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The Chinese medical team which arrived on April 8 has been unable to leave the country following the unavailability of commercial flights to Beijing, the capital of China. It was gathered that the personnel had concluded their assignment, which includedwith ...

US President Donald Trump said he is taking hydroxychloroquine, a malaria drug which he believes could be used to treat coronavirus. Its use with treating Covid-19 symptoms is unproven. Trump said that he has taken a pill a day for ...

A popular pastor in Cameroon has died from coronavirus weeks after he claimed he could cure the disease. Pastor Franklin Ndifor, who contested in Cameroon’s last presidential election in 2018, laid hands on coronavirus patients at his Kingship International Ministries ...

The mayor of Brazil’s largest city, São Paulo, has said its health system could collapse as demand grows for emergency beds to deal with coronavirus cases. Bruno Covas said the city’s public hospitals had reached 90% capacity and could run ...

Residents of Bulbul village in Molo, Nakuru County, Kenya have been left in shock after a notorious chang’aa brewer allegedly murdered her estranged lover early on Sunday. According to eyewitnesses, the duo said to be in their late 40s had ...

President Donald Trump threatened Monday to permanently freeze US funding to the World Health Organization unless “substantive improvements” were made within the next 30 days. Washington suspended funding to the WHO in mid-April, accusing it of being too close to ...

A Nigerian has been shot dead by a police officer in Ghana while reportedly partying at a hotel. The unidentified man was allegedly gunned down while the police were trying to disperse attendees at the party. A video posted on ...

South Sudan’s Vice President Riek Machar and his wife Angelina Teny, who serves as defence minister, have tested positive for the coronavirus, his office said on Monday. It said that “a number of his office staff and bodyguards” had also ...

A married babysitter who had s.e.x with a 13-year-old schoolboy and had his baby showed a total lack of remorse, a judge said Nursery worker Leah Cordice had been out drinking for an evening before she had gone into the ...

Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli has downplayed US fears that Dar es Salaam hospitals are overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients. Earlier this week, the US Embassy in Tanzania issued an alert warning that there is an “extremely high risk” of contracting ...

The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) has urged Muslim faithful in the country to look out for the new Islamic moon of Shawwal from Friday May 22. NSCIA said this in a statement by its Deputy Secretary General, ...

An unidentified  doctor in Bauchi State infected ten of  his family members including his last child, a  9 year old son after testing positive for coronavirus. Chairman,  State Primary Health Care Development Agency (BSPHCDA), Dr. Rilwanu Muhammed  who disclosed this ...

Five persons have been arrested by the police in Ogun State for the alleged murder of a 25 year old man, Monsur Kareem. The suspects – Toheeb Popoola; Ibrahim Ridwan; Mutiu Tijani; Akeem Ishola and Lawal Afeez – were arrested ...

Republic of Madagascar has asked Nigeria to pay 170,000 Euros for the quantity of its Covid-19 cure drugs sent to the Federal Government, it was learnt at the weekend. The quantity of the consignment sent to Nigeria through Guinea Bissau ...

Saint Peter’s Basilica threw its doors open to visitors on Monday, marking a relative return to normality at the Vatican and beyond in Italy, where most business activity is set to resume. Public masses also resumed throughout the predominantly Catholic ...

Three clerics of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Sapele Chapter, COVID-19 Task Force team in Sapele, Delta State, who were on routine check on Sunday morning to ensure churches adhere to social distancing in a bid to curb the ...

A man is on the run after s.e.x.ually assaulting wife in a very gross and repulsive manner on Saturday in Tharaka-Nithi County,Kenya According to the police report, the suspect first persuaded his wife to move from their Marimanti township home, ...

Eight schools have been closed in one city in northern France after a child tested positive for coronavirus. Seven public schools and one private institution were shuttered in the city of Roubaix, on the Belgian border, on Monday morning. It ...

This is the terrifying moment three killer whales circled a pair of Russian kayakers who had paddled half a mile out to sea. Two kayakers immediately stop paddling in the calm waters as they spot the huge orcas swimming towards ...

National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Adams Oshiomole on Monday inaugurated Arch. Waziri Bulama as the party’s new National Secretary. The inauguration took place at the National Secretariat of the party in Abuja with Borno and ...

The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on Covid-19 has extended the gradual easing of the lockdown by two weeks across the nation. The PTF Chairman and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Boss Mustapha, made the announce this ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has given the armed forces an order to rout every trace of banditry and kidnapping from his home state of Katsina. The President gave the order on Sunday during an audience he granted the Chief of General ...

Eight people were injured in a clash between members of two Islamic sects over Imamate – Imam of Okene Central Mosque position – in Kogi State. Locals told Daily Trust on Sunday that the clash which occurred on Friday was ...

Simeon Nwakaudu, a spokesman of  Rivers state Governor, Nyesom Wike is dead. He died after a brief illness. Paulinus Nsirim, the state commissioner of information, in a statement said the governor described Nwakaudu as “loyal and dedicated professional”. “Rivers State ...

The Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said government officials will be visiting churches, mosques, companies to evaluate their preparedness to fully reopen. According to him, social distancing and hygiene will be prerequisites to reopening religious places of ...