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Fourteen people were killed Thursday in a fire at a camp housing tens of thousands displaced by terrorists’ violence in northeast Nigerian, security and rescue sources told AFP. The blaze broke out mid-morning in a camp holding some 70,000 people ...

A meeting yesterday by top federal government’s top officials, principal officers of the House of Representatives and stakeholders in the power sector resolved to set up a joint committee to work out modalities for the proposed two-month free power supply ...

National Coordinator, Presidential Taskforce Force on COVID-19, Dr Sani Aliyu, says people are being smuggled out of Lagos State in trucks. Speaking at a briefing of the task force in Abuja yesterday, he said inter-state travels were worsening the community ...

Britain will extend its coronavirus lockdown for “at least” another three weeks, foreign secretary Dominic Raab said on Thursday, as hundreds across the country continue to die daily from the outbreak. “The government has decided that the current measures must ...

Kano State Grand Khadi, Tijjani Yusuf Yakasai has on Thursday set free, not fewer than fifty-nine inmates with minor offences and delayed trial in order to decongest the Nigerian Correctional Service to curtail the spread of the raging Coronavirus pandemic. ...

The Kaduna State government has converted the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation camp located along the Abuja- Kaduna highway into a quarantine centre. The state deputy governor, Hadiza Balarabe, confirmed this during an inspection visit to the facility on ...

Tunisia on Thursday said that two men, including a suspected member of a jihadist network, had been arrested over an alleged “terrorist” plot to infect security force personnel with coronavirus. The suspected jihadist is accused of having used his influence ...

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, says the number of Nigerians willing to return from abroad is so high that they cannot be accommodated in the available isolation centres in the country. He said this in Abuja yesterday at ...

Confirmed cases of coronavirus in Nigeria have increased to 442 after 35 new infections were recorded on Thursday. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control made this known via its Twitter handle. While a total of 152 patients were discharged, three ...

No fewer than 19 persons have died this year following the resurgence of Lassa fever in Bauchi State. The State Deputy Governor, Senator Baba Tela, disclosed this at a press conference held on Thursday at the Banquet Hall, Government House, ...

Queen Ajoke Adeyemi, one of the wives of Alaafin of Oyo has reacted to news that she allegedly cheated on the king with fuji lord Kwam1. News had earlier broke claiming the Queen has been sent out of the palace. ...

Armed bandits have kidnapped three nursing mothers in Karaukarau village, Giwa Local government area of Kaduna State. A source from the village, Malam Sani Bakali told The Nation that, the heavily armed bandits who picked 13 women, were challenged and ...

Four men suspected to have murdered Mrs Funke Olakunrin, daughter of Pa Reuben Fasoranti have been arrested. IGP Mohammed Adamu announced the arrests of the four suspects on Thursday. But he said four other suspects, including the ringleader named Tambaya ...

A Facebook user, PinnaDesk has shared a shocking news about how a man died during this lockdown. According to the social media user, the man had complained of being hungry and decided to go and do a casual work, while ...

Nigerian security agents enforcing the Coronavirus lockdown in Nigeria have killed more citizens in the last two weeks than the deadly virus, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has said. While the disease has so far killed 11 persons in ...

Nigeria businessman, Jimoh Ibrahim, has donated N40m to the Ondo State Government to help combat the spread of COVID-19 in the state. Ibrahim who made the donation in Akure, Ondo State capital, urged Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu to involve private hospitals ...

Menegian, one of the children of the late environmental activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, has died of coronavirus at a London hospital. Menegian was 50 at the time of his death. Sister to the deceased, Noo, made the announcement in a Facebook ...

The Lagos state government has confirmed 18 new cases of COVID-19. This was made known by the state Commissioner for Health today. He said, “18 new cases of #COVID19 Infection were confirmed in Lagos on 15th of April, 2020.” The ...

Australia will keep in place coronavirus restrictions implemented to curb its spread for at least four more weeks. Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced this on Thursday. This is despite signs that the country has been successful in slowing infection rates. ...

Smugglers hid cocaine worth more than £1m in a consignment of protective face masks, Border Force officials said. Officers found the 14kg haul in a Polish-registered van as it attempted to enter the UK through the Channel Tunnel. The driver, ...

Residents of different communities in Lagos are now in panic mood after the dreaded One Million Boys wrote letters of their intending robbery operations and demanded that residents should keep money for them or be prepared to lose their hands, ...

The Police in Anambra have confirmed killing of two boys at Nkpor near Onitsha during a protest by irate youth over arrest of some of their members for flouting the lockdown. The incident that recorded two casualties including a 20 ...

Police in Ebonyi State have arrested a 75 years old woman for alleged severe flogging and pouring of hot pepper into the eye and private part of her 11 years old house help. The woman who gave her name as ...

The party of South Korean President Moon Jae-in has won a decisive victory in parliamentary elections, with voters backing the government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. South Korea was among the first countries to hold a national vote since the ...

A student working as a sugar baby has more than doubled her income since the coronavirus lockdown began as men cooped up inside pay thousands of pounds to chat with her online. Sherene [not her real name] is plied with ...