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The Queen has cancelled her birthday tradition of gun salutes for the first time in 68 years amid the coronavirus lockdown. The monarch will celebrate her 94th birthday on Tuesday – an event normally marked with pomp and ceremony. But ...

Popular cartoonist and director of Tom and Jerry, Gene Deitch has passed away at the age of 95. According to Metro UK, the Oscar-winning illustrator died on Thursday night at his apartment in Prague. His Czech publisher, Petr Himmel, confirmed ...

A twitter user Ric Hassani (@RicHassani) earlier got a lot of love form twitter when he showed off his home. Well, not like he actually showed it off…. It’s lockdown and most people are locked at home, so he has ...

The Bayelsa Plaza at the International Centre for Commerce, ICC, at the Trade Fair Complex, Ojo, Lagos, was yesterday, April 19th gutted by fire. Businesses have been shut down at the Trade Fair with shops closed for almost 4 weeks ...

According to residents of Gbagada-Ifako, ‘One Million Boys’ are currently in their area shooting and robbing. This is presently on going, and they are calling for help on social media. Watch the disturbing videos below… Please this video was shot ...

The bodies of seven teenagers were discovered in a church in Ethiopia’s eastern Oromia region, police officials said on Monday. “The teenagers were inside a room at the St Joseph Church which housed a generator,” Commander Aschalew Alemu, spokesman for ...

Police in South Africa have arrested a man “smuggling his girlfriend,” in the back of a car amidst a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19, according to an official from the province of Guateng. Faith Mazibuko tweeted that ...

Karin Fortwangler woke up at 4.30am on 15 March and realised she had a sudden burning pain in her back. A mum-of-three, she thought it felt the same as when she had been in labour with her other children – ...

Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba Group, on Monday, announced the donation of more medical equipment to Africa in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The Chinese billionaire made the announcement on his verified Twitter handle. Ma twitted: “Our 3rd ...

Prince Harry and Meghan have announced they will be adopting a ‘zero engagement’ policy with four UK newspaper groups, but deny they are ‘avoiding criticism’. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who live in Los Angeles with their son Archie, ...

Lagosians in their numbers took to twitter last night as NCDC announced Nigeria has recored 86 new cases of coronavirus, crediting 70 to Lagos. Many wondered how the virus is being spread despite the stay at home order which many ...

Sacked Kano State Commissioner for Works, Mu’azu Magaji has opened up on his sack and denied that he celebrated the death of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari. Magaji was sacked on Saturday by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje for ...

A woman who had ­ballooned to 20 stone lost more than a third of her bodyweight in 10 months after ­a ­doctor gave her the wake-up call: “Diet or die.” Kelly McCracken, 42, was a size 28 and so big ...

Khloé Kardashian fans have laid into Tristan Thompson after he appeared to forget his own son. In the latest episode of Keeping Up the Kardashians, Khloé tells her basketball star ex in a phone chat that she has began “freezing ...

An official of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Bauchi Office, has tested positive for the deadly Coronavirus disease in the State. Dr Aliyu Maigoro, Bauchi State Commissioner for Health, confirmed this on Sunday in a statement in Bauchi by ...

  Chioma Rowland, the fiancee of Afropop singer, Davido, has recovered from coronavirus. Davido made this know on twitter tweeting; “Glory be to God…Chioma has now tested negative twice for COVID-19… Thank you all for prayers…We love you.” Davido had ...

Drake’s smash hit single Toosie Slide has been played an incredible three BILLION times on TikTok, smashing the former record held by Kylie Jenner. It makes the musical star the fastest rising music trend, as users around the world create ...

It was always going to take more than isolation to put a halt to any Kardashian party. Kourtney celebrated turning 41 in a very different way with a very life-like pinata – after an incredible drive-by outside her home. Kendall ...

Police in Kenya implementing coronavirus restrictions have arrested four people who disguised themselves as mourners taking a body for burial. They had left the capital, Nairobi, and travelled 370km (about 230 miles) west with an empty coffin in the vehicle ...

The man who fatally shot 16 people during a bloody rampage in Nova Scotia was 51-year-old denture-maker Gabriel Wortman, reports said Sunday. Wortman went on a shooting spree in several towns while dressed as a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer ...

Kano State government on Sunday approved the deportation of Almajiris, otherwise known as ‘children beggars’ in the State. Salihu Tanko Yakasai, the media aide to Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, made this known. The governor had said the decision was ...

There is panic in Borno State as a nurse died on Saturday at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital of suspected coronavirus. The news of the death of the man, Babangida Buba, a retired nurse with the Hospital Management Board, ...

A Zimbabwean mother claims she wrestled her three-year-old son from the jaws of a crocodile by shoving her fingers into its nostrils. Maurina Musisinyana, 30, from the southeastern town of Chiredzi, was fishing on the banks of the Runde River ...

Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Femi Falana, said on Sunday the greatest tribute the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), could pay to the 19 deceased victims of COVID-19 in Nigeria, including his former Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, who ...

Australia is thinking of extending its lockdown to a YEAR – despite suffering just 63 coronavirus deaths. Prime Minister Scott Morrison warned life ‘down under’ could be constrained for 12 more months because of the deadly pandemic. And some see ...