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US President-elect Joe Biden was reported to have ordered a deep cleaning of the White House after Trump vacated the place next month. The Daily Mail said Biden ordered a deep clean of the 55,000 square foot building in Washington DC. The cleaning becomes necessary after Trump and many members of his team and family […]

Actress Carol Sutton died Friday at age 76 of Covid-19 complications, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said. The New Orleans native built an extensive list of credits, including “Steel Magnolias,” “Queen Sugar,” and “Lovecraft Country,” according to her IMDb page. Cantrell praised Sutton, saying she “was practically the Queen of New Orleans theater, having graced the stages […]

Nollywood actor, entrepreneur and comic act Chinedu Ikedieze, professionally known as Aki, turned 43 on Saturday and he shared the picture of a cake with his face on it. Born on the 12th of December 1977, his primary and secondary education was in Aba, Abia State. He later bagged a Higher National Diploma (HND) in […]

Nigeria has set a new record in daily COVID-19 cases, after recording 796 new cases on Friday, indicative of the outbreak of a second wave of the virus. Friday’s was the highest daily record ever published by the NCDC and broke the 19 June record when 745 cases were registered. According to the data released […]

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has gone into self-isolation, the state government said on Friday. This was contained in a statement titled ‘Sanwo-Olu goes into self-isolation’ by the Lagos Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi. He said one of the close aides to Sanwo-Olu tested positive for coronavirus, necessitating the governor to isolate. However, […]

Ahead of a possible second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, the Nigerian government has ordered the reopening of all isolation and treatment centres in the country. The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, made this known at a Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 briefing on Thursday. He said the move was to prepare the country […]

Death row inmate Brandon Bernard has been executed in Indiana after last-minute clemency pleas were rejected by the US Supreme Court. Bernard, 40, was convicted of murder in 1999 when he was a teenager, and is the youngest offender to be executed by the federal government in nearly 70 years. Bernard told the family of […]

Nigeria on Thursday recorded 675 new COVID-19 cases, its highest since 23 August when 601 cases were reported. The highest number ever recorded since February when an index case arrived from Italy was 745 on 19 June. Since 1 December, the nation has been reporting numbers in excess of 300 infections, capping it on Wednesday […]

The National Population Commission, NPC, Tuesday, announced that Nigeria now has an estimated population of 206 million people. The Chairman of the NPC, Nasir Kwarra, who disclosed this in Abuja, at a press briefing on the commencement of the 11th phase of Enumeration Area Demarcation, EAD, also announced the next population and housing census would […]

Nowadays, people tend to monitor social media activities via comments, user engagements, online chats, threads, ‘likes’ and ‘shares’. Social media monitoring is a process of using social media channels to track, gather and mine the information and data of certain individuals or groups. It is also aimed at assessing their reputation and discerning how these […]

Manchester United were dumped out of the Champions League after losing 3-2 to RB Leipzig on a disappointing night for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. United, who knew they only needed a point to qualify from Group H, fell 3-0 behind in Germany after a shambolic defensive showing with on-loan Manchester City full-back Angelino (2), Amadou Haidara […]

The Nigerian government plans to reopen its land borders, President Muhammadu Buhari has said. He explained that the closure of the nation’s land borders was part of the efforts by the government to control the smuggling of weapons and drugs into the country. President Muhammadu Buhari stated this on Tuesday at a security meeting with […]

Nigeria has recorded 550 new COVID-19 cases. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced this in a tweet on Tuesday night. The new cases were recorded in 16 states and the FCT, with Lagos retaining the highest figure of 219 cases. Other states are: Kaduna with 52 cases, Kwara with19, Kano and Rivers with […]

A yet-to-be-identified lady has reportedly set her boyfriend ablaze in his house in Gboko town, in the Gboko Local Government Area of Benue State. The suspect, who is at large, was said to have taken the decision after the boyfriend, identified only as Jude, ended their relationship. This is coming barely three weeks after a […]