Two hippopotamuses have tested positive for the ravaging coronavirus pandemic at Antwerp zoo in Belgium. Imani, aged 14, and Hermien, 41, have no symptoms apart from runny noses, but the zoo said they had been put in quarantine as a precaution. “To my knowledge, this is the first time in this species. Worldwide, this virus…
Engr Bunu Sheriff Musa has passed away at the age of 74. Bunu was a minister under the regime of Gen. Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida and also served as a minister in various ministries, including Mines, Power and Steel Development. He was also Nigeria’s former ambassador to France. Secretary of Borno Elders’ Forum, Dr Bulama Mali…
A woman took to social media to narrate how her home was invaded by an armed robber in Apete, Ibadan. She revealed that the lone robber removed all the security bulbs around her apartment then tore the net of each apartment to peep in. Seeing that she was alone in hers, she said he…
Gabriel Anthony Patrick, a 44-year-old father of three, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, for ingesting 96 pellets of cocaine, which he excreted in the custody of the agency. A native of Nike in Enugu North Local Government Area of Enugu…
In what will come across as a really startling development, a young man who has been identified as Samuel has narrated how he, alongside his sibling, was extorted by men of the Lagos State Police Command on Saturday. The young man said the officers were working with hoodlums who bundled the duo into a yellow…
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has called for the immediate arrest of the Principal and the House Master of Dowen College for a thorough investigation and subsequent prosecution over their negligence which led to the attack and death of a student of the school, Sylvester Oromoni. Oromoni died on November 30, 2021, four…
No less than 23 passengers have been confirmed dead after a school bus they were travelling in plunged into River Enziu in Kitui, Kenya on the morning of Saturday, December 4. The 51-seater bus belonging to St Joseph Seminary Mwingi was ferrying passengers, mainly the choir, to wedding of an elderly couple aged over 70,…
Eight children were found dead on Saturday inside a vehicle parked in a community along the Badagry Expressway in Lagos. Residents told journalists the children who were between the ages of four and six years old had entered the Lexus SUV vehicle to play but mistakenly locked themselves inside and suffocated to death. The vehicle…
Operatives of the Nasarawa State Police Command have arrested a suspected notorious criminal who allegedly stole his neighbour’s car when she went to pick her child from a school in Abuja. Spokesperson of the command, ASP Ramhan Nansel, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, December 5, said the suspect, Auta Balefi was arrested while…
Two members of a three-man gang that specialise in snatching motorcycles have been apprehended in Abavo, Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State. The suspects were arrested by men of the Anti-cult volunteer corps under the leadership of Mr Miracle Okoh on Saturday, December 4. According to the commandant, they got a tipped off…