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A 26-year-old woman suffers from a rare condition which means food she eats is turned into alcohol and makes her appear drunk. Alyssa Kelsch has auto-brewery syndrome so carbs and sugars she digests turns into booze resulting her speech becoming ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a hotelier Oladimeji Olusegun Ogunfolaju and 79 others in Ikorodu, Lagos for alleged involvement in internet fraud. According to the Commission, Ogunfolaju owns Lakers Hotel and Lake County Entertainment in Ikorodu, ...

Internet icon Marnie the dog has sadly died at age 18, with her owner reassuring fans that she passed away ‘painlessly and peacefully’. Her owner Shirley Braha broke the news on social media, writing: ‘It is with much grief I ...

A teenage girl who grew up in poverty and had no space to do her homework has been offered a place at Oxford. Thamima shared a cramped council house with her parents and three siblings which was so overcrowded she ...

The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested one Lucky Michael for allegedly beheading an 82-year-old woman in her farm. The deceased, identified as Eka Sammy but fondly called ‘Mma Iko Mbakara’ was ambushed in her farm in Oku Abak ...

Well it’s a do me, I do you season. So a troll on twitter has said Davido’s Sweet In The Middle song would have been better, if Zlatan Ibile wasn;t featured on that track and went ahead to hail Naira ...

The Jigawa State Police Command yesterday confirmed 23 people dead in an accident at Gwamfai community in Jahun Local Government Area of Jigawa State. The command’s spokesman, Audu Jinjiri, in a statement, said the accident occurred yesterday after a tyre ...

  Both Joanna Jedrzejczyk and Zhang Weili were taken straight to hospital after their gruelling war at UFC 248, with the Polish fighter suffering a horror hematoma during the bout. The strawweight title fight has already been dubbed one of ...

As the Senate commenced its public hearing on the anti-social media bill, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has called on Nigerians to resist the bill. Describing the hill as obnoxious, the main opposition party also called on the media, organised ...

Champtions League and Europa League football could be suspended to prevent the spread of coronavirus, according to reports. Uefa have already taken the decision to play many of the round-of-16 ties behind closed doors. Barcelona’s clash with Napoli, Paris Saint-Germain ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has visited Wuhan for the first time since the city emerged as the centre of the coronavirus epidemic in January – a major sign that Beijing believes the outbreak is under control. The timing of Xi’s ...

Best friends Ashley Thomas and Latoya Wimberly have called themselves sisters ever since meeting in middle school. Last month, after 17 years of friendship, the two Philadelphia-area women confirmed through a DNA test that they are in fact biological sisters. ...

Daughter of the former Emir of Kano, Khadija Sanusi, Muhammadu Sanusi II, on Monday, asked her followers to stop sending her condolences, following her father’s dethronement. The former emir, who ascended the throne in 2014, was deposed by Governor Abdullahi ...

French Culture Minister Franck Riester has contracted the novel coronavirus and is staying in his Paris home but is “doing fine”, his office said Monday. “The minister tested positive today,” after displaying symptoms, the ministry said. It noted that Riester ...

Daniel Craig is about to set pulses racing as he poses shirtless for his last ever Bond interview for GQ magazine. The 52-year-old discussed his anxieties over the script, admitted feeling ‘physically very low’ was the reason behind the film’s ...

A 13-year-old boy has killed his elder brother, 20, in Bayelsa State. It was gathered that the little boy named Ebikari Andrew stabbed his elder brother, Fineboy Andrew, with a kitchen knife. They were said to have had “a misunderstanding” ...

The family of Olayemi Adetola-Odekoya has been thrown into mourning following her death as a result of a misunderstanding between her and one of her tenants, Saheed Lateef, at their place of residence on Apata Street in the Palmgrove area ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Monday, arraigned the 41-year-old Managing Director of Bravem Services Limited, Ebioenang George, before the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, for his alleged involvement in a N37m oil fraud. George was ...

The Lagos State Government has declared two people wanted who boarded the Turkish Airline with the Italian who brought Coronavirus to Nigeria. Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi had last week threatened to release the names of the two contacts ...

Khloe Kardashian and ex boyfriend Tristan Thompson have been flirting up a storm on Instagram , sparking reconciliation rumours. Khloe, 35, showed off her incredible curves in a skimpy swimsuit in the three-way edit on her Instagram. She named the ...

Several hundred people have been ordered to self-quarantine after the rector of a prominent church in Washington DC was confirmed as the city’s first coronavirus patient. Reverend Timothy Cole of Christ Church Episcopal in Georgetown remains hospitalised after DC health ...

Police officers are investigating the killing of an elderly man inside a police station on Sunday in Kakamega County, Kenya. Benson Waluvengo Benjamin, 62, died at the Kabras Police Station on the same day he was arrested for allegedly assaulting ...

  Gunmen have kidnapped a young man, who is reputed to be a billionaire, Mr Elvis Ojeogwu, his father and one other person from their hometown of Obior in the Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State. A family ...

Outspoken Nigerian rapper, Eedris Abdulkareem has mocked the just dethroned Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido. Eedris took to Instagram where he mocked the respected man, saying he is paying for a certain ‘crime’. Posting to his Instagram page, Eedris wrote; ...

A fifth person has died from coronavirus in the UK just hours after another patient in his 70s passed away. The latest victim, also in their 70s, was being treated at St Helier Hospital, in Carshalton, Sutton, London. The fatality ...