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NASA to rename headquarters after its 1st black female engineer Mary W. Jackson

NASA announced Wednesday it will rename its headquarters after Mary W. Jackson, the agency's first African-American female engineer. Her contributions were highlighted in the...

UN workers caught having s3x in back seat (Photos)

The United Nations has said it is 'shocked and deeply disturbed' by a video clip which appears to show two of its workers 'having sex' in...

FBI lists 6 Nigerians among most wanted cyber-criminals

Nationnewslead has learnt that the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) on Saturday, June 27, added six Nigerian nationals among its most-wanted cyber-criminals list. The six...

Woman divorces husband for feeding their children with alcohol

A Customary Court in Ibadan on Friday dissolved a five-year-old marriage on the basis that the husband feeds his children with alcohol.The wife, identified...

70-year-old carpenter allegedly defiles 10-year-old girl

The police in Ogun State have arrested a 70-year-old carpenter, Baba Ahmed, for allegedly defiling a 10-year-old girl who dropped out of school in...

Persons behind Nigerian High Commission demolishing identified

Individuals behind the demolition of a building belonging to the Nigerian High Commission in the Greater Accra Region have been identified. The Ministry of...

Meet the woman with two wombs carrying a twin in each [photo]

The case of a woman who discovered she had two wombs and was pregnant with a twin in each has been described as “one...

Anas drops trailer of coronavirus exposé [video]

 Investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, is set, in the coming days, to show his latest investigative work.  This time with an exposé about the deadly and fast-spreading...

How an iconic painting of Jesus as a white man was distributed around the world

The first time the Rev. Lettie Moses Carr saw Jesus depicted as Black, she was in her 20s.It felt “weird,” Carr said.Until that moment,...

The secret spreaders of Covid-19 no one is talking about

The rumours quickly spread among the Syrian fighters in Libya. A group of mercenaries recently hired by the internationally recognised Libyan government were in hospital...

Three killed in riot over wearing of face masks

Three people were killed in a small town in Kenya's Rift Valley during a confrontation between police and residents over the wearing of coronavirus face masks.  Witness...

Politician who told God to kill him at 70 dies at 70 [Video]

https://twitter.com/Naijapals/status/1276220363387613185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1276220363387613185&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.peacefmonline.com%2Fpages%2Flocal%2Fsocial%2F202006%2F415837.php Nigerian politician, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has been confirmed dead after being infected with Coronavirus. The former Oyo State governor reportedly died at 70 of...

Yemen: Coronavirus aid loss ‘harming millions of children’

Millions of children could be pushed to the brink of starvation in Yemen amid a “huge” drop in aid caused by the Covid-19 pandemic,...

Earth tremors show that a big earthquake is coming – Disaster Risk Management expert

A Disaster Risk Management Expert has cautioned that a bigger earthquake may be approaching due to the steady increase of earth tremors across the...

Black people more racist than Whites -Ex- Formula 1 boss

Billionaire Formula one car racing boss, Bernie Ecclestone, has played down racism within the sport and made the astonishing claim that "in many cases,...

Who would be the first to get a Covid-19 vaccine?

Probably people in the country where the first effective vaccine is developed. About a dozen different vaccines are in various stages of testing worldwide, including...

Tears as 6-year-old boy commits suicide

Police in Kilifi are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a six-year-old boy, who is alleged to have committed suicide on Thursday, June...

Nigerian returns huge cash he found in Indomie carton

A Nigerian man, Chidiebere Ogbonna, has suddenly become an internet sensation and tagged a “good Samaritan” after returning the sum of N1.8m he found...

Prison officer jailed after harbouring an escaped convict she fell in love with

A PRISON officer harboured an escaped convict after falling in love with him, a court heard. Chloe Jones, 30, let lag Philip King stay at...

South Africans call for school closure as students test positive for coronavirus

Calls for the closure of South African schools are growing as 204 people, mostly learners, tested positive at a boarding school in the Eastern...

Kim Jong-un dead rumours resurface as Japan has ‘suspicions’ about his health

Theories Kim Jong-un is actually dead have resurfaced as he vanishes from the spotlight once again. Japanese officials say they have 'suspicions' about the secretive...

Amid coronavirus pandemic, we are ignoring the scary tuberculosis health crisis

As the number of novel coronavirus cases continues to rise at an alarming rate across the globe, India has already reported close to 5 lakh cases...

Stranded Nigerian chess player ‘broken and traumatised’

Top Nigerian chess player Oladapo Adu has said he is “traumatised” as he remains stranded in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, 12 weeks after being stuck...

Africa’s top virus deaths: Ex-Nigerian governor dies

The death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic across Africa is heading is gone past the 1,000 mark as of April 18, 2020. The casualties...

Five kidnapped mixed-race women to sue Belgium

Five mixed-race - or métis - women who were in the colonial era taken from their mothers by force in Belgian-Congo are taking the...

Ivory Coast begins cleanup after deadly floods

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...

Suppress COVID-19 transmission by all means – WHO urges countries

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has asked all nations to make it an urgent responsibility to suppress transmission of the coronavirus and save lives,...

Miner becomes overnight millionaire

A small-scale miner in Tanzania has become an overnight millionaire after selling two rough Tanzanite stones - the biggest ever find in the country. Saniniu...

Watch: Man grabs shark with bare hands

A man was filmed grabbing a shark with his bare hands on Delaware beach and the video has gone viral. The swimmer grabbed the shark off Cape...

Meet the popular social media influencer who is pregnant with stepson’s baby after ditching his dad

A popular social media influencer, who ran away with her husband’s eldest son, has shared the first ultrasound image of their baby. Marina Balmasheva hit...

Iran arrests men for ‘selling babies on Instagram’

Three men have been arrested in Iran on suspicion of trying to sell two babies on Instagram. Tehran’s police chief, Brig-Gen Hossein Rahimi, said one...

Black Lives Matter: Advocacy pays off as 3 are indicted for killing Black man

Gregory McMichael and his son, Travis McMichael, have been charged with murder in the February shooting to death of Ahmaud Arbery. A video apparently...

Man defiles 3-yr-old daughter while wife was in the labour room

A 43-year-old man, Ikechukwu Ekenta, has been arrested for allegedly raping his three-year-old daughter in Anambra State.According to reports, the victim was defiled on the...

Hushpuppi: Interpol releases official video of how notorious fraudster & gang were arrested in Dubai [Watch]

Dubai Police has released the first-ever visuals of how most-wanted Nigerian, Hushpuppi and his 12-member gang were arrested. He was arrested by the International Police...

Coronavirus: How long does it really take to get a vaccine ready? We explain to you the process

Will we get a vaccine to fight COVID-19 this year? The world over recorded one of the biggest spikes in COVID-19 cases yesterday (June 23)...

584 drug suspects arrested in Nigeria – NDLEA

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA has disclosed that it had arrested 584 persons for drug-related offences, in Lagos State alone, with a...

Nigeria won’t engage in ‘street fight’ with Ghana over demolition -Presidency

The Presidency on Wednesday said the Federal Government would not engage in what it called “street fight” over the demolition of a building on...

COVID-19 antibodies may fade in as little as 2 months, study says

As the world grapples with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a new study suggests that antibodies -- the proteins produced by the immune system that can grant protection against...

Gabon MPs vote to decriminalise homosexuality

Members of Gabon's lower house of parliament have voted to decriminalise homosexuality, becoming one of the few countries in sub-Saharan Africa to reverse a...

Court orders President to wear face mask in public

A judge in Brazil has ordered President Jair Bolsonaro to wear a protective mask when he is in public spaces in the capital, Brasilia,...