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Dr. Amina Umar Ganduje, daughter of Kano state governor, has gone into self-isolation after a co-member on the State Task Force on COVID-19 she worked with got infected with the virus. Other members of the Kano Task Force team include ...

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has made the wearing of face mask in public places, compulsory. He announced this on Friday in Ibadan while briefing newsmen on the outcome of the State COVID-19 Taskforce meeting held at the Government ...

The Ogun government has relaxed the total lockdown imposed on the state by President Muhammad Buhari. Gov Dapo Abiodun made this known while addressing journalists on Friday in his Iperu-Remo residence. The President had, on March 30, announced the lockdown ...

Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari is dead. Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity confirmed this in a tweet at 12:44 am on Saturday, April 18, 2020. He tweeted, “Chief of ...

Canadian police in Saskatchewan have declared four Nigerians wanted, while another one has been arrested. The Nigerians are wanted in connection with $2m romance scams. All the suspects are in their 20s. Multiple reports identified the Nigerians as Kelvin Awani, ...

Protesters have reportedly shut down Odidi flow station in Odidi community, Warri south west local government area over alleged unpaid salaries of community workers by operators of the flow station. Vanguard gathered that the protesters stormed the flow station this ...

YouTube star Steve Cash who was the voice behind the Talking Kitty Cat videos has committed suicide at the age of 40. Social media sensation Cash died Thursday morning from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after a battle with mental health ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has reported the biggest jump in coronavirus cases. Fifty-one new cases were reported this night, taking the national total to 493. Lagos has the bulk of the new cases with 32. Kano was next ...

The Universe smiled on the family of Mr. Sunday Nweke as Billionaire businessman, Dr. Ifeanyi Odii, through his foundation- Ebele & Anyichuks Foundation erased poverty from the lives of the Nwekes. The Nigerian businessman came across a social media post ...

The husband and daughter of a nurse who died after contracting coronavirus are both battling the deadly bug as well, according to her auntie. Leilani Medel, 41, was a nurse in Bridgend, south Wales having immigrated from the Philippines. Her ...

The Federal Government has commenced the distribution of palliatives to 600,000 households in Abuja. The Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Ramatu Aliyu, flagged off the distribution on Friday in the nation’s capital. This comes as part ...

Some documents and furniture were destroyed by fire on Friday at the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja. This followed an electrical fault at the office of the Director of Electoral and Party Monitoring, leading to ...

The Edo state government on Friday said five of its confirmed COVID-19 cases have been discharged after they tested negative twice for the virus. Governor Godwin Obaseki announced the news in a tweet, “I am pleased to announce that 5 ...

The Emir of Daura, Dr. Umar Faruq, on Friday morning lost his wife, Hajiya Binta. The spokesman for Daura Emirate Council, Usman Abdullahi, confirmed the incident. Hajiya Binta, 65, was said to have died of a natural cause. Abdullahi said ...

Nasarawa is among states without a ventilator to help in the fight against coronavirus pandemic, but the state governor, Abdullahi Sule has bought 24 Toyota Hilux vehicles for state lawmakers, estimated at nearly N500 million. There are 169 ventilators nationwide ...

  A comment made by a Police Officer on Facebook has sparked outrage online. In what can be described as an hate comment, The police officer from Kwara state, Salihu Ajanaku, described Igbos as the most useless ethnic group in Nigeria. “Ibo fools, Ibo idiots, ...

Rows of graves are being pre-dug in a south east London cemetery for Muslim victims of the coronavirus pandemic. The plots are being dug at Kemnal Park Cemetery in Chislehurst to cope with the large numbers of deaths in the ...

The publisher of a leading local tabloid in Ebonyi State, The Voice newspaper, Chief Imo Eze, is dead. Imo died on Thursday night at the Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki (AE-FUTHA), Ebonyi state after a protracted illness. The ...

Princess Beatrice has officially cancelled her wedding to Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Queen’s granddaughter, 31, was set to wed the millionaire property tycoon, 37,  at St James Palace on May 29, but the wedding has ...

The headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja is on fire. The fire reportedly started few minutes to noon. The inferno is still raging at as the time of filing this report. But why fire everywhere. God ...

A medical doctor, Dominic Essien, has died in Akwa Ibom State after displaying suspected symptoms of COVID-19. The deceased, owner of San Dominique Hospital Uyo, was said to been sick with a week history of fever, cough and shortness of ...

A controversial dictator has made an extraordinary claim that no one in his country has died or will be killed by coronavirus because he has ‘a cure’. Alexander Lukashenko, president of Belarus said he has found combinations of drugs to ...

The central medical store of the malaria control unit, Birin-Kebbi was last night gutted by fire. A large consignment of drugs was salvaged from the inferno. The fire raged for about four hours before it was put off by combined ...

Brazil’s Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta said Thursday he’d been sacked by President Jair Bolsonaro, after weeks of clashes between the two over the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Mandetta made the announcement on Twitter following a meeting with ...

News of granting Maryam Sanda,  the woman convicted and sentenced to death by hanging for killing her husband, had been granted a Presidential pardon is currently trending on social media. The news came after it was announced that President Muhammadu ...