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Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said that the ongoing lockdown in the state might be extended beyond 14 days. He said this during a media briefing on today. He said the lockdown would be extended depending on the situation ...

Britain today reported a record 708 daily deaths from COVID-19, including a five-year-old child, who is thought to be the country’s youngest victim. The health ministry said 4,313 people who tested positive for the virus in the hospital had died ...

Two people have been killed and four others injured in a knife attack in the southeastern French town of Romans-sur-Isère, the town’s mayor has said. The attack took place on Saturday morning outside a bakery where customers had queued, according ...

The Adamawa State Chairman of National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), Alhaji Hammanjolde Gatugel, has been abducted by suspected kidnappers. Hammanjolde Gatugel was taken away in the early hours of Saturday, at 12:50 am, from his residence in Mayo-Belwa, ...

The Enugu State commissioner for Health, Professor Anthony Ugochukwu, is dead. The renowned surgeon was said to have died Friday night at a leading private hospital, Memphys Hospital Enugu. The development was confirmed by the House member representing his constituency, ...

Spain recorded a second successive daily drop in coronavirus-related deaths with 809 fatalities, official figures showed on Saturday. The total number of deaths in Spain now stands at 11,744, second only to Italy. A record 950 people died on Thursday. ...

 Former Barcelona and Spain star Xavi Hernandez and his wife have donated one million euros ($1.08 million) to the city’s Hospital Clinic to help the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. “Xavi Hernandez and Nuria Cunillera have made a donation of ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says it committed an error in announcing confirmed cases of coronavirus in the country. It said that the total number of cases in Nigeria as of 10.30 pm on Friday is 209 and not ...

The missing COVID-19 patient in Osun state, has been apprehended by the police and returned to the Isolation facility in Ejigbo, area of the State on Saturday. The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Ismail Omipidan confirmed this to ...

There was a pin-drop silence in the room where only five of us sat; two men and three women. One of the women was her aunt who also doubles as her mother from age three when she lost her biological ...

Amid lockdown occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic, residents of Aiyetoro community in Ajegunle, in the Ajeromi Ifelodun Local Government Area of Lagos State are living in fear of hoodlums popularly known as Awala Boys. The thugs who belong to different ...

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has made another donation of N20 million to Osun State government to support its effort to cushion the effect of coronavirus (COVID-19) on Osun residents. As ...

The Nigerian Army has arrested two soldiers seen in a viral video threatening to molest women in the Warri area of Delta State and using uncouth and uncivilised language. The two soldiers were arrested by 9 Brigade, Ikeja Military Cantonment, ...

A Nigerian woman has delivered a bouncing baby boy after 14 years of marriage. She delivered the baby boy during this lockdown period. A Facebook user who is very happy for them shared the good news while thanking God and ...

Women rights groups, including 283 organisations, have urged the Federal Government to prepare for the likely surge in cases of sexual and gender-based violence resulting from the coronavirus lockdown. The President General Muhammadu Buhari had, on March 29, ordered the ...

  President Donald Trump said Friday his administration was now recommending Americans wear “non-medical cloth” face coverings, a reversal of previous guidance that suggested masks were unnecessary for people who weren’t sick. Trump said the recommendations, which came after a ...

  Amir Khan defied the Government’s strict rules on social distancing rules last night as he hosted a party for five of his friends. The boxer enjoyed a cosy takeaway curry at his home in Bolton and videoed the  gathering ...

The entire Abena community in Doma Local Government Area, Nasarawa State, is in mourning mood since a housewife, Rosemary Osegba Chem, hacked her mother-in-law, Mrs Ashi Chem, to death over the latter’s alleged undue interference in the former’s marriage. Sensing ...

Osun State residents panic as six persons who tested positive escaped from isolation centre at Gedu in Ejigbo area of the state. According to an unofficial public announcement the state has launch manhunt for the six persons who escaped from ...

China held three minutes of silence during Tomb Sweeping Day on Saturday for people who have died in the COVID-19 outbreak. During the national mourning event, national flags across China and at Chinese embassies and consulates abroad were lowered to ...

Six suspects dealing in cocaine and rohypnol in the Federal Capital Territory have been arrested by operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team. Cocaine weighing about 15 grams and 300 sachets of rohypnol (popularly called refnol) were said ...

China will on Saturday hold a national mourning for martyrs who died in the fight against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak and compatriots who died of the disease, according to the State Council. During the commemoration, national flags will ...

South African public healthcare workers dispersed into the buzzing streets of Johannesburg’s Yeoville neighbourhood on Friday as Africa’s worst virus-hit country rolled out mass door-to-door testing for COVID-19. Armed with screening questionnaires and testing kits, medics and volunteers set up ...

A 55-year-old man who was admitted to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, has died in the facility. A reliable source at the tertiary hospital said the man died of COVID-19 complications. The source said the hospital discovered that the ...

A lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Richard Akindele, jailed for se,xu,al harassment has been released from prison after serving a two-year term. The Cable, an online newspaper, reports that Akindele, a professor of management accounting, was ...