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A Saudi cleric has told women it is okay to refuse to have s.e.x with their husbands during the coronavirus outbreak. Religious scholar Abdullah Muhammad Al-Mutlaq, an adviser at the Saudi royal court, gave the advice while appearing on a ...

The Consul General of Nigeria in New York, Mr Benaoyagha Okoyen, has confirmed the death of three Nigerians from the coronavirus disease in the United States. Okoyen made the announcement in a statement. He said one of them, a doctor ...

South Sudan reported its first coronavirus case today, one of the last African nations to confirm the presence of COVID-19 within its borders. “South Sudan confirms one case of coronavirus,” Riek Machar, the country’s first vice president, told a press ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says another coronavirus patient has died in the country, bringing the number of deaths recorded so far to five. The NCDC announced this on its Twitter handle today but did not give details of ...

The Federal Capital Territory Administration FCTA has commenced the decontamination of the city as part of measures to contain the spread of the Novel Coronavirus. Minister of State in the FCT, Dr Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, who flagged off the exercise ...

Many churches witnessed low worshippers for the Palm Sunday service in Awka, the Anambra capital with most of them visited maintaining the required social distance of two meters for safety. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports on Sunday in Awka ...

Officers of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, have arrested three robbery suspects at Toyota Bus Stop, Oshodi area of Lagos. The suspects, Abass Bashiru (27), Hakeem Jimoh (23) and Mustapha Balogun (25) were arrested for attacking and dispossessing a road ...

Jay-Z and Meek Mill announced they were forming a criminal justice reform organization last year. Now, to protect staff and inmates from the coronavirus pandemic, the organization sent nearly 100,000 surgical masks to prisons and jails across the United States ...

Premier League football grounds could be turned into auxiliary hospitals to aid the fight against coronavirus. A number of top-flight clubs have virtually handed over their stadiums to the NHS, with football suspended and the pandemic continuing to surge. Over ...

A man in central Russia shot and killed five people for talking noisily at night under his windows, investigators said on Sunday. The shootings took place in the Ryazan region during stay-at-home orders aimed at slowing the spread of the ...

Eleven people were killed and four injured in an accidental explosion at a Colombian coal mine in Cucunuba, near Bogota, on Saturday, according to the local fire department. The victims were miners who were working despite the health emergency caused ...

Dubai imposed a two-week lockdown Saturday night and Saudi Arabia sealed off parts of the Red Sea city of Jeddah as Gulf states tightened measures in big cities to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Dubai had been under an ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) this morning confirmed 10 new cases of coronavirus. Six cases were confirmed  in Lagos, two cases confirmed in the FCT, two  in Edo. Two new deaths have been recorded in Lagos and Edo ...

An experimental HIV drug that has been used to successfully treat COVID-19 patients is in its second phase of testing with the Food and Drug Administration and could potentially be approved for use in four weeks, its manufacturer says. Leronlimab, ...

Workers at the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Edo State, are in fear after two doctors tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday. It was gathered that the two affected doctors worked at the facility’s Pathology and Obstetrics and Gynecology departments. A ...

The House of Representatives is to consider a fresh Stimulus Bill that will ensure that Nigerians get free electricity supply for two months to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Speaker Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila has said. The Speaker said ...

Malawi’s President Peter Mutharika said Saturday he was taking a wage cut to help fund the fight against the coronavirus, and ordered his government to the same. Mutharika said in a statement he had ordered the treasury to cut his ...

From one end of Lagos to the other, funeral home operators, casket makers and mortuary attendants have the same story: ‘COVID-19 has locked us out of business,’ As public and private cemeteries in Lagos suspend burial activities in compliance with ...

A new study has adduced reasons why people may have to wear face masks whenever they are with others, especially in public places. The researchers state that COVID-19 could be spread through mere breathing and not just by large droplets ...

Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun has expressed shock over a N950 donation made by a nine-year-old girl, Oluwashikemi Ogunleye, to the designated state government’s account to fight against coronavirus in the state. Abiodun said he was thrilled by the small ...

5G phone masts are being set alight in the UK after online conspiracy theories have misleadingly linked the cell towers to the coronavirus pandemic. The BBC reports that at least three towers were set alight last week, and police and ...

The Nigerian Military through the Air Task Force of Operation LAFIYA DOLE and Artillery Batteries of Sector 3 of the Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF) has destroyed an Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) camp at Tumbun Fulani on ...

Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, has donated cash and foodstuffs worth N160million to the less privileged and the needy to cushion the effect of the lockdown triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. The ...

Three students abducted along Birnin Gwari-Kaduna highway sometime in March have regained freedom. The students were abducted on their way from Kaduna after they had written Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. The teenagers were released alongside a toddler who was also ...

Egypt’s main cancer treatment facility has 17 cases of the novel coronavirus among its medical staff, an educational institute said on Saturday, sparking fears of exposure among vulnerable patients. Cairo University, with which the National Cancer Institute (NCI) is affiliated, ...