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Nicki Minaj’s brother has been sentenced to 25 years to life in a New York prison after he repeatedly raped his 11-year-old stepdaughter while her mother was at work. Jelani Maraj, 41, was found guilty of ‘predatory sexual assault against a child and endangering the welfare of a child’ in 2017 and on Monday, Nassau County Supreme […]

The federal government says the speculated plan by the U.S. to add Nigeria to its existing list of visa travel ban countries is ill conceived. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, stated this on Monday in London during an interview session with Reuters News Agency. The minister is in London to officially engage […]

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, says Nigerians ought to be thankful that the spate of attacks by Boko Haram has dropped. He said despite the recent bombings that have claimed scores of lives, the impact of terrorism was still less than what Nigerians faced under former President […]

Former US First Lady and Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has returned to the political stage at the Sundance film festival with a vow to work to defeat her Republican antagonist Donald Trump in November. “Hillary,” a documentary about the former Democratic standard-bearer, was screened at the prestigious festival Saturday ahead of its world premiere. […]

The Wuhan coronavirus continues to spread around the world having already killed dozens of people and infected more than 2,700 people in mainland China. Here’s the latest numbers:  As of the end of the day Sunday, 2,744 cases were confirmed in mainland China.  80 people are dead, all in mainland China.  55 people outside mainland China have […]

Five cases of Wuhan coronavirus have been confirmed in the United States, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Sunday. One new case was confirmed in Arizona and two cases were confirmed in California. Cases had previously been confirmed in Illinois and Washington state. All the cases were in people who had […]

Prince William just earned a new royal position… On Saturday, it was announced that Queen Elizabeth II appointed her grandson, the Duke of Cambridge, another title: the Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. So what exactly does that mean for the father of three? According to Royal U.K. website, “The Lord High […]

Fresh pressure is being mounted on the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party on the need to change the name of the party in order to win the 2023 presidential election, Punch has learnt. The pressure is said to be spearheaded by some members of the former ruling party who believe that the party must […]

Edward Kallon, the United Nations (UN) resident and humanitarian coordinator in Nigeria, says the Nigerian government should find a political solution to the Boko Haram insurgency. Kallon said this on Friday at a press briefing to conclude the visit of Janez Lenarcic, European Union (EU) commissioner for crisis management, to Nigeria. Kallon said the UN […]

The Nigeria Immigration Service and Port Health Services have expressed fears over the outbreak of Coronavirus in China. The deadly disease, which broke out in  the Asian nation  sometime last month, has spread to eight countries including United States and Singapore, with over 800 people  infected and 30 killed in the past few weeks. Immigration […]

More than 50 people are dead, all in China, as the Wuhan coronavirus continues to spread throughout Asia and the rest of the world. Nearly 2,000 cases have been confirmed in mainland China. Nearly 40 confirmed cases have been identified outside mainland China in 13 places. And 57 million people have been affected by Beijing’s […]

At least 19 people died and more than 600 were injured in eastern Turkey after an earthquake rattled the region on Friday evening, according to authorities. The 6.7-magnitude quake struck near the town of Sivrice, in eastern Elazig province, collapsing at least 10 buildings, Turkish Interior Minister Sulyman Soylu said. Thirteen people were killed in […]

Former Super Eagles striker, Odion Ighalo, has been linked with a move to the Old Trafford to fill the vacuum left by Marcus Rashford who sustained an injury last week in the club’s FA Cup win against Wolves. Ighalo, who is currently with Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua, has two years left on his contract but […]

Two cases of the coronavirus have been “confirmed” in France, the first in Europe, French Health Minister Agnes Buzyn said on Friday. The first case involved a patient in a hospital in the southwestern city of Bordeaux while the other was in Paris, the minister told reporters. The SARS-like virus has claimed 26 lives since […]

A second case of Wuhan coronavirus in the United States has been identified in Chicago, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday in a press briefing. The patient is a Chicago resident in her 60s. She is in isolation at a hospital in Chicago, and is in stable condition. The patient flew […]

The Lagos State Health Service Commission has commenced mass recruitment of health sector workers to address the deficit in manpower requirements in the public health institutions across the state. The Permanent Secretary of the commission, Dr Ademuyiwa Eniayewun, in a statement on Thursday, said the administration of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu was keen to fulfil its […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has vehemently condemned in strong terms, the 2019 Corruption Perception Index, CPI recently released by Transparency International, TI, which ranked Nigeria 146 out of 180 countries analysed. The Commission further faulted the poor rating as baseless and described as appalling, the ‘bogus and ambiguous’ criteria used by TI […]

Nigeria has dropped on Transparency International‘s yearly corruption perception ranking, moving two places down to rank the world’s 34th most corrupt nation. In the 2019 Transparency International’s corruption perception index released on Thursday, Nigeria scored 26 out of 100 points, falling by one point compared to 2018. In the country comparison, Nigeria ranks this year 146 […]