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Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has disclosed that mortuaries in Lagos are filled as relatives are unable to hold funerals due to the lockdown in the state.   Sanwo-olu during a press briefing on Saturday, April 25, 2020 said the mortuaries ...

  Kano state is experiencing a high rate of death and on Saturday, April 25, 2020 several prominent residents of the state died in the last 24 hours. The prominent people who died in the Kano state were said to ...

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed there are 87 new cases of the Coronavirus in Nigeria as at 11:55 pm 25th April, 2020. Of the 87 new cases in Nigeria, 33 were reported in Lagos, 18 in Borno, ...

A man died after drinking fish tank cleaner, believing it was a malaria drug that could potentially beat coronavirus. Gary Lenius and his wife Wanda, both in their 60s, drank chloroquine phosphate last month after confusing it for hydroxychloroquine – ...

The Anambra Government has relaxed the lockdown occasioned by COVID-19 in the state, four weeks after it was announced. The lockdown was part of the measures taken by the government to check the spread of Coronavirus in the state. Gov. ...

The Police in Ogun State have arrested a herbalist, Lajuwon Ogunleye and his wife Adetutu Apalaya, for conspiracy and murder of their seven-year -old son, Pelumi Apalaya, for ritual purpose. Also arrested along with the couple is one Fatai Sefiu ...

Dozens of prisoners at a jail in Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires staged a riot demanding urgent health measures after confirmation of a coronavirus case inside the facility. Police surrounded the prison, which holds around 2,200 inmates, as explosions were heard. ...

Saudi Arabia has abolished flogging as a punishment, the supreme court announced, hailing the latest in a series of “human rights advances” made by the king and his powerful son. Court-ordered floggings in Saudi Arabia — sometimes extending to hundreds ...

  Kim Jong Un is rumored to be dead, according to a Hong Kong broadcast network, while a Japanese magazine is reporting that North Korea’s rocket man is in a “vegetative state” after he underwent heart surgery earlier this month. A vice ...

Osun State today, 25th of April, 2020 recorded 12 new cases of coronavirus. This brings the total confirmed cases in the state to be 32. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr. Ismail Omipidan, confirmed that ...

An occupant of Taiwo Street, Mafoluku, Oshodi area of Lagos, Taiwo Eluyemi, dispersed some neighbours who came to his apartment to watch movies on Wednesday in compliance with social distancing rule to curtail the spread of coronavirus. He never knew ...

China has dispatched a team to North Korea including medical experts to advise on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, according to three people familiar with the situation. The trip by the Chinese doctors and officials comes amid conflicting reports ...

The Imo State Police Command has arrested a man, Johnbosco Ejiogu, for stabbing his mother and then setting their home ablaze. According to a statement by the police command, the incident occurred at Umudagu Mbieri, Mbaitoli Local Government Area of ...

A Regional Manager with First Bank, Kano, Abdullahi Lawal has died of suspected case of Covid -19. Family sources said the late Banker took I’ll on Friday and was first put on admission at private clinic in Kano from where ...

Former Super Eagles forward and Nigeria’s soccer ambassador, Daniel Amokachi has revealed how all his attempts to get a miracle healing failed despite sleeping at the altar of Prophet T.B Joshua’s Synagogue Church of All Nations for weeks. Amokachi had ...

Sales of food and alcohol have seen a huge jump in recent weeks, according to new figures. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has been analysing total sales volumes dived 5.1% as many stores shut their doors in the face ...

About 40 health workers in Nigeria have, so far, tested positive for COVID-19, the Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, has said. Mr Ehanire made this known at the daily Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 briefing on Thursday. He cautioned health ...

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has arrested two Nigerien sisters serving as informants to bandits in Anka local government area of Zamfara State. They were arrested alongside a male suspect identified as Shafiu Abdullahi, along Bagega road ...

Taiwo Akerele, the Chief of Staff to Edo Governor Godwin Obaseki has resigned his appointment. It was gathered the youthful Akerele, an indigene of Igarra in Akoko-Edo Local Government Area of Edo State, accused Obaseki of sidelining him. The Governor ...

The two police officers that were seen in a viral video beating up a lady at Iwo, Osun state have been found guilty, the police announced. The police also announced they have being dismissed from service and wil be arraigned ...

Ogun Government says it will begin enforcing the wearing of face masks as from May 1, 2020. Gov. Dapo Abiodun, who made this known while addressing journalists on Friday in Iperu, said that violators risked being arrested or even isolated ...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has disclosed that ten more Coronavirus patients have been discharged by the state. This brings to 119, the total number of Coronavirus patients so far discharged by the State since the pandemic started. However, Coronavirus ...

The Chairman of Kogi State chapter of Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN), Comrade Gabriel Amari, has raised an alarm over the condition workers in the state are being forced to undergo. He alleged that they are being ...

Mikano International Limited, Lagos, Nigeria, has reportedly sacked over 600 workers as a result of biting Coronavirus effect, Pm News reports. Family members of some of the sacked workers expressed shock over the sack of their bread winners. According to ...

Nigeria’s Coronavirus cases have surpassed 1,000, as the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, announced 114 new infections late last night. According to the NCDC, on its twitter handle, the total number of confirmed Coronavirus cases in Nigeria stand at ...