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The Federal Government has commenced the distribution of palliatives to 600,000 households in Abuja. The Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Ramatu Aliyu, flagged off the distribution on Friday in the nation’s capital. This comes as part ...

Some documents and furniture were destroyed by fire on Friday at the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja. This followed an electrical fault at the office of the Director of Electoral and Party Monitoring, leading to ...

The Edo state government on Friday said five of its confirmed COVID-19 cases have been discharged after they tested negative twice for the virus. Governor Godwin Obaseki announced the news in a tweet, “I am pleased to announce that 5 ...

The Emir of Daura, Dr. Umar Faruq, on Friday morning lost his wife, Hajiya Binta. The spokesman for Daura Emirate Council, Usman Abdullahi, confirmed the incident. Hajiya Binta, 65, was said to have died of a natural cause. Abdullahi said ...

Nasarawa is among states without a ventilator to help in the fight against coronavirus pandemic, but the state governor, Abdullahi Sule has bought 24 Toyota Hilux vehicles for state lawmakers, estimated at nearly N500 million. There are 169 ventilators nationwide ...

  A comment made by a Police Officer on Facebook has sparked outrage online. In what can be described as an hate comment, The police officer from Kwara state, Salihu Ajanaku, described Igbos as the most useless ethnic group in Nigeria. “Ibo fools, Ibo idiots, ...

Rows of graves are being pre-dug in a south east London cemetery for Muslim victims of the coronavirus pandemic. The plots are being dug at Kemnal Park Cemetery in Chislehurst to cope with the large numbers of deaths in the ...

The publisher of a leading local tabloid in Ebonyi State, The Voice newspaper, Chief Imo Eze, is dead. Imo died on Thursday night at the Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki (AE-FUTHA), Ebonyi state after a protracted illness. The ...

Princess Beatrice has officially cancelled her wedding to Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Queen’s granddaughter, 31, was set to wed the millionaire property tycoon, 37,  at St James Palace on May 29, but the wedding has ...

Premier League clubs are set to lose £177m in match-day income with the season likely to finish behind closed doors this summer. With just under a quarter of the campaign remaining, each of the plans being discussed by top-flight bosses ...

The headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja is on fire. The fire reportedly started few minutes to noon. The inferno is still raging at as the time of filing this report. But why fire everywhere. God ...

A medical doctor, Dominic Essien, has died in Akwa Ibom State after displaying suspected symptoms of COVID-19. The deceased, owner of San Dominique Hospital Uyo, was said to been sick with a week history of fever, cough and shortness of ...

Blac Chyna has been criticised by fans for charging a hefty amount for Instagram follow backs and FaceTime calls. The 31-year-old mum – who shares a daughter with Rob Kardashian – has launched a new business venture which will require ...

A controversial dictator has made an extraordinary claim that no one in his country has died or will be killed by coronavirus because he has ‘a cure’. Alexander Lukashenko, president of Belarus said he has found combinations of drugs to ...

The central medical store of the malaria control unit, Birin-Kebbi was last night gutted by fire. A large consignment of drugs was salvaged from the inferno. The fire raged for about four hours before it was put off by combined ...

Brazil’s Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta said Thursday he’d been sacked by President Jair Bolsonaro, after weeks of clashes between the two over the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Mandetta made the announcement on Twitter following a meeting with ...

News of granting Maryam Sanda,  the woman convicted and sentenced to death by hanging for killing her husband, had been granted a Presidential pardon is currently trending on social media. The news came after it was announced that President Muhammadu ...

The secrets you people are allegedly keeping is out. Pretty Mike has kuku finally split it. One would have thought this should be portrayed in a movie, but Pretty Mike is saying no, and has let the cat out of ...

Fourteen people were killed Thursday in a fire at a camp housing tens of thousands displaced by terrorists’ violence in northeast Nigerian, security and rescue sources told AFP. The blaze broke out mid-morning in a camp holding some 70,000 people ...

  The billionaire wife shared a video of her bathroom while observing her quarantine.   View this post on Instagram Sade Okoya Wife of Billionaire and Nigeria’s foremost business man, Rasaq Okoya, flaunts her luxury bathroom. A post shared by ...

A meeting yesterday by top federal government’s top officials, principal officers of the House of Representatives and stakeholders in the power sector resolved to set up a joint committee to work out modalities for the proposed two-month free power supply ...

National Coordinator, Presidential Taskforce Force on COVID-19, Dr Sani Aliyu, says people are being smuggled out of Lagos State in trucks. Speaking at a briefing of the task force in Abuja yesterday, he said inter-state travels were worsening the community ...

Britain will extend its coronavirus lockdown for “at least” another three weeks, foreign secretary Dominic Raab said on Thursday, as hundreds across the country continue to die daily from the outbreak. “The government has decided that the current measures must ...

Kano State Grand Khadi, Tijjani Yusuf Yakasai has on Thursday set free, not fewer than fifty-nine inmates with minor offences and delayed trial in order to decongest the Nigerian Correctional Service to curtail the spread of the raging Coronavirus pandemic. ...

The Kaduna State government has converted the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation camp located along the Abuja- Kaduna highway into a quarantine centre. The state deputy governor, Hadiza Balarabe, confirmed this during an inspection visit to the facility on ...