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White House staff have been ordered to wear masks when entering the West Wing after two aides tested positive for coronavirus. The White House personnel office has said that staff must cover their faces at all times except when seated ...

The Catholic Bishop Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has offered all its 425 health facilities across the country as isolation centres for COVID-19. Boss Mustapha, secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), who disclosed this at the presidential task force ...

Former Wife of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Mrs Taiwo Obasanjo has asked all the youths in Nigeria to join her effort to free the country from the rampaging Coronavirus pandemic. In a statement she issued, Mrs Obasanjo noted that her ...

Senegalese President Macky Sall has announced the re-opening of mosques and churches and the easing of other restrictions imposed to contain the coronavirus, even as the largest one-day jump in cases was recorded on Monday. Sall ordered places of worship ...

The unofficial ‘world’s oldest man’ has celebrated his 116th birthday in the midst of a global pandemic – more than a hundred years after the Spanish Flu killed his sister. Centenarian Fredie Blom was born on May 8, 1904, in ...

Riot police have clashed with hundreds of protesters in Berlin during a demonstration against coronavirus lockdown in Germany. Despite the central government easing lockdown last week, infected cases have begun to rise in Germany again, with some states saying they ...

Bill Maher is criticizing the media for focusing on Tara Reade’s s.e.xual assault allegations against Joe Biden and urging people not to let her ‘victimhood’ derail the ‘only hope’ Democrats have of defeating President Trump at the November polls. The ...

The debut of Rolls-Royce’s latest ‘murdered out’ Black Badge series SUV has attracted a younger brand of car buyers say bosses at the iconic car firm. The £405,000 Cullinan Black Badge is the first SUV to receive the ‘murdered out’ ...

A woman has revealed that the tissue in her breasts started to rot and smell like dying flesh after a disastrous b.r.e.a.s.t reduction. In a preview clip for Monday night’s episode of the E! reality series Botched, Esmeralda describes how ...

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, on Monday, said four suspects were arrested for allegedly stealing a month-old baby from Orlu, Imo State. Odumosu, while briefing journalists at the command headquarters, said policemen attached to the Anthony Division, ...

Nigeria has recorded 242 fresh cases of Coronavirus, taking its total infections to 4,641. Lagos still tops the grim statistics. Of the figures released by the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, late Monday night, Lagos recorded 88 new cases, ...

Nine in ten people do not want Boris Johnson to ease the lockdown, a Sun on Sunday poll reveals. Most are happy to be confined to their homes for a little longer to avoid the risk of coronavirus. Despite seven ...

Photos of a Nigerian couple who just got married in Gombe state has gone viral? Why?? BECAUSE THEY DRESSED CASUALLY. One won;t believe they were about to wed. The couple who had no fanfare as they exchanged vows, got married ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) said it has secured the final forfeiture of $300,000, belonging to a Chinese national, Li Yan Pin, to the Federal Government of Nigeria. The forfeiture order was granted by Justice Babatunde Quadri of the ...

Tragedies occurred on Sunday when a policeman was allegedly killed by a hit and run motorist at Marwa area, along Lekki-Epe Expressway, Lagos. In a similar incident same day, a yet-to-be-identified commercial motorcycle operator, popularly called “Okada” rider, died in ...

A 72-year-old woman was killed by her grandson in Kaiyani village in Kaiti, Makueni County,Kenya the area police boss Timothy Maina has confirmed. Following the murder, Muendo Kianga (52), Elizabeth Muendo (46) and their son Musembi Muendo (24) were arrested ...

Doctors employed by the Federal Capital Territory last year are being owed salaries between three to seven months, the Association of Resident Doctors, FCT, has said. The doctors also complained about suspicious deductions from the salaries of old doctors after ...

An Italian aid worker, who was abducted in Kenya in November 2018, has been flown back to her home country. Silvia Romano, 25, embraced her parents and sister, and was greeted by Italy’s prime minister and foreign minister after she ...

A Lagos-based medical doctor, who came into Osun State on Saturday to be with his family has tested positive to coronavirus. A statement on Monday by the State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Rafiu Isamotu, also disclosed that on arrival in ...

Police in Machakos have launched a hunt for a youthful man who fatally stabbed his heavily pregnant girlfriend, 27, on Saturday morning. The woman, who works at one of the hotels at Mutituni Market in Machakos Town, Kenya was on ...

A former Governor of Abia State, Mr. Orji Uzor Kalu has remained in Kuje Prison because the judgement of the Supreme Court does not affect him. The Apex Court, it was learnt, did not issue any order for Kalu’s release ...

A United Kingdom based Nigerian nurse, Onyenachi Obasi, has died after contracting coronavirus from one of her patients. Obasi, 51, of Barking and Dagenham succumbed to the disease on Wednesday, five weeks after being put on a ventilator at Queen’s ...

The Republic of Madagascar has offered its herbal drug – COVID Organics (COV) – to Nigeria and other African countries. The drug is for prevention and cure of Coronavirus. Nigeria’s consignment has been sent to Equatorial Guinea from where it ...

A member of the Nasarawa House of Assembly Isa Muhammad Bello has reportedly been placed on isolation for displaying suspected COVID-19 symptoms. A source said he was rushed to an isolation centre at Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital, Lafia from his ...

The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Star Shawarma, a pastry outfit in Makurdi, Benue State, Ms Mnena Ato, has narrated how she was arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over a N1,600 transaction. Ato said she was ...