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Nineteen new COVID-19 cases were have been announced tonight by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). Of the positive cases, fourteen were recorded in Lagos, two in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), one in Kano, one in Niger, one ...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Tuesday announced a programme, tagged: “Food Kitchen” aimed at feeding 100,000 youths daily to cushion the effect of Coronavirus lockdown in the state. The governor disclosed this while giving update on the Coronavirus situation ...

The Iraqi government has suspended the licence of the Reuters news agency after it published a story claiming the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country was higher than the number officially reported. The Iraqi media regulator said it ...

Bishop Gerald Glenn, the pastor of New Deliverance Evangelistic Church in Virginia has died, the church announced on Sunday. Glenn had tested positive for coronavirus, according to a video posted by his daughter Mar-Gerie Crawley. In a sermon on March ...

A family are pocketing an absolute fortune since they created a business selling s.e.x toys on eBay. BuzzPinky was born in December 2011 – and nine years on, it’s now turning over £1 million annually. The company is made up ...

A 19-year-old motorcycle spare part seller, Muhammad Abdullahi, has been arrested by operatives of the Jigawa State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) for allegedly sodomising a six-year-old boy. It was gathered that the mother of ...

The deadly coronavirus could be spreading through farts, according to doctors. But farts are unlikely to transmit the virus provided pants are worn. Tests carried out have shown that the virus was present in the faeces of more than half ...

The President of the Nigerian football body has said the Federation will help the country’s fight against Covid-19. Amaju Pinnick disclosed the NFF has been doing a lot behind the scenes after the Ministry of Youth and Sports Development released ...

A police chief in the US has been suspended after allegedly saying his colleague died from coronavirus ‘because he was gay’. Dan Engle, based in Davie, Florida, stands accused of making the comments after Deputy Shannon Bennett sadly died from ...

Nigerian Olympic silver medalist, Blessing Okagbare has filed for divorce from her husband, former Super Eagles player, Igho Otegheri. This is coming after a stint of marital crisis. Blessing and Igho became husband and wife in Sapele, Delta State in ...

  Good Morning Britain fans were in tears yesterday at the sight of a 99-year-old war veteran who is raising funds for the NHS by marching around his garden. But they were astonished when host Piers Morgan announced that he ...

A 16-year-old girl has died after falling from an eighth-floor balcony in south-east London, police have said. Officers were called to Thurston Road, in Lewisham, shortly after 2pm on Easter Sunday following reports that a person had fallen from a ...

The Kwara Police Command on Tuesday warned residents in all the 16 LGAs to desist from walking around during the lockdown ordered by the state government. The command’s Public Relations Officer, Mr Samuel Okasanmi, gave the warning in an interview ...

The European Union has given Nigeria a grant of €50 million to fight COVID-19, President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman Femi Adesina said on Tuesday. The grant was announced by the Head of EU delegation in Nigeria, Ambassador Ketil Karlsen, at a ...

A convicted paedophile has died after contracting coronavirus in jail. Leslie Pieroni, 51, died on Thursday – six days after he fell ill at Cook County Jail in Chicago, US. Pieroni had been held in custody in December 2018 for ...

Sosoliso Airline owner Victor Ikwuemesi has died of Coronavirus. Mr Victor Ikwuemesi, the Chairman of the defunct Sosoliso Airline died today in London, United Kingdom few days after he was diagnosed of coronavirus. A source close to the family said ...

A 93-year-old woman has won hearts online after making a rather spirited appeal for help. As a pensioner and vulnerable to coronavirus, Olive Veronesi is staying in her Pennsylvania home around the clock. But due to warnings that elderly people ...

A couple were caught having s.e.x just a stone’s throw away from Buckingham Palace amid the Coronavirus lockdown. According to The Sun, the couple were seen having s.e.x in London’s sun-soaked St James’s Park, just metres away from Birdcage Walk, ...

Following the upsurge in criminal activities in some communities in Lagos and Ogun states, the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the immediate deployment of additional intelligence and operatives to strengthen security and bolster public confidence in the affected ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria says interested stakeholders must meet its set criteria to access its N50bn intervention loans for small and medium scale enterprises. The CBN introduced the N50bn Targeted Credit Facility as a stimulus package to support households ...

Billionaire Bill Gates says life may not return to normal for 18 months following the coronavirus pandemic. The Microsoft founder said the crisis is “unprecedented” and is proving “very tough” – but a vaccine will bring the ordeal to an ...

No fewer than 10 Nigerians, out of the 40 persons subjected to the mandatory COVID-19 test for those who registered in the United Kingdom to return home, have tested positive. The results of the tests, which were released on Monday ...

The first lady of Kaduna State, Hadiza El-Rufai has chastised her son, Bello, for allegedly, in his tweets, threatened to r.a.p.e the mother of a twitter user. Mrs El-Rufai, who was earlier attacked for taking side with her son on ...

A woman has shared her experience of s.e.x in lockdown with the world in a magazine – and it’s not what you might expect. The woman submitted her story to Slate Magazine as part of their “ Coronavirus Diaries” series. ...

A police force has come up with a unique way of reminding citizens of the importance of social distancing, dressing up as the coronavirus itself. In bizarre footage shared earlier this week, two uniformed officers disguised themselves as the deadly ...