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Tsunami advisory in effect for parts of the Alaskan coast after an 8.2 earthquake. Parts of Alaska are under tsunami advisories after an 8.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the state's coast, according to preliminary data from the US Geological Survey. The...
BBNaija star, Uriel Oputa has lamented after women rushed to her ex-boyfriend's DM when she posted his photo on her social media handle. She said because of this, she would not post her future husband's photo online because women love...
Twitter Headquarters In Ghana: The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has revealed why Twitter chose to site its Africa Headquarters in Ghana instead of Nigeria. The Minister, while responding to question from Vanguard, said the decision by the...
Pastor Adewale Giwa, the Senior Pastor of Awaiting The Second Coming Of Christ Ministry, has stated that the President Buhari and Vice-President Osinbajo took malaria shots instead of the COVID-19 vaccine. Giwa said the COVID-19 vaccines they took were meant...
Nigerian music producer Ayorinde Faboro popularly known as Dr Frabz Is Dead. Dr Frabz, who is known for working with Wizkid, Omawumi, Davido and the late Dagrin, reportedly died in the United States. His colleague Samklef announced on his Twitter...
A Boeing jet has scattered debris over a residential area near Denver after one of its engines failed on take-off. The Boeing 777, with 231 passengers and 10 crew on board, was able to return safely and land at Denver...
A model Salma al-Shimi alongside a photographer have been arrested after they had a photoshoot at a pyramid in Egypt. Snaps of Salma al-Shimi posing in a pharoah-like outfit were branded "provocative and offensive" when they were shared on social media last...
US President, Donald Trump has blasted the US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying she couldn’t pass a basic aptitude test as he questioned her mental fitness for office. Trump’s comments in an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo came...
The family of a 19-year-old girl who went missing in Port Harcourt, Rivers State is reaching out to the public for help in locating her. Ibiso Wilberforce hasn't been seen for over eight days. According to her sister, the girl...
Zahra, the daughter of President Muhammadu Buhari and Kiki, the daughter of Vice President Osinbajo have joined the ongoing #EndSARS protest against police brutality in the country. Kiki Osinbajo had on Saturday shared a post on her Instagram page saying...
Nigeria's number one man, President Muhammadu Buhari has lost so many followers on Twitter. The President lost a whopping 100,000 Twitter followers in just three hours after bestselling author, Reno Omokri, started a hashtag, #UnfollowBuhari. At exactly 5PM GMT, Mr...
Nigeria's Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo has reacted to the ongoing protest against operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad. According to Keyamo, aggrieved Nigerians must be allowed to embark on a peaceful protest over issues they feel aggrieved over. In...
Hurricane Delta weakened from a category 4 to a category 2 cyclone as it made landfall early Wednesday in the Mexican Caribbean state of Quintana Roo, but heavy rains and strong winds still caused some infrastructure damage, the National Meteorological...
Singers, Folarin Falana aka Falz, and Runtown, are currently leading some Nigerians in a peaceful protest demanding the end of SARS in the country. The protest is taking place in the Lekki area in Lagos. The protesters all carried placards...
Senator Elisha Abbo has appealed the judgment of a Federal High Court in Abuja ordering him to pay N50m as compensation to the woman he assaulted last year in a sex toy store. The senator representing Adamawa North Senatorial District...
U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he won't participate in a virtual debate with 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden after organizers plan to stage the rivals' next face-off virtually to protect the health and safety of those involved. "I'm...
An estimated four million Americans have already cast their ballots, less than a month to the 3 November election. The number is 50 times the 75,000 that had voted at this time in 2016, according to the United States Elections...
US President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to end talks with Democrats over COVID-19 Stimulus 2, has earned him the rebuke of poll challenger, Joe Biden. “The president turned his back on you,” Biden said in a Twitter post on Trump’s...
Ogun state governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun (MFR), has appointed big brother Naija 2020 winner, Laycon, as the Youth Ambassador of Ogun State and Member of Ogun State Executive Council, effective immediately. The singer was received by a mammoth crowd today...
Former governor of Jigawa State, Dr Sule Lamido has said that he cannot pray for Buhari or advice him on how to better the lives of Nigerians. Speaking to BBC Hausa on the sidelines of Nigeria’s 60th Independence anniversary, Lamido...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced that 58 new cases of Coronavirus were recorded in the country on Sunday October 4. The health agency gave a breakdown of the new cases as follows; Plateau-18, Lagos-15, Katsina-10, Ogun-5, Kaduna-4,...
Donald Trump and his wife Melania have tested positive for Covid-19 and will start quarantine barely a month before the US presidential election. “Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately....
The Red Devils have had a quiet transfer window to date and an ex-player believes more recruitment is vital Former Manchester United midfielder Darren Fletcher believes the club will find it tough to finish in the Premier League’s top four...
Dr. Dre has responded to his estranged wife Nicole Young's request for $2 million a month spousal support amid their divorce battle. Following their split over the summer after 24 years of marriage, Young had listed her monthly expenses amounting...
China has declared a health emergency over Black death plague after a three-year-old boy was struck down by the disease. The child, from a remote village in Menghai county, Yunnan, was confirmed to be infected by the killer disease on...
US president Donald Trump, squared off against Democratic challenger Joe Biden, during the first 2020 presidential election debates in Cleveland, Ohio. In the debate hosted by Chris Wallace of Fox News, both politicians had an opportunity to face each other...
The Federal Government has ordered that all routes leading to the Eagle Square be blocked from midnight on Wednesday September 30, ahead of the Independence Day celebration on Thursday October 1. Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed said the order...
South Africa’s ruling party, African National Congress (ANC) in Mpumalanga on Monday said it was shocked and angry following the arrest of a member in connection with the rape of his two daughters. Local publication, Eyewitness News did not name...
Organised Labour has suspended its planned Nationwide strike for two weeks over the recent hike in electricity tariff and fuel Pump price in the country. The agreement was reached at about 2.53 am today. Sen. Christ Ngige, Minister of Labour...
India's COVID-19 tally surpassed 6 million on Monday, reaching 6,074,702, as the death toll reached 95,542, said the latest data released by the health ministry. As many as 82,170 new cases and 1,039 deaths were registered in the past 24...
China supports the important role of the United Nations in the global fight against COVID-19 and stands ready to enhance communication and coordination with the UN system, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Monday. Wang made...
Big Brother Naija housemate, Laycon has emerged the winner of the Lockdown edition, beating all the other housemates to the grand prize. The reality star was announced winner by the show's host, Ebuka Obi-Uchendu on Sunday at the grand finale....
A study on the use of weed among pregnant women has found that such a habit may increase the likelihood of psychotic-like behaviors in children when they are born. Published on Wednesday in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, the research analysed...
The Special Adviser to the President on political matters, Senator Babafemi Ojudu and ten other big wigs of the party have been suspended by the Ekiti chapter of the All Progressives Congresss of state over alleged anti-party activities. According to TheNation,...
According to PREMIUM TIMES, the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has warned that there is likely to be an even more devastating second wave of coronavirus in Adamawa and other states in the country due to the non-compliance to...
Suspected Fulani herdsmen on Wednesday, invaded a mining site in Jol community in Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State and attacked local miners. No fewer than nine miners were critically injured in the attack. A local miner who escaped...
Authorities in Vietnam uncovered a vast number of used condoms being recycled and stocked for sale following a raid on an apartment on Saturday. According to local market monitors, nearly 324,000 used condoms, equivalent to 360 kilos, were recycled at...
A South Korean official has been shot dead and burned by North Korean troops, the South’s defence ministry said, condemning the “brutal act”. Seoul said the man had disappeared from a patrol boat near the border and was later found...
US singer, Alicia Keys has said that she was supposed to end up as a single mother, a prostitute or a drug addict, TheGuardian reports. She made this known in an interview in which she reflected on her past and...
Amir Shedyak was fired after retrieving an elderly woman’s stolen purse. After preventing the robbery, Amir Shedyak was first suspended pending an investigation and was later fired by management. According to local attorney, the man might have lost his job...
A fifteen-year-old boy and a twelve-year-old girl in Indonesia were reportedly forced to marry after breaking a local custom that forbids dating after sunset. Child marriage has been a controversial issue in Indonesia for a long time, and last week...
A Chinese business tycoon who called President Xi Jinping a clown and criticised his handling of the coronavirus outbreak was jailed for 18 years on Tuesday for corruption, bribery and embezzlement of public funds. Ren Zhiqiang – once among the...
Kenneth Gbagi, ex-Minister of State for Education, has arrested and charged four of his staff working in his hotel to court for allegedly stealing his N5,000. According to a report by SR, Kenneth Gbagi, who is currently nursing a governorship...
The value of the naira plunged further against the dollar to exchange at 465/$ on the parallel market on Monday, after it exchanged at 460/$ on Thursday. Recall that it had earlier exchange at 430/$ when the CBN commenced forex sales...
Osagie Ize-Iyamu, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the Edo State Governorship Election, was defeated by the Peoples Democratic Party in his local government, Orhiomwon, The PUNCH reports. The Independent National Electoral Commission announced that the APC polled...
The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Godwin Obaseki, winner of the governorship election in Edo State. INEC’s Returning Officer, Prof. Akpofure Rim-Rukeh, announced the total result of the election. He said APC...
A soldier allegedly shot a man during an argument over why the man was not wearing a face mask in line with Covid-19 regulations. The incident happened at a shopping complex in Mogwadi, Limpopo, on Thursday, said police spokesperson Brig...
Seven of the 219 prisoners who escaped from Singila prison in north-east Uganda have been captured. The prisoners shot and killed a soldier who tried to intercept them, before heading for Mount Moroto on Wednesday afternoon. Prisons service spokesperson said...
A 22-year-old Nigerian man, Ofon Phillip Idiong has been charged for killing his 22-year-old friend, Brian Njoku, who was also a Nigeria. According to reports, Ofon killed Njoku over a $40 debt which the deceased had been trying to pay but his...
More than 195 prisoners have escaped from a jail in north-east Uganda, officials say, bringing the local town to a standstill while security forces try to track them down. The inmates reportedly killed a soldier after they broke out of...
Williams Gates Sr., who stepped in when appeals for charity began to overwhelm his billionaire son and started what became the world’s largest philanthropy, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, died on Monday at his beach home on Hood Canal,...
The use of crowd control weapons during protests that have unfolded nationwide after the death of George Floyd has left scores of people with head injuries, according to a new study. Physicians for Human Rights, a Texas-based organisation, in a...
The US President Donald Trump has vowed a response that will be “1,000 times greater in magnitude,” to any attack by Iran. This is after reports that Iran was plotting to kill the US ambassador to South Africa, Lana Marks....
Arik Air has resumed normal flight operations after Monday’s disruption by some worker’s unions. Recall that over the weekend, Arik management sought the intervention of the Minister for Aviation, Hadi Sirika to prevent a looming strike. However, Aviation Unions, on...
The first arrest has been made using the new Kano State CCTV system. This was made known by the special adviser to the Kano State governor on new media, Salihu Tanko Yakasai (@Peacock).
Nigeria’s COVID-19 cases dropped below 100 for the first time in five months on Sunday as the virus is dying out fast in the country. Figures released by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on Sunday showed that country...
Kiddwaya is the latest housemate to be evicted from BBNaija Lockdown Season 5. However, his eviction did not come as a surprise to many. This is because right from the first day he stepped into BBNaija Lockdown season 5, his...
The All Progressives Congress has ferociously responded to the statement made by former President Olusegun Obasanjo on the state of the nation. Obasanjo had declared that Nigeria “is becoming a basket case and poverty capital of the world.” While speaking...
China’s ByteDance has picked a consortium led by Oracle Corp for a deal for the U.S. operations of short-video app TikTok. According to Reuters, the Oracle consortium has thus edged out the rival bid by Microsoft Corp. ByteDance has been...
A Thai teen lived out every man’s worst nightmare after a snake sunk its fangs into his penis while he was using the toilet. “I looked down and saw there was a snake hanging in the toilet,” Siraphop Masukarat, 18,...
A five-year-old boy tragically died at a wedding reception after a granite tabletop fell onto his head. The devastating incident occurred in The Drake Hotel on North York Road in Oak Brook at around 10 pm last Friday, Daily Mail reveals....
Ghanaian plastic surgeon, Dr. Dominic Kwame Obeng-Andoh has taken to Instagram to gush about his wife, Mrs. Grace Obeng-Andoh. The plastic surgeon in his Instagram post, disclosed that he shaped his wife’s body the way he wanted, for his own personal...
A prominent Ukrainian church leader who previously said the COVID-19 pandemic was “God’s punishment” for same-sex marriage has tested positive for the virus. Patriarch Filaret, head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church–Kiev Patriarchate, is reportedly stable and undergoing treatment. The church...
Covid-19 patience have run for their lives after a ventilator in the ward the were admitted caught fire. The footage that was shared on social media shows four medics, who are dressed in hazmats, surrounding a patient on a hospital...
After leaving the EU in January, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pushed on with plans for the end of a status quo period in December and hoped a bill on Britain’s internal market would set in stone the transfer of...
It can't be true: Keeping Up with the Kardashians is coming to an end?It's true. After 20 seasons and 14 years, the show will air its final season in 2021. Is this just gossip? I need proof.Kim Kardashian made the...
In his prime, Mike Tyson was one of the most popular and highest-earning boxers of all time. At only 20 years old, he became the youngest heavyweight champion of all time and was paid $30 million for one of his...
Nollywood actress, Belinda Effah has lashed out at Nigerians over what she termed as "misplaced priorities". In her Instagram post, the actress stated that the country won't move forward until Nigerians place their interest in the right place. Effah added...
The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III has expressed his displeasure with the killings in Southern Kaduna. The Monarch who decried the killings during a meeting of Northern Traditional Rulers’ Council in Kaduna on Monday September 7, described it as a...
How We Killed Nursing Mothers: According to The Nation, two suspected members of a notorious child trafficking gang have told the police how they killed a mother of a three-month-old child, sold the baby and shared the proceeds before luck...
Two Nigerians Arrested By INTERPOL: According to a report by The Guardian, two Nigerian suspects have been arrested for allegedly defrauding a Germany company in a COVID-19-related scale, Nigerian police said on Sunday. 50-year-old Babatunde Adesanya and Akinpelu Hassan Abass,...
Global COVID-19 deaths surpassed 880,000 on Sunday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. The global deaths from the coronavirus reached 880,779, with a total of more than 26,951,838 cases worldwide as of...
A man tries a warning application for fatigue driving in the comprehensive exhibition area of the 2020 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 5, 2020. The CIFTIS runs on Sept. 4-9 in...
In an interview with Chude Jideonwo, Eniola commented on the issue of people being accused on social media for living above their means. “If they’re living a fake life, they’re living it for a reason, and the reason is so...
The Presidency on Friday reacted to the judgment by the UK Court granting Nigeria’s application for an extension of time and relief from sanctions in a $10 billion arbitration case with Process and Industrious Development Limited (P&ID) in Nigeria. A...
Before the death of George Floyd 3 months ago, no one knew who Darnella Frazier was. But the 17-year-old black girl shot into international limelight after filming the death of George Floyd, the black man who was killed by Minneapolis...
There was drama on Wednesday after a virtual meeting hosted by the Meteorological Services Department National Climate Outlook Forum was interrupted by hackers who flooded the virtual meeting with pornographic images. The virtual meeting had to break midway after hackers...
Californians Buying Their Own Fire Trucks: Californians are buying their own fire trucks on Craigslist and other websites after furious wildfires devastated California this summer and scorched through more than 1.5million acres of land. This year’s California wildfires sparked by...
Americans’ perceptions of white-black relations have fallen to a 19-year low amid one of the largest civil rights movements in history. The majority of US adults say relations between white and black Americans are very (24 percent) or somewhat bad (31...
An anti-capitalist organization who started the Occupy movement in 2011 have vowed to ‘draw wind’ from BLM protests tearing through the country and ‘lay siege to the White House’ for 50 days. Adbusters, a non-profit environmentalist organization based in Canada...
A young woman has been left with a butt that looks like a "cone" after getting a botched Brazilian butt lift abroad. Shannon Davies, 23, has advised women to love their natural bodies after botched butt surgery left her horrified and unable...
A Nigerian photographer has accused Burna Boy of intellectual theft in his recently released 'Twice as Tall' album. @webgod30 in his tweet, alleged that the singer stole the idea of the cover photo for his album from a 2019 photo...
A Queensland man got the shock of his life when he returned home from a night out to discover two snakes weighing a combined 25kg had crashed through his ceiling. David Tait found the huge coastal pythons in his Lacey’s...
Spanish champions Real Madrid now know the key dates for their title defence, including their matches against rivals Barcelona. They will begin the defence of their La Liga title away at Real Sociedad on Sept. 20 and take on FC...
A toddler has been rushed to hospital with serious injuries after she fell from a moving car into the road before being hit by another oncoming vehicle. The 20-month-old girl is believed to have fallen from the rear door of...
An ongoing surge of infections in the Midwest has fueled the outbreak in the US, which will soon reach 6 million cases. Doctors in France have warned about the dangers of reopening schools. Follow DW for the latest. Americas The...
On Thursday, the US Marshals announced that ‘Operation Not Forgotten’ successfully tracked down 39 missing children. According to Daily Mail, ‘the intensive rescue was conducted by the US Marshals Service Missing Child Unit, the agency’s Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force,...
India has seen a large spike in number of new Coronavirus cases after 77,226 infections were recorded in the last 24 hours, the highest single-day caseload in the world. India now has a total of more than 3.38 million cases...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Friday that he was going to resign over health problems after seven years and eight months in office. "I have decided to step down from the post of the prime minister," he told...
The Federal Government of Nigeria has changed the resumption date for the commencement of international flights into and out of the country. The resumption date which was earlier scheduled for August 29, 2020, has now been moved to September 5,...
Pastor Jerry Falwell Jnr., the former president of Liberty University will receive a $10.5 million compensation package from the evangelical school amid series of scandals he's been involved in lately. The vocal supporter of US President Donald Trump took over at the college...
Brenton Tarrant, the 29 year old far-right terrorist who killed 51 Muslim worshipers in New Zealand's worst mass shooting in modern history, has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. The sentence, which is the first type of sentence...
The federal government on Tuesday, August 25, declared that Chloroquine is potent for the prevention of the Coronavirus infection. Speaking with journalists, director-general of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Christianah Mojisola Adeyeye, made this...
Some rescuers in India pulled a four-year-old boy alive from the debris of a collapsed building almost a whole day after he was buried, it has been reported. There were loud cheers on Tuesday, August 25, as the boy was...
Malware which signed users up to subscription services without their permission has been found on thousands of mobiles sold in Africa. Anti-fraud firm Upstream found the malicious code on 53,000 Tecno handsets, sold in Ethiopia, Cameroon, Egypt, Ghana and South...
Mysterious, unsolicited seeds from China are being shipped to the US and delivered to people’s homes. Doyle Crenshawn from Arkansas received a package of these strange seeds and sowed them; now, they have grown into a huge, unstoppable plant with...
U.S Republicans went all out to defend President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and attacked his opponent, calling him ”Beijing Biden” during the first night of the Republican convention. They accused the rival Democrats of being weak on...
Carrefour store in Brazil covered a dead employee with umbrellas so they could stay open throughout the day. On August 14, Manoel Moisés Cavalcante died of a heart attack while at his workplace – a Carrefour supermarket in Recife, Brazil....
Yinka Odumakin, National Publicity Secretary of Afenifere has ridiculed the Governor of Kaduna state, Nasir El- Rufai after the invitation given to him to speak at the Nigerian Bar Association forthcoming 2020 Annual General Meeting was withdrawn. He charged El-Rufai...
Terseer Waya, the son of Nigerian socialite, Terry Waya, and one of the hottest male housemates at the ongoing Big Brother Naija, has given reason for Praise’s eviction. The dancer and reality star, Praise was evicted on Sunday after scoring...
China successfully launched a new optical remote-sensing satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 10:27 a.m. Sunday (Beijing Time). The satellite, Gaofen-9 05, was sent into orbit by a Long March-2D carrier rocket. A multifunctional test...
A cargo plane transporting money for the UN’s World Food Programme has crashed near the South Sudanese capital, Juba, killing eight of the nine people on board, the authorities say. Four of the dead from Saturday morning’s crash were South...
An expert has warned that Coronavirus will be present "forever". Sir Mark Walport, a member of the Government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), also said that people are likely to need regular vaccinations against the deadly virus. Walport, who is a...
Kanye West has been taken off the ballot in three more US states following rulings issued by election officials on Friday August 21. Election officials in Ohio, Illinois and West Virginia held that the rapper who is running as an independent...
Movie-goers boarded boats floating on the shimmering waters of a Tel Aviv lake on Thursday for a test screening at Israel’s first “sail-in” cinema. With indoor film theatres shut because of coronavirus restrictions, Tel Aviv municipality launched the floating cinema...
A young man on Thursday pleaded guilty to stealing his female employer’s panties and selling them to an elderly man. The young man and his accomplice were arraigned at the Kithimani Law Courts in Kenya. Whereas the younger suspect, Boniface...
Former Vice President and Democratic nominee Joe Biden was cast as a decent, dependable friend of the working class who will handle the coronavirus with his experience and decency. If you trust me with with the presidency", Biden began, "I...
Virginia Roberts, the woman who claims she was once the teenage sex slave of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, has alleged former US president Bill Clinton, spent time on Epstein’s 'Pedophile' Island where be allegedly flirted with two women before vanishing with...
Seeing the aggressive nature of the Chinese military on the Ladakh border, the United States could deploy its most advanced and lethal B-2 spirit (B2 spirit stealth nuclear bombers) to help India. This American aircraft can fly with 16 atomic...
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has delegated some of his power to younger sister Kim Yo-jong ‘to ease stress’. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) says Kim Jong Un will still “exert absolute power” but he will gradually transferred his...
As many as seven students of Government Girls’ College, Doma, Gombe state, have tested positive for COVID-19, TheCable reports. The federal government had permitted schools to reopen partially on August 4 for graduating classes to write their examinations. Speaking on...
Namibians Health Minister Kalumbi Shangula has warned people against using elephant dung to “cure” Covid-19. Some traditional healers say the elephant dung can be steamed and inhaled as a treatment for flu, headaches and nosebleeds but the practice has not...
French-made S-530 air-to-air missile was found in a shipping container at Lakeland Linder International Airport in Florida. A contractor working at Lakeland Linder International Airport was shocked to find a live missile in a container. This discovery was shocking as...
U.S. President Donald Trump will use the White House to deliver a partisan political speech to the Republican National Convention next week. Trump will be formally nominated by the party next week and is due to give his acceptance speech...
U.S. Democrats at their virtual national convention formally nominated Joe Biden on Tuesday as their presidential candidate in the November election. Delegates from around the country cast votes remotely to confirm Biden as the nominee. Biden won over 3,000 votes,...
An 84-year-old man suffers critical injuries after being brutally assaulted outside his own home. WARNING: Graphic Content: The elderly man was attacked on Sunday evening, outside his home in Cannington, Perth, Australia, Daily Mail reports. At about 7 pm on...
Gunfire was heard on Tuesday at an army base outside Mali’s capital Bamako as diplomatic and security sources said a mutiny was under way. Local residents and security sources said there was gunfire at the army base in Kati, about...
A senior secondary school student in Gombe State didn't allow testing positive for coronavirus prevent him from writing examination. He joined thousands of other students across Nigeria writing the West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE). The Government Science Secondary...
Two teams of footballers in Germany played a match wearing just their socks and boots on Sunday. The naked game held in the town of Oer-Erckenschwick near Dortmund, was organised to protest the commercialisation of the professional game. German football...
Militants stormed a high-end seaside hotel in Mogadishu on Sunday, killing at least seven people and wounding more than 20 as they detonated a car bomb then opened fire with assault rifles in the latest attack in the Somali capital....
The pilot of a hot air balloon has died and two passengers were severely injured after it crashed near the banks of the River Rhine in Germany, police said on Monday, August 17. The balloon was caught by a gust...
Cab-hailing companies operating in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital and most populous city, will now pay a road maintenance fee to the state government. This was one of the resolutions reached after a meeting between the Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu...
Some Nigerian airport officials have been discovered to be collecting money in place of carrying out COVID-19 tests to those entering Nigeria from other countries. Chairman, Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, had in July said that inbound passengers...
The President of Somali, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has been caught on camera exchanging blows with the Deputy President, Mahdi Mohamed Guled. Mohamed was caught exchanging blows with his deputy during a press conference. Speaking during a live event, the president...
In a shocking incident, a man allegedly murdered his 40-year-old son after an argument over a property dispute. The incident took place at Satyanagar area under the territorial jurisdiction of under the Pendurthi police station in Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. On...
Human Rights activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana has stated that the N5 million fine imposed by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) on Nigeria Info 99.3 over Obadiah Mailafia's comment of a northern governor being one of the...
The Sursock Art Museum survived 15 years of war, but not the blast. Historic buildings are at risk of collapse — along with Beirut's arts community. The 1912 villa survived 15 years of civil war, but now the explosion in...
A small plane carrying four persons on Thursday crashed in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing all on board. According to Daily Nation, the crash took place minutes before landing, the governor of the South Kivu province...
A white woman who didn't like a Nigerian man had reported him to be fired at a company without knowing that the Nigerian man she was reporting owns the company. The Nigerian man based in the UK, John Amaechi Obe...
Seplat, Airtel Africa, Presco, Okomu Oil and Guinness were among stocks that appreciated Wednesday as Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) posted its first gain of the week. Market capitalisation increased by N135 billion, closing at N13.115 trillion against N12.980 trillion on...
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have secretly moved out of Los Angeles after buying a private mansion in Santa Barbara, 95 miles away. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been at their new Santa Barbara pad since early July...
U.S. politicians risk making a "dreadful mistake" by stoking a geopolitical Cold War with China, a renowned U.S. economist has warned. "The last Cold War was dangerous enough," Jeffrey Sachs, an economics professor at Columbia University and senior United Nations...
The Head of the Catholic Church, and sovereign of the Vatican City State, Pope Francis has confirmed reports that a particular African Diocesan Priest has impregnated at least 30 nuns. According to Pope Francis, he revealed that the priests and...
A new virus is threatening the Chinese population, months after the COVID-19 outbreak began in Wuhan in late 2019. The Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (SFTS) virus is transmitted via tick bites, and has caused seven deaths in the country...
Joe Biden has named California senator Kamala Harris as his vice-presidential running mate, a historic choice he believes will bolster his chances of beating Donald Trump in an election year shaped by the global coronavirus pandemic and a national reckoning...
Terrorist group, Boko Haram have reportedly killed several soldiers in an ambush in Baga, a town under Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno State. The recent attack by the dreaded insurgents was disclosed to SaharaReporters by military sources on Tuesday....
At least 30 people have died, and 12 remain missing after 46 days of heavy rains in South Korea, with the country’s longest monsoon in seven years causing more flooding, landslides and evacuations on Sunday. Close to 6,000 people had...
Police has allegedly shot at car containing 5 black children in Waycross, Georgia at around 8am on Saturday. Georgia family reported that on their way back home from Walmart, 5 siblings (ages 9-16) were followed and shot at by police...
US President Donald Trump was briefly evacuated from a press briefing at the White House due to a shooting incident outside on Monday. Trump said that he was taken to the Oval Office following the interruption, and that the Secret...
A worker is seen at a construction site in Clichy, near Paris, France, Aug. 8, 2020. France's economy contracted by 13.8 percent in the second quarter (Q2) after household consumption and investment, the country's main growth engines, tumbled under severe...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkey has become the third country to develop vaccines locally against COVID-19 after the United States and China according to the World Health Organization. "The COVID-19 Turkey Platform, founded by the...
Angry villagers in Dowa have on Sunday set ablaze houses and damaged properties worthy millions of kwachas for allegedly accusing a family over witchcraft allegation. According to Sub Inspector Gladson M’bumpha, Dowa PolicePublic Relations Officer, the incident that happened at...
"Aggressive and bold" action is needed as Africa's coronavirus cases pass the one-million mark, according to the African Union (AU) body dealing with the pandemic. It says South Africa - where testing has been widespread - accounts for more than...
An unidentified woman has been reported dead in an accident involving a petrol tanker in the Mile 2 area of Lagos State. The Director-General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, said the tanker rammed into a pothole directly...
The police in Apapa Area Command of Lagos State, on Thursday, August 6, 2020, intercepted a 40-foot container laden with the addictive drugs Tramadol and codeine. The container was intercepted at sea and taken to a terminal in Apapa, ChannelsTV...
President Muhammadu Buhari led administration has announced an extension of the second phase of the eased lockdown for another four weeks. The extension is the third for the second phase. Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and Chairman...
Following increase in the prices of crude oil, marketers are pushing for the upward review of the Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) petrol N150 per litre for the month of August. The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA ) last month...
When you finish a job there is always a mix of feelings," the 82-year-old world-renowned architect muses. "Satisfaction but also a bit of sadness too, because it's no longer your building - it belongs to everybody." We speak beneath the...
The unnamed girl was killed in a drive-by shooting next to a petrol station on Sunday, according to local media. Police have launched an investigation but are yet to make any arrests. Officials have vowed to further crack down on...
At least 41 passengers and crew on a Norwegian cruise ship have tested positive for Covid-19, officials say. Hundreds more passengers who travelled on the MS Roald Amundsen are in quarantine and awaiting test results, the company that owns the...
Allowing U.S. citizens to sue China over the COVID-19 pandemic would be a "huge mistake," a Californian senator has said. "We launch a series of unknown events that could be very, very dangerous. I think this is a huge mistake,"...
Europe formally and dramatically entered into recession Friday, with the latest data released by the European Union showing that the 19-member eurozone saw their economies contract by 40.3 percent in the second quarter (Q2) of 2020, compared with the same...
The Kenyan government has released the list of countries from which travellers will be exempted from going into quarantine once they arrive. International flights are due to resume on Saturday four months after they were suspended in a bid to...
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has said the security forces could do much better in their efforts to keep the country safe. In a rare interview, Mr Buhari described the situation in northern and central regions as "very, very disturbing". "I...
Twitter has wielded the big axe against Donald Trump Jr. after he retweeted a video making bogus claims on coronavirus cure. The social media has restricted him from posting any tweets, claiming he shared ‘potentially harmful information’. Trump Jr posted...
Respondents report that last quarter was the worst since the global financial crisis for sales, prices, and capital spending, according to a National Association for Business Economics (NABE) survey released Monday. "Firms have imposed a number of special measures to...
BMW China chief Jochen Goller said on Monday at the 2020 BMW China Innovation Day that the company is and will continue investing in China. "China will obviously play a leading role in shaping the future of mobility. So, we...
Profits of China's major industrial firms in June totaled 666.55 billion yuan (about 95.18 billion U.S. dollars), increasing by 11.5 percent year on year, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed Monday. The growth widened 5.5 percentage points...
The African continent is very slowly peeling apart. Scientists say a new ocean is being born. In one of the hottest places on Earth, along an arid stretch of East Africa’s Afar region, it’s possible to stand on the exact...
Nigeria’s Federal Government on Monday announced the reopening of schools for graduating students with effect from 4 August, 2020 and fixed August 17 for the commencement of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE. A statement issued on Monday...
UFO whistleblower Bob Lazar: Near the end of his 2019 autobiography, Bob Lazar writes, “I’m no kind of hero.” With each passing day, that seems less true. I know what you’re thinking: Is this idiot really devoting a column to...
The PUNCH reports that the Lagos State Police Command has arrested a man, Amosu Funso, over the death of his girlfriend, Precious Udochi, in Ogombo, Ajah area of the state. Funso had gone to the Ogombo Police Division on July...
American rapper, Kanye West, has said that he can beat Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden by write-in votes in the upcoming election. Kanye announced his presidential bid for 2020 on U.S independence day. On his verified Twitter page, he wrote;...
Hon Ben Roland Igbakpa has described the fainting of the acting managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) as ”unreal”. Igbakpa said this, whilst appearing as a guest on Channels TV Hard Copy. The lawmaker who represents Ethiope...
China sent a new high-resolution mapping satellite into space on Saturday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the northern province of Shanxi. The Ziyuan III 03 satellite was launched by a Long March-4B rocket at 11:13 a.m. Beijing time,...
According to a tweet from the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC on Friday night, the total number of infections in the country is now 39, 539 The tweet revealed that Oyo State had the highest number of infections on...
The United States Navy has awarded a Nigerian officer, Lt Victor Agunbiade, its medal of commendation for his meritorious service. The U.S Navy said Agunbiade effectively managed its largest cash disbursing office handling 45 million dollars (N17billion) in cash transaction....
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will create new opportunities for economic growth and stability as a number of developmental projects are currently in full swing in the country, Pakistani President Arif Alvi said on Thursday. CPEC is an epitome of...
Five gunmen on Thursday stormed the Plateau High Court in Barkin Ladi Local Government and and stole four kidnap and robbery suspects scheduled for arraignment. The suspects were identified as Umar Adamu, Bashir Mohammed, Musa Usman and Abdul Haruna. They...
China launched a Mars probe on Thursday, aiming to complete orbiting, landing and roving in one mission, and taking the first step in its planetary exploration of the solar system. A Long March-5 rocket, China's largest launch vehicle, carrying the...
A lecturer of the University of Benin, UNIBEN, has been killed after a commercial driver, allegedly trying to avoid police extortion, rammed into her. Another person was injured during the chase. According to reports, Dr. Stella Okotie, a lecturer at...
An indigenous company called JET Motor Company has manufactured the nation’s first electric vehicle called JET EV. According to Naija Stories on Twitter on Wednesday, July 22, the prototype of the machine was taken on a 300km test drive from...
A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murdering her baby by ‘cutting its throat.’ The woman was whisked away in handcuffs after Police arrived at the scene in Preston Road, Wembley, North West London on Wednesday, July 22. Horrified...
A scary video is going viral on social media has captured the moment, an unidentified man was electrocuted until he burst into flames in Agbor, Delta State. It is not clear if he was an actual power holding company of...
The suspect who killed U.S. federal judge Esther Salas’s son on Sunday has been identified as Roy Den Hollander, an attorney. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Jersey announced this Monday night. The New York State Police has found the...
Pirates have kidnapped seven Russian sailors from the crew of a ship in the Gulf of Guinea, the Russian Embassy in Nigeria said on Monday. The seven Russians were among 13 crew members pirates abducted from the Curacao Trader 210...
Aerial photo taken on July 20, 2020 shows flood-stricken area in Guzhen Town of Yu'an District in Lu'an City, east China's Anhui Province. Since July 2, continuous heavy rains have affected 3.64 million residents and forced the evacuation of over...
Nigerians have mocked the acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Prof Kemebradikumo Pondei, after he fainted on Monday during an investigative hearing at the National Assembly. Pondei collapsed where he was seated as members of the House...
Famous rapper, Kanye West has revealed he wants his estranged friend and former business associate, rapper Jay-Z as his running mate for the US 2020 presidential election. The rapper, 43, said this before he held his first-ever presidential rally in...
Russian hackers are targeting organisations trying to develop a coronavirus vaccine in the UK, US and Canada, security services have warned. The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said the hackers “almost certainly” operated as “part of Russian intelligence services”....
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila has described as shocking and painful, the passing of Nigeria’s first female combat helicopter pilot, Tolulope Arotile. Arotile died at the age of 23 after sustaining head injuries from a road...
Unidentified gunmen have killed the sister of former minister of information, Labaran Maku and also kidnapped his elder brother and wife. Maku’s brother was identified as Salisu Usman-Maku, an officer with the Nigeria Immigration Service. According to a family member,...
Nigeria members of parliament have resolved to investigate the purported voluntary resignation of 365 military officers from the Nigeria army. The decision to probe the resignation followed the adoption of a motion of matters of urgent public importance moved on...
U.S. President Donald Trump said he was responsible for Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to ban Huawei from Britain’s 5G network. Johnson on Tuesday ordered Huawei equipment to be purged completely from Britain’s 5G network by the end of 2027,...
There are more cattle, goats and sheep than humans in South Sudan which has 11 million people, while the livestock population is estimated at 57 million. According to the national ministry of livestock and fisheries industry, South Sudan has 12...
Five people have been killed after attackers stormed a South African church, reportedly amid an argument over its leadership. South African police said they had rescued men, women and children from a "hostage situation" on the outskirts of Johannesburg on...
A man has been found guilty of stabbing his heavily pregnant ex-girlfriend in a jealous rage, killing her and their baby. Aaron McKenzie, 26, of Peckham, south London, broke into Kelly-Mary Fauvrelle’s bedroom in the middle of the night and...
The World Health Organization has warned the coronavirus pandemic has still not reached its peak – as lockdown measures are relaxed to make international travel easier. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the UN agency, said the virus is...
Singer, Simisola Adekunle Gold popularly known as Simi has wowed in a beautiful black dress - her first photo ever since she put to bed. Recall that the Duduke crooner and wife of fellow singer Adekunle Gold put to bed...
The Xin'an River Reservoir, an important flood control project in the upper reaches of the Qiantang River, has opened all nine of its spillways to lower the crest of local floods.
A white lady and her husband have been charged with assault after she was seen pointing a gun at a Black mother and her teenage daughter in a now-viral video. Michigan authorities discussed the altercation during a press conference on...
A three-year-old boy has died in a car crash after the vehicle he was in slammed into a shop wall on Morningside Road in Edinburgh, UK. A 37-year-old woman who was driving the car around 2.30pm on Tuesday climbed the...
The United States Department of Health services has bought almost the entire next three month’s supply of breakthrough Coronavirus drug remdesivir for itself, leaving the rest of the world possibly without any supply for the next three months. Trump’s administration...
The Senate and the House of Representatives yesterday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to suspend the implementation of the plan to recruit 774,000 Nigerians for Special Public Works across the country, The Nation reports. The position of both chambers of the...
Nigerians have reprimanded Nollywood Actress, Anita Joseph for rebuking Ghanaian actress, Rosemond Alade Brown, aka Akuapem Poloo who yesterday shared an unclad photo with her 7 year-old son. Anita had taken to social media to condemn Poloo’s action and asked...
A viral video has emerged on the Internet where a United Nations (UN) official was caught on Camera straffing a woman while in a traffic. Information gathered shows that the official was romping the woman who was on a red...
Iran has issued an arrest warrant and asked Interpol for help in detaining US President Donald Trump and dozens of others over the drone strike that killed a top Iranian general in Baghdad. Tehran prosecutor Ali Alqasimehr said on Monday,...
Ten militants were killed on Sunday after warplanes struck a Taliban gathering in Ghazni province, eastern Afghanistan. The provincial government spokesman, Wahidullah Jumazada, said that security forces acted on a tip-off and killed ten. He said; ”the aircraft struck a...
U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted and then deleted a video in which his supporters could be heard repeating a “white power” slogan, in the latest instance in which the president was accused of inflaming racial tensions. The phrase is often...
Former Formula 1 boss, Bernie Ecclestone has defended his controversial comment that 'a lot of black people are more racist than white people' after he was slammed by his successor Chase Carey and six-time world champion, Lewis Hamilton. The British billionaire,...
The Enugu State Ministry of Health on Friday said 72 health care workers in the state have tested positive to COVID-19. Commissioner for health, Dr Ikechukwu Obi, in a statement said the 72 health workers were among a total of...
Seven women said the 39-year-old filmmaker sexually harassed them, while an eighth said she had been sexually assaulted by Guerra, all between 2013 and 2019 in various cities in Colombia, France, Germany, the US and Mexico, according to the Volcanicas...
North Korea has decided to suspend military action plans against South Korea. North Korean troops were taking down loudspeakers recently reinstalled at the fortified border. Political tensions between the rival Koreas had been rising over Pyongyang’s objections to plans by...
Oyo State on Wednesday broke its own state record logging 100 new COVID-19 cases on the Nigerian grim daily leaderboard, taking its caseload to 1,155. The state was second to grim trailblazer Lagos, which recorded 250 cases to build 9,323...
A UK Police officer is currently facing queries at the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) over a stop-and-search incident in which he was seen kneeling on the head of a black man. Footage of the incident appears to show...
At least three foreign automakers have announced plans so far this year to invest in China's new energy vehicle (NEV) industry, a move demonstrating their commitment to the Chinese market and their ambition to explore the burgeoning sector. In April...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said it is expected to deploy emergency financing for 70 countries by Friday as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ripple across the globe. IMF spokesperson Gerry Rice said at a virtual press briefing Thursday...
About 2.3 million people in Beijing have received nucleic acid tests over the past week as the city strives to contain domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases, local authorities said Saturday. Beijing authorities have set up a total of 2,083 sampling sites...
Facebook has removed a number of posts and ads run by Donald Trump’s re-election campaign that featured a symbol used by the Nazis for violating its “policy against organized hate”. The takedown on Thursday came amid increasing pressure on Facebook...
Nigeria's largest cement producing factory, Dangote Cement PLC, has fired more than 3000 staff without prior notice or due process, SaharaReporters has uncovered. The company, which is owned by Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote, started the process of discarding 80...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's car was involved in a minor accident as he left the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday. As Johnson's car left Parliament to drive the short distance to Downing Street following the weekly session of Prime...
US President Donald Trump confirmed he plans to sign his executive order on policing, saying the order would be “very comprehensive,” according to the White House pool report. When asked about congressional efforts to address police reform, Trump said, “Maybe...
A Forty-two-year-old passenger on board an Air India flight from Lagos to Mumbai at the weekend died under unusual circumstances. The development has raised several questions on the checks and thermal screening being conducted at airports amid the coronavirus pandemic....
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered a probe into alleged security breach inside the Presidential Villa. This was made known in a statement by the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Public, malam Garba Shehu, on Sunday. There had been...
HIGHLY EXPECTED MARKET When the first shipment of Greek red saffron is finally ready to be exported to China, Vasilis Mitsopoulos, President of the Kozani Saffron Producers Cooperative in Greece, breathed a sigh of relief and hailed that "a dream...
Chinese researchers have developed a technology to turn blue algae into protein powder with high detoxification efficiency. A research team from the Research Institute for Environmental Innovation (Suzhou), Tsinghua, in east China's Jiangsu Province, used microsecond ultrasound to explode blue...
An offshore earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5 shook Davao Oriental Province in the southern Philippines on Saturday, the Philippine Institute of Seismology and Volcanology (Phivolcs) said. The institute said the quake, which struck at 10:11 a.m. local time,...
Palestinian protesters hurl stones at Israeli soldiers during clashes after a protest against the expansion of Jewish settlements in Kufr Qadoom village near the West Bank city of Nablus.
The Kano State Police Command say they have arrested a man after 40 people were raped in one town over the period of a year. A mother in Dangora, Kano, caught the man in her children's bedroom, according to police...
Another man accused of theft was brutally beaten to death by a crowd in Madnawali area of east Delhi. CCTV footage accessed by Times Now show Salman being apprehended and then attacked by locals in Pandav Nagar area which falls...
Pope Francis has offered one million euros for a new charity fund targeting people in Rome left in dire straits by the coronavirus economic crisis. The fund, called “Jesus Divine Worker,” will be managed by the Roman branch of Caritas,...
The total number of confirmed novel coronavirus cases worldwide surpassed seven million on Monday, according to figures compiled by the US-based Johns Hopkins University. The university's data showed that the global cases is currently at 7,132,732 with fatalities at 406,959....
American business mogul, Jeff Bezos has said his goodbye to racist customers who are against his support for the #BlackLivesMatter campaign. The billionaire took to his Instagram page to share mails he received from racists after throwing his support for...
Brazil's government has stopped publishing a running total of coronavirus deaths and infections in an extraordinary move that critics have called an attempt to hide the true toll of the disease in Latin America's largest nation. The Saturday move came...
Eleven people have been arrested on suspicion of severely abusing at least three boys after police broke up a child pornography ring that peddled “unfathomable images” over the internet in Germany. Close relatives of the boys, ages 5, 10, and...
The entire Emergency Response Team at the Buffalo Police Department have resigned to show support for two other officers who were suspended without pay for shoving an elderly man to the ground during a protest in New York. WIVB reporter,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Thousands of children are born every year using donated eggs, sperm, or embryos. Donation is an altruistic act which may represent the only hope for some infertile people to have children of their own. The act of donating can have...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A woman's graduation photos have earned her criticisms from Twitter users. The Twitter user who just graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Business Marketing shared photos and a video from her graduation ceremony. However, Twitter users were not impressed and...
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...
One of the two people to survive a plane crash in Pakistan that killed 97 people onboard has described jumping from the burning wreckage of the aircraft after it hurtled into a residential neighbourhood, the Agence France Presse, AFP, reports....
Susceptibility To Coronavirus: The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanir has warned people with some underlining health conditions to stay clear and observe all the safety measures rigorously as they constitute the majority of COVID-19 deaths in Nigeria. He said people...
Swiss food giant Nestle announced an additional investment of 730 million yuan (about 102 million U.S. dollars) Wednesday to strengthen its business operation in China. Nestle and the administrative committee of the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA) signed a memorandum...
20 Minutes COVID-19: The UK Health Department has announced the beginning of trials of a new COVID-19 test that would take only up to 20 minutes to deliver results. Trials of the new test, which detects whether people are carrying...
Nigeria’s Coronavirus infections have jumped to 7,016, with 339 new cases recorded on Thursday. Lagos has continued to record a spike in infections, ramping up 139 new cases, while Kano and Oyo came a distant second with 28 new cases...
15th Wedding Anniversary: The head of the family, identified only as Kaymo, broke the internet after taking to Instagram to celebrate his 15th wedding anniversary with his beautiful wife and their 11 children. According to GistReel, the man whose IG...
Jason Derulo appears to have had an absolute nightmare while attempting to eat some corn on the cob using a drill. By ‘absolute nightmare’, he pulled his front teeth out trying to eat with a drill. You’d think it’d go...
The Osun State Western Nigeria Security Network, Operation Amotekun has arrested another 10 Chinese, 1 Ghanaian, and three locals for illegal mining across the state. According to The Nation, the expatriates were arrested on Tuesday at four illegal mining sites...
A Nigerian lady, Fatima Babashehu Liman, is demanding justice for her cousin, Sadiq, who suffered gunshot injury in his hand after he was allegedly attacked by SARS officials in Abuja on Monday May 18. Read Fatima's Post Below; JUSTICE FOR...
Oxford Vaccine Fails Trial: The Oxford University vaccine tipped as a "front runner" in the race to develop a coronavirus jab does not stop the virus in monkeys and may only be partially effective, experts have warned. A trial of...
I Just Wanted To Make It: Asahn Guyton, an American entrepreneur, real estate investor, multi business owner and now an author has revealed his life’s journey in a book he’s set to present to the public anytime soon. In the...
Six Million Nurses Needed: The world is facing a shortage of six million nurses and midwives, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organisation said. Tedros spoke at the opening of the 73rd World Health Assembly, the first to...
Two Middle East countries, Kuwait and Qatar have said that they would start jailing people up to three years or fining them thousands of dollars for failing to wear a facemask. In efforts to combat the novel coronavirus, Kuwait’s Health...
338 New Coronavirus Cases: Nigeria has been hit with 338 new cases of Coronavirus, with Lagos and Kano recording spikes in infections. In the figures released by the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on Sunday, Nigeria now has 5,959...
Excessive Dosage Of Ascorbic Acid: About ten coronavirus patients in Bauchi State have embarked on self medication, taking excessive dosage of Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C) at their various isolation centres, The Nation reports. Chairman, Bauchi State Primary Health Care Development...
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday that the White House's rhetoric on China is a "diversion" from its own missteps in handling the coronavirus outbreak. Speaking to reporters during her weekly press conference on Capitol Hill, Pelosi said...
Wall Street Is Hampering Small Businesses: When Michael Sullivan borrowed $22 million from a specialist Wall Street lender in 2018 to buy and renovate two Florida hotels, he had no idea how costly that decision would prove to be. He...
The Federal Government does not know the whereabouts of the Chinese doctors and technicians who came into the country to offer assistance in the fight against COVID-19. This was made known by the Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire one month...
A 29-year-old lady has tested positive for the dreaded coronavirus pandemic in Agbor, Ika South Local Government Area, Delta State, Vanguard reports. The State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Charles Aniagwu confirmed the new case in his verified Whatsapp page. He,...
A father was left stunned after finding out that his twin babies have two different fathers as one of them isn't his. The father made the shocking discovery after taking the newborns to undergo a DNA test as part of...
Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court on Wednesday ordered Arik Air to pay N10 million to a passenger whose flight was delayed. The passenger, Isa Modibbo, who is diabetic, reportedly missed an appointment with his doctor in Sokoto after his...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has accepted to scientifically test Madagascar's herbal remedy said to cure coronavirus. DPA reports that WHO Africa Director, Matshidiso Moeti stated this on Thursday. “We have offered to support the design of a study to...
Five female officers of the Nigeria Immigration Service have been transferred from their base after they participated in the ''Bop Daddy challenge'' initiated by Falz the Bad Guy''. Recall that in April, LIB shared the story of how the ladies...
Nigeria has recorded 184 fresh cases of the deadly Coronavirus pandemic, taking its overall totaling over 5,000. According to the figures released by the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on Wednesday, Lagos sits at the top with 51 new...
China US War: Chinese state media once again floated the prospect of international lawsuits against the United States for supposedly being responsible for the HIV/AIDS epidemic in a column Thursday, adding the 2008 financial crisis and the 1918 Spanish Flu...
US woman, Martha McKay has been killed by the same man who murdered her mother 23 years earlier. He murdered McKay after she forgave him for killing her mother. Travis Lewis fled the house when deputies showed up on the...
At least six persons, including four of the suspected armed herdsmen, have been killed after soldiers repelled an attack on a village in Benue State. The gunmen, on Monday night, killed two villagers in Agasha community in Guma Local Government...
Mexican-American wrestler and former WWE star, Alberto Del Rio was on Sunday arrested for raping a woman and threatening her child. According to WOAI, a woman reportedly presented authorities with photographs and graphic details of an alleged beating and sexual...
Chairman of the Nigerian in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Arewa, has alleged that Chinese want Africans out of their country. Dabiri-Erewa made the claim while lamenting the alleged maltreatment of Nigerians in China. She urged Nigerians in China to always demand...
Hydroxychloroquine Prescription Spike: Despite the warnings around taking hydroxychloroquine to combat the symptoms of COVID-19, prescriptions in France have increased by as much as 7,000% in certain parts of the country since the pandemic began. As reported by La Provence,...
Britain has admitted it sent thousands of samples to the US for coronavirus testing due to “operational issues”. A spokeswoman for the British Department of Health made the admission in an interview with Sky News on Sunday. She was reacting...
Nigeria has recorded 239 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 4,151. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control made this known on Saturday. Of the 239 new cases, 97 were recorded in Lagos...
Little Richard, a founding father of rock & roll whose fervent shrieks, flamboyant garb, and joyful, gender-bending persona embodied the spirit and sound of that new art form, died Saturday. He was 87. The musician’s son, Danny Jones Penniman, confirmed...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported that the nation confirmed 386 new cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Friday as the total cases confirmed rose to 3912. Posting the recent report on its Twitter page, NCDC,...
Tragedy struck as a pregnant woman in Nasarawa state, allegedly stabbed her husband to death over a phone call with another lady. 22-year-old, Veronica Boniface, is said to have stabbed her husband after suspecting he received a call from a...
In the latest update of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country, 381 new cases have been reported as of Thursday evening, May 7th by the National Centre for Disease Control. In a new update on their Twitter page, the NCDC...
Coronavirus Worse Than Pearl Harbor: US President Donald Trump says the coronavirus pandemic has been worse for the United States than the 9/11 terror attacks by Al-qaeda and the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor during World War II, as he...
Black people in the UK are four times more likely to die from Covid-19 than white people and a number of other ethnic groups are also at an increased risk, according to stark official figures exposing a dramatic divergence in...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says Covid-19 cases have risen to over 51,000 in Africa as at Thursday, May 7. The WHO Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, gave the update on its official twitter account @WHOAFRO. “There are...
Natalie Wood In the nearly 40 years since Natalie Wood drowned off the coast of Catalina Island, the mystery of her death has only grown. And so has the movie-star myth of the fine-boned brunette who found immortality in films...
The leadership of the House of Representatives has allegedly been offered 10 Million US Dollar bribe to forcefully pass the compulsory vaccine bill without subjecting it to the traditions of legislative proceedings, the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) alleged...
The number of people who have died with confirmed coronavirus across all settings in the United Kingdom has risen by 288 to 28,734. Health Secretary, Matt Hancock reveals this on Monday at a briefing. He says that the reported figure...
Six people, including two pilots, were killed when a plane carrying medical supplies crashed in south-western Somalia on Monday. “The cause of the accident is not yet known,” government spokesman Ismael Mukhtar Omar told the Germany’s news agency dpa. The...
Nigeria has recorded 245 new cases of Coronavirus, the highest it has recorded in a single day. With the sharp increase, Nigeria now has a total of 2,802 confirmed cases of Coronavirus. In the figures released by the Nigerian Centre...
The production rate of Tesla's Model 3 sedans in its Shanghai gigafactory will top 4,000 units per week by mid-2020, the U.S. electric carmaker said on Thursday. The Shanghai gigafactory was producing 280 vehicles every day at the end of...
Oil prices fell in early trade on Monday, paring last week’s gains, on worries the global oil glut may persist as U.S.-China trade tension could hold back an economic recovery. The pessimism in the market emerged even as coronavirus pandemic...
Over 70,000 people have been evacuated after the Sardoba dam in the central Syrdarya region burst, flooding residential areas and crop fields, the Uzbek Emergency Ministry said Saturday. At least 56 people were injured and subsequently hospitalized in the region...
Chinese health authority said Sunday that it received reports of two new confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland Saturday. One was an imported case reported in Shanghai and the other was a domestically transmitted case in Shanxi Province, the...
Coronavirus Came From Wuhan: United States President, Donald Trump has revealed that he has seen evidence showing that the Wuhan Institute of Virology is behind the coronavirus outbreak. Trump who made the claim on Thursday, declined to provide details. Speaking...
Six people died when a fire that destroyed a row of houses in Manila's Tondo district on Thursday morning, local media reported. According to reports, the fire, which broke out at 6:30 a.m. local time, gutted at least eight wood-frame...
US economic activity in the first quarter contracted at an annual rate of 4.8 percent amid the COVID-19 impact, the biggest decline since the Great Recession, the U.S. Commerce Department reported Wednesday. The decline in first quarter real gross domestic...
A 30-year-old teacher in Brooklyn has died of Coronavirus after she was turned away twice for COVID-19 testing but later diagnosed with the virus. The teacher, Rana Zoe Mungin, was confirmed dead by her mother after she battled coronavirus in...
Researchers at Oxford University in United Kingdom who are developing a vaccine against coronavirus have said the first batch for public health use could be ready by September. “With an emergency approval from regulators, the first few million doses of...
Nigeria has recorded 196 new cases of Coronavirus, the highest in a single day, with the virus spiking up in Lagos and Kano. The nation now has a total of 1,728 Coronavirus infections so far. In the figures released by...
Brymo Accused Of Rape: Nigerian singer, Ọlawale Ọlọfọrọ, better known as Brymo, has been accused of sexual assault by a social media user. Brymo who has been receiving some accolades for his album, Yellow, is now in the mix of...
The number of confirmed coronavirus infections in the United States topped one million on Tuesday, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. The pandemic has claimed the lives of more than 57,000 people in the US, which leads the...
The airline has cut 94 per cent of its flights and its parent company, IAG, lost almost half a billion pounds in the first three months of 2019, with much heavier losses expected. As a result, British Airways has begun...
Coronavirus Vaccine Trail Volunteer Dies: Elisa Granato, the first volunteer who availed herself in Oxford for a jab in the first Europe human trial of a vaccine to protect against the Coronavirus Pandemic has died. She died two days after...
Africans in China are still facing discrimination and are being barred from hotels, shops and restaurants in Guangzhou, despite Chinese officials’ assurance that it would stop. There had been outrage across many African countries earlier this month when racist discrimination...
HMM Algeciras, the largest container vessel on earth with a TEU (20-foot equivalent unit) capacity of 24,000, started its maiden voyage from the port of Qingdao in eastern China's Shandong Province on Sunday. The ship, measures 399.9 meters long and...
39 Arrested At Strip Club: 620 people have been arrested in Lagos state for violating the lockdown order issued by the federal government following the outbreak of Coronavirus in the state. Among the 620 alleged lockdown violators are 39 people...
New York Politician, Eric Adams, has called for the government and health workers to ensure the bodies of dead victims of Coronavirus are handled properly with decency and dignity as the Coronavirus death toll hit 54,000 in the US on...
Global COVID-19 deaths surpassed 200,000 on Saturday afternoon, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. A total of 200,698 people have died of the disease as of 1:50 p.m. (1750 GMT) among 2,865,938...
Nigeria has recorded 87 new cases of Coronavirus, the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC said late Saturday night. This represents a drop from the 114 cases the nation recorded on Friday. As usual, Lagos recorded 33 new coronavirus cases,...
China hopes the United States will not choose to be "on the wrong side of the track from the international community," a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Friday. "The U.S. assumes that WHO should do its bidding because it is...
The child was found in an abandoned house in the outskirts of a village in Madhya Pradesh. According to the reports, this is the third rape reported since the coronavirus lockdown The seven-year-old girl was whimpering for her mum when...
According to the Agence France Presse, AFP, the World Health Organization said Thursday that the new coronavirus pandemic could severely disrupt access to anti-malaria nets and drugs in sub-Saharan Africa, warning that malaria deaths risked doubling if efforts are not...
Doctors in the U.S have discovered a new symptom of coronavirus. They say the symptom lies in the toes or fingers of the afflicted, especially in white people. It is called the Covid toe. The good part is that it...
The tension between the United States and Iran seems to have taken a new dimension as President Trump on Wednesday ordered the United States Navy to shoot down all Iranian gunboats who harass them ever again. This was disclosed by...
Nigeria has recorded 91 new cases of COVID-19, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced. NCDC, on its verified twitter handle on Wednesday evening, said 74 of the new cases are in Lagos, five in Katsina, four in...
A South African man has been arrested by the police for trying to smuggle his girlfriend in the back of his car amidst a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of COVID19. According to an official from the province of...
The COVID-19 index case in Kano State withheld critical information about his medical condition and travel history to doctors at the neuro-surgical specialist hospital where he was first treated, a staff of the clinic has said. James King, one of...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control now has 13 COVID-19 testing labs. The NCDC announced this Wednesday night. Up till 30 March, the agency only had six labs in the country. But in two weeks, it added seven more, earlier...
The Niger State government on Wednesday April 15, ordered a trailer filled with over fifty people, to return to Lagos State, where it was reportedly coming from. The Niger state Task Force Team for COVID-19 intercepted the trailer at Gbaganu...
Nigeria has recorded another 34 new cases of Coronavirus, with the total figures jumping to 407. According to the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, 18 of the 34 cases were recorded in Lagos. Twelve cases were also recorded in...
A 40-year-old man was arrested on charges of burglary for allegedly stealing a sample collected from a COVID-19 suspect for testing from a hospital in the city of Davis in California. On Saturday, at around 1:35 pm, Davis Police received...
5 new cases of Coronavirus has been confirmed in Kwara, Katsina and Lagos states by the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC). There are now 19 states with confirmed cases of Coronavirus. As at 09:10 pm on April 12, there...
Nollywood actress Uche Ogbodo is sharing an encouraging note to her fans, urging them to not give up, but hold on to hope. Uche who is known for her revealing photos on Instagram, is one actress that comes with a...
14 New Coronavirus Cases: Nigeria has been hit with another 14 new cases of Coronavirus, with the national figures standing at 288. Lagos has continued to have rising cases, as it had 13 of the new cases announced by the...
Chinese health authorities said Friday that they received reports of 42 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland Thursday, of which 38 were imported. Four new domestically transmitted cases were reported, with three in Guangdong Province and one in...
22 new cases of Coronavirus have been confirmed in Nigeria by the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) as at 09:00pm on April 8. Twenty-two new cases of #COVID19 have been reported in Nigeria: 15 in Lagos, 4 in the...
The novel coronavirus may be present on surgical masks for up to seven days after exposure, new evidence suggests. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus responsible for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), also appears to be affected by...
Linda Tripp: Linda Tripp, a key figure in the US presidential sex scandal that nearly brought down the administration of Bill Clinton over his affair with one-time White House intern Monica Lewinsky, leading to the US president's impeachment in 1998,...
Dennis, a teacher residing 40 minutes from the nation's capital, has seen his stock portfolio plummet by 200,000 U.S. dollars in just a matter of weeks. "I might have to put off retirement for a couple of years, until I...
Professor Princewill Chike, Rivers State Commissioner for Health has revealed that the newly recorded COVID-19 case is a sixty-two-year-old man who returned from the United Kingdom on March 21. The Commissioner for Health while addressing newsmen said the returnee has...
Top comedian and Daily Show host Trevor Noah is living in fear after receiving numerous death threats after his interview with Bill Gates drew major criticism from Africans. The talk show host interviewed American billionaire Bill Gates about the initiatives...
Boris Johnson In Intensive Care: The UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, has been moved to an intensive care unit after his condition worsened, Downing Street has said. A No 10 spokesman said: Since Sunday evening, the prime minister has been...
Johnson Admitted To Hospital: The UK prime minister Boris Johnson has been admitted to hospital for tests after showing persistent symptoms of coronavirus 10 days after testing positive. A Downing Street spokeswoman said: “On the advice of his doctor, the...
Entire Family Tested Positive: An entire Spanish family including eleven children have contracted Coronavirus and are under strict isolation in their home. The Cebrian Gervas family have been forced to lock themselves away in Valladolid in north-west Spain after every...
The number of COVID-19 cases in the United States topped 250,000 by 1 p.m. Friday (1700 GMT), according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. The fresh figure reached 257,773 with 6,586 deaths, according...
It is going to end up in tears for two soldiers whose video earlier today circulated in which they were seen threatening to rape women in Warri and infect them with HIV in retaliation for the alleged killing of their...
Sergio Rossi, one of the most famous Italian shoe designers, has died of the coronavirus disease, an Italian official said on Friday, NAN reports. Several Italian media reported that Rossi, who was born in 1935, died on Thursday in a...
According to AlJazeera, more than 1,002,000 people have been diagnosed with the COVID-19 disease worldwide, as the death toll surpassed 51,000 while about 208,000 patients recovered. The coronavirus pandemic death toll in Spain passed 10,000 on Thursday, as the country...
Instagram comedian and skit maker, Debo Adebayo popularly known as Mr Macaroni has shared an untold story of how music producer, Don Jazzy changed his life after sliding into his DM 8 years ago. The ‘Oiinn’ crooner recounted how he...
An Italian nurse allegedly strangled his doctor girlfriend to death because "she gave him Coronavirus." After committing the crime, 28-year-old Antonio De Pace reportedly called cops to tell them he had murdered young medic, Lorena Quaranta, 27. When Police arrived...
A patient who was one of the eight Ghanaians that recently tested positive to coronavirus in Ghana, has reportedly escaped from a quarantine facility in the country. Northern Regional Minister, Salifu Saeed confirmed that the patient, a woman in her...
The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Mojisola Yaya-Kolade, while briefing newsmen in Ado-Ekiti, said that the index case, who had been in isolation, was discharged after he had fully recovered. Yaya-Kolade said, “He has now tested negative. Everything is normal;...
A young unidentified man and woman, suspected to be lovers, have reportedly drowned in the Ureje Dam of the Ekiti State Water Corporation, in Ado Ekiti metropolis, a report by Daily Sun has revealed. It was gathered that the sad...
ADDRESS BY H.E. MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE COVID- 19 PANDEMIC SUNDAY 29TH MARCH, 2020 Fellow Nigerians, From the first signs that Coronavirus, or COVID-19 was turning into an epidemic and was officially declared...
Nigeria has recorded 14 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of infections to 111 in the country. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control said, “14 new cases of #COVID19 have been reported in Nigeria; nine in Lagos and...
It’s been a tough time for the world as the number of coronavirus or COVID-19 cases keep soaring. Since the disease broke out on December 31, 2019 in Wuhan, China, it has spread across the globe. As of Friday, the...
Italy continues to be terribly affected by the outbreak, recording its second-highest number of deaths in a day. France has become the fifth country to report more than 1,000 coronavirus-related deaths - as another 743 people died from the disease...
The Rivers State Government has closed down the Oil Mill Market with effect from today, Wednesday, March 25, 2020. Anyone found trading in the market will be arrested by security agents. In a Government Special announcement issued on Tuesday night...
The Nigerian Army is bracing up for a lock down in Nigeria following the outbreak of Coronavirus in Nigeria. In a classified document from the office of Chief of Army Staff, Yusuf Buratai, addressed to Army Headquarters, signed by Lt...
Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria has asked the federal government to seek help on how to combat the coronavirus outbreak in the country from the Cuban government. According to reports, since the outbreak of the virus, 59 countries...
Mr. Sunday, a Personal Assistant in an oil company based in Port Harcourt has told the West African Reporters(WAR) , he is in dilemma having impregnated his boss’s wife and does not know how to handle the issues surrounding the...
Nigeria Has Less Than 500 Ventilators: As coronavirus spreads to six states in Nigeria, with fear that the infection could get worse, highly-placed health workers have said that the nation does not have up to 500 ventilators across the 36...
The Corona virus or COVD-19 will reach any country sooner or later, and there is no doubt that many countries do not have any sophisticated diagnostic kits or equipment. Please use as much natural vitamin C as possible to strengthen...
The PUNCH reports that the Dubai carrier Emirates Airline announced on Sunday it will suspend all passenger flights from March 25 amid the novel coronavirus outbreak. “Today we made the decision to temporarily suspend all passenger flights by 25 March...
Commander, Lagos State Rapid Response Squad (RRS, DCP Olatunji Disu this morning forced the management of Victorious Army International Church to comply with the Lagos State Government’s directive limiting gathering to 50 persons to prevent the spread of Coronavirus in...
Coca-Cola on Friday said that it does not expect to meet its financial outlook for 2020 due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Around the world, sporting events and concerts have been canceled, movie theaters and restaurants have been...
The Lagos state government has appealed to every passenger on board the Lufthansa flight LH568 on March 13th and the Turkish flight TK1830 on March 14th to isolate themselves and contact the state ministry of health immediately. This comes as...
India has executed four men who were convicted of the brutal gang rape and murder of a young woman on a bus in Delhi in 2012. BBC UK reported that the men, Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta, and Mukesh...
For the first time since the Covid-19 outbreak began, Wuhan, China has recorded no new cases of the virus, according to China’s health ministry. Wuhan which has been the epicenter of the coronavirus, seems to be winning the fight against...
The number of COVID-19 infections outside China has surpassed 120-thousand. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus: "More than 200,000 cases of COVID-19 have been reported to WHO. And more than 8,000 people have lost their lives. And more than...
Petrol price has been slashed from N145 to N125 per litre, the Nigerian government has announced. Minister of state for petroleum resources, Timipre Sylva, who made the announcement on behalf of President Muhammadu Buhari, said the NNPC will be ordered...
The Department of Health reports that the confirmed number of coronavirus cases in South Africa has now jumped to 116 cases. This means that a further 31 cases have been identified, following the overnight announcement that cases reached 85 in...
According to The PUNCH, the Federal Ministry of Health has announced five new cases of coronavirus bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Nigeria to eight. All the five new cases had a travel history to the United Kingdom...
The Joint Admission and Matriculation board, JAMB has released the results of 312,000 candidates who sat for the exam on March 14th the first day of the examination. The results were released on Sunday. JAMB has directed candidates to check...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has suspended all mass gatherings including congregational prayers in mosques, cafes, cinemas, and sports venues to contain the spread of coronavirus. According to Turkey’s Health Minister, Fahrettin Koca, the toll of new coronavirus cases...
The International Monetary Fund on Monday said it “stands ready” to use its $1 trillion lending capacity to help countries around the world that are struggling with the humanitarian and economic impact of the novel coronavirus. “As a first line...
Take By Timi Dakolo: A Nigerian vocalist and songwriter, Timi Dakolo, has released his first project for 2020 titled ‘Take’, featuring popular Nigerian rapper and YBNL boss, Olamide. Dakolo got his breakthrough into the Nigerian music industry after he emerged...
The Department of Health (DoH) on Monday announced that pharmacies will soon be able to deliver medicines straight to residents’ doorsteps. The DoH in Abu Dhabi – the regulatory body for the health sector in the emirate – issued a...
China and Cambodia launched the fourth joint drill on counter-terrorism and humanitarian rescue at the Techo Sen Chumkiri live-fire field in Cambodia's southwestern Kampot province on Sunday. Gen. Vong Pisen, Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces, and Chinese Ambassador...
Staffs of Hyundai were seen working on production line at a plant of Beijing Hyundai in Cangzhou City, north China's Hebei Province, March 13, 2020. The Beijing Hyundai plant in Cangzhou resumed full operation on Friday under measures taken to...
Ghana And Gabon: Ghana and Gabon have confirmed their first cases of coronavirus, becoming the ninth and tenth countries in sub-Saharan Africa to register positive cases of COVID-19 virus. In a statement on Thursday, Gabon’s government said its case was...
The English Premier League will hold an “emergency club meeting” this morning to discuss how to handle upcoming matches after Arsenal coach Mikel Arteta tested positive for the coronavirus and and the club shut down their Colney training ground. Most...
China Faces New Challenge: After securing an upper hand in its all-out confrontation with the novel coronavirus on home turf, China faces another tough challenge, the economic fallouts of the outbreak already declared as a pandemic by the World Health...
People in Ghana could not hide their anger after a young Entrepreneur who is also a motivational speaker was slapped and whipped for declaring his methodology for setting up his business. According to the information reaching us, most successful people...
A Nigerian lady identified on Twitter as @DuchessT has taken to the popular social media platform to dish out a piece of advice to fellow ladies. According to the lady, women should sometimes take their partners out and spoil them....
Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak in central China's Hubei Province, has closed all of its 16 public facility-turned temporary hospitals as the number of COVID-19 patients continues to drop in the city. The hospitals were converted from...
A MAN requested for a sex vendor to come to his hotel room – and answered the door to his own daughter. Titus Ncube, a married father-of-three, collapsed to the floor with shock while his daughter, 20, fled the hotel...
The White House announced Monday that President Donald Trump has not been tested for coronavirus. “The President has not received COVID-19 testing because he has neither had prolonged close contact with any known confirmed COVID-19 patients nor does he have...
A 20-year-old man suspected to be suffering from an undisclosed mental condition went on a killing spree and murdered five members of a Binga family on Friday night. The assailant, Christopher Gotore, ran-amok and slaughtered five members of his in-laws’...
Afghans on Monday will witness the absurd spectacle of two inaugurations at the same time, with President Ashraf Ghani and his bitter rival Abdullah Abdullah both claiming the premiership amid fears their bickering could derail upcoming Taliban talks. The ceremonies...
At least 400 people were early hours of Monday put under surveillance in Indian-controlled Kashmir after a suspected case of COVID-19 was detected, officials said. The 400 people were put under surveillance in Jammu, the winter capital city of Indian-controlled...
There is no doubt that Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the finest and funniest players in the world of football – and he showed it once again Sunday before Juventus take-on Inter Milan in an empty stadium. The game was...
Former US Vice President Joe Biden rode a wave of momentum to win at least eight large states, including Texas on Super Tuesday, but Bernie Sanders won the biggest prize of California to set up a long two horse race...
The coronavirus that originated in China has spread fear and anxiety around the world. But while the novel virus has largely spared one vulnerable group — children — it appears to pose a particular threat to middle-aged and older adults,...
The United States has adopted a double standard policy of counter-terrorism, which is based entirely on its own national interests, disregarding the appeal of other countries and regions, a scholar said here Monday. "On the one hand, under the guise...
As eight more countries confirmed their first cases of COVID-19 on Monday and the caseload has continued to spike in worst-hit regions, the World Health Organization (WHO) urged global actions to contain the epidemic with right measures. On Monday, Indonesia...
A 27-year-old man identified as Ejike Okata, has been arrested by the Police in Ogun for Killing His Neighbour over a missing iPhone. The incident reportedly happened in Obalende, the Ijebu-Ode area of the state, ChannelsTV reports. In a statement...
The Kenyan High Court has suspended for 10 days the government’s decision to allow a resumption of non-essential flights from China to Kenya. Justice James Makau has also ordered the state to prepare a contingency plan on prevention, surveillance and...
Indian lady and the 7 man armed robbery gang she heads have been arrested by the Police in Lagos state. The Indian woman and her gang have been notorious for robbing church and supermarket were arrested February 27, 2020 during...
The fear of contracting coronavirus has forced Nigerian journalist/publisher Chief Dele Momodu to take urgent precautionary steps. He has been spotted wearing face mask and gloves at the Murtala Mohammed Airport this morning. The Ovation Magazine publisher wrote while sharing...
Iran’s vice-president has been diagnosed with coronavirus, state media have reported, as the country struggles to stop the spread of the disease, IndependentUK has reported. Masoumeh Ebtekar is among 254 people infected with the virus in the Middle Eastern nation,...
These photos that appear to show cats are not actually images of cats at all but of handbags. Can you believe that? Yes, they are handbags! Japanese housewife and amateur designer Pico grew up collecting faux-fur animals and now spends...
One week after Africa got a clean bill of health on coronavirus disease, a fresh case has been recorded in Algeria, TheCable reports. A man who was placed in isolation at an Egyptian hospital had tested negative to the disease...
Employees work on an ambulance at a workshop of a MPV production branch of Jianghuai Automobile Group Corp. Ltd., (JAC) in Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province, Feb. 25, 2020. The company rushes to make ambulances to meet the...
An 11-year-old girl who was allegedly raped by her biological brother gave birth to a boy at their Missouri home in USA. Her brother, 17, was charged with incest and statutory rape of a person younger than 12, and her...
Chinese health authority Monday said it received reports of 409 new confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infection and 150 deaths on Sunday from 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. Among the deaths, 149 were in Hubei...
A tense calm was broken by a volley of rocket fire on Israel’s southern border Monday morning, after both Israel and the Islamic Jihad terror group threatened to escalate violence after a flare-up saw intense rocket fire on towns in...
A young Cameronain student in China identified as Senou, recently infected with Coronavirus was released from hospital this morning cured of the virus. Doctors seeking for a cure to treat the dreadful virus were amazed to see Senou still alive...
A report by P.M. Express has shown that police operatives from Osun State Command have uncovered a Cherubim and Seraphim Church, which a female Pastor uses to recruit teenagers for prostitution. The report shows that the incident happened at the...
Chloroquine, a medication used to prevent and to treat malaria, has just been confirmed as one of the three anti-viral drug for Coronavirus. The search for the cure of Coronavirus has been on for some time now, and Chinese experts,...
TheCable reports that a patient who was placed under surveillance at a hospital in Egypt over coronavirus has tested negative. The patient, said to be a foreigner, was reported as Africa’s first coronavirus case on February 14. But four days...
According to the BBC at least five people were injured after gunmen opened fire at about 22:00. Police reports indicate that they are searching for the suspects, who fled the scene and are currently at large. The first shooting was...
Visitors look at an electric Mini Cooper and its charging station during the 2020 Canadian International Autoshow at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto, Canada, Feb. 18, 2020. The annual event held from Feb. 14 to 23 showcases more...
While many people believe in the importance of faithfulness in relationships and often advise against cheating, it appears there are some who maintain that when it comes to men, monogamy is not an option. One of such people is Onyi...
China's largest automotive joint venture in terms of vehicle sales, FAW-Volkswagen, resumes production amid the #coronavirus outbreak.
1957 Missing Purse Found: A lady’s purse that went missing in 1957 has been found in between a locker and a wall in an Ohio middle school, and the content will amaze you. The red purse covered in dust was...
U.S. government's decision to increase tariffs on EU planes "further escalates trade tensions between the U.S. and the EU, thereby creating more instability for U.S. airlines that are already suffering from a shortage of aircraft", said European aircraft producer Airbus....
Patients walk into a ward at the Leishenshan (Thunder God Mountain) Hospital in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, Feb. 16, 2020. The hospital admitted one hundred COVID-19 patients on Sunday. Xinhua
A father has been jailed for 30 years for raping his two biological daughters over a six-year period. The 48-year-old man, who cannot be named to protect the identity of his daughters, denied three counts of rape but was convicted...
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has repeatedly touted his support from black voters as a sign of his electability in the general election, but he reportedly caused frustration during a meeting last year when he said black “parents can’t read.”...
Doctors have dubbed a seven-year old BIONIC after she was hit by a car and did not feel a thing. Unique Olivia Farnsworth stunned hospital when they discovered she has a rare chromosome condition stopping her from feeling hunger, fatigue...
The deadly coronavirus outbreak in China is pushing the medical personnel attending to patients to utilise the the services of robots as medical assistants. Telepresence bots that allow remote video communication, patient health monitoring and safe delivery of medical goods...
A lady has taken to Facebook to narrate an unusual incident where she swallowed her engagement ring while sleeping, thinking she was in a dream. The American lady identified as Jenna Leigh Howell wrote: So, in case you missed it,...
Popular Nigerian indigenous rapper, Omoniyi Temidayo popularly known as Zlatan Ibile, has taken to his Twitter to share his thoughts about pastors while revealing that he is a pastor’s son. According to Zlatan, he does not believe in many of...
Low-income economies should be vigilant about debt problems, work with investors to improve transparency on debt and strike a balance between promoting investment and curbing debt vulnerability, top officials from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group said...
Chinese authorities are carefully balancing efforts to control the novel coronavirus epidemic and minimize its impact on the economy as millions of people head back to work Monday after an extended holiday. In a circular released over the weekend, the...
A Nigerian man, Mr Chike Eze has approached a court in Lagos state demanding for his marriage to his wife, Rachael be terminated as the love they once shared has been replaced with strife and bitterness. On Monday, 55-year-old Eze...
No fewer than 13 migrants died in a snowstorm in eastern Turkey night after crossing the border from Iran, a human rights organisation of Van province in Turkey said late Saturday. The people had reached the mountains in the Caldiran...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says promotion of gender equality and the “meaningful engagement of women and girls” was key to poverty eradication in Africa. Guterres stated this in his address to the 33rd African Union (AU) summit, which opened in...
A member of the security forces was killed early on Sunday in a raid on a shopping mall in northeastern Thailand where a soldier who shot dead at least 20 people was holed up. The killings began at around 3...
Doctors speak with cured novel coronavirus pneumonia patients in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Feb. 6, 2020. A total of 23 novel coronavirus pneumonia patients were cured and discharged from hospital on Thursday after integrated treatment with traditional Chinese medicine...
A man said to be in possession of two highly weaponised drones was reportedly arrested by officials of the Nigerian Army Department of Military Intelligence. The suspicious package which was concealed in cartons, was intercepted on January 28, 2020 at...
President Trump was acquitted Wednesday by the Republican-controlled Senate of charges that he abused the powers of his office and obstructed Congress as it probed his attempts to pressure Ukraine into political investigations — capping a tumultuous, three-week impeachment trial...
A 28-year-old an who made a false claim that he had coronavirus, causing a Toronto-to-Jamaica WestJet flight to return to the airport, has explained why he did it. The man named, James Potok, who has been arrested and charged with...
Immediately after President Donald Trump finished his State of the Union address speech, the speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi stood up behind him and ripped her copy of the speech. Trump had earlier before the speech rejected a handshake...
Coronavirus Cure Has Been Found: The cure and treatment for Coronavirus might have been found as a Chinese woman infected with the virus showed dramatic improvement after she was treated with a cocktail of anti-virals. Thailand’s health ministry said Sunday...
Michaels Rufinelli Biggest Woman: Michaels rufinelli is from United States and she won the honorary title of the biggest woman in the world with a hip circumference of 2.4m. She was officially included by Guinness and became the biggest person...
Doctor who Predicted Coronavirus: A doctor who chillingly predicted the coronavirus infection days before the epidemic hit was arrested in a night time raid on his home. Doctor Li Wenliang, who worked at a hospital in Wuhan, sent a message...
As the death toll of the deadly coronavirus continues to rise, China has built a 1,000-bed hospital completed in just 8 days to help tackle the outbreak. Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan, where the virus originated, is one of two dedicated...
As the Lagos state government has started the implementation of the ban on activities of Okada riders across some parts of the state, some residents have resorted to horse ride to commute within the state. According to a social media...
The British government on Tuesday approved a restricted role for Chinese tech company Huawei in building the country's 5G network, local media reported. Huawei, the Shenzhen-based networking and telecommunications equipment and services supplier, said it is reassured by the British...
The United Kingdom will finally have its Brexit at 11 pm on Friday, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson expected to deliver an emotional divorce address in a broadcast. According to snippets of the broadcast published by Mail Online , Johnson...
"The main reason for this declaration is not what is happening in China but what is happening in other countries," said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The concern is that it could spread to countries with weaker health systems. Meanwhile,...
Coronaviruses are a group of viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans, the virus causes respiratory infections which are typically mild including the common cold but rarer forms like SARS and MERS can be lethal. The World...
Coronavirus Spreads Across China: The death toll of the coronavirus has risen to 170 and with a confirmed case in Tibet, the virus has now spread to every region in mainland China. Chinese health authorities have said there were 7,711...
They give sex for free to their guests and also they adorn newborn with bead necklaces. As if these are not enough, the tribe lives in isolation and is wary of external contacts. The people work hard to ensure that...
Blac Chyna has slammed Kylie Jenner for taking Dream Kardashian for a ride in the helicopter that was later involved in the fatal Kobe Bryant crash. The 31-year-old model shares Dream with Rob Kardashian and is extremely upset that Kylie...
Nigerian singer and Grammy nominee Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, better known as Burna Boy has appreciated legendary musician and songwriter Angelique Kidjo for dedicating her fourth Grammy win to him. Burna Boy lost the Best World Music Album to Angelique Kidjo,...
The US military has confirmed one of its planes crashed in eastern Afghan province of Ghazni on Monday, but disputed claim that the aircraft had been brought down by enemy fire. "While the cause of crash is under investigation, there...
Chinese authorities have ordered the extension of a public holiday in an effort to contain the coronavirus epidemic. A working group chaired by Premier Li Keqiang to tackle the outbreak decided "to reduce population flows" by extending the Spring Festival...
Dr Nnenna Ajayi is a consultant physician and gastroenterologist in Internal Medicine at the Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State. The head of clinical services at the virology centre and Chairman of Lassa fever committee in the...
Relationship blogger and adviser, Joro Olumofin has shared the story of a woman whose marriage might be at the brink of collapse if she voices out. Her husband slept in the same hotel room this year with her brother's wife....
On the afternoon of May 1, 2018, Jeff Bezos received a message on WhatsApp from an account belonging to Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman. The two men had previously communicated using WhatsApp, but Bezos, Amazon’s chief executive, had...
Researchers claim the deadly coronavirus spreading around the world from China may have been spread to humans from snakes. According to the researchers, the SARS-like virus called Coronavirus may have been passed to humans from snakes sold at an open-air...
Scientists in the UK say post-mortem sperm donation should be adopted to address the dilemma of infertility and sperm shortage across the world. In a study published in the Journal of Medical Ethics (JME), the scientists argued that men should...
Wuhan, a Chinese city of eleven million people, has temporarily shut down its public transport as it tries to halt the outbreak of a new strain of virus. Those living in the city have been advised not to leave, in...
In yet another case of Pastors abusing their calling, a 30-year-old pastor impregnated his wife’s 12-year-old sister. The pastor who cannot be named to protect the minor’s identity then promised to marry the minor after she finished her Grade 7...
Two Nigerian ladies have opened up on how they once washed their private parts in the meals of their boyfriends for allegedly hurting them. There has been so much drama on the Instagram page of relationship adviser and blogger Joro...
A mother-of-two with size 38KK breasts is in serious pain because of her massive chest which has made her 'life a living nightmare.' 29-year-old Ms. Sullivan is finding it hard to sleep or walk for more than 15 minutes because...
A 30 –year –old police officer has been sentenced to six years in jail for bedding his colleague’s 13-year-old sister-in-law twice. According to our source,Kudakwashe Dzinamurungu appeared before Gweru Regional Magistrate Mrs Phathekile Msipa facing two counts of having sexual...
There are reports that two rockets landed near the US embassy in Baghdad on Monday. The extent of damage is not clear yet. Also not clear was where the rockets came from. A BBC reporter Nafiseh Kohnavard near the scene...
China, one of the world's biggest users of plastic, has unveiled a major plan to reduce single-use plastics across the country. Non-degradable bags will be banned in major cities by the end of 2020 and in all cities and towns...
A Zambian woman over the weekend Smashed a BMW car belonging to her husband after she caught him cheating. It is alleged that the husband has been using his BMW to pick girls and sleep with them in the car....
A man, Mustapha Idris, 29 has been arrested for killing his 20-year-old girlfriend, Nafisa Hashimu, who was three months pregnant for him. Information released by Audu Jinjiri, the state police command spokesperson, Mustapha and Hashimu, a divorcee, were live-in lovers...
A 37-year old man, Sunday Stephen, who forcefully slept with his 16-year old daughter in Lagos, has revealed that he was tempted into defiling her because his daughter was a pretty girl. According to PM Express, the incident happened at...
The impeachment trial of President Donald Trump at the senate will begin next week after about 100 lawmakers of the U.S. Senate were sworn in on Thursday as jurors for the trial. A report by the BBC revealed that Chief...
Earth Burning Out NOAA: An annual climate report released on Wednesday by the United States government says that 2019 was the second-hottest year on record and that all five of the world's warmest years have occurred since 2015, which echoed...
Vladimir Putin Still President: Vladimir Putin has been inaugurated as the president of Russia for the fourth time, renewing another six-year term in office. The 65-year-old Russian leader took oath at an official ceremony in the Grand Kremlin Palace in...
It would take a pea-sized brain for anyone to believe Fella Makafui is a virgin but that’s the story she’s trying to sell to Ghanaians. After dating Medikal for a year , Fella still wants people to believe she’s never...
Homicide detectives have arrested some people at Umuezeoka Umueze, Effium Autonomous Community, Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State in connection with the murder of two lovers, Ifeanyi Nwokwu and Nkechi Ezaka Ucha. Nkechi, who lost her husband years ago,...
U.S. President Donald Trump has called Qassem Soleimani a “son of a bitch” in his latest round of fierce criticism of the Iranian general he had assassinated earlier this month. Trump told a rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Tuesday that...
A Nigerian Mother has gone viral on social media after her son shared a video of her sobbing uncontrollably. Apparently, Debola, the son, informed his mother that he’d be returning to school the next day and upon hearing the ‘breaking...
A Nigerian Doctor has taken to his social media page to explain why dogs sometimes bark at night. The Nigerian Doctor with the handle @maxvayshia opined that it is not unconnected with the spiritual world as the presence of spirits...
A Kenyan young Lady has revealed how some men came to her campus in Kenya, where they were recruiting girls that they wanted to have canal knowledge. According to her, she was promised everything life had to offer. She was...
Julius Berger Nigeria Plc has been ranked in the upper Top 100 Nigerian companies in terms of assets, revenue and profits in fiscal year 2018. Alongside MTN Nigeria Communications, Dangote Group and Zenith Bank, the companies were announced as “Nigeria’s...
A Harare man is said to be living in “hell” as his violent wife is allegedly bashing him even at his workplace, forcing him to seek protection from the courts. Tonderai Furamera approached the Harare Civil Court seeking a protection...
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s decision to step back from the royal family and work to become financially independent seem to have been planned months ago. Prince Harry was captured having conversation with Disney CEO Bob Iger in July 2019,...
An 11-year-old student has opened fire in a school in northern Mexico, killing a teacher and injuring at least six other people before shooting himself dead, officials say. The incident happened at the private Colegio Cervantes school in the city...
In a heart rendering incident, a Harare man recently discovered that his wife who had been denying him sex for some time had illicit sexual affairs with over a dozen men during the sex ban. Erkridice Makomo who was married...
A man from West African Tribe in Ghana has amazed his people after he returned to Canada to resume his job as a gardener immediately after he was crowned as a king in order to raise money for his subjects....
Theresa Villiers told the BBC the current European Union ban on the two foods will be carried over into UK legislation after Brexit. Until now the UK has been wavering on the issue. But she told BBC Countryfile: “There are...
A judge in Brazil has issued a temporary injunction forcing Netflix to withdraw a comedy that depicts Jesus Christ in a homosexual relationship. The film entitled “The First Temptation of Christ”, by the Brazilian production company Porta dos Fundos, came...
Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, plans to take office space in Big Apple New York to help diversify his investments and avoid the risk of currency fluctuations on his home continent. According to a Bloomberg report, Dangote will use the...
In a year of gut punches to Britain’s royal family, Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, delivered a jarring blow of their own on Wednesday, announcing that they would “step back” from their official duties. It was an extraordinary retreat...
A British teenager has been handed a four-month suspended jail sentence after being found guilty of lying about being gang-raped in a Cyprus resort town last summer. The 19-year-old woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was sentenced at...
The 50-year-old evangelical pastor who stabbed his wife and killed himself inside their church was a troubled man. In a 17-page suicide note discovered in an envelope after the incident, Elisha Nyadoya accused his wife of 19 years, Anne Maghanga,...
Senegalese and Liverpool star, Sadio Mane has been crowned African Footballer of the Year. Sadio Mane beat Liverpool team-mate Mohamed Salah and Manchester City’s Riyad Mahrez to clinch the prestigious award. Mane was a standout player as Liverpool went all...
Nigerian award-winning singer, Oluwatosin Ajibade popularly known as Mr Eazi has disclosed that he would be taking time off the music scene for some weeks. He further revealed that he would be making a come back in February and advised...
A Chinese envoy said Monday that China is committed to playing a constructive role in maintaining peace and stability in the Middle East and the Gulf region. "China follows the situation very closely and the pressing task at the moment...
Prolific Rapist In British: A man convicted of 159 sex offences, including 136 rapes, will “never be safe to be released”, a judge has said. Reynhard Sinaga was found guilty of luring 48 men from outside Manchester clubs to his...
Popular Nollywood Actress, Toyin Abraham is currently enjoying motherhood as she recently took to her social media page to narrate a special scenario that took place between her child and the child’s father. Toyin Abraham was amazed today seeing her...
Rapper Cardi B has asked her fans to help her convince her husband Offset to follow her to Nigeria. Taking to her Twitter page, the singer posted a photo-shopped image of Offset adorned in traditional Nigerian attire and captioned it:...
The founder and General Overseer of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM), Dr. Daniel Olukoya, has released 31 prophecies for the year 2020. Olukoya, who tagged 2020 as the ‘year of Revival and New Glory, urged Nigerians to pray...
The British counter-terror police arrested a total of five men in various parts of England on suspicion of terrorism on Monday. The arrests occurred in Manchester in the north-west, in Peterborough in eastern England and in London, police said. Several...
The General Overseer, Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM), Dr Daniel Olukoya, may have sparked controversy after declaring that there is no word like Christmas in the bible. Pastor Olukoya who spoke on Wednesday at the Manner Water Service...
A white-bearded man robbed a bank two days before Christmas, but threw the stolen cash in the air and wished passers-by a merry Christmas, US media reported. Colorado police confirmed in a statement an "older white male" robbed the Academy...
Arik Air says one of its aircraft made a return to Lagos when the pilot noticed an ”oil indication light” . The aircraft, a Boeing 737-700 NG operating flight W3 740, was bound for Port-Harcourt on Wednesday morning. In a...
Currently trending on social media is an audio of a ‘grieving ‘ mother blasting her daughter for going completely naked in a movie. The up and coming Ghanaian actress identified as Vanessa Adu Sarfo was recorded whilst in a telephone...
Nigerian music stars Davido and Tiwa Savage have both taken to their social media accounts to issue a disclaimer to viral videos of them advertising an upcoming event for the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA). According to both stars who...
US House of Representatives Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, has said that the House would not commit to sending the articles of President Donald Trump’s impeachment to the Senate on Wednesday. The lawmaker told a post-impeachment-vote news conference that “That would have...
An American couple from Michigan who were married for 70 years died within 20 minutes apart in the same hospice care. Les and Freda Austin, both 90, from Jackson both entered hospice Dec. 6 and were in beds side by...
Donald Trump likes a fight and he likes a show and Wednesday – with impeachment voted right at the moment he was addressing a campaign rally hundreds of miles away in Michigan – he got both things on steroids. By...
50 Cent has continued his attack on Oprah Winfrey following reports that she plans to interview Russell Simmon's accuser. For days, 50 Cent has been calling out media mogul Oprah for granting interviews and producing documentaries that seem to implicate...
North Korea might abandon it's missile testing freeze agreed as a sign of 'good will' in Nuclear talks between US president Donald Trump and North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Un during their last summit. According to US Military officials, North...