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Images have emerged of coffins being buried in a mass grave in New York City, as the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak continues to rise. Workers in hazmat outfits were seen using a ladder to descend into a huge ...

The Katsina State Government has lifted suspension of Sunday Church service in the state with immediate effect, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Mustapha Inuwa, announced this in a statement made available ...

A man who may have suspected his wife was having an affair killed her and their two sons before turning the gun on himself, cops say. Florida cops found four people dead after responding to a 911 call at the ...

The United States threatened to cut off Beijing-controlled China Telecom from serving the US market because of legal and security risks, the Justice Department announced  onThursday. A recommendation by the government’s top departments, including Defense, State and Homeland Security, said ...

Zambia’s broadcasting body on Thursday revoked the licence of a private TV station after it refused to air public messages about coronavirus. Prime Television, a popular pro-opposition channel, told authorities last month that it would not air information about COVID-19 ...

Facebook says it is expanding its coronavirus Information Centre to Nigeria and 16 other countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The information centres, according to a statement from Facebook, is part of its effort to help the global fight against COVID-19. It ...

Lagos Airport Hotel was gutted by fire last night. Firefighters and other emergency responders were said to have battled the fire till late into the night. The public Affairs Officer of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Nosa Okunbor, ...

As a result of the Coronavirus pandemic, over 1,000 Nigerians in the United States and other European countries have applied to the Federal Government to facilitate their return to the country. The government has given two conditions to be met. ...

A father-of-two who killed his partner during a row on a date night has been jailed for five years. Lloyd Birkby, 27, of Langdale Street, Elland, admitted the manslaughter of 26-year-old Levi Ogden, who died during a night out in ...

A Woman with a rare condition that causes persistent genital arousal was left so sore she couldn’t have sexx with her husband for months. In December 2012 Lior Ofir Schwartz, 28, from Miami Beach, Florida began feeling constantly aroused without ...

Ondo State, Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has given Christians the go-ahead to celebrate Easter but noted that the ban on religious gathering is still in force. Akeredolu made this known in a statement signed by the Commissioner for Information, Donald Ojogo. ...

The police in Lagos have arrested 202 residents of the state for flouting the lockdown order aimed at checkmating the spread of Coronavirus pandemic. Bala Elkana, Lagos State Police Command’s spokesman said police officers on enforcement of restriction of movements ...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Thursday disclosed that seven more Coronavirus patients have been discharged by the state after testing negative twice. This brings to 39, the total number of Coronavirus patients so far discharged by the State since ...

The Kwara State Government has announced a total lock down of the entire sixteen local government areas until further notice. The Chairman, Technical Committee on COVID-19 and the Deputy Governor of the State, Kayode Alabi, announced this while addressing journalists ...

One hundred Italian doctors have died of the novel coronavirus since the pandemic reached the Mediterranean country in February, Italy’s FNOMCeO health association said on Thursday. “The number of doctors who have died because of COVID-19 is 100 — perhaps ...

Two sisters aged four and two were blasted to death with a shotgun alongside their parents in a suspected murder-suicide during the coronavirus lockdown, a coroner heard. Ava Needham, four, and two-year-old Lexi Needham were found dead with parents Robert ...

Residents of Jos North and Jos South Local Government Areas of Plateau state have trooped out enmasse to buy food items and other essential commodities ahead of the total lockdown declared by the state government which comes into effect from ...

As the number of confirmed positive cases of the novel coronavirus rises in Lagos state, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Thursday said the State Government would commence a door-to-door search tagged: ‘Active Case Search’. The governor, who disclosed this on his ...

An eBay user has listed a rare £2 coin on eBay for a staggering £1million after finding it in their car. Unfamiliar with the design on the piece, they took the coin to a local expert to see if it ...

Africa faces devastating collapse unless the coronavirus is brought under control on the continent, UN experts have have warned. So far the continent has been spared the impact of Covid-19 that the rest of the world has experienced – but ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has pardoned 2,600 prisoners nationwide. Seventy of those pardoned are in Kuje Custodial Centre in Abuja, said Interior Minister Rauf Aregbesola. They were made up of 41 Federal inmates and 29 FCT inmates. Five former inmates were ...

A couple in India has named their newbown baby son ‘Lockdown’ in a nod to the coronavirus pandemic. The boy was born in Bacheri village in the Sheopur district of central India, during the country’s 21-day strict lockdown. When staff ...

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has lifted the social distancing order imposed to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) on religious congregations in mosques and churches across the state. Bello, in a statement issued in Lokoja today, ...

A Mexican mayor has been shot dead by gangs after he blocked roads to his town to stop the spread of coronavirus, local media say. Obed Duron Gomez, the Mayor of Mahahual was reportedly shot whilst travelling to the community ...

A Magistrates’ Court sitting in the Yaba area of Lagos State has sentenced 51 persons for violating the lockdown and the social distancing directives of the Lagos State Government. The offenders were sentenced to a one-month community service. Chief Magistrate ...