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The Federal Government has secured hotel accommodation in Lagos for Nigerians returning from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on account of the coronavirus pandemic. The citizens will be quarantined in the hotels for two weeks on arrival to ascertain their status. ...

Kaduna Governor Mallam Nasiru El-Rufa’i has spoken of his traumatic experience while knocked down by coronavirus, saying that he could have died but for his doctors. El-Rufai, who spoke in a Hausa Radio programme today, said he went through trauma ...

A nine-year-old schoolgirl has just been given the cancer all-clear for a fifth time after once again beating returning leukemia. Ali Herbert, from Brigham City, Utah, has defied the odds to survive five separate cancer diagnoses in the space of ...

The alarming rate of mysterious deaths in the ancient city of Kano has claimed another victim. Dr Ghali Umar of the Department of Architecture of the Kano State University of Science and Technology, died on Monday, fuelling fears in the ...

Arole Oodua & Ooni of Ife, Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, the Ooni of Ife was on Tuesday at the Lagos State government house, Marina to donate two of his invented locally made Modular motorized Fumigation Equipments designed to ...

Men of the Rapid Response Squad, Lagos state police command have arrested three men who are specialists in snatching phones and bags. As their criminal business has not been booming due to lockdown, they decided to break into shops. As ...

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has blasted MPs for allocating themselves a total of 10bn Ugandan shillings to enable each of them to raise awareness about coronavirus. The president said it was “morally reprehensible” to allocate funding to themselves instead of ...

The strange deaths in Kano continued on Tuesday after a lifeless body was found under Kofar Nasarawa Bridge, a popular section of the metropolis. The deceased whose identity is yet-to-be identified, was said to be in his late sixties and ...

The police in Niger State have apprehended a 36 year-old-woman for allegedly stabbing her mother-in-law to death in the Mashegu Local Government Area of the state following a misunderstanding. The suspect, Fatima Sani, of Gobirawa village, was arrested by a ...

Some 313 coronavirus cases have been reported in Moroccan jails following mass testing for Covid-19. The authorities say Ouarzazate prison in central Morocco recorded 303 cases, while 10 other cases were in Oudaya prison in Marrakesh and Ksar Kebir prison ...

This is the moment a grandma almost collapsed from tiredness and hunger while hawking in one of the Nigerian states. A good samaritan who saw her, questioned her and decided to record their conversation. In the video, the woman was ...

Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State has suspected that the 1800 bags of custom bonded warehouse rice sent to the State as Federal Government palliative for Covid-19 may not be suitable for consumption. Governor Emmanuel has, therefore, announced a ...

One care home resident dies from coronavirus every five minutes in UK Grim figures from the Care Quality Commission today revealed 4,343 deaths from April 10 to 24 in England alone – more than 300 a day. Experts now believe ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a dead former lawmaker from Ebonyi State, Tobias Chukwuemeka Okwuru, to the board of the Federal Character Commission. The appointment of the late Okwuru alongside 37 others was contained in a letter Buhari sent ...

Kentucky Governor Andy Bashear apologized to a local resident bearing the famous rapper’s name after he used Shakur as an example of “bad apples” using fake names for unemployment filings, according to a report. “We had somebody apply for unemployment ...

Lagos State Health Commissioner, Prof Akin Abayomi, says the coronavirus infection affects the kidney and the blood. He made this known on Wednesday morning during a programme on Arise News. The commissioner warned that obese, diabetic, and hypertensive persons should ...

Eighteen commercial s.e.x workers have been arrested by the Ondo State Task Force on COVID-19 for violating the curfew imposed by the state government. Governor Rotimi Akeredolu had announced a dusk to dawn curfew as part of efforts to limit ...

He didn’t quite generate the giddy hysteria of a royal baby, but the BBC broadcaster alerted its viewers hours ago with a “Breaking News” flash that Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his fiancee, Carrie Symonds, had just announced the birth ...

Fifteen inmates were on Tuesday granted state pardon from the Nigeria Correctional Centre, Oyo State. Public Relations Officer of the state Correctional Centre, ASP Anjorin Olarewaju, disclosed this in a statement issued in Ibadan. He noted that it was in ...

The Republic of Germany said it had granted Nigeria debt relief amounting to N8.9bn (€22.4m) on account of the coronavirus pandemic. Also, the German government said it had successfully campaigned for the G20, the Paris Club and creditor countries in ...

  The Presidency has disclosed that someone obtained and leaked the draft of President Muhammadu Buhari’s speech hours before the national broadcast on Monday. This was disclosed by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, ...

One of the two suspected members of a six-man robbery gang has said he joined the gang because he always saw them sharing money after each operation. They had been parading as members of One Million Boys gang in Lagos, ...

The false belief that toxic methanol cures the coronavirus has seen over 700 people killed in Iran, an official said Monday. That represents a higher death toll than previously released by the Iranian Health Ministry. An adviser to the ministry, ...

An organizer of a North Carolina group calling on the state to ease its coronavirus restrictions was unable to attend two rallies because she tested positive for the disease, a report said. Audrey Whitlock, who administers the Facebook page of ...

Military commander Khalifa Haftar has declared himself the ruler of Libya with a “popular mandate” from the people. In a televised speech, the leader of the Libyan National Army (LNA) announced that the General Command of the Armed Forces had ...