Author: PM NEWS Editor
Red Alert: Armed Fulani herdsmen from Mali, Niger swamp Kogi communities
Armed Fulani herdsmen from Mali and Niger have swamped some communities in Kogi West Senatorial District, an environmentalist and community…
Kidnapped Elaweremi Samuel freed in Bayelsa
The Bayelsa Police Command has intensified efforts to arrest kidnappers of a retired civil servant, Dr Elaweremi Adu Samuel in…
APC tells Wike, PDP, Obaseki to calm down, assures fair polls
The days of stolen and procured electoral mandates are fast fading away, the All Progressives Congress declared on Tuesday and…
Police bust biggest cocaine lab in Netherlands
Dutch police on Tuesday said they had found the largest cocaine laboratory in the Netherlands, located near the German border…
Ronaldinho may be set free on 24 August
A Judge in Paraguay will decide on 24 August whether to accede to a request from Paraguayan prosecutors to release…
Updated: Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine to be available January 2021
Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine will not be available for public use until 1 January 2021, the website of the State Register…
Deregistered political parties: INEC heads to Supreme Court
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it would approach the Supreme Court over conflicting judgments by the Court of…
Belarus: Lukashenko’s challenger Tsikhanouskaya flees
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the opposition candidate in Belarus’ presidential election who refused to concede her defeat has fled to Lithuania
Russia registers first COVID-19 vaccine, Putin’s daughter inoculated
Russia on Tuesday became the first country in the world to officially register a COVID-19 vaccine and declare it ready…
Lebanon’s Prime minister Hassan Diab, government resign
Lebanon’s prime minister Hassan Diab announced his government’s resignation on Monday, saying a huge explosion that devastated Beirut and triggered…
DNA study shows many African-Americans have Nigerian ancestry
In the largest DNA study of people of African ancestry in the Americas, researchers found an overrepresentation of Nigerian genetic…
Updated: Sharif-Aminu sentenced to death by Kano Sharia court is a singer
Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, the 22 year-old man sentenced to death in Kano on Monday by a Sharia court is a musician.
Wike owing Rivers pensioners for four years, shuns letters of appeal
Pensioners in Rivers State have appealed to Governor Nyesom Wike to pay four-year pension arrears and gratuities owed them to…
Shooting at White House, Trump press briefing interrupted
U.S. President Donald Trump was abruptly escorted from the White House briefing room on Monday shortly after a shooting outside…
Nigeria’s COVID-19 cases fall to new low
Confirmed COVID-19 cases fell to a new low on Monday with just 290 cases reported.This represents a very sharp fall…
22 political parties defeat INEC to stay on ballot
By Edith Nwapi/ Abuja Twenty two political parties have won the battle to remain on the ballot paper for future…
Gunmen kill 13 in Benue, set houses ablaze
The Police Command in Benue, on Monday confirmed the killing of 13 villagers by unidentified gunmen in Edikwu District, Apa…
4 Yahoo Yahoo civil servants docked for hacking IPPIS
The Federal Government on Monday docked four civil servants and a businessman at the Federal High Court, Abuja, over alleged…
Out You Go: Makinde summarily sacks works commissioner Prof. Afonja
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has summarily sacked the Commissioner for Works, Infrastructure and Transport, Professor Raphael Afonja
2 brothers crushed to death by truck in Ekiti
The police on Monday confirmed the death of two brothers after a speeding truck crushed them in Ikere Ekiti, Ikere…
Several houses explode in US city of Baltimore, 1 dead, 3 critically injured
A major explosion levelled several houses in a neighbourhood in the U.S. City of Baltimore on Monday, killing at least…
Kano Sharia court condemns man to death over WhatsApp post
An Upper Shari’a Court sitting in Kano on Monday, sentenced a 30-year-old man, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, to death by hanging after…
Non-prisoners sat for 2020 UTME in prisons, JAMB stunned
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board(JAMB) has withheld results of candidates who sat for the 2020 UTME at prisons.
JAMB postpones Post-UTME tests till September
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has shifted the post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (post-UTME) screening for the 2020 admission…
WHO: $100b needed for universal supply of COVID-19 vaccine
More than 100 billion dollars will be needed to ensure everyone globally can access the vaccine to fight COVID-19, the…
Bauchi youth group decamps with Dogara to APC
Spokesman for a Youth group from Tafawa Balewa, Dass and Bogoro Federal Constituency of Bauchi State said members will follow…
America’s COVID-19 testing insane, worthless: Bill Gates
Microsoft founder, Bill Gates has called America’s testing system for COVID-19 “insanity” and the most worthless, as he doubled down…
80,000 Nigerian ladies held as sex-slaves in Saudi Arabia, Oman, Ministry of Labour complicit
Chairman House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora Affairs, Tolulope Akande-Sadipe said 80,000 Nigerian girls are being held as sex slaves,…
Amina Mohammed, Okonjo-Iweala’s rival for WTO top post unveils agenda
Amina Mohammed, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's rival for the top post at the World Trade Organization (WTO) has pledged to push…
Macron reacts to the killing of 6 French tourists, 2 Nigeriens
President of France, Emmanuel Macron reacted Monday to the killing by gunmen of six French tourists and two Nigeriens in…