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The Federal Government will commence evacuation of Nigerians stranded abroad from Wednesday. The exercise, it was also learnt, will commence with 265 returnees from United Arab Emirates. There are over 4,000 Nigerians stranded due to global lockdown occasioned by the ...

A lockdown of the country again is likely. This follows Monday’s gross disobedience of the protocols as Nigerians got some relief after weeks of restrictions. It was the first day after the easing of the shutdown to contain the spread ...

Some hawkers of locally made face masks in Enugu have expressed joy over high patronage following the partial lifting of lockdown in the state. Some hawkers, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Enugu, said ...

The American University of Nigeria (AUN), Yola, has disengaged 400 of its staff. This came to light on Tuesday when the university, owned by Nigeria’s former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, announced that it no longer needed their services. The AUN ...

Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa says the state has recorded an additional confirmed case of coronavirus, bringing the number of active cases to 12. Sule made the disclosure during an expanded state security meeting on Tuesday in Lafia. The governor ...

Mr. and Mrs. Zhang, an elderly couple from Henan Province’s Xiangcheng District, have sued their wealthy son for failing to take care of them. In parts of the world with large Chinese communities, it is not uncommon for parents to ...

The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) says it has arrested over 100 vehicles that violated the social distancing order of the state government to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Commenting on the enforcement operations by LASTMA on Tuesday, the ...

A man has been caught on his was to Owerri with a gun. He was caught by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. The man who gave his name as Odinaka Nwosu carefully concealed the gun inside the ...

Some covid-19 patients at the Kwadon Isolation Centre, Yamaltu Deba Local Government Area of Gombe State, today blocked the popular Gombe/ Biu Road. The patients were said to be protesting against government’s negligence, inadequate food and medical attention in the ...

A prominent George Mason University professor is suing the school for sanctioning him following complaints from students regarding talk about his own s.e.x.u.a.l experiences. Psychology professor Todd Kashdan kept his teaching position after being sanctioned by the school in 2019 ...

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has lauded New Zealanders for their commitment to lockdown after a second-straight day without a new case of Covid-19. The number of ‘confirmed and probable’ infections remained at 1,487 after one suspected case ‘already known to ...

The Enugu State government, on Tuesday, said it has “detected, contained and returned a confirmed coronavirus patient” who had escaped from an isolation and treatment center in Delta State. The patient was found after a swift action by the State’s ...

Six people, including two pilots, were killed when a plane carrying medical supplies crashed in south-western Somalia on Monday. “The cause of the accident is not yet known,” government spokesman Ismael Mukhtar Omar told the Germany’s news agency dpa. The ...

Evacuation of Nigerians stranded in the U.S. due to the novel coronavirus pandemic is to begin on May 10, according to the Consulate-General of Nigeria in New York. The consulate-general disclosed this in a notice signed by the Consul-General, Mr ...

Following the gradual ease of the lockdown announced by President Muhammadu Buhari in Ogun State, residents of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital yesterday refused to observe social distancing and wearing of face masks order by the state government as they ...

May God not reduced humans to this. Residents of Samson, situated on the northern coast of Turkey, were surprised over the weekend when they looked out of their windows to see a huge flock of sheep overrunning the streets below. ...

Medical doctors under the employ of Lagos State Government have expressed worry over-relaxation of the lockdown in the State, disclosing that 16 members of the Medical Guild in the state workforce have been infected with Covid-19. Addressing a press conference ...

Former Senator Dino Melaye has placed a curse on himself and other Nigerian leaders, saying anyone who has held a political office in the past and present have failed and God will judge them all including himself. He stated this ...

What would have resulted in another major fire outbreak was averted on the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway, Tuesday, when two petroleum tankers collided and fell on their sides thereby discharging their contents. The incident occurred on Otedola Bridge inward Berger, at about ...

A Barbie doll wannabe who believes she has the biggest lips in the world has undergone her 20th lip injection. Andrea Ivanova, from Bulgaria has undergone more than 20 hyaluronic acid lip injections with plans to get her lips even ...

Kemi Ounloyo has taken a swipe at Igno girls, saying they are the least educated in Nigeria. She claims most of them still have the housegirl, prostitute mentality in them and accused the successful ones of not helping others once ...

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, says all oil workers seeking to come into the state must get the government’s permit and present their coronavirus “status” before they can be allowed entry. This was contained in a statement issued on Monday ...

The Federal Government on Monday announced that it would commence the decontamination of schools across the country. The Minister of Environment, Muhammad Mahmood, disclosed this at the Presidential Task Force briefing on COVID-19 in Abuja. He said the ministry would ...

An assistant commissioner of police, Atiku Nagodi, is dead. Nagodi died on Monday after a brief illness, a police source confirmed. His death is the latest among increasing deaths in Kano. Nasir Gwarzo, who led a Federal Government medical intervention ...

The Nigerian Government has said that the Chinese doctors, who came to Nigeria over a month ago, were already working at different isolation centres across the country. Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, disclosed this at the daily press briefing of ...