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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has spent the night in intensive care at a central London hospital after his coronavirus symptoms worsened. Downing Street said he was moved to the unit on the advice of his medical team and was receiving “excellent care”. Mr Johnson has asked Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to deputise “where necessary”, a spokesman added. The prime minister, ...

Chairman of Ejigbo Local Government Area of Osun State, Hon Gbenga Ayegbayo, has reportedly died. It was gathered that the deceased was battling with an undisclosed illness for months before finally succumbing to death on Monday. According to a source, Ayegbayo died at a private hospital in Ogbomoso, Oyo State. SaharaReporters gathered that Ayegbayo was a member of the ruling ...

David Clark will continue as New Zealand’s health minister, despite labelling himself an ‘idiot’ and offering to resign his position for a second blunder during the country’s lockdown. Days after Dr Clark was caught mountain biking near his Dunedin home in spite of the lockdown, he revealed he also took his family on a coastal walk on the previous weekend. ...

The Governor of Cross River State, Prof. Ben Ayade, has ordered seizure of vehicles whose passengers refuse to wear nose masks and defaulters are to pay N300,000 fine. This followed the low compliance level with the no mask, no movement order in the state. The governor in a statement by his Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, Christian Ita, late Monday ...

Taraba state Commissioner for Rural Electrification  Mr. Alexander Markus Senlo has passed on. Senlo died on Monday morning after a brief illness. The state Commissioner for Information, Barr. Danjuma Adamu who confirmed the death of Senlo said the state was “deeply saddened by his sudden death at a time his wealth of knowledge and expertise was needed the most”. The ...

One of the Fulani herdsmen notorious for r.a.p.i.n.g women at Umulungbe in Udi Local Government Area has been arrested and handed over to the police. Daily Sun gathered that the suspect was one of the three herdsmen accused of r.a.p.i.n.g a 75 year old woman in her farm at Umulungbe. The culprit was apprehended around 5:30pm last Friday, after attacking ...

The UK’s biggest family just got bigger after mum Sue Radford gave birth to her 22nd baby over the weekend. The family shared the news on their Instagram page and said everyone had already fallen “in love” with the new arrival. Alongside a sweet snapshot of their newborn’s tiny hand, they revealed that they welcomed their “beautiful baby girl into ...

In a bid to provide food security to Nigerians, the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, has revealed that the federal government has taken possession of 150 trucks of rice with the Nigerian Custom’s Service and would commence distribution to poor Nigerians across the country She made this known Monday during a live press briefing in Abuja while answering questions from ...

A major private hospital in Mumbai was shut to new patients and declared a coronavirus containment zone on Monday after 26 nurses and three doctors tested positive, an official said. Since the virus hit India — which has been under lockdown since March 25 with 111 deaths so far,  medical workers have complained about not being given adequate protective gear. ...

Kano state government has directed civil servants to continue the stay at home order for another two weeks beginning from Tuesday, April 7, 2020. This is coming after the initial stay at home order expires Monday. The extension order is a measure to stop the spread of COVID-19. Governor Umar Ganduje announced this Monday when the 38- man Kano state ...

The Ekiti State government has begun the distribution of relief materials to residents of the state to cushion the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the state government, foodstuffs will be taken to 20,000 households identified in a formal register as most vulnerable across the 16 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state. The government also relaxed the 14-day ...

Kaduna State has recorded a new case of COVID-19, bringing the total number of confirmed positive cases in the state to five. In a statement issued on Monday by the Commissioner for Health, Dr Amina Baloni, the state sent samples to Abuja for testing. According to her, five samples were positive, 77 were negative and eight samples were pending, stressing ...

Kwara State has recorded two cases of COVID-19 (coronavirus). Mr Rafiu Ajakaye, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor confirmed this in a statement on Monday. “One is the wife of the UITH patient, a UK returnee, who died last Thursday and the other is another UK returnee,” the statement said. Ajakaye explained that the statement was issued after the government ...

Two more coronavirus (COVID-19) patients have been discharged in Lagos State. The state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, announced this in a tweet on Monday, bringing the total number of people that have been discharged in the state to 31. He explained that the two persons – both females – were released from the government’s Infectious Disease Hospital after officials confirmed that ...

The killers of Mrs. Funke Olakunrin, daughter of Afenifere leader, Chief Reuben Fasoranti, have been arrested by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS. This is coming nine months after her brutal murder, It was reliably gathered that three out of the four suspects arrested so far are from the northern part of the country. Vanguard also gathered that the ...

Edo Government says it has recorded two new cases of coronavirus making a total of 11 confirmed cases in the state. The state’s Commissioner for Health, Dr Patrick Okundia, disclosed this while addressing newsmen in Benin on Monday. “The fight against coronavirus disease has been on in the state. “Our people have been told, but the message we are getting ...

Ethiopia’s ministry of health has announced the country’s first deaths as a result of Covid-19, the respiratory illness caused by coronavirus. The two deaths were announced one hour apart by Health Minister Lia Tadesse. Dr Lia said the first victim, a 60-year-old woman, had been admitted at an intensive care unit (ICU) at Eka Kotebe hospital for five days before ...

Scotland’s chief medical officer resigned Sunday after two consecutive weekend trips to her summer home — violating her own advice to stay home during the coronavirus outbreak. Catherine Calderwood announced her departure in a statement after conferring with Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. Calderwood said the two agreed her actions risked distracting from the “hugely important job that government and ...

The UK coronavirus death toll has today broken the 5,000-mark after 403 died in England alone. NHS England confirmed the latest victims were aged between 35  and 106 – with 15 having no underlying health conditions. In Scotland, two further people have died – bringing the total number of deaths to 222. A five-year-old with underlying health conditions became the ...

A dad has warned people to stay home after his one-year-old son started suffering from Covid-19 symptoms after a singular trip to Tesco. Peter Jones explained how his son is in hospital recovering from a coronavirus infection, with the family spending three weeks in isolation. The Devon dad believes that he brought the virus back to their home after a ...

Different countries have been evacuating their citizens from Nigeria and now, the Canadian Government are also doing the same. Photos here  show the citizens waiting at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja to return return to the country.    

Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State has directed workers in the state’s civil service to resume work on Monday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the government had earlier directed workers to stay at home as part of measures to prevent possible spread of COVID-19 in the state. The state’s Head of Service, Alhaji Idris Tune, in a ...

Some suspected hoodlums have carted away bags of garri from the Bayelsa State Emergency Management Agency’s warehouse at Igbogene, Yenagoa, that are being distributed as relief materials to cushion the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. It was gathered that the boys moved over 150 bags of garri out of the warehouse and carted them away through a bush path. The ...

The Ogun State Police Command has refuted the claim that the death of the Divisional Police Officer, Ibara Police Station, Abeokuta, Olusegun Dada, is in connection with the arrest of a masquerader. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, made this clarification on Sunday in a statement following speculations on the cause of death of the DPO. ...

The Abia State Government has expressed sadness over the death of a medical doctor from Abia State who died in the United States. Dr Caleb Anya is among three Nigerians confirmed to have died of Coronavirus in America. In a statement by Commissioner for Information in Abia on Sunday, John Kalu, the government said, “Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, the government and ...