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It’ll be a boy for Ciara and husband Russell Wilson. On Tuesday, the couple announced they are expecting a son, sharing an adorable video of their outdoor gender reveal on social media. “Guys, if it’s pink, what is it going ...

A Facebook user, Saheed Akinloye, was on Tuesday remanded in a correctional centre by the Osun State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Osogbo for accusing the state government of importing COVID-19 patients into the state in order to access funds from ...

Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun on Tuesday said the current relaxation of the lockdown in the state from 7am to 2pm would be suspended on Friday. The governor also said the state would soon commence strict enforcement of wearing of ...

n Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said miscreants using the lockdown to unleash havoc on the residents are not ‘hungry people’ but opportunistic criminals. Sanwo-Olu, who said this at the COVID-19 and security briefing in Marina, assured that his ...

The Kwara Government has dismissed claims across the state suggesting that a local delicacy of yam flour, popularly called ‘Amala’, cures Coronavirus (COVID-19). Dr Abubakar Ayinla, the Permanent Secretary, state Ministry of Health, dismissed the claims on Tuesday in Ilorin ...

Three weeks after the Central Bank of Nigeria released the guidelines for the N50bn targeted credit facility, over 80,000 applications have so far been received from businesses and individuals. The Managing Director, NIRSAL Microfinance Bank, Mr Abubakar Kure, confirmed this ...

The Head, European Union Delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Amb. Ketil Karlsen, has said that the N21bn (€50m) donated to Nigeria by the EU is largely meant for the poor. “That is why part of the €50m we provide will ...

Representative of Mitsubishi Motors in Nigeria, Massilia Motors, has provided food items to feed members of about 1,000 homes in Ijora, a suburb of Lagos State, where the company’s head office is located. A statement by the company said a ...

The Lagos State Government has partnered the National Youth Service Corps to release corps members to anchor the distribution of food palliatives across the 20 Local Government Areas and 37 Local Council Development Areas of the state. According to the ...

The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra has called on donors in the South-East and South-South geopolitical zones to do so directly to their people. MASSOB argued that passing cash and food items through the governors ...

A councillor in the Katcha Local Government Area of Niger State has allegedly disappeared with 30 bags of palliative grains meant to alleviate the sufferings of the people of his constituency occasioned by COVID-19 lockdown, The Punch reports. The Secretary ...

Thce, has tested negative twice to the coronavirus disease after self-isolating, an official has disclosed. The Service Public Relations Officer (SPEO), Sunday James, disclosed this in a statement made available to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Abuja ...

The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has announced another 11 fresh cases of Coronavirus in Nigeria, with all cases detected in Lagos. This takes the national Coronavirus toll to 373, with Lagos having 214 cases. The Centre had earlier ...

The Federal Government has explained why there is delay in the evacuation of stranded Nigerians abroad. The Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama said the need to put in place isolation facilities was responsible for the delay of stranded Nigerians ...

Nineteen new COVID-19 cases were have been announced tonight by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). Of the positive cases, fourteen were recorded in Lagos, two in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), one in Kano, one in Niger, one ...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Tuesday announced a programme, tagged: “Food Kitchen” aimed at feeding 100,000 youths daily to cushion the effect of Coronavirus lockdown in the state. The governor disclosed this while giving update on the Coronavirus situation ...

The Iraqi government has suspended the licence of the Reuters news agency after it published a story claiming the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country was higher than the number officially reported. The Iraqi media regulator said it ...

Katy Perry‘s baby bump is growing by the day! The 35-year-old proudly posed in an Easter Bunny costume in a super cute selfie posted to her Instagram account . With one hand on her hip, the hilarious white ensemble featured ...

Bishop Gerald Glenn, the pastor of New Deliverance Evangelistic Church in Virginia has died, the church announced on Sunday. Glenn had tested positive for coronavirus, according to a video posted by his daughter Mar-Gerie Crawley. In a sermon on March ...

A family are pocketing an absolute fortune since they created a business selling s.e.x toys on eBay. BuzzPinky was born in December 2011 – and nine years on, it’s now turning over £1 million annually. The company is made up ...

A 19-year-old motorcycle spare part seller, Muhammad Abdullahi, has been arrested by operatives of the Jigawa State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) for allegedly sodomising a six-year-old boy. It was gathered that the mother of ...

The deadly coronavirus could be spreading through farts, according to doctors. But farts are unlikely to transmit the virus provided pants are worn. Tests carried out have shown that the virus was present in the faeces of more than half ...

  Tory Lanez has called out IK Ogbonna for trying to steal his show on his IG Live video. The rapper who has become famous for his IG live videos made a special announcement where he gave the Nigerian actor ...

The President of the Nigerian football body has said the Federation will help the country’s fight against Covid-19. Amaju Pinnick disclosed the NFF has been doing a lot behind the scenes after the Ministry of Youth and Sports Development released ...

A police chief in the US has been suspended after allegedly saying his colleague died from coronavirus ‘because he was gay’. Dan Engle, based in Davie, Florida, stands accused of making the comments after Deputy Shannon Bennett sadly died from ...