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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 ...

The Federal Government has said Nigerians abroad, who wish to be evacuated, must test negative for coronavirus. This was contained in a form entitled: “COVID-19 Application Form for Nigerians who want to return home” on the website of the Nigerians ...

Two suspected cultists have allegedly shot dead a member of the Oodua People’s Congress in Ogun State, Kolawole Ajomale, in the presence of his pregnant wife. The suspects, identified as Korede Pariosho and Jide Afolabi, allegedly shot Ajomale in the ...

A group of U.S.-based small businesses has filed an $8 trillion lawsuit against China, alleging that the nation’s communist government knew as early as mid-November that COVID-19 was a new, deadly virus, but covered it up. TMZ reports: A group ...

South Africa has announced the death of five patients who were undergoing treatment for coronavirus, the highest to be reported in a day so far. The latest deaths were confirmed on Wednesday bringing the total number of deaths in the ...

Uganda has banned exercising in public as an extra measure towards controlling the spread of the coronavirus. President Yoweri Museveni said that Ugandans should exercise at home and added that he would post a video on social media to demonstrate ...

A dad has been fined after his son continued to flout the coronavirus lockdown regulations. West Midlands Police said the fixed penalty notice could be doubled and reach as much as £960 if the teenager continues to go outside without ...