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A vaccine for coronavirus could be ready as soon as September, a professor of vaccinology at Oxford University told the Times. Sarah Gilbert said she was “80% confident” the Covid-19 vaccine being developed by her team would fight the disease. ...

Another six Coronavirus patients have been discharged in Lagos after recovering and tested negative twice for the virus. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu disclosed this on Monday, saying that the six people discharged included five male and one female. According to Sanwo-Olu, ...

An Abuja driver has stripped and yelled saying hunger pass coronavirus, after he was stopped and asked why he was moving around during the lockdown. The man who initially ‘resisted’ arrested until police officers stepped in, quickly pulled off leaving ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday extended the lockdown of Lagos, Abuja and Ogun as a result of rising increase of deadly Coronavirus cases by 14 days. Full speech shortly…..

President Muhammadu Buhari will address Nigerians at 7pm today. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, made this known in a statement. Though the statement gave no hint on what the President would be speaking ...

Prince Harry appears to have dropped his royal surname in paperwork after leaving the UK with Megan Markle to live in the US. In documents for his latest venture, a new green travel company, Harry has used neither his HRH ...

Ghana will extend a lockdown on the country’s two main regions for one week to help contain the spread of coronavirus, the president said. President Nana Akufo-Addo said the two-week restriction on movement around the capital Accra and in the ...

Israel’s former chief rabbi Eliahou Bakshi-Doron, who was known for promoting interfaith dialogue, died Sunday of the new coronavirus, the Shaare Tzedek hospital in Jerusalem said. Bakshi-Doron, 79, was the Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel between 1993 and 2003. Born ...

Femi Fani-Kayode has sent out words to wife of Billionaire Bill Gates, saying her alleged death wish on Africa will not stand. Fani said Melinda was quoted to have said she sees dead bodies in the streets of Africa, something ...

A zebra gave birth to a rare zebra-donkey hybrid called a “zonkey” in a national park in Kenya, East Africa. The conservation group Sheldrick Wildlife Trust announced the foal’s birth at the Chyulu National Park in a statement on April ...

Eleven days ago, while Rilwanu Sadiq, a doctor in Bauchi, was away at work, he got a call that his son, Abubakar Sadiq, 15, had been abducted by unknown assailants. Mr Sadiq, who works at the Abubakar Tafawa University Teaching ...

Melinda Gates, wife of billionaire Bill Gates has warned that if the world does not act fast enough, then there will be dead bodies all over the streets of Africa. Mrs Gates raised this concerns while speaking to CNN, on  ...

Cops broke up a house party after claims a group of people were “drinking and partying” despite strict coronavirus lockdown rules. Almost two dozen officers and four paramedics were called to the mass gathering in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham. Neighbours saw ...

A doctor who warned Boris Johnson that frontline staff urgently needed more Personal Protective Equipment has died after being diagnosed with coronavirus. Dr Abdul Mabud Chowdhury has sadly died after spending 15 days in hospital. The 53-year-old was a locum ...

The police in Ikorodu, Lagos, on Sunday arrested a man who allegedly lured an eight-year-old girl with biscuits and defiled her. Police spokesman Bala Elkana said in a statement that the suspect, a father of two, lured the child into ...

Former First Lady Patience Jonathan has struck a deal to release her 200-bed hotel as COVID-19 Isolation and treatment centre. The Abuja hotel, which is believed to be worth about N2 billion, is under interim forfeiture secured by the Economic ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Sunday quoted Kwara State Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq as saying that the state has used the N263,327,800 recovered from looters to revive an oxygen plant and buy ventilators to contain the Coronavirus pandemic. ...

A grieving daughter died of a heart attack during her mum’s funeral following her death from coronavirus. Laura Richard’s family said the 32-year-old’s body must have just “given up on her” as she stood by the graveside at Atherstone Cemetery ...

  President Tayyip Erdogan rejected the resignation on Sunday of Turkey’s interior minister, who said he was stepping down in the wake of a short-notice coronavirus lockdown which sent people rushing to shops to stock up on supplies. Authorities declared ...

Lol. A group of ladies that have dated Anambra men shared their experience on social media over the weekend. According to them, it was a bitter, never-end well experiences. 90percent, if not 100percent of the women, however blamed Anambra mothers ...

Families of four among the confirmed positive cases of coronavirus in Bauchi State have said that they are missing their loved ones. Dajuma Adamu Barde, a sibling to one of the isolated patients, told Daily Trust that it was only ...

Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu has resigned. He resigned late Sunday, taking responsibility for a poorly timed announcement of a weekend coronavirus curfew that prompted thousands of people to rush into the streets. Soylu is one of the most senior ...

Two male teenagers: Dare, 16, and Fawas, 15, both residents of Epelemeje Orofun community in Akodo area of Ibeju-Lekki in Lagos State, were alleged to have drowned while swimming in the community beach during the COVID-19 lockdown. The Lagos State ...

A woman’s shop in Surulere, Lagos state has been vandalised due to the ongoing lockdown in the state. According to her neighbours who informed her, the shop was vandalised and 85percent of her goods were stolen. Twitter user, Timidayo Daniel ...

Police in Peru on Sunday arrested a Chinese citizen for illegally conducting rapid COVID-19 tests on the public with newly-delivered kits stolen from Peru’s health ministry. Tianxing Zhang, 36, was arrested in the Brena district of Lima as he was ...