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Austria will further loosen its coronavirus lockdown on May 15 by allowing restaurants and cafes to reopen and religious services to resume, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Tuesday. The Alpine republic acted early in its outbreak to close restaurants, bars, ...

The Lagos State government has confirmed the death of two more coronavirus (COVID-19) patients at its isolation centres in the state. The Commissioner for Health in the state, Professor Akin Abayomi, announced this on Tuesday while giving an update on ...

Kylie Jenner got emotional about how quickly her daughter Stormi is growing up. Kylie, 22, shares her two-year-old with ex-boyfriend Travis Scott. The reality TV star shared with her fans that she can’t believe how big Stormi is now. She ...

The Chairman, Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Sokoto state chapter, Dr. Sani Abubakar, has tested positive for coronavirus. Abubakar disclosed this via his social media platforms today. ”One of my unpleasant responsibilities is when I have to break bad news to ...

Globe Motors boss, Willy Anumudu is dead. He was reported to have died around 4am this morning in Lagos. According to respected publisher, Dele Momodu who broke the news, the all time auto boss dealer was supposed to be flown ...

A man has admitted to cheating on his girlfriend with 30 women – including while she was in labour having his baby. Coral Gibb, 23, has hit out at “love rat” Steven Lee, 34, who missed the birth of their ...

The Sultan of Sokoto and President General of the Jama’atu Nasril Islam, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar lll, on Monday asked Muslims in the country to avoid congregational prayers during the coming Ramadan fast. He asked the faithful to pray at homes ...

Former Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Chief Richard Akinjide, is dead. The 88-year-old legal icon died in his Ibadan, Oyo State, home. It was gathered that the legal icon, who died of complications from a protracted illness ...

Police operatives and some medical personnel at Osun/Oyo border on Sunday evening reportedly intercepted a car, said to have conveyed a sick man, who eventually died while being checked. The vehicle, it was learnt, was stopped at Odo Oba, Iwo, ...

A Nigerian mother, Nwozu Rita Akpunonu took to Facebook to celebrate after her 3-year-old daughter vomited an iron nail she swallowed eight months ago. Rita said her daughter returned from school one day and informed her that she swallowed nail ...

Oil suffered its biggest one-day price plunge in the modern era, at one point crashing about 40% to below $11 a barrel as traders contend with a historic glut. Despite Opec+’s unprecedented output deal agreed on a week ago, the ...

Some doctors and nurses at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital in Borno State are currently under quarantine, following the death of a member of an international humanitarian organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF, also known as Doctors Without Borders, who ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has released the names of 195 candidates who were allegedly caught cheating during the just concluded 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. JAMB also said it had delisted nine Computer Based Test, CBT, ...

The police have arrested nine persons for alleged involvement in a crisis which claimed four lives, including a pregnant woman in Ungwan Tiv village, Lugbe, a satellite town in the Federal Capital Territory. An unidentified policeman was said to have ...

A Nigerian man based in Canada has taking to twitter to praise the Canadian Government for fulfilling their coronavirus pandemic promise. Recall the government weeks ago had announced that they would be paying the sum of $2,000 to Canadians who ...

Kaduna state Governor, Nasir El Rufai has shared photos from his quarantine, debunking the news that he has been taking into intensive care. In the photos, the Governor who is currently being treated for coronavirus is seen looking healthy.  

A 24-year-old man is lucky to be alive after he cut off his own tongue in what he believed to be a bid to prevent the spread of coronavirus. The young worker, identified in India as Vivek Sharma, reportedly did ...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Monday said the state would begin the enforcement of compulsory wearing of face masks in public places  from next week as coronavirus bites harder. Just yesterday, Lagos recorded 70 new cases of Coronavirus, the ...

Lawmaker Akin Alabi has reacted to the planned punishment for Immigration officers who took part in the ‘Don’t rush challenge’. Why reacting to their query letter which is already making the rounds on social media, Akin Alabi wrote; ”Disgraceful from ...

A six-week-old baby has tested positive for coronavirus in Lagos State. This was confirmed by Prof. Akin Abayomi, the State Commissioner for Health.. Abayomi said it was not clear if the child got infected from the womb or breast milk. ...

A pregnant woman has died of starvation in Pakistan’s Sindh province amid the coronavirus lockdown imposed in the country, according to media reports. Sughra Bibi, 30, died in Jhudo town of Sindh’s Mirpur Khas district last week, reported the “Daily ...

A road in Abia state – Ogbor Hill allegedly parted into two yesterday after a rain fall. Shocking photos shared by twitter users, sees a bus right inside what has now turned into a massive ditch. More below…    

According to a notice flying around the internet, the Nigerian Immigration service has promised to punish or even dismiss officers (ladies) who were seen participating in the ”Bop daddy/don’t rush challenge”. Some of the officers had participated in the challenge ...

Former Senator, Dino Melaye has implied he is going ‘broke’, saying ‘na calculation spending we dey now’, while sharing fine naira notes. His statement has however generated a lot of comments with a twitter user saying, no dey ‘Baba forget ...

The Bayelsa Plaza at the International Centre for Commerce, ICC, at the Trade Fair Complex, Ojo, Lagos, was yesterday, April 19th gutted by fire. Businesses have been shut down at the Trade Fair with shops closed for almost 4 weeks ...