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The Ministry of Education, Lagos state has kicked against the decision of some private schools to resume 3rd term online, beginning from Monday, 27th saying it is against the directive of the Ministry. According to a press statement released yesterday, ...

A Chinese journalist who went missing for nearly two months after posting videos from Wuhan during the coronavirus outbreak has resurfaced. Li Zehua claims he was detained by police and forcibly quarantined. He worked for state-broadcaster CCTV and travelled to ...

A former Arsenal, Real Madrid, Manchester City and Togolese International, Emmanuel Adebayor has given reasons why he will not make any humanitarian or relief donations during the Coronavirus pandemic. Adebayor is one of the most richest footballers from Africa with ...

Two scientists have been injected with a hopeful coronavirus vaccine in the UK’s first human trials. University of Oxford researchers administered the first dose on Thursday, while the other person was given a meningitis vaccine to be used for comparison. ...

An undergraduate of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Seyi Akinade, has reportedly committed suicide. The victim, in a lengthy post on Twitter before his death, said he could no longer live with the continuous harassment by men of the ...

Police in Lunga Lunga, Kwale County, Kenya have arrested a middle-aged couple for allegedly luring their neighbour’s 13-year-old daughter into prostitution. The girl’s father told K24 Digital that his daughter, a Class Four pupil, went missing from home in late-December ...

Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli has banned fumigation in Dar es Salaam and other parts of the country, saying the exercise is only effective in eliminating mosquitoes and cockroaches, and not ridding an area of coronavirus. Addressing the nation from ...

A 21-year-old dad is believed to have taken his own life after struggling with lockdown. Red Gale, died on April 1 after sending a message to his mum and close friends “to say goodbye”, Wales Online reports. Red’s sister Autumn ...

Three lions and four more tigers at the Bronx Zoo in New York have tested positive for coronavirus, officials have announced. The animals were tested after Nadia, a four-year-old Malaysian tiger, caught the bug, reportedly from a keeper. The Wildlife ...

Governor Gboyega Oyetola of Osun has announced the mandatory use of face mask in public places by residents as from April 24 as part of measures to curb the spread of Coronavirus in the state. Oyetola, in a statement by ...

A Deputy Commissioner of Police attached to the Zone 5 headquarters in Benin, Edo State, Francis Bissong,  has died of COVID-19. It was gathered from the Edo State Police Command that Bissong, a lawyer from Cross River State, fell ill ...

A four-year-old boy was mauled to death by a herd of pigs after leaving his house to play outside. The horrific incident took place in the Indian city of Hyderabad on Tuesday. The youngster, who has been identified as V. ...

The Chinese Government has donated about forty-eight million, one hundred and twenty thousand naira to the Presidential Task Force (PTF) to support Nigeria’s fight in curbing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Chinese Ambassador, Zhou Pingjian, who was speaking ...

Member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have appointed Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari as the coordinator of the sub-regions’ response to coronavirus. “ECOWAS leaders at an extraordinary summit held by video conference have appointed President Muhammadu ...

The Lagos State Government on Wednesday directed the suspension of on-going demolition of illegal structures on drainage alignments at Yaya Abatan to Obawole in Ogba, Lagos State. In a statement signed by the State Commissioner for the Environment and Water ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says her country must remain “clever and cautious” in handling the coronavirus crisis, as “it’s not the end phase but still just the beginning”. “We will be with it for a long time,” she warned parliament, ...

The deadly Coronavirus pandemic has killed two more people in Lagos, the epicentre of the disease. Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi disclosed this on Thursday on his twitter handle. According to Abayomi, 74 new coronavirus cases were recorded in ...

Daniil Lipilin is sure his father, Vasil, a 50-year-old paramedic with more than 20 years of experience, died of COVID-19. He says the name of the coronavirus disease is right there on the death certificate. But Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka ...

Emmanuel Adebayor has insisted he still does not see the need for him to donate any money amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis despite a vast amount of criticism coming his way for his inactivity. The ex-Arsenal, Manchester City and Tottenham ...

A man who described coronavirus as a political ploy and blasted stay-at-home orders as “bulls***” has died after contracting the disease, according to reports. John W. McDaniel, from Marion County in Ohio, died in hospital on April 15 after firing ...

The Zambia Police Service has summoned George Bester, a man seen in a video making rounds on social media slapping his son, for allegedly producing poor school results. In the said video, Bester is seen slapping the boy, while complaining ...

With coronavirus cases in the world continues to increase, many worried parents have started putting face masks on their babies and toddlers while out and about. But experts have warned that this practice ‘could prove deadly’, and are urging parents ...

The fear of contracting the novel COVID-19 has scared away doctors at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Enugu, leading to the death of a 35 year-old mother of four. The woman’s husband 40-year-old Nwachukwu Alagbu, who was visibly ...

A Nigerian man has returned the N100k he found by the roadside to his owner. Kimberly Ezeike who urged Nigerians to still be truthful despite the hunger teh coronavirus lockdwon has caused, said he saw the money fall from the ...

A mysterious skin condition that causes purple, red or blue discolouration in toes could be connected to coronavirus. Dermatologists have dubbed the mystery condition “Covid toes” after it began appearing in different parts of the country in Northwestern US. Leading ...