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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 ...

Access Bank has denied news making rounds that it would sack 75 per cent of its workforce and as well close over 300 branches. The bank denied this in a statement signed by Mr Sunday Ekwochi, its Company Secretary, posted ...

The palace of the Emir of Daura has been sealed after it recorded many cases of COVID-19. Daura is the hometown of President Muhammadu Buhari in Katsina State. According to Dr Mustapha Inuwa, Secretary to the State Government, the results ...

The Sokoto State Government has announced the death of the second civilian governor of the state, Dr Garba Nadama. According to a statement by the state government, Nadama died at age 82 after “an illness of natural cause”. The government ...

Working as a dental hygienist for over 40 years, Audrey Gaddis needs to be able to use her hands. So when she developed skin cancer in her thumb, she worried it would mean giving up her career. But thanks to ...

The management of Union Bank on Monday confirmed the death of one of its staff at a branch in Lagos. Chief Executive Officer of the bank, Emeka Emuwa, made this known in an internal memo seen by SaharaReporters. He said, ...

No fewer than ten medical doctors have tested positive for COVID-19 while treating patients at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, an official has said. The chairman of the hospital’s branch of the Association of Resident Doctors, Abubakar Nagoma, confirmed this on ...