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Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday confirmed that dozens of people escaped from mandatory quarantine in the capital, Nairobi. The break out took place at KMTC Mbagathi centre on Tuesday. Addressing the incident, President Uhuru said the government knew the ...

A bride-to-be dressed up in high heels and a face mask for a supermarket hen party during the coronavirus lockdown. Katiusca Mariani had planned to meet her pals in Rimini, in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, but her plans ...

The heir to British throne, Prince Charles has described the death of Abba Kyari, the former Chief of Staff to the President as “a desperately sad news.” He sent his “deepest possible sympathy” to President Muhammadu Buhari and the government ...

  Four amrned robbers have met their waterloo when they stormed an estate in Lekki to rob. They stormed the estatte at night, but unlnown to them a senior officer was around the vicinity and he immediately called for backup. ...

An unmarried couple has been brutally flogged after being caught in a hotel room for breaching Islamic Shariah law, despite partial coronavirus lockdown. Men and women are receiving the punishment in accordance to the conservative law in the province of ...

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State says the state recorded its first COVID-19 death on Wednesday. Makinde made the death public on his Twitter handle at about 11:30 pm on Wednesday. He said that the deceased died at the University ...

The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) has said “harm to the living must be avoided” when burying the body of any Muslim who died as a result of infection. This is contained in a set of guidelines issued ...

The Nigerian Government has now finalized arrangement for the release of 60 out of the 73 Nigerians imprisoned in Tanzania on different charges. Their repatriation was made possible by the Nigerian ambassador to Tanzania. The Head, Media and Public Relations ...

  This Nigerian Centre for Disease Control have announced another 91 new cases of coronavirus in the country.   This information was published on the NCDC official facebook page,   See below for more details;

A talented teenager took her own life because the thought of three months in lockdown felt like “300 years”, her heartbroken family has claimed. The grieving parents of Beth Palmer have spoken about their tragic loss to warn other parents ...

The elder brother of Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State, Alhaji Adamu Mohammed Duguri, has recounted his ordeals in the hands of kidnappers. He declared that N50 million ransom was paid to secure his release. Duguri, who regained freedom after ...

North Korean state media made no mention of new appearances by leader Kim Jong Un, a day after intense international speculation over his health. South Korean and Chinese officials and sources familiar with US intelligence have cast doubt on reports ...

Twenty three female s.e.x workers and seven of their male clients were Monday evening arrested at two brothels in Emali, Makueni County, Nzaui OCPD, Josiah Okumu, says. Okumu said 14 people (13 female s.e.x workers and a male client) were ...

The governor of Ebonyi , David Umahi, on Wednesday continued his war on the media by banning for life, the state correspondents of The Sun newspaper, Chijioke Agwu, and the Vanguard newspaper,  Peter Okutu, from entering the Government House or ...

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Kaduna State command, has arrested one Benjamin Jato for allegedly defiling a six-year-old girl. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, ASC. Orndiir Terzungwe made the disclosure in a statement on Wednesday in Kaduna. ...

Donald Trump has instructed the US Navy to ‘shoot down’ any Iranian gunboats that ‘harass’ American ships. Last week, 11 vessels from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) came dangerously close to U.S. ships in the Gulf. The US ...

Russia’s confirmed cases of coronavirus surpassed 50,000 on Tuesday,  according to the official daily statistics. The country has recorded more than 52,700 identified cases of the novel coronavirus, an increase of more than 1,800 percent since April 1. According to ...

Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State has confirmed the first COVID-19 positive case in the state. Fintiri announced this in a state broadcast on Wednesday in Yola. He said the case was a returnee from Kano State who arrived in ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC ) COVID-19 test laboratory centre in Kano has suspended operations. The Nation reports that Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on April,9th  activated COVID-19 test centre at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano. Director, ...

The bodies of US coronavirus victims are reportedly being taken from hospitals on the back of pick-up trucks. On Sunday, a number of bodies were allegedly transported in an open pick-up truck to the Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s office. A photographer ...

A Lebanese man in Lebanon has put up a Nigerian lady for sale. The Lebanese who goes by the name Wael Jerro, put her passport up on Facebook Marketplace, saying she is for sale for just $1000. He claimed the lady ...

The coronavirus pandemic could nearly double the number of people around the world facing acute hunger, the UN’s World Food Programme said Tuesday, its director warning of a looming “global humanitarian catastrophe.” “We are on the brink of a hunger ...

The Katsina State government has received 419 almajiris evacuated by Kano State government to their state of origins as part of measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19. The Director of Press in the office of the Secretary to Government ...

Don Jazzy has openly written to Funke Akindele saying he respects the fact that she made a mistake and admitted it and even apologised. He encouraged Funke to keep being who she is and that they are all learning from ...

The mayor of the Spanish city of Badalona resigned on Wednesday after he was found breaking the lockdown rules, drunk driving and resisting arrest on Tuesday night. The Catalan police force confirmed that Alex Pastor had been arrested in the ...