Early morning fire razes computer, electronic shops in llorin

Property worth millions of naira were, today destroyed by an early morning inferno, which occurred at Ita-Ama in Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara. The fire, which destroyed five shops and some rooms, lasted over three hours. It took some firefighters from the state...

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Keyamo threatens to resign if recruitment of 774, 000 persons by FG is hijacked

The Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo has vowed to resign if the recruitment of 774, 000 persons is hijacked by politicians. Keyamo said this while inaugurating the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Extended Special Public Works Across the 774 Local Government...

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29-year-old banker tests positive for COVID-19 in Yobe

The Chairman of the Committee on Prevention and Control of COVID 19 in the State, Hon. Idi Barde Gubana, who is also the Deputy Governor, announced the case is a 29-year- old who is unmarried and he lives with his parents. The patient is a staff with a new generation bank...

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Covid-19: Zakzaky sends food to the poor from prison

Leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Shaikh Ibraheem Zakzaky has sent foodstuffs worth millions of Naira to the needy across Kaduna state. He said it was his age long family practice to identify with the underprivileged and life in prison wouldn’t change his principle. Zakzaky...

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Doctors remove live 6-inch worm from Chinese woman’s brain

Chinese doctors removed a live six-inch worm (parasite) from a 23-year-old Chinese female patient who was complaining of having continuous headaches. Xiao Yi (pseudonym) was reported to have visited a local clinic in Jiangsu province of eastern China in January but was transferred...

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Trump says China 'will do anything' for him to lose election

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he believes China's handling of the coronavirus is proof that Beijing "will do anything they can" to make him lose his re-election bid in November. In an interview with Reuters in the Oval Office, Trump said he was looking at different...

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Meghan Markle's ex-husband expecting first baby with wife

Meghan Markle's ex-husband is expecting his first baby with his new wife. Trevor Engelson, who the Duchess of Sussex was married to from 2011 to 2013, confirmed the news on his Instagram on Wednesday . The 43-year-old shared a picture of his second wife Tracey Kurland, 33,...

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Some Chinese coronavirus ventilators 'could kill patients' if used in UK, doctors warn

Some Chinese coronavirus ventilators ‘could kill patients’ if used in the UK, several senior British doctors have warned. According to a letter seen by NBC News, doctors have warned about 250 ventilators that the UK bought from China. The doctors reportedly warned that the...

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Man r.a.p.e.s teen wife to death days after marriage in Jigawa

Jigawa State Police Command has arrested a 30-year-old man, Alasan Audu, for allegedly r.a.p.i.n.g his wife to death days after she denied him s.e.x for 20 days after their wedding. Audu reportedly r.a.p.e.d 17-year old Hansa’u to death on the 21st April, 2020, at Kankarelu...

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Tragedy averted as tankers spill fuel in Lagos

A petrol-laden tanker fell and spilled its content on the road on Wednesday at Western Avenue, Ojuelegba area of Lagos State, thereby sparking panic amongst residents of the area. The Punch gathered that the yet-to-be-identified driver lost control of the vehicle after it...

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Photos: Internet fraudsters bag two years jail term in Kaduna

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Kaduna Zonal Office has secured the conviction of two internet fraudsters on April 29, 2020. The convicts whose names were given as Idahosa Bobby and Aidamebor Israel were convicted for offences bordering on internet fraud. A...

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Photo: Three Togolese arrested in Oyo for illegal migration

Three Togolese were arrested wednesday by men of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Oyo State Command, at Odo-Omu area of Iseyin Local Government after they escaped the border patrols from the Republic of Benin through Saki to arrive Iseyin on Tuesday. It was learnt that...

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Zamfara declares COVID-19 patient wanted

Zamfara State Government has declared wanted, one Jamilu Shinkafi, who was tested positive for coronavirus but could not be found afterward. The state Health Commissioner, Yahaya Kanoma told The Punch that Shinkafi absconded after he was confirmed positive for the virus, noting...

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Facebook to allow artists charge fans to access their live streams during this pandemic

Due to the global pandemic, many artistes’ shows have either been postponed to new dates or indefinitely. But fortunately, their inability to tour is gaining a new way for them to make money during the COVID-19 pandemic. Facebook has announced it’s adding an option that will...

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Just in! NURTW boss, MC Oluomo loses mother

Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Lagos State Council, Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya popularly known as MC Oluomo has lost his mother, Alhaja Zinat Abebi Omotowo. According to Mc Oluomo, she passed on around 7am today. Her Janazah (interment) already...

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TV anchor caught with half-n.a.k.e.d woman during live broadcast - and it's not his girlfriend

The Spanish TV host, Alfonso Merlos has been accused of cheating after a half-n.a.k.e.d woman walked into shot during one of his at-home news broadcasts – a woman who was not his girlfriend. Merlos, 41, was presenting a report on the Estado de Alarma channel from his home...

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Kylie Jenner wants company to drop the STORMI name saying her daughter is the famous one

Kylie Jenner is in court with a company over trademark. Kylie filed new legal documents going after a company called Business Moves Consulting -- which filed to trademark "Stormi Couture" a month after Kylie and Travis Scott welcomed their baby, Stormi Webster, into the world. Kylie...

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Two year-old girl rescued from uncompleted building in Abia

Officials of the gender-based violence response team of the Vicar Hope Foundation, Umuahia, have rescued a two-year-old child suspected to have been locked up for several days in an uncompleted building at the Zone 5 Agbama Housing Estate, Umuahia, Abia State. The baby, whose...

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Mompha shows off his N180m Rolls Royce Wraith Eagle VIII 2020 [ first to own it in Africa]

Mompha has showed off his N180m Rolls Royce Wraith Eagle VIII 2020, saying he is the first to own it in Africa. Well he can get that fact from the manufacturer. Boasting about taking the new delivery, he said the car has arrived his garage in Dubai and said he couldn't wait...

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Sad! 25-year-old man dies of COVID-19 in Lagos

A 25-year-old man has died of coronavirus-related complications in Lagos State. The state’s Commissioner for Health made this known via his Twitter handle on Thursday. He said, “87 new #COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Lagos on April 29, 2020. The total number of confirmed...

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CMD of Yaba Infectious Disease Hospital reportedly tests positive for coronavirus

The Chief Medical Director of Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba, Lagos, Dr Bowale Abimbola, has tested positive for Coronavirus. SaharaReporters gathered that Abimbola is presently being treated in one of the wards in the hospital. “Yes, he is positive, that’s why you haven’t...

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Biden under pressure to address s.e.x.u.a.l assault allegation

US presidential hopeful Joe Biden said Wednesday he has a proud history of campaigning against s.e.x.u.a.l violence, as he faces mounting pressure to respond to an assault allegation made by a former aide. The presumptive Democratic nominee has been accused by Tara Reade of...

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Bible verse of the day: 2 chronicles 7:14

Heal our land Lord!...

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Hilarious! Nigerian man compares how Ajaz star, David Neres got his girlfriend and how he tried getting his SAME WAY

So Ajaz star, David Neres says he got his current girlfriend by just entering into her DM and saying 'I am David Neres, come to me'. @Football__Tweet shared their love story alongside a photo of the couple. Then a Nigerian man tried doing same to a girl he likes. He entered...

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I have no accounts or property abroad - Goodluck Jonathan

A former Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan, has again said that he has no account or property abroad. Mr Jonathan said this in a statement on Tuesday. The statement, signed by Ikechukwu Eze, spokesman to Mr Jonathan, was issued in response to moves by the Nigerian government...

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Tonto Dikeh reveals she has a Muslim boyfriend

Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh has revealed that her boyfriend is Muslim after a follower questioned her when she wished Muslims happy Ramadan. The actress shared a photo of herself in an Islamic attire as she wished Muslims happy Ramadan on behalf of her foundation, Tonto...

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Ailing Yoruba actor, 'Ogun Majek' cries out for help

Nollywood actor, Gbolagade Akinpelu popularly known as “Ogun Majek” has cried out to the public for financial assistance over his sickness. Ogun Majek’s appeal and call for financial assistance over his current poor state of health was contained in a message issued by one...

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45-year-old man commits suicide in Imo (photos)

A 45-year-old man, Osita Ezuruike, on Tuesday, committed suicide in his house at Umudafa, Awo Mbieri in the Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo State. Sources at the community said the deceased expressed frustration with life over the lockdown and the dusk-to-dawn curfew...

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‘Superhuman!!! Meet the 101-year-old woman who beats coronavirus after surviving cancer, Spanish flu pandemic

A New York woman who survived the Spanish influenza pandemic, cancer and sepsis, has beaten coronavirus at the age of 101. Angelina Friedman’s family say they weren’t surprised when she overcame Covid-19 as she is a ‘survivor’ who has ‘superhuman DNA’. The pensioner’s mother...

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Meghan Markle told friends "changes would have been made" if Kate Middleton were bullied by tabloids

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry recently moved to Los Angeles after stepping away from senior royal duties and leaving England, where there's no denying that Meghan went through it.  According to the Daily Mail, Meghan told friends that she believed if her sister-in-law...

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False belief that methanol cures virus has killed over 700 in Iran

The false belief that toxic methanol cures the coronavirus has seen over 700 people killed in Iran, an official said Monday. That represents a higher death toll than previously released by the Iranian Health Ministry. An adviser to the ministry, Hossein Hassanian, said that...

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I joined robbery gang because members were always sharing money — Suspect

One of the two suspected members of a six-man robbery gang has said he joined the gang because he always saw them sharing money after each operation. They had been parading as members of One Million Boys gang in Lagos, but were arrested by policemen attached to Ejigbo Division...

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How President Buhari’s ''speech'' for Monday's broadcast leaked on social media before his address

The Presidency has disclosed that someone obtained and leaked the draft of President Muhammadu Buhari’s speech hours before the national broadcast on Monday. This was disclosed by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, when he appeared on...

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Germany grants Nigeria N8.9bn debt relief due to Coronavirus outbreak

The Republic of Germany said it had granted Nigeria debt relief amounting to N8.9bn (€22.4m) on account of the coronavirus pandemic. Also, the German government said it had successfully campaigned for the G20, the Paris Club and creditor countries in favour of a debt moratorium...

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