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Former President, Goodluck Jonathan has penned a touching tribute to his friend and former boss, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua who died on May 5, 2010, exactly 10 years today. He wrote; ” It has been a decade since His Excellency President ...

Nine pastors have been arrested in Bayelsa State, South-South Nigeria, for holding church service in alleged contravention of the lockdown order in the state. The Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, signed an executive order recently barring people from leaving their ...

Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai has disclosed that, repatriated Almajiri children from Kano State account for 50 of the 59 active COVID-19 cases in Kaduna. Governor El-Rufai disclosed this on his accredited Twitter handle on Sunday. Kaduna State ...

A total of 2,310 violators of the presidential directives on lockdown and social distancing to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), have so far been arrested in five weeks, in Lagos State. Out of the number, 125 were ...

A man who fled to the UK from Wuhan in January has said he wishes he never left China. Matt Raw, 38, shouted ‘we’re free’ after spending two weeks in quarantine at Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral on February 13, ...

Four women have been charged in connection with the disappearance and death of a mother whose body was found days after she vanished. Nadine Chaves, Mercedes Gomez, Christina Gomez and Melissa Servin were all arrested in Mesa, Arizona on Friday. ...

Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbe was inaugurated on Sunday at a ceremony that was minimised to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. Some 200 guests – all wearing face masks and practicing social distancing – attended the ceremony. With borders ...

Parents of Leah Sharibu, who was abducted two years ago by Boko Haram insurgents, have said the Federal Government has been deceiving Nigerians and the international community with promises of rescuing her from captivity. The spokesperson for the family and ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday directed the police to arrest of all the suspects, who kidnapped and murdered three students of the University of Port Harcourt. Joy Adoki, Nelson Nwafor and Fortune Obemba were kidnapped on April 7, 2020, and ...

Despite the ravaging global pandemic, COVID-19, resident doctors of Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospi­tal (OOUTH), Sagamu, Ogun State, commence a three-day warning strike today. It would be recalled that the hospital houses one of the isolation centres desig­nated by the ...

Two sisters and their parents have been arrested in Yatta, Machakos County, Kenya for allegedly killing their close relative over a dowry payment row. According to the police report, Francis Mulwa Muthama, aged 25, was attacked by his parents and ...

Autumn Wood, 28, and Christian Miller, 28, from Cincinnati, Ohio, were unable to go ahead with the wedding they had planned because of lockdown – and so came up with another way to tie the knot. Their ceremony was officiated ...

The Jigawa State Government has confirmed that a pregnant woman had died of COVID-19, bringing the total number of deaths in the state to two. Abba Zakari, the state’s Commissioner for Health, Abba Zakari, made this known. He said, “The ...

The Federal Government, on Monday, confirmed the receipt of $311m looted by the late military dictator, Gen. Sani Abacha. The Punch reports that the loot was repatriated from the United States and the Bailiwick of Jersey. The Attorney General of ...

The National Bureau of Statistics has said 40.1 per cent of the country’s population live in poverty. The NBS, in the executive summary of the 2019 poverty and inequality report released on Monday, said over 82.9 million Nigerians lived below ...

Two more patients have died of coronavirus-related complications in Lagos State, The Punch reports. The Lagos State Ministry of Health made this known via its Twitter handle on Monday. This, the ministry said, brings the total number of fatalities in ...

Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, says the state is in trouble due to the presence of the coronavirus disease. Speaking on Sunday at the presentation of a COVID-19 Mobile Testing Centre donated by the Dangote Foundation to the state, Ganduje ...

A missing toddler who wandered away from her Florida home was found dead in a lake just hours after she vanished, according to authorities. The search for two-year-old Lorie Thermidor began Friday around 3:30pm near Redwood Point Drive in Tampa. ...

The enforcement of the restriction orders in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja turned dramatic on Sunday when the Pastor in Charge of Shekinah Glory Church, Jabi, along with some of his Deacons and workers scaled the fence to evade ...

Russia’s National Guard will monitor compliance with tough measures imposed in response to the pandemic during holidays this week. The use of military technology follows a recorded rise in Covid-associated deaths of 58 in the past 24 hours, taking the ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said it plans to arraign former Special Duties Minister, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki and three others before a Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday. EFCC’s Spokesman, Tony Orilade said, in a statement, that ...

Fifty persons from Zamfara state hidden inside Lorry loads of fruits were intercepted in Ilorin by officers of Kwara state police command. Vanguard reliably gathered that they were intercepted at the Oyun area close to Kulende junction around Zango area ...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has ordered all civil servants in the state to stay away from work on Monday, May 4. The five-week-old total lockdown imposed on the nation’s economic capital terminates on Sunday night, May 3, and the ...

The authorities of University of Port Harcourt, UNIPORT, said two of the murdered victims of abductors in Rivers were not their students. A spokesman for the university, Dr. Williams Wodi identified the only female victim, Joy Favour Adoki, as a ...

Nigeria’s former Ambassador to Spain, Bianca Ojukwu who is also the wife of late Biafra Leader Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu is keeping herself busy with exercises during this lockdown. The ex-beauty queen shared photos of herself  in the act on social ...