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Lagosians in their numbers took to twitter last night as NCDC announced Nigeria has recored 86 new cases of coronavirus, crediting 70 to Lagos. Many wondered how the virus is being spread despite the stay at home order which many ...

Sacked Kano State Commissioner for Works, Mu’azu Magaji has opened up on his sack and denied that he celebrated the death of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari. Magaji was sacked on Saturday by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje for ...

A woman who had ­ballooned to 20 stone lost more than a third of her bodyweight in 10 months after ­a ­doctor gave her the wake-up call: “Diet or die.” Kelly McCracken, 42, was a size 28 and so big ...

An official of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Bauchi Office, has tested positive for the deadly Coronavirus disease in the State. Dr Aliyu Maigoro, Bauchi State Commissioner for Health, confirmed this on Sunday in a statement in Bauchi by ...

Police in Kenya implementing coronavirus restrictions have arrested four people who disguised themselves as mourners taking a body for burial. They had left the capital, Nairobi, and travelled 370km (about 230 miles) west with an empty coffin in the vehicle ...

The man who fatally shot 16 people during a bloody rampage in Nova Scotia was 51-year-old denture-maker Gabriel Wortman, reports said Sunday. Wortman went on a shooting spree in several towns while dressed as a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer ...

Kano State government on Sunday approved the deportation of Almajiris, otherwise known as ‘children beggars’ in the State. Salihu Tanko Yakasai, the media aide to Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, made this known. The governor had said the decision was ...

There is panic in Borno State as a nurse died on Saturday at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital of suspected coronavirus. The news of the death of the man, Babangida Buba, a retired nurse with the Hospital Management Board, ...

A Zimbabwean mother claims she wrestled her three-year-old son from the jaws of a crocodile by shoving her fingers into its nostrils. Maurina Musisinyana, 30, from the southeastern town of Chiredzi, was fishing on the banks of the Runde River ...

Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Femi Falana, said on Sunday the greatest tribute the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), could pay to the 19 deceased victims of COVID-19 in Nigeria, including his former Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, who ...

Australia is thinking of extending its lockdown to a YEAR – despite suffering just 63 coronavirus deaths. Prime Minister Scott Morrison warned life ‘down under’ could be constrained for 12 more months because of the deadly pandemic. And some see ...

A disgraced head teacher fired over flirty messages to pupils insists he should be allowed to carry on in education. Toby Belfield, 47, spoke out for the first time since being sacked from his £160,000-a-year job. He conceded some of ...

A six-year-old girl was allegedly r.a.p.e.d and strangled to death by her own grandparents during the Covid-19 lockdown. The youngster’s parents tragically thought the little girl would be safer at her grandparents home in Chihuahua, Northern Mexico, as they no ...

The pastor, Patrick Asomugha, and the diocese of Speyer made the decision to remove him after he received a death threat last month. “Concerns for the safety and wellbeing of pastor Asomugha makes this step unavoidable,” Andreas Sturm, vicar general ...

Even coronavirus that is more feared right now all over the world has not killed 47 in the whole of Nigeria. Sigh, too sad! The Katsina State Police Command, on Sunday said bandits have killed 47 people in early morning ...

Lagos State Government has reassured residents of its commitment to protect lives and property, stressing that the responsibility will not be compromised. The re-assurance came just as the State Police Command, acting on the orders of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, stepped ...

An Anglican priest, Revd Anthony Oyi, has been kidnapped by suspected Fulani herders on his farm at Issele-Mkpitime, Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State. It was gathered that the priest, who hails from Issele-Mkpitime, had gone with his ...

Hundreds protested Saturday in cities across America against coronavirus-related lockdowns with encouragement from President Donald Trump — as resentment grows against the crippling economic cost of confinement. An estimated 400 people gathered under a cold rain in Concord, New Hampshire ...

This week, coronavirus cases around the world hit 1.9 million, fueling widespread panic about the spread of the virus. Research has shown that the virus predominantly spreads through respiratory droplets in coughs and sneezes. However, a new study has discovered ...

Two policemen in Osun State have been arrested for openly assaulting a woman with whips at Odo Ori Market in the Iwo area of the state. In the video of the incident that has since gone viral on the Internet, ...

For women or men who are locked down with a domestic or s.e.x.u.a.l abuser due to the compulsory stay at home, well you are not alone, and Ogun state is saying, that doesn’t give you an automatic ticket to death. ...

Brescia president Massimo Cellino confirmed he has tested positive for coronavirus. Italy has been hit particularly hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, recording almost 176,000 positive tests and 23,227 deaths, which is second only to the United States. The Lombardy region ...

A Nigerian Pastor, Goodheart Val Aloysius who pastors from Calabar has promised to wake Abba Kyari from dead if given the chance. The Pastor in a Facebook post claimed he saw the Chief of Staff’s death a week ago,  but ...

The number of cases of coronavirus in Kano State has risen to 37 with ten new additional cases recorded in the state. The State’s Ministry of Health in a late Saturday night tweet on its official twitter handle confirmed the ...

Hundreds of people have been added to Egypt’s terrorism list in recent years. The decision, published in the official gazette, stated that their “placement on the terrorism list will be for a period of five years”. Elaimy — a key ...