The immediate-past National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, has accepted the decision of the party’s National Executive Committee that dissolved the National Working Committee which he chaired, The PUNCH has learnt. The former Edo State governor, who spoke at an ongoing media briefing in Abuja, said …

167 Nigerians who are stranded in South Africa will be evacuated on Thursday according to the Nigerian Consul General in Johannesburg, Godwin Adama.   Adama disclosed this while addressing newsmen in Abuja. He said, “We are evacuating 167 stranded Nigerians from South Africa today, Thursday, June 25, Air Peace Airways …

Suspected cultists who kidnapped a young girl in Bauchi State have revealed that all they needed from her was her virginity.   The 20-year-old girl, Patience, a 100 level Pharmacology student at the Bauchi State University, Gadau, was kidnapped on her way home from visiting a friend. This has placed …

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused lockdowns across the world, cutting off opportunities for socializing with others. While hard data is not readily available, this lockdown likely led to a massive decrease in promiscuity and casual sex. Now that lockdowns are easing, social venues are beginning to reopen and singles are once again …

If you can keep slices of cucumber on your lips for about 15 minutes on a daily basis, they would become pink and soft. There is a certain kind of unexplainable beauty that comes with having pink lips. Everyone can admit to this. And it is counted among the reasons …

    Malawi’s opposition leader Lazarus Chakwera has won the country’s rerun presidential vote, officials say. He defeated incumbent Peter Mutharika with 58.57% of the vote in Tuesday’s poll, the electoral commission announced late on Saturday. In February, Malawi’s constitutional court annulled Mr Mutharika’s victory in the May 2019 election, …

      Jide Macaulay, a gay Clergyman and founder of House of Rainbow, has said that the definition of the word gay is “God Adores You, God Accepts You, God Annoints You and God Assured You”. Jide who was ordained an Anglican Priest in England last year disclosed this …

      An 11-year-old boy is expected to appear in court on Tuesday in connection with the death of a 12-year-old boy. Police are investigating the alleged murder of the 12-year-old in Borcherds, George. He died on Wednesday at around 18:20, after an argument with the 11-year-old, said police …

    A house fire has claimed the lives of a woman, believed to be in her 40s, and a young girl in Meadowlands, Soweto on Friday night. According to ER24 spokesperson, Ross Campbell, a 12-year-old boy survived the fire with minor injuries. “ER24 paramedics arrived on scene at 01:15 to find …

Little more than five years ago, Burkina Faso was on the up, priding itself as a favoured tourist destination for well-heeled Europeans. Today, the country seems to be visibly sinking, battered by a jihadist revolt that has swept in from neighbouring Mali, rolled into Niger and cast a shadow on …

Water tanks holding thousands of litres of water are being installed in deprived Eastern Cape schools as part of an effort to combat the coronavirus outbreak in the cash-strapped province.   More than 1,500 schools were earmarked to receive the 5,000l tanks as a temporary sanitation measure led by the …

    The police station in Tembisa north of Kempton Park on the East Rand has been temporarily closed after a member tested positive for Covid-19. A post on the SAPS website said that decontamination would be done soon. No indication was given as to how long the station would be closed. …

      One person has died and almost 30 others have been injured in two separate taxi accidents on Friday night. In Potchefstroom, a man in his 20s died during a collision between a taxi and a light motor vehicle in Ikageng Road. ER24 paramedics arrived on the scene …

Calls for the closure of South African schools are growing as 204 people, mostly learners, tested positive at a boarding school in the Eastern Cape. Makaula Senior Secondary School in KwaBhaca has since been closed, bringing to 132 the number of Eastern Cape schools that are currently shut. Forty were …

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Nationnewslead has learnt that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Saturday, June 27, added six Nigerian nationals among its most-wanted cyber criminals list. The six Nigerians who made the list on the FBI website are Alex Afolabi Ogunshakin, Richard Izuchukwu Uzuh, Felix Osilama Okpoh, Abiola Ayorinde Kayode, Nnamdi Orson …

The United Nations says it is “shocked and deeply disturbed” by footage of an apparent sex act in one of its official cars in Israel. The clip shows a woman in a red dress straddling a man in the back seat of a white 4×4 with UN markings. The video, …

  Eight more Ghanaians infected with the deadly coronavirus disease have died as the death toll hits 103. According to the latest figures released by the Ghana Health Service 361 new cases have been recorded shooting the country’s tally to 15,834. Meanwhile, 11,755 people have recovered from the highly infectious …

    The United Nations are doing their possible best to stabilize and combat sexual exploitation and abuse perpetrated by United Nations personnel. “Let us declare in one voice: We will not tolerate anyone committing or condoning sexual exploitation and abuse. We will not let anyone cover up these crimes …

  Unidentified gunmen have abducted 10 humanitarian aid workers as they were distributing food in a village in southwestern Niger, their NGO said in a statement. Kadidiatou Harouna, of the Action and Impact Progress (APIS), said on Thursday the assailants drove into the village in the Tillaberi region on Wednesday afternoon on …

  There are now more than over 340,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the pandemic. According to the latest data by the John Hopkins University and Africa Center for Disease Control on COVID-19 …

  The U.S. criticized Tanzania’s arrest of eight opposition leaders during their party meeting on Wednesday, saying the action stifles democratic norms. ACT-Wazalendo party leader Zitto Kabwe and other members were taken by authorities, citing alleged illegal assembly.“The police detained us for more than 30 hours,” Zitto told reporters, adding …

  Gambia’s renowned justice minister Abubacarr Tambadou, who established a probe to investigate abuses under the country’s ex-dictator and spearheaded the international defence of Myanmar’s Rohingya, has resigned, the government said Thursday. The West African state said that Tambadou will step down as minister and attorney general effective from June …

    A clean-up has begun in Ivory Coast’s main city of Abidjan after floods triggered by torrential rains left streets and houses underwater and at least three people dead. Local residents said three hours of heavy rain on Thursday caused waters to surge by one and half metres in …

      The King of the Igbo Community in Ghana, HRM Eze Dr., Amb. Chukwudi Jude Ihenetu has asked Nigerians living in Ghana to continue to be law-abiding and to maintain peace amidst the current diplomatic issue between the two brotherly nations of Ghana and Nigeria. This followed the …

      A motor vehicle accident on the Obogu-Banso road near Juaso in the Asante Akyem South District of the Ashanti Region has claimed the life of a female WASSCE candidate. Esther Nyamekye, 23, a student of Ofoase Senior High Technical School at Juaso, was killed in the accident …

    The worst-ever outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo has officially been declared over, almost two years after it began. No new cases of the disease have been reported in the north-east of the country, where dozens of armed groups operate, since 27 April. Some 2,280 …

    The price of petrol and diesel in Zimbabwe is to more than double with immediate effect, the country’s energy regulatory authority has announced. The increase of 150% comes a day after the Zimbabwean dollar fell by more than 50% against international currencies. This happened after the central bank …

    The Governing Council of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has elected Professor Rita Dickson as the new Vice-Chancellor. She becomes the first-ever female to lead the science and technology university after beating three others to it. She takes over from Prof Kwasi Obiri Danso, …

  The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has drawn a roadmap for the reopening of borders in the sub-region. Borders in the ECOWAS region have been closed for weeks due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. But after a meeting of the Ministerial Coordination Committee for Transport, …