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51-year-old man with Covid-19 dies on flight from Turkey to Germany

  A 51-year-old man died on a Pegasus Airlines flight from Turkey to Germany last month had coronavirus, according to officials in Germany....

Dozens unaccounted for in 20-storey building collapse in Lagos

    Rescue crews in Ikoyi, Lagos began the daunting task of searching through tons of rubble for victims and anyone who may...

Cop26: We are digging our own graves’ with climate change, says UN Sec Gen Guterres

The United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said that Humans are “digging our own graves” through climate change and by “brutalising biodiversity”....

Biden pledge to return the US to JCPOA

United States President Joe Biden has pledged to return the US to full compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). President...

2023: Buhari, Tinubu in hour-long closed-door meeting in Aso Rock

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on Sunday stormed the Presidential Villa, Abuja, for a closed-door meeting...

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BREAKING: Facebook announces name change to Meta

  Driven by the need to represent a future beyond just its “troubled” social network, Facebook chief, Mark Zuckerberg, on Thursday announced a...

U.S. citizen and his Nigerian accomplice, both pilots, convicted of trafficking multi-ton loads of cocaine on board an aircraft

  Two men — Jean-Claude Okongo Landji and Jibril Adamu – have been convicted of conspiring to traffic five kilograms and more of...

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CBN alerts of fraudsters, fake eNaira social media handles

  Barely three days after the launch of the eNaira, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it has uncovered the activities of...

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Breaking news: Nigeria’s digital currency, eNaira, launch: 200,000 wallets downloaded in 24 hours

  Barely 24 hours after Nigeria’s digital currency eNaira was unveiled by the Federal Government, Nigerians have downloaded almost 200,000 wallets. Persecondnews findings...

Gunmen blast Oyo prisons wall, free 837 inmates, 262 recaptured

  Following the blasting of the Nigeria Correctional Service in Oyo, Oyo State, on Friday night, no fewer than 837 awaiting trial inmates...

NCC warns android phone users against new damaging malware, “Flubot”

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh “The malware is circulated through Short Message Service (SMS) and can snoop “on incoming notifications, initiate calls, read...

Federal Government, CBN mull devaluation of the Naira, says Finance Minister

    The plan by the Federal Government to devalue the naira came to the fore on Friday as the Minister of Finance,...

Barbados elects first president to replace Queen Elizabeth as head of state

Barbados has elected its first president to replace Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as head of state in a decisive step towards shedding the Caribbean...

Internet scams, money laundering: Eight Nigerians nabbed in Cape Town, South Africa, face 20 years in prison, $500,000 fine

  “They were charged in Trenton City federal court in New Jersey even as the U.S. authorities await their extradition” “In Cape Town,...

FIRS mulls road infrastructure tax to pool resources for road construction, rehabilitation

In a bid to make the informal sector contribute to building a modern society, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has proposed the...

Ex – US President Trump’s Truth Social Media App Hacked Within Hours of Announcement

  Controversial former US President Donald Trump’s new Truth social media platform was reportedly hacked within hours of its announcement. Trump Media &...