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White Cop Kneels On Black: A Florida police department has launched an internal investigation after a video surfaced on social media showing a White Sarasota police officer kneeling on a black man's neck. George Floyd Protesters The video was taken...
Federal Government Removes Petrol Price: The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, has removed the cap on the price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as petrol, giving marketers the freedom to fix the price of the commodity and...
350 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded in Nigeria on Thursday, June 4, 2020. According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), 102 cases were recorded in Lagos, 34 in Ogun, 29 in FCT, 26 in Borno, 23 in...
Police Officers Shot Dead: Nine persons, including eight policemen, were killed in Isanlu, Kogi state, when a gang of suspected armed robbers attacked a branch of first generation bank in the town, TheCable reports. The divisional police officer (DPO) was...
Three humanitarian workers and a soldier were abducted along Monguno/Maiduguri highway on Tuesday June 2, by suspected Boko Haram insurgents. The incident occurred at about 11:30am on the said date. An official of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) who...
348 new cases of Coronavirus have been recorded in Nigeria as confirmed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). A breakdown of the cases across states is as follows; Lagos-163, FCT-76, Ebonyi-23, Rivers-21, Delta-8, Nasarawa-8, Niger-8, Enugu-6, Bauchi-5, Edo-5,...
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayotellah Khamenei, has joined China to criticize the United States saying the police killing of unarmed African-American George Floyd shows the “true face” of the United States and its oppression of the peoples of the world, including...
A man was arrested Monday afternoon, June 1, on suspicion of murdering and cannibalizing his own grandmother in Richmond, Virginia, USA. The suspect, identified as Dwayne Wallick, 37, was arrested a little after 2 p.m. after Richmond officers allegedly caught...
A 21-year-old man simply identified as Ishaku has been arrested by the Bauchi state police command for stabbing his friend, Zeloti John to death over a girl. The incident reportedly occurred in a drinking joint in Dass on Friday May...
Coronavirus Self-swab Test Launched: The Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR), Yaba, Lagos, in partnership with the Mobihealth on Tuesday launched the first home Teleconsultation COVID-19 self-swab test in the country. Prof. Babtunde Salako, Director-General of NIMR, said the ‘do...
Fighting Locust Invasion: As India continues its battle with the coronavirus pandemic a new kind of invasion is threatening to destroy vital crops and vegetation. India is now experiencing locust swarm the country has seen in almost 30 years. Waves...
Trump And Putin Discuss G7 Summit: Russian President Vladimir Putin had a phone conversation with his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump at the initiative of the U.S. side, discussing issues related to the Group of Seven (G7) Summit and oil markets,...
The number of COVID-19 cases in the United States topped 1.8 million on Monday, reaching 1,808,291 as of 6:33 p.m. (2233 GMT), according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Meanwhile, the national death toll...
416 new cases of Coronavirus were recorded in Nigeria on Monday, June 1, 2020. According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), 192 cases were recorded in Lagos, 41 in Edo, 33 in Rivers, 30 in Kaduna, 23 in...
United States National Guard troops have been deployed near the White House to stop protest following the killing of black man, George Floyd by a white police officer, Derek Chauvin. President Donald Trump announced on Monday evening at the Rose...
307 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded in Nigeria on Sunday, May 31, 2020. According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control NCDC, 188 cases were recorded in Lagos, 44 in FCT, 19 in Ogun, 14 in Kaduna, 12 in...
Pastor Adeboye, who is the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, reacted on Instagram. He wrote: "All I can do at this time is to pray for the family of Omozuwa and do everything possible working with...
Minneapolis Police Vehicle On Fire: Protesters in the United States city of Minneapolis welcomed Friday's murder charge against the white officer who knelt on the neck of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, but demanded the three other officers involved...
U.S. President Donald Trump said his country will be terminating its relationship with the World Health Organisation (WHO). He announced this today in Washington, weeks before the 30 day ultimatum given to the UN agency expires. Trump had earlier stopped...
Air Peace has evacuated 301 Chinese from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos to Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in China. Mr Stanley Olisa, Spokesman of the airline, said in a statement on Friday that the evacuation which took place...
Renault is cutting 15,000 jobs worldwide as part of a €2bn (£1.8bn) cost-cutting plan after seeing sales plunge because of the virus pandemic. "This plan is essential," said interim boss Clotilde Delbos, who announced a bigger focus on electric cars...
A gang of monkeys attacked a laboratory assistant and escaped with a batch of coronavirus blood test samples, a report by Sky News has shown. The bizarre incident saw the troop of primates launch their assault near Meerut Medical College...
An Indian priest has been arrested for beheading a man in his shrine to offer as a sacrifice to end the Coronavirus pandemic in India, Gulf News reports. 70-year-old Sansari Ojha from the Brahmani Dei Temple cut off 52-year-old Saroj...
A Germany national was on Tuesday charged in court for sodomizing four teenagers aged between 10 and 13 years old in Kenya. Thomas Scheller, a 71-year-old retired engineer, was charged with six counts, among them dealing with child pornography, child...
With the new reports about the deadly coronavirus reeling out across the nation on a daily basis, it is almost hard to feel confident that we are taking all the right precautions to keep safe, and those around us, safe...
In a shocking case, a 30-year-old man allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan at his house at Vishwakarma Nagar in Jamshedpur’s Mango suburb on Sunday. Reportedly, the man was deeply stressed as his wedding was indefinitely...
A man identified as Charles Mwale from Kasungu hanged himself on Sunday after failing to reconcile with his wife. Kasungu Public Relations Officer Harry Namwaza said the incident happened at Mtemweka village in the area of Traditional Authority Kaphaizi in...
Warangal Police have arrested a 24-year-old man for sensational killings of nine people whose bodies were found dumped in bore well last week. The police stated that the accused, identified as Sanjay Kumar Yadav, allegedly murdered the nine people for...
US President Donald Trump has doubled down on his initial plans to withdraw the thousands of US troops stationed in Afghanistan, likening America's actions in the Middle East country to that of a police man rather than a 'fighting force....
US President, Donald Trump, known for his preference of Twitter to disseminate information, has threatened to regulate or shutdown social media platforms after accusing them of political bias towards conservative voices. Trump's threat comes a day after Twitter Inc. for...
Girl Beheaded For Falling In Love: A 13-year-old girl was allegedly beheaded by her own father in a brutal 'honor-killing' in Iran while she was sleeping. Romina Ashrafi was killed with a sickle weapon in her family home in Hovigh,...
Twitter, for the first time, has fact-checked one of Donald Trump tweets that it concluded contained false information. The move came as the president continued to suggest in tweets that former GOP Congressman Joe Scarborough was responsible for the murder...
Wike who stated this in a state-wide broadcast said the curfew would begin from 8p.m to 6am with effect from June 2, 2020 till further notice. The Governor also revealed that government had uncovered plans by some criminal elements led...
Nigeria’s Coronavirus cases have surpassed 8,000 mark after the nation recorded 229 fresh cases of the virus on Monday. According to figures released by the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Nigeria now has 8,068 confirmed cases. In today’s figures...
Men of the Imo State Police Command are currently on the trail of three brothers, Patrick Obieshieke, Chinonso Obieshieke and John Erieka for allegedly killing their blood brother, Remigius Obieshieke, over money realized from the burial of their 75-year-old mother....
A tenant has been shot dead by his landlord on Sunday after he refused to vacate his apartment after he was given quit notice some months ago. Ghanaweb reported that the police said that the landlord, Victor Stephen Nana Kankam,...
Anxiety has heightened in Bonny Island of Rivers State, as residents await the report of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) inquiring the recent 13 deaths in the community. However, the local council authorities have advised dwellers to observe...
U.S President Donald Trump has suggested during an interview that Russian President Vladimir Putin is fond of him. Whilst speaking on a news programme ”Full Measure”, Trump said; “He likes me, but I think he doesn’t want me to win...
Lagos Marine Bridge Closed: The Lagos State Government has announced the partial closure of Marine Beach Bridge by Total Gas, inwards Apapa for five months for repair work towards providing a seamless transportation system across the metropolis. The partial closure...
The Ondo State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has arrested a 48-year-old man identified as Onifade Femi for defiling his two daughters. The suspect who reportedly defiled his daughters aged 6 and 9, was handed over...
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