyi, said he will be charged to court on Friday. Vivour-Adeniyi said ...

At least 23,000 people escaping violence in north-western Nigeria have fled to neighbouring Niger in recent weeks, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has said. The refugees were “mainly desperate women and children”, who had been allowed to seek protection in ...

World heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua has been ranked the second-richest sportsperson in the United Kingdom. In the ranking done by The Sunday Times, Gareth Bale was rated the richest young sports star. However, Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton was ranked ...

A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court on Wednesday ordered Arik Air to pay N10 million to a passenger whose flight was delayed. The passenger, Isa Modibbo, who is diabetic, reportedly missed an appointment with his doctor in Sokoto after ...

A stunning Instagram model who earns $60,000 per month from sharing raunchy snaps online has claimed that she lost multiple office jobs for being ‘too pretty.’ Stephanie Villagomez, 29, who is known as @tiff08 on Instagram, revealed that she turned ...

Russian investigators have refused to drop a murder charge against three sisters who killed their abusive father as he slept, leaving a controversial case in legal limbo. The general prosecutor’s office concluded earlier this year that the Khachaturyan sisters had ...

America’s coronavirus crisis could be over by the end of July, a new model predicts. It comes as several states – including New York, which has become both the national and international epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic begin to gradually ...

The mother of Ahmaud Arbrey, a 25-year-old African-American shot dead by two white men while he was reportedly out jogging, says she hopes her son’s killers will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Wanda Cooper-Jones told TMZ ...

U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) on Wednesday said that China-linked hackers were targeting U.S. research organisations to steal data on vaccines and treatments for the new coronavirus. The FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said health care, ...

A group of California prison inmates deliberately infected each other with coronavirus in a failed bid to get out of jail early. A sudden spike Covid-19 cases was reported at the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic back in mid-April seemingly ...

A High Court in Port Harcourt has sentenced a second-year student of Physics department, University of Port Harcourt, Ifeanyi Dike and one Ugochukwu Nwamiro to death by hanging over the murder of an eight-year-old girl, Victory Chikamso Nmezuwuba. The duo ...

Founder, Christ Embassy, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome has said that he predicted the Coronavirus lockdown in December. Oyakhilome, who spoke on Sunday during a telecast, said he told his church members in the middle of December that in 2020, the advanced ...

The Police Command in Akwa Ibom has arrested a medical doctor and six others over alleged sale of a five-month-old baby. The command’s Public Relations Officer, CSP Fredrick Nnudam, made the disclosure in a statement on Wednesday in Uyo, Unudam ...

A 5-year-old boy  on Saturday evening shot his 12-year-old brother to death with a loaded gun he mistook for a toy gun. The loaded gun was found in the woods and the boy fired a single shot to his brother’s ...

This is Uchenna Egbuchulem. He is 47-year old. Uchenna was picked up by the police for allegedly r.a.p.i.n.g and impregnating his biological daughter. He was arrested at Nduhu Alaenyi Ogwa in Mbaitoli Local Government Area of the state yesterday, May ...

Borno State Government has called-off the lockdown in the state. The lockdown was imposed three weeks ago after the state recorded its COVID-19 index case. But in a statement on Wednesday night, the Deputy Governor and state Chairman, COVID-19 Response ...

A three-day-old baby has died after his mother tested positive for coronavirus. Coolio Carl Justin John Morgan was born at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend on Saturday, May 2. An inquest heard the baby was diagnosed with fetal ...

Nigeria has recorded 184 fresh cases of the Coronavirus, taking its overall total to 4,971. According to the figures released by the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Lagos sits at the top with 51 new cases; Jigawa is second ...

SIR: Idi Amin Dada was the Ugandan military officer who served as the President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. During his reign as the President, he was ruthless, merciless, in fact, he was deemed to be one of the ...

Police in Liberia have arrested a political activist for a Facebook post in which he used inflammatory language to criticise the government’s proposed coronavirus feeding programme. Menipakei Dumoe, a staunch critic of President George Weah, had rejected the idea. He ...

A 98-year-old woman has become the oldest Coronavirus survivor in Lagos, as she was discharged along with 25 others on Wednesday. A joyful Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu tweeted to announce the discharge of the old woman who beat Coronavirus ...

Coronavirus could become endemic like HIV, the World Health Organization has warned. “It is important to put this on the table: this virus may become just another endemic virus in our communities, and this virus may never go away,” WHO ...

The family of the pilot involved in the fatal helicopter crash that took the life of NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna, 13, and seven others earlier this year has blamed the passengers for their own deaths. The family ...

The UN has warned that the economic downturn due to the pandemic could wipe out the gains of the last four years, at a cost of $8.5 trillion in economic activity. Its assessment of global prospects says that more than ...