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Friends have gone on Twitter to mourn a COVID-19 victim who died in Lagos, Nigeria, a day before his 60th birthday. The man, whose name was given as Jide Arije, aka Pio, died on Sunday, April 26, in Lagos, Nigeria. He would have turned 60 on Monday, April 27. Friends who mourned him online shared […]
Continue ReadingGunmen believed to be herdsmen struck on Sunday evening along Isan Ekiti-Iludun Ekiti Road, killed a councillor with Ilejemeje council area and kidnapped the Ekiti State Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr Folorunso Olabode, and another person. The commissioner and two others were traveling in the same car along the road when the incident happened. A source […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s National Judicial Council (NJC) has recommended Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem to President Muhammadu Buhari for confirmation as President of the Court of Appeal. The NJC at its 91st meeting held online last week also recommended 69 other judges for various appointments. It urged the president and their respective state governors to approve the appointments into […]
Continue ReadingThe twin sister of a nurse who died of Coronavirus has also died, just three days after her twin sister died. Emma Davis, 37, also a former nurse, died at Southampton General Hospital on Friday, just three days after the death of identical twin Katy, who worked as a paediatric nurse at the same hospital. […]
Continue ReadingAt least 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 who were arrested at a strip club in the state. Lagos police spokesperson, Bala Elkana said the suspects were […]
Continue ReadingA Professor of mass communication at Bayero University in Kano, Balarabe Maikaba is dead. The Professor is the sixth academic to have died in one week in the state. Recall LIB reported that there’s been increased mysterious deaths in the state in the last few days. Burial prayer for the deceased was held by 4pm at his family house, near […]
Continue ReadingThe Coronavirus pandemic has claimed the life of a 55-year-old Nigeria nurse and mother of two, Esther Akinsanya (above left), while her older sister, 61-year-old Mary Idowu (right), is currently on a ventilator in an Intensive care unit. London Evening Standard reports that the sisters, who both work at the Queen Elizabeth hospital in Woolwich, United […]
Continue ReadingIn a fashion with the United States lawyers who sued China for trillions of dollars in damages, a coalition of Nigerian legal experts have also filed a class action suit against the Peoples Republic of China over the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic effect on Nigerians. They are demanding $200 billion as damages for the […]
Continue ReadingNigerians have taken to social media to express worry over alleged mysterious deaths in Kano state which has reportedly risen to 640 in one week. Though the state was on lockdown for 7 days, it was recently relaxed for a day by Governor Umar Abdullahi Ganduje following the declaration of Ramadan. While the mysterious disease […]
Continue ReadingNigerian man’s insistence on obeying the social distancing order of the Lagos state government has allegedly led to his death in the Mafoluku, Oshodi area of Lagos state, Nigeria. The deceased, Taiwo Eluyemi, who resides on Taiwo Street, Mafoluku, Oshodi area of Lagos, usually invited his neighbors to his apartment to come watch football as […]
Continue ReadingGovernor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has announced four new cases of coronavirus in the state, bringing to eight the number of confirmed cases. Fayemi made this known in a statement he personally signed on Saturday evening in Ado-Ekiti, Stating that the victims contracted the disease from the state’s fourth index case, a 45-year-old […]
Continue ReadingPolice in Ogun State have arrested a herbalist, Lajuwon Ogunleye and his wife Adetutu Apalaya, for alleged conspiracy and murder of their seven-year -old son, Pelumi Apalaya, for ritual purpose. Also arrested along with the couple is one Fatai Sefiu in connection with the ritual killing of the boy. The suspects were arrested on April […]
Continue ReadingOlugbenga Abayomi Obileye, popularly known as Yomi Obileye, a Nollywood veteran actor, has died. He died in the early hours of Friday, April 24. Comedian cum actor, Gbenga Adeyinka confirmed the news of passing away of the actor yesterday via his Instagram page. “If tears could build a stairway and memories were a lane, we […]
Continue ReadingA very young house wife has stabbed her husband to death in Bauchi State, Nigeria. According to Facebook user, Datti Assalafiy, who shared photos of the deceased and the suspect on Saturday April 25, the incident happened in Itas-Gadau Local Government Area of the state. Merely looking at this so called wife, she looks too […]
Continue ReadingThe first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine has begun in Oxford. Two volunteers were injected out of more than 800 people recruited for the study. Elisa Granato (pictured above), a scientist, was the first volunteer to be injected and she said she volunteered because she wanted to try to support the scientific […]
Continue ReadingKim Jong Un is rumored to be dead, according to a Hong Kong broadcast network, while a Japanese magazine is reporting that North Korea’s rocket man is in a “vegetative state” after he underwent heart surgery earlier this month. Reports say that the Chinese government dispatched a team including medical experts to North Korea to advise North […]
Continue ReadingSaudi Arabia has abolished flogging as a form of judicial punishment, the supreme court announced, hailing the latest in a series of “human rights advances” made by the king and his powerful son. Court-ordered floggings in Saudi Arabia, sometimes extending to hundreds of lashes, have long drawn condemnation from human rights groups. The headline legal […]
Continue Reading“According to a report by The ICIR, as of April 9, the North-West region is the highest beneficiary of the Conditional Cash Transfer in the country, with 561,758 households benefitting from an allocation of N500bn. Others are North-Central, 321,434; North-East, 109,442; South-South, 67,696; South-West, 37,904; and South-East, 27,977. The report further showed that the highest […]
Continue ReadingNational leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has confirmed the death of Lateef Raheem, his Chief Security Officer for many years, who passed away on Friday after battling high blood pressure and diabetes. Raheem is believed to be his most trusted aide. On Saturday, Tinubu made revelations about how Lateef (fondly […]
Continue ReadingA pregnant teenager who claims her 10-year-old boyfriend, Ivan, is the father to her unborn baby has held a gender reveal party. Daria, 14, who has since become a social media influencer, revealed to her 119,000 followers that her baby will be a girl. The girl from Zheleznogorsk, Russia, also announced that she will call […]
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