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  President Donald Trump said Friday his administration was now recommending Americans wear “non-medical cloth” face coverings, a reversal of previous guidance that suggested masks were unnecessary for people who weren’t sick. Trump said the recommendations, which came after a ...

Funke Akindele Bello’s husband JJC Skillz is a year older today. And his wife took to her instagram page to celebrate him on his special day. ”Happy birthday my darling husband❤️❤️❤️ The Lord will Grant you longer life and good ...

  Oprah Winfrey has reunited with Stedman Graham. The 66-year-old media mogul’s partner had been staying in their guesthouse for two weeks since returning from a work trip as a precautionary measure because she is still not fully recovered from ...

  Amir Khan defied the Government’s strict rules on social distancing rules last night as he hosted a party for five of his friends. The boxer enjoyed a cosy takeaway curry at his home in Bolton and videoed the  gathering ...

The entire Abena community in Doma Local Government Area, Nasarawa State, is in mourning mood since a housewife, Rosemary Osegba Chem, hacked her mother-in-law, Mrs Ashi Chem, to death over the latter’s alleged undue interference in the former’s marriage. Sensing ...

Osun State residents panic as six persons who tested positive escaped from isolation centre at Gedu in Ejigbo area of the state. According to an unofficial public announcement the state has launch manhunt for the six persons who escaped from ...

China held three minutes of silence during Tomb Sweeping Day on Saturday for people who have died in the COVID-19 outbreak. During the national mourning event, national flags across China and at Chinese embassies and consulates abroad were lowered to ...

Neymar has been revealed as the anonymous donor who gave 5 million Brazilian real (£775,000/$950,000) to charity to fight coronavirus. The Paris Saint-Germain star split the donation between UNICEF and a benefit fund in his home nation of Brazil to ...

Six suspects dealing in cocaine and rohypnol in the Federal Capital Territory have been arrested by operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team. Cocaine weighing about 15 grams and 300 sachets of rohypnol (popularly called refnol) were said ...

China will on Saturday hold a national mourning for martyrs who died in the fight against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak and compatriots who died of the disease, according to the State Council. During the commemoration, national flags will ...

South African public healthcare workers dispersed into the buzzing streets of Johannesburg’s Yeoville neighbourhood on Friday as Africa’s worst virus-hit country rolled out mass door-to-door testing for COVID-19. Armed with screening questionnaires and testing kits, medics and volunteers set up ...

A 55-year-old man who was admitted to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, has died in the facility. A reliable source at the tertiary hospital said the man died of COVID-19 complications. The source said the hospital discovered that the ...

Juventus talisman Cristiano Ronaldo will become the third sportsman in the world after golf star Tiger Woods and boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr to have earned $1bn during his career. The Old Lady announced a massive pay cut to help them ...

A lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Richard Akindele, jailed for se,xu,al harassment has been released from prison after serving a two-year term. The Cable, an online newspaper, reports that Akindele, a professor of management accounting, was ...

The Imams for the Ughelli main Mosque and Okorodafe Mosque were both invited by the Police following Friday Jumat services in the mosques despite the 14-day lockdown ordered by the Delta State Government. Hundreds of Muslims had despite the lockdown, ...

Ondo State has recorded its FIRST coronavirus case, about five weeks after the first case of the disease was reported in Nigeria. The Governor of the state, Rotimi Akeredolu, announced this via his verified Twitter handle this evening. He revealed ...

The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved $1.9 billion first set of emergency support operations for developing countries around the world, using a dedicated, fast-track facility for COVID-19 response. However, the global financial powerhouse excluded Nigeria from the ...

The Federal Government has said that 18 Chinese doctors are on their way to Nigeria with medical supplies including ventilators, to assist in overcoming the COVID-19 global pandemic. The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, said this on Friday in ...

Commercial s.e.x workers were today evicted from a hotel at Ugbague area of Benin in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State over fear of possible spread of coronavirus in the area. Speaking with journalists, the Owner of the facility ...

Kwara State Government has denied that the state has recorded a case of COVID-19. It, however, said that all the six samples of suspected cases so far tested in the state have been negative. “The Kwara State Technical Committee on ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Friday night confirmed twenty new cases of Coronavirus in the country. Eleven cases were confirmed  in Lagos, three cases confirmed in the FCT, 3 in Edo, twi in Osun and one in Ondo ...

  After previously targeting a return on April 30, the Premier League announced on Friday that play will not resume by that date and matches remain suspended indefinitely. The Premier League originally announced their suspension on March 13 following Arsenal’s announcement that ...

American citizens who were scheduled to be evacuated from Nigeria through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos were yesterday stranded at the airport. The flight could not get clearance to fly over some countries whose airspace has been closed on ...

Some women in Federal Housing, Ado-Ekiti, on Friday said that the lockdown order, occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic, is taking its toll on them. They decried the sudden hike in prices of some food items and disruption of their petty ...

The State Chairman, Imo State Hoteliers Association, Chima Chukwunyere, has said that the figures of those quarantined at a hotel Umuguma, in Owerri, were 30 in number. Chukwunyere spoke in Owerri, on Friday, as he called on the Nigeria Centre ...