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The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, on Tuesday disclosed that Susan Idoko-Okpe, alleged to be Benue State’s Covid-19 index case, has refused officials of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) permission to collect her sample for COVID-19 test, ...

Nigeria recorded a drop in daily Coronavirus infections on Tuesday, recording 146 new cases, taking its total to 4,787. In the last one week, the nation has been recording over 200 cases on daily basis. But on Tuesday, it recorded ...

Edward Nino Hernandez, of Colombia, is the world’s shortest man living, Guinness World Records said Tuesday. The world record title was awarded amid his birthday celebration as he turned 34 on Monday, Guinness World Records said in a statement. Hernandez ...

There is currently confusion surrounding the custody of the four suspects linked with the murder of Olufunke Olakunrin, daughter of the 94-year-old leader of Afenifere, Reuben Fasoranti. This is because the Nigerian Correctional Services has reportedly refused to admit them ...

Lagos State Government has announced the death of a 32-year-old male who was among the 256 Nigerians recently evacuated from the United Arab Emirate after succumbing to COVID-19 related complications. The State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, made this ...

Babafemi Adebayo, a Nigerian, who lives in Brazil, has died of complications from Coronavirus. Adebayo died at a hospital in Sao Paulo where he was being quarantined. He had been in isolation for 13 days but died from complications on ...

The Sokoto Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested two Chinese, Mr. Meng Wei Kun and Mr. Xu Koi, for offering a sum of N50 million as bribe to its Zonal Head, Mr. Abdullahi Lawal. ...

  A Ghanaian female COVID-19 patient believed to be in her 70s has died at the Tamale Central Hospital (TCH) on Monday, 11 May 2020.   This means the Northern Region has now recorded its first COVID-19-related death. Health authorities ...

A 22-year-old woman, Adisa Funmilola, has drowned her baby because the child prevented her from going to university to study law. She drowned the one-year and six months old baby inside a bucket of water in her apartment at Plot ...

A mum has revealed how she splashes out around £3,000 a week on designer goods despite having no job. Margarita Tomovska admits she lives a lavish lifestyle thanks to her toyboy lover. And she’s not shy about flaunting her wealth ...

The Nigeria High Commission in Canada said it is set to evacuate Nigerians stranded in that country due to coronavirus travel restrictions. In a statement on Monday, the mission said it had received no fewer than 200 requests for evacuation. ...

A fire incident, which occurred yesterday, completely burnt down Al-Amin filling station located at Elebu area of Ibadan. Mr Omole Ayodeji, the Federal Fire Service station Officer, while speaking with journalists said that the service responded swiftly when they got ...

The founder and General Overseer of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), Prophet T. B. Joshua, has said events like the novel Coronavirus occur once every 100 years. The cleric said God revealed to him that hard times will ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, said it has returned $4,040 to one Debora Moreira, a Brazilian victim of internet fraud. It also said Moreira has acknowledged the receipt of the money, which was recovered on her behalf by ...

A Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, has sentenced one Mohammad Halim Ogbobio to 28 years’ imprisonment for his involvement in a N12m scam. The convict was said to have paraded himself as the coordinator of the Bayelsa ...

A bridge crumbled away just yards ahead of a moving car leaving the vehicle trapped in a hole. The driver miraculously got away unscathed in the incident in Primorye, Russia, last month that was captured on dashcam footage. A large ...

More than 1,000 people queued up to get free food parcels in Geneva, highlighting the impact of the coronavirus epidemic on the working poor and undocumented immigrants even in wealthy Switzerland. The line of people stretched for more than 1 ...

A warrant for the release of a former Director Finance and Account at the Abia Government House, Ude Udeogu, who was convicted alongside former Governor Orji Uzor Kalu, has been issued. According to The Cable, the Supreme Court issued the ...

The Emir of Daura, Alhaji Umar Farouk Umar, who was rushed unconscious to the Federal Medical Centre Katsina last week, is fast recovering and may soon be discharged. A video clip, which has gone viral in Katsina showed the Monarch, ...

Russia is now officially the third worst-hit country by the coronavirus. It overtook UK this morning after it posted yet another monstrous 10, 899 cases, taking its total to 232,243. UK has 223,060 cases and has now fallen into the ...

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, has been appointed the new Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari. With his appointment, he replaces Mallam Abba Kyari, who died last month of COVID-19. Gambari, 75, is currently the Special ...

The Delta State Government has said the 67- year- old female American that died on Sunday in a hotel room in Osubi, Okpe L.G.A did not die from corona virus. It said test results of the woman and her boyfriend ...

The Management of Benin Electricity Distribution Plc (BEDC), has urged electricity consumers in its franchise states to pay their bills, reiterating that the free electricity offer is yet to be implemented. This was contained in a statement signed by the ...

Donald Trump abruptly halted a press conference on Monday after being challenged by an Asian American reporter whom he told: “Don’t ask me. Ask China.” With the stars and stripes at his back, Trump held his first press briefing since ...

A cat has been euthanised after becoming the first in Spain to catch coronavirus. It is believed he caught the disease from his Catalonian family who also had coronavirus – with his owner killed by the bug, according to local ...