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The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics has given the Federal Government 15 days ultimatum for it to honour all pending agreements reached with it or risk industrial action. Addressing the press after the union’s 97th National Executive Committee meeting at ...

A witness at Sgt Jamilu Tanimu of Zaria City Police Division, yesterday narrated how a pair of shoes left at the scene of a robbery, linked a juvenile to the crime. Tanimu made this known while giving evidence at the ...

Top Tanzania rapper, Mwana FA, says he has tested positive for coronavirus. Mwana FA, said when he had returned from South Africa he started developing a fever and symptoms of the virus. Tests confirmed that he had Covid-19, the respiratory ...

The leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has directed churches in Nigeria to observe Sunday 22 and 29 March, 2020 as days of prayers against the coronavirus pandemic in Nigeria and globally. According to a Press Statement issued ...

The Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday arraigned one Ope Saraki, a cousin of the immediate past President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki. He was arraigned on two count charges bordering on ...

Apostle Suleman has spoken put about what he knows about coronavirus and most importantly what God told him about it. Addressing a group of worshipers, the Apostle said people shouldn’t fear because God has told him coronavirus will go back ...

A Kenyan opposition figure has called on the government to override doctor-patient confidentiality by publishing the details of all confirmed coronavirus cases. Moses Wetangula said “not conceal[ing] identities” would help with contact tracing, because it would allow people “to quickly ...

Nigeria’s Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola and the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike were caught in elbow shake during a visit to avoid spread of Coronavirus. Wike had received Fashola in Port Harcourt yesterday. More photos below… ...

Ben Murray-Bruce, has lost his wife of 41 years,  Evelyn, to cancer. Bruce personally made the disclosure via his twitter handle @benmurraybruce. The founder of Silverbird Group said he and the children were devastated by the sad event. He tweeted: ...

  Former Arsenal and Barcelona star Alex Song, Ivory Coast duo Xavier Kouassi and Seydou Kouassi, and Senegal’s Birama Ndoye have been sacked by FC Sion for refusing to take a pay cut due to the coronavirus outbreak. With several competitions and league halted due to the spread ...

Po.rnhub revealed that worldwide traffic to the site has increased by 11.6% as people begin to self-quarantine and work from home in order to prevent the spread of coronavirus. On a normal day, Pornhub has roughly 120 million visitors, but ...

Egypt has arrested and charged four prominent activists and authors who called for the government to release prisoners amid the coronavirus outbreak. The four women were arrested on Wednesday on the charge of spreading false news and violating the country’s ...

A 60-year-old inmate was among 25 others, who participated at the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), by the JAMB at the Ikoyi Custodial Centre school on Thursday in Lagos. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent, who monitored the examination, ...

Four Indian men convicted of the gang r.a.p.e and murder of a student in Delhi in 2012 have been hanged. Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh were sentenced to death by a trial court in 2013. The ...

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has directed churches in the country to conduct services online or use house cell based service. It also asked the churches to observe March 22 and March 29 as days of prayers against the ...

Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor on Thursday ordered the arrest of two people who appeared in a video drinking a disinfectant in a bid to stave off the new coronavirus. The young men were separately seen gulping down a steriliser in ...

Coronavirus has killed more people in Italy than in any other country, after deaths there rose by 427 in a day. The number of deaths now stands at 3,405, which is more than in China where the virus originated last ...

  A Pensioner in a coronavirus lockdown in Spain was brought to tears after her neighbours surprised her with a cake for her 80th birthday. The footage filmed in Lavapies, Madrid, shows the heartwarming moment a neighbour knocks on the ...

More than 1300 coronavirus suspects are being tracked in Lagos, after being in contact with the 11 confirmed positive cases, commissioner for health, Professor Akin Abayomi said yesterday. He said the government is following up the huge number of suspects ...

  Mrs Charlotte Oduro is a proven and approved marriage counselor in Ghana and for the past few years have been advising both women and men on how to make their marriage and relationships work.   In an interview with ...

  A man has authoritatively told Italian Authorities that he isn’t ready to be quarantined or made to stay indoors because his wife is another big problem.   The unidentified white disclosed in an interview after he was spotted outside ...

A twitter user has shared a gist of how her neighbour — a man went missing in November last year and his wife fasted, prayed and almost ran mad, only for the man to be seen in Ibadan, Oyo state ...

Ex beauty queen Iheoma Nnadi Emenike has showed off her new born. The now mom of two shared the photo on Instagram and says she can’t thank her husband enough.

Liberia’s oldest church, the Providence Baptist Church, has become the first in the country to suspend prayer services in the wake of coronavirus. The church in the capital, Monrovia, was established in 1821 by freed black slaves from the US. ...

A gang of thugs smashed a Sainsbury’s shop front in south London in a nighttime raid as supermarkets come under huge pressure amid coronavirus fears. Six men tried stealing alcohol from the New Kent Road store in Elephant and Castle ...