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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 ...

Iretiola Doyle is 53. The actress turned 53 yesterday and decided to throw it back to her childhood days. Well who pose for photos in a pandemic? She shared many of them to the delight of her fans who told ...

Donald Trump has claimed a Covid-19 vaccine will be ready by the end of the year. Answering questions at a virtual town hall Sunday night, the president said: ‘We think we’ll have a vaccine by the end of this year ...

Clarence Peters’ girlfriend of 14 years, Jennifer has revealed more details on how popular dancer, Kodak passed away at her boyfriend’s house saying the video director was not even at the scene. She spoke about how Clarence Peters was invited to ...

A 24-year-old woman on Saturday night stabbed to death her two children, aged 2 and 6, at her house in Kayole, Nairobi. The woman, identified as Winfred Nduku, is nursing serious injuries at Mama Lucy Hospital after a botched suicide. ...

Nigeria has recorded another 170 new Coronavirus cases, taking its overall total to 2,558. This represents a drop in the number of infections from what the nation raked in on Saturday, which stood at 220 cases. In the figures released ...

Madonna made sure she didn’t miss out on a friend’s birthday party, despite recently testing positive for coronavirus antibodies. The Like A Virgin singer, 61, attended the bash in person and even hugged and presented her pal Steven Klein with ...

All the improperly kitted mourners at the burial of late Abba Kyari on the 18th of April have tested negative to coronavirus. Dr Mohammed Kawu, Acting Secretary, FCT Health and Human Services Secretariat, made this known in Abuja on Sunday. ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has ordered all banks not to retrench workers. A statement from the apex bank signed by Mr. Isaac Okorafor Director, Corporate Communications said the CBN, Bankers’ Committee decided to suspend lay-offs in banks. Access ...

North Korean troops fired multiple gunshots towards the South in the DMZ dividing the peninsula on Sunday, prompting South Korean forces to fire back, Seoul said. The rare exchange of gunfire comes a day after North Korean state media reported ...

The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) has warned that the partial lifting of lockdown measures could lead to a massive chain of COVID-19 infections. Dr. Lanre Olosunde, the Chairman of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), sounded the warning ...

Nasarawa State Government has fumigated and sealed off the state’s house of assembly after a member, Hon Suleiman Adamu, died of the deadly bug. The late member represented Nasarawa Central in the assembly. More photos of the exercise below…   ...

President John Magufuli of Tanzania on Sunday ordered a probe on the country’s coronavirus testing protocols, citing possible interference by unnamed saboteurs. President Magufuli also dismissed the test kits used in the country saying that they were faulty because they ...

The University of Lagos on Sunday has asked workers not to resume until it put in place a phased timetable for resumption. A statement signed by the institution’s registrar, Mr. Oladejo Azeez, noted that only workers on essential duties were ...

Chloroquine, an anti-malaria drug, has aided recovery of six coronavirus patients in Bauchi, including Governor Bala Mohammed, who is the index case in the state, according to Commissioner for Health ,Dr.Aliyu Maigoro. Maigoro, who disclosed this to The Nation during ...

Music director and producer Clarence Peters is currently being detained by Lagos police over the death of popular dancer, Love Divines known as Kodak. This happened after reports emerged that the popular dancer died at Peters’ house on Wednesday while ...

  Popular socialite and celebrity Barman, Cubana ChiefPriest, has taken to his social media page to dish out some words of advice to anyone currently tolerating abusive partners.     The socialite urged anybody in that kind of situation to ...

A member of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly, representing Nasarawa central, Mr. Sule Adamu, has died of coronavirus, The Punch reports. Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa state confirmed this on Sunday while briefing newsmen on the update of COVID-19 ...

A young Nigerian lady, identified as Adetomisin Adetula, has cried out for urgent help to return to Nigeria after being trafficked to Oman. In a viral video, Adetomisin who spoke in Yoruba, said she contacted an agent who promised to ...

Criticisms have greeted the Infectious Diseases Bill in the works at the House of Representatives to give teeth to Federal Government’s efforts to manage the special circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, which as of Friday night had claimed 68 lives ...

Former Big Brother Naija housemate, Mike Edwards and his wife, Perri Shakes Drayton are expecting their first child. Perri announced the good news via her Twitter page on Sunday, May 3, 2020, writing; “Been keeping a secret and pleased to ...

“We were five in number and we slept with the girl before we killed her last. We killed the boy first, killed the second and the girl last. We used gun brought by Bright”. With this statement, one of the ...