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Russia’s National Guard will monitor compliance with tough measures imposed in response to the pandemic during holidays this week. The use of military technology follows a recorded rise in Covid-associated deaths of 58 in the past 24 hours, taking the ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said it plans to arraign former Special Duties Minister, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki and three others before a Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday. EFCC’s Spokesman, Tony Orilade said, in a statement, that ...

Fifty persons from Zamfara state hidden inside Lorry loads of fruits were intercepted in Ilorin by officers of Kwara state police command. Vanguard reliably gathered that they were intercepted at the Oyun area close to Kulende junction around Zango area ...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has ordered all civil servants in the state to stay away from work on Monday, May 4. The five-week-old total lockdown imposed on the nation’s economic capital terminates on Sunday night, May 3, and the ...

The authorities of University of Port Harcourt, UNIPORT, said two of the murdered victims of abductors in Rivers were not their students. A spokesman for the university, Dr. Williams Wodi identified the only female victim, Joy Favour Adoki, as a ...

Donald Trump has claimed a Covid-19 vaccine will be ready by the end of the year. Answering questions at a virtual town hall Sunday night, the president said: ‘We think we’ll have a vaccine by the end of this year ...

A 24-year-old woman on Saturday night stabbed to death her two children, aged 2 and 6, at her house in Kayole, Nairobi. The woman, identified as Winfred Nduku, is nursing serious injuries at Mama Lucy Hospital after a botched suicide. ...

Nigeria has recorded another 170 new Coronavirus cases, taking its overall total to 2,558. This represents a drop in the number of infections from what the nation raked in on Saturday, which stood at 220 cases. In the figures released ...

All the improperly kitted mourners at the burial of late Abba Kyari on the 18th of April have tested negative to coronavirus. Dr Mohammed Kawu, Acting Secretary, FCT Health and Human Services Secretariat, made this known in Abuja on Sunday. ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has ordered all banks not to retrench workers. A statement from the apex bank signed by Mr. Isaac Okorafor Director, Corporate Communications said the CBN, Bankers’ Committee decided to suspend lay-offs in banks. Access ...

North Korean troops fired multiple gunshots towards the South in the DMZ dividing the peninsula on Sunday, prompting South Korean forces to fire back, Seoul said. The rare exchange of gunfire comes a day after North Korean state media reported ...

The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) has warned that the partial lifting of lockdown measures could lead to a massive chain of COVID-19 infections. Dr. Lanre Olosunde, the Chairman of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), sounded the warning ...

Nasarawa State Government has fumigated and sealed off the state’s house of assembly after a member, Hon Suleiman Adamu, died of the deadly bug. The late member represented Nasarawa Central in the assembly. More photos of the exercise below…   ...

President John Magufuli of Tanzania on Sunday ordered a probe on the country’s coronavirus testing protocols, citing possible interference by unnamed saboteurs. President Magufuli also dismissed the test kits used in the country saying that they were faulty because they ...

The University of Lagos on Sunday has asked workers not to resume until it put in place a phased timetable for resumption. A statement signed by the institution’s registrar, Mr. Oladejo Azeez, noted that only workers on essential duties were ...

Chloroquine, an anti-malaria drug, has aided recovery of six coronavirus patients in Bauchi, including Governor Bala Mohammed, who is the index case in the state, according to Commissioner for Health ,Dr.Aliyu Maigoro. Maigoro, who disclosed this to The Nation during ...

A member of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly, representing Nasarawa central, Mr. Sule Adamu, has died of coronavirus, The Punch reports. Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa state confirmed this on Sunday while briefing newsmen on the update of COVID-19 ...

A young Nigerian lady, identified as Adetomisin Adetula, has cried out for urgent help to return to Nigeria after being trafficked to Oman. In a viral video, Adetomisin who spoke in Yoruba, said she contacted an agent who promised to ...

Criticisms have greeted the Infectious Diseases Bill in the works at the House of Representatives to give teeth to Federal Government’s efforts to manage the special circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, which as of Friday night had claimed 68 lives ...

“We were five in number and we slept with the girl before we killed her last. We killed the boy first, killed the second and the girl last. We used gun brought by Bright”. With this statement, one of the ...

A twitter user @bimbo_cash has warned others from distributing relief items to Ikorodu residents saying they are thieves and not hungry. According to Bimbo, she had gone there to distribute items to the needy in this pandemic, but she was ...

The Lagos State Ministry of Education has denied social media reports regarding a new set of guidelines for schools resumption in the state. The Ministry, through its Public Affairs Head, Mr. Kayode Abayomi said “the Ministry wishes to clarify that ...

A senior Counsellor in Kano Emirate Council, Prof. Isa Hashim is dead Prof. Isa Hashim who was until his death the Jarman Kano died on Sunday morning after a brief. A family source, Ibrahim Aliyu told reporters that the 86-year ...

The Emir of Kaura Namoda in Zamfara State, Alhaji Muhammad Ahmad Asha, is dead. A family source said the traditional ruler died on Sunday morning at Yarima Bakura Specialist Hospital, Gusau. The source revealed that he died while they are ...

  China has published a short animation titled ‘Once Upon a Virus’ mocking the U.S. response to the new coronavirus. In the video, which has been viewed 1.6 million times on Twitter, a warrior representing China repeatedly warns the US (represented ...