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Youtube — a video-sharing platform has announced singer, Naira Marley as Nigeria’s most-viewed artiste for 2019. This was disclosed during YouTube Music and YouTube Premium launch at the Google Incubator Hub in Lagos. Also included on the top 10 most ...

– Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote on Wednesday lost more than N240 billion in five hours as the effect of the coronavirus hit harder on the Stock Exchange. The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday declared coronavirus a pandemic. A ...

Grime artist Andy Anokye, who performs as Solo 45, has been convicted of r3ping four women and holding them against their will, following a trial at Bristol Crown Court. Anokye, 33, was found guilty at Bristol Crown Court of 30 ...

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Juventus defender Daniele Rugani has tested positive for COVID-19, the Serie A club have announced. In a statement released yesterday evening, the club announced that Rugani has been diagnosed with the Coronavirus, but is currently asymptomatic. “Juventus Football Club is ...

Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court has sentenced one Abdulrasheed Imam (aka Alkanun Da Woru) to four months imprisonment for impersonation and fraud. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Imam was prosecuted by the Economic and ...

Italy has said all shops except pharmacies and food outlets will be closed in response to the country’s coronavirus outbreak as the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in Italy jumped in the last 24 hours by 196 to 827. ...

  Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo state has sent the names of five women and 17 others as commissioner-designates to the state’s House of Assembly. The names were announced by the House Speaker, Chiji Collins at the plenary on Wednesday. ...

A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Yaba, Lagos on Wednesday ordered that a 27-year-old carpenter, Idowu Tajudeen, who allegedly stabbed his neighbour to death with a kitchen knife during an argument, be remanded in Ikoyi Custodial Centre. Chief Magistrate Oluwatoyin Oghre, ...

Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force on March 11, 2020, rescued four NYSC corps members who were kidnapped on March 9, 2020, along Funtua-Gusau Road on their way to NYSC Orientation Camp, Gusau in Zamfara State. The successful rescue operation ...

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) said it has provided infrared thermometers in all the 36 states, including the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja to prevent the outbreak of coronavirus in its orientation camps. The scheme also said that it has ...

Nollywood actress, Kemi Afolabi has been honoured with an Islamic chieftaincy title as the “Imole Adinni” by an Islamic group in Lagos State. This happened on Sunday, 8th of March. The 41-year-old in her post on Instagram shared beautiful pictures ...

The authorities of Albany International School, Zaria confirmed the death of a JSS 3 student, Abdurahman Doko, in a fire incident that gutted a hostel on Wednesday. The fire, which started around 12.30 p.m., destroyed the male students’ hostel of ...

The House of Representatives yesterday resolved to invite the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Adeniyi Adebayo, over proliferation of fake and counterfeit products in Nigeria. Also invited were Directors-General of the Standard Organisation of Nigeria and the Consumer Protection ...

The Lagos State Government has ordered the arrest of policemen and military officials caught engaging in okada riding in prohibited areas across the state. The government frowned at the uniformed men disobeying the state’s laws on traffic and restriction of ...

The conditional prisoner release order announced by Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani is against the US-Taliban agreement signed in Doha last month, a spokesman for the Taliban armed group said on Wednesday. “It is properly explained in the peace accord that ...

The fatal poisoning of two Gauteng children allegedly by their father is believed to have been the tragic culmination of years of the little kids being abused by him. Mikael, 10, and his little sister Michelle, 5, met a harrowing ...

A divisional police officer has been shot dead in Cross River State, South-South Nigeria. The officer, Gabriel Amawu, headed the Nigeria Police, Obudu Division, in the northern Cross River State. Mr Amawu, a deputy superintendent of police, was shot dead ...

The mother of Floyd Mayweather’s three children, Josie Harris, has been found dead in her car by police in the United States. She was 40 years old. According to TMZ, police are not treating the death as suspicious. She was ...

The coronavirus outbreak has been labelled a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). WHO chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the number of cases outside China had increased 13-fold over the past two weeks. He said he was “deeply ...

  Port Harcourt based Pastor and General Overseer of Salvation Ministries, David Ibiyeomie has advised ladies not to be tempted to see their fiance’s manhood before marriage. In a post shared by lalasticlala Lala, a member of his church asked ...

South Africa on Wednesday reported six new confirmed cases of Covid-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus – all involving people who had travelled to Europe. Thirteen people have now tested positive in South Africa, according to the ...

`Disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and s.e.x,u.a.l assault. He was found guilty in a trial in New York last month, a dramatic fall from grace for one of Hollywood’s most ...

The Council on Foreign Relations has canceled a roundtable called “Doing Business Under Coronavirus” scheduled for Friday in New York due to the spread of the infection itself. CFR has also canceled other in-person conferences that were scheduled from March ...

If you looked at a picture of Andy Wilkinson, how old would you think he is? Like many people, you might say he looks to be a bulked-up man in his 30s. But Andy, from Coventry, is actually a 56-year-old ...