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Pictures have emerged showing foreigners proudly rocking the beautiful Super Eagles’ jersey after it sold out today worldwide. After Nike received 3 million pre-orders, Nigeria’s World Cup kit was officially released for sale on Friday, June 1. Outside NikeTown in London, … Read more via...

Age didn’t hold Ella Washington back. When she celebrates her 90th birthday soon, she’ll be doing so as a graduate in the US. Few college graduates have experienced all that Ella Washington has experienced. At 89 years old, she’s lived through the Great Depression, World War II and the …...

The body of a 10-year-old girl who has been missing for nearly ten years has been found in Washington State. Lindsey Baum disappeared in 2009 when she was walking to a friend’s house. Her body was found last fall but the remains weren’t identified as hers … Read more via More Top Stories –...

A father shot and killed his teenage daughter’s two dogs to punish her for not doing the dishes, police said. Jeffrey Don Edwards 17-year-old daughter told investigators he “got mad at her” earlier this week, for not having cleaned the house or done … Read more via Yahoo News – Latest News...

The World Health Organisation says that with declining numbers and only a handful of confirmed cases reported in recent weeks, the critical phase of Nigeria’s largest Lassa fever outbreak is under control. According to a statement issued by WHO’s Communication Officer, Ms Charity Warigon in...

Some 21,000 students and teachers were injured or killed in attacks on schools over the last five years, a study said on Thursday, condemning a rise in violent assaults on education. More than 12,700 attacks, including bombings, arson and violent repression of education-related … Read more...

A 19-year-old girl in Sudan who was sentenced to death by a court on Thursday for murdering her husband after he tried to rape her, has called on President Omar Al-Bashir to pardon her as she was forced into a child marriage, and had acted in self-defence. … Read more via PM NEWS Nigeria –...

United States of America on Thursday, donated $90 million towards the proposed human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), survey in Nigeria. At the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to conduct the … Read more via BusinessDay : News you can trust...

A group, Coalition Against Terrorism and Extremism (CATE), has refuted widespread reports, telling the United Nations (UN) that the Boko Haram terrorist sect has been defeated. The group was reacting insinuations by the UN Special Representative of the … Read more via The Guardian Nigeria...

FAAN assures of preparedness Following the outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Federal government has activated surveillance activities cross the country to detect and prevent any outbreak of the disease. To this end, letters of alert have been … Read more via The...

In the same world where Nigeria is still battling with the rail system, China is leaving behind the rail system and they are test running virtual and track-less trains. What this means is that there will be … Read more via Nairaland – https://ift.tt/2K7UGpK Get More Nigeria Metro News

BASEL, Switzerland, May 10 – A 104-year-old Australian scientist burst into song Wednesday as he told a roomful of journalists that he was looking forward to finally being allowed to end his life. David Goodall does not have a terminal illness but says his quality of life has deteriorated...

A film-maker was horrifically killed after his skull was crushed by a bull giraffe in an attack at the safari park used to film ITV’s popular Wild at Heart series. Carlos Carvalho had worked................ Read more via Headline News in Ghana – https://ift.tt/2FMbgZC Get More Nigeria...

A suspected thief was, today, forced to surrender himself to the police in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, after a stolen bag of maize got stuck to his head. According to reports, the suspect stole a bag of maize from a farmer, not knowing that the man had … Read more via Gossip Mill Nigeria –...

Doctors at the University of Illinois Hospital have cured seven adult patients of sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disorder primarily affecting the black community, using stem cells from donors previously thought to be incompatible, thanks to a new transplant treatment protocol. The...