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An Ilorin, Kwara state based private tertiary institution, Al-hikmah University management has warned its new students not to attend any ‘unholy gathering’ during their stay in the institution. Management specifically, cautioned “any student from attending a fresher’s night being put ...

  Manchester City won their fifth EFL Cup in the past seven seasons with a 2-1 victory over Aston Villa at Wembley on Sunday. Sergio Aguero’s goal got the defending champions up and running, with Rodri heading in a controversial second from a corner that ...

A morning fire razed five offices at Freedom Radio in Kaduna State in the wee hours of Sunday. The fire was said to have emanated from the inverter room that houses the station’s electrical equipment. Daily Trust gathered that the ...

Professor of Virology, Maduike Ezeibe of the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, MOUAU, who once claimed to have discovered therapy for the cure of HIV/AIDS, said that his therapy has the potency to cure the dreaded coronavirus ravaging China ...

Three Chinese citizens suspected of having Coronavirus symptoms have been quarantined in Wase Local Government Area of Plateau State. The State commissioner of Health, Nimkong Ndam, who confirmed this said the Chinese arrived the state on Friday from Ethiopia. He ...

Boris Johnson and his girlfriend Carrie Symonds are engaged and expecting a baby in early summer. The Prime Minister is already a father-of-five, however, this will be the first child born to his 31-year-old partner. Mr Johnson recently finalised his ...

  The Berger/Kara Bridge section of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway will be opened to motorists today, Sunday, March 1. This was made known by the Federal Controller of Works, Lagos, Mr Adedamola Kuti on Saturday. He said that construction work had ...

A 19-year-old internet fraudster, Chigemezu Arikibe, has been arrested by operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Responses Team, IRT, in Imo State, for defrauding a Cambodian woman of the sum of $75,000. Saturday Vanguard gathered that the ...

Popular actor and producer, Jackie Chan has said he is safe and healthly despite spread of Coronavirus in China. Chan, who is based in Hong Kong, took to his verified Instagram page assuring his fans that he is not in ...

Director General of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said the first results of over 20 Vaccines and therapeutics being developed for the cure of the Coronavirus, are expected in a few weeks. He disclosed this in his opening ...

Amidst panic over the detection of coronavirus in the country, resident doctors of the Enugu State University Teaching Hospital on Saturday embarked on a five-day warning strike to press home their demand for an enhanced pay package. Many residents of ...

Holy water fonts are being drained and the sign of peace suspended as the Catholic Church does its bit to combat coronavirus. The Catholic Church has issued advice to priests and those attending Mass across Ireland following the detection of ...

A Nigerian woman’s four-night hotel reservation was cancelled by an Abuja hotel due to “global threat corona virus”. Nigeria recorded its first case of coronavirus on Thursday after an Italian, who worked with a Lafarge Africa vendor, tested positive to ...

  In furtherance to the placing of the patient of the Coronavirus disease, a 44-year-old Italian, in a quarantine centre, Lagos and Ogun state governments have identified at least 100 persons who had contact with the index case of the ...

Ogun State Government has denied reports that a taxi driver who drove the Coronavirus victim from Lagos to Ewekoro, had escaped. Report had gone viral on social media that the driver had demanded N100 million, threatening to spread the chronic ...

The United States signed a landmark deal with the Taliban on Saturday, laying out a timetable for a full troop withdrawal from Afghanistan within 14 months as it seeks an exit from its longest-ever war. The agreement is expected to ...

More than 200,000 people have been affected by floods that have ravaged Republic of Congo since last year, authorities said Saturday. The government has issued an urgent international appeal after the flooding along the Congo and Ubangi rivers in the ...

Gunmen killed nine soldiers and officers in an attack on a police station and military unit in northeastern Burkina Faso on Saturday, security sources said, in the latest deadly assault in a country battling an Islamist insurgency. Several dozen heavily ...

Tension heightened in Obiaruku and its neighbouring communities in Ukwuani local government area of Delta State when youths from Umusume and Obi-Edike communities clashed which led to the death of two youths in both communities. It was learnt that those ...

Ogun State Government has denied reports that a taxi driver who drove the Coronavirus victim from Lagos to Ewekoro, had escaped. Report had gone viral on social media that the driver had demanded N100 million, threatening to spread the chronic ...

Four corpses were found in a forest in Taraba state. The corpses, all males were suspected to be part of the ten passengers abducted by kidnappers along Wukari-Jalingo road last Month. Daily Trust gathered that the victims were travelling to ...

Three years ago, Jen Atkin was enjoying planning her dream wedding, when her fiancé suddenly called it off. His reason for ditching his blushing bride-to-be? She’d been eating too much junk food and had gotten “too fat”. Well fast forward ...

  Bournemouth and Chelsea played out an entertaining 2-2 draw this afternoon in their Premier League clash at the Vitality Stadium.   Marcos Alonso put the Blues ahead, but the Cherries battled back to take lead through goals from Jefferson ...

A man who drowned his disabled wife was caught as he tried to flee the country with a suitcase full of s.e.x toys. Peter Rex Dansie, 71, murdered his wife Helen by pushing her wheelchair into a pond in Adelaide, ...

  Five Italian Serie-A weekend matches including Sunday’s clash between Juventus and Inter Milan have been postponed due to the novel Coronavirus, the Italian football league said on Saturday. Other matches called off were AC Milan v Genoa, Parma v ...