A mob on Saturday morning lynched a mentally sick man identified as Oladele Adeola, 35, for killing five siblings, The Nation has learnt. The incident occurred around 9:30am at Asa Village in Ojaodan, a Lagos border community.It was gathered that Adeola used a cutlass to matchet the kids aged between two and five years. The…

More than 40 people who attended a church service after lockdown was eased in Germany earlier this month have contracted coronavirus in Frankfurt, the head of the city’s health department told a news agency on Saturday. The service was held on 10 May at a Baptist church in Frankfurt, the department’s deputy chief Antoni Walczok…

At least two people including a bank executive have been pulled alive from the wreckage of an Airbus A320 which crashed after an ‘engine failure’ in Pakistan on Friday May 22, with 98 people on board. “Thank you so much. God has been merciful,’ Zafar Masood, the President of the Bank of Punjab said, according to officials…

245  new cases of COVID-19 were recorded in Nigeria on Friday, May 22, 2020.  According to the Nigeria Center for Disease Control NCDC, 131 cases were recorded in Lagos, 16 in Jigawa, 13 in Ogun, 12 in Borno, 9 in Kaduna, 9 in Oyo, 9 in Rivers, 9 in Ebonyi, 8 in Kano, 7 in…

US President Donald Trump has announced that he has ordered governors to open up places of worship opining that is wrong for some state governors to designate ‘liquor stores and abortion clinics’ as ‘essential services’ but keep places of worship like churches, mosques and synagogues closed. Amid the Coronavirus pandemic hat has killed over 95,000…

The China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) has made a clarification on the “mission” of the Chinese medical team who arrived the country weeks ago.  The construction company said in a statement released on Friday May 22, that the medical team’s assignment in Nigeria does not include treating Coronavirus patients and they have not done so at…

Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, has disclosed that there are plans to soon reopen schools nationwide, however, it won’t happen in two weeks as being speculated in some quarters. Nwajiuba, made the clarification on Thursday during the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, following rumours making the round the Federal…

The Borno state government has approved congregational meetings for the Eid El Fitr Prayers to mark the end of Ramadan Fast this weekend, amid the Coronavirus pandemic. A statement released by the Hon. Salihú Aliyu Kwaya Bura, Commissioner of Health and Secretary of the High Powered Committee on Borno State Covid-19, says the Eid prayers…

A top ISIS commander has been captured by Iraqi special forces, the country’s national intelligence service has claimed. Abdul Nasser Qirdash, once tipped to replace Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as head of ISIS, was  arrested on Wednesday, May 20.  “Today, the terrorist named Abdulnasser al-Qirdash, the candidate to succeed the criminal al-Baghdadi, was arrested. [The arrest]…