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Lagos State Health Commissioner, Prof Akin Abayomi, says he is not infected with coronavirus. The commissioner had earlier on Thursday announced that 10 persons associated with the Lagos State Government House, Marina, tested positive for the virus. But he stated ...

A six-week old baby has become the youngest victim to die of coronavirus in the UK. The tragedy comes as the UK’s coronavirus hospital death toll increased to 26,093 after 414 more fatalities were reported amid signs the trend had ...

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday restrained the Federal Government from taking fresh steps to extradite the former Senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District, Buruji Kashamu, to the United States of America on allegation of complicity in illicit ...

The Poultry Association of Nigeria has warned that the country may face starvation in 2021 due to the lockdown across the nation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The President of the association, Mr Ezekiel Ibrahim Mam, made this known in ...

Health officials are putting an entire Long Island town on a diet to drive down rising obesity rates amid the coronavirus pandemic. With many stuck in their homes – ordering take-out and stress eating – a weight gain phenomenon has ...

A 27-year-old mother of two who was kicked out of her house in Mihango, Nairobi is pleading for assistance after thugs gang-r.a.p.e.d her in front her children at an unfinished building where she took shelter. The woman, Elizer, not her ...

The richest man in Europe has has lost an astonishing $30billion during the coronavirus pandemic – more than any other person in the world, as calculated by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Frenchman Bernard Arnault is the chairman and CEO of ...

Taraba state government has confirmed the demise of the state’s Commissioner for Poverty Alleviation, Naphtali Kefas. He died on Friday in Jalingo, the state capital after a brief illness. The deceased was the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP ...

Residents of Kwabwai Location in Ndhiwa, Homa Bay County, Kenya on Wednesday afternoon murdered a police constable. Now, police have launched an investigation to track down the culprits. The police constable, Felix Yegon and his colleague William Ngeiywa, had been ...

The Kogi State Commissioner for Health, Dr Saka Haruna, has said the state is under pressure to declare that it has COVID-19 cases where there is none. The commissioner made the claims in a statement on Thursday. He, however, said ...

Some Nigerians evacuated from the United Kingdom have landed in Lagos. They were evacuated after being stranded by the coronavirus pandemic. Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, confirmed their arrival. According to her: “The first evacuation from the Uk ...

Andriadi Putra, 34, has trouble eating and talking because of the ‘trunk’-like tumour weighing around 88lbs. It has sprouted into multiple layers and Putra – from Medan in North Sumatra, Indonesia – often covers the biggest part under a large ...

A mobile gaming addict was found dead inside his apartment with signs he was electrocuted after charging his phone and playing with it at the same time. Delivery company employee Tinnakorn Rattanauppaphan, 32, had the smartphone plugged in to an ...

Nearly 20,000 Georgia teens were reportedly granted a driver’s license without passing a road test as a result of an executive order aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus. Governor Brian Kemp last month signed the order that suspended ...

Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said data suggests between 2 and 2.5 per cent of people living in the Russian capital have been infected, meaning 300,000 cases. That figure is more than three times Moscow’s official tally of 92,676 cases and is ...

The Supreme Court has quashed the judgement that convicted and sentenced the former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor-Kalu to 12 years imprisonment. In a unanimous judgement on Friday by a seven-man panel, led by Justice Amina Augie, the Supreme ...

Kano state government has discharged 16 more COVID-19 patients from its facilities after they tested negative for the virus. A statement signed by the commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba indicated that this brings the total number of discharged patients ...

Badeggi in the Katcha Local Government Area of Niger State was thrown into confusion when one of the passengers that violated the interstate night travel ban, died in a commercial vehicle. It was learnt that a commercial bus with registration ...

An unconfirmed number of persons have been allegedly killed in a communal clash between Omor and Umumbo communities in Ayamelum Local Government Area of Anambra State. It was also gathered that about 50 persons were allegedly abducted, while over 300 ...

Yukio Okamoto, a former Japanese diplomat has died after contracting the coronavirus. His consultancy confirmed on Friday that he died late last month, aged 74. After retiring from the foreign ministry in 1991, Okamoto served as an adviser to then-prime ...

A 22-year-old pregnant woman, Mrs Veronica Boniface, has reportedly stabbed her husband, Mohammed,  to death over suspicion that he was making a phone call to his girlfriend. The Commandant of the Nasarawa State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil ...

The Lagos House of Assembly has asked Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to account for donations received in support of the fight against Covid-19 pandemic in the state. At the plenary presided over by the Speaker, Mr Mudashiru Obasa, the House asked ...

The Nigerian passenger who delivered a baby boy aboard an Emirates Airline (UAE) en route Lagos, Mrs Kafayat Omoshalewa Amusan yesterday narrated her ordeal, saying she delivered her baby before flight attendants could get to her. In an exclusive telephone ...

A virtual meeting of South African lawmakers has been disrupted by hackers who flooded the video call with po,rn,ographic images. In the incident on Thursday, the hackers also hurled racial and sexual insults at the meeting’s chairwoman, Thandi Modise, who ...

Nigeria has recorded 381 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 3526. This was announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC on Thursday via its verified Twitter handle. The 381 ...