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Poland held a scaled-back memorial on Friday for the air crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski and dozens of others in Russia a decade ago, amid a lockdown to control coronavirus. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called for a show of ...

The World Health Organisation says that viruses cannot travel on radio waves or mobile networks, saying COVID-19 is a respiratory disease. WHO through a statement on Friday, debunked the myth, adding that COVID-19 was spread through respiratory droplets when an ...

The minister of health, Osagie Ehanire says he is not aware if medical doctors and other health practitioners managing COVID-19 patients in Nigeria are paid any hazard allowance. Ehanire, who met with the leadership of the national assembly in Abuja ...

A “massive street party” of 30 to 40 people outside a house in Manchester was shut down by police after they flouted social distancing rules during coronavirus lockdown. Bodycam footage taken by Greater Manchester Police shows a police officer walking ...

The Federal Government has summoned the Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Zhou Pingjian over reports of maltreatment in China. Nigerians in China who had travelled there for business purposes a few days before the federal government announced a lockdown are ...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been moved out of intensive care but remains in hospital, Downing Street has said. Mr Johnson has been receiving treatment for coronavirus at St Thomas’ Hospital in London since Sunday. No 10 said he “has ...

A nurse has been kicked out of her rented flat by a heartless landlord after she caught coronavirus while saving lives. Clara Serrano, 31, says she was told to leave the flat in Madrid, Spain, on the same day she ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has charged Nigerians, especially Christians, to imbibe the Christ-like quality of personal sacrifice for the sake of achieving greater good. President Buhari gave the charge Friday morning in his Easter message to Nigerians, encouraging all citizens to ...

Popular Ghanaian TV station, GHOne TV last night, accidentally aired a hardcore p.o.r.n on live tv. The explicit content was showed during the station’s broadcast of relationship and s.e.x talk show, DUVET, which aired at about the same time President ...

The enforcement team of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Administration on the restriction of movement with regards to controlling the spread of COVID-19 has apprehended a man who has been violating the lockdown with a fake Exemption Pass. He was ...

Hungary on Friday recorded its biggest daily rise of coronavirus cases ravaging the country. The confirmed coronavirus cases have increased from 210 to 1,190, the single largest daily increase since the outbreak of the virus in the country. According to ...

Federal Capital Territory FCT Administration has increased the daily hazard allowances of medical doctors to ₦50, 000, even as it said it was targeting 600,000 residents for its Palliatives. At a news conference in Abuja, FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa ...

  A fire outbreak at the Ikeja Airport Hotel has led to the destruction of three vehicles within the premises of the hotel. According to the Director General of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Olufemi Damilola Oke-Osanyintolu, the ...

A man nearly lost his eyesight after getting savaged by a Black Widow spider while asleep in his home. Nicholas Cook, 30, from Denver, Colorado woke up to a burning sensation on his face and was shocked to find two ...

The Federal Government has released a list of Nigerians who died of coronavirus abroad since the outbreak started some four months ago. Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, made this known on Thursday evening via a video containing the ...

The Federal Government insisted yesterday that the Chinese medical experts who arrived the country on Wednesday to assist it in its efforts to combat coronavirus disease in the country would not be involved in the treatment of patients. It reiterated ...

Popular artiste, Afeez Fashola also known as Naira Marley has given an undertaking that he will join the Lagos State government’s campaign against the spread of COVID-19 by making a free audio-visual publication. He made the undertaking in a letter ...

A 43-year-old man, Joshua Abraham, has been arrested by policemen in Ogun State for allegedly stealing his neighbour’s baby placenta. The suspect was alleged to have gone to the hospital, where the baby was delivered, and claimed to be the ...

The Anglican Bishop of Aguata Diocese in Anambra State, Right Reverend Samuel Ezeofor, has faulted the decision to shut down churches in the name of fighting the coronavirus pandemic, arguing that the ideal thing would have been to ask churches ...

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 ...