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Kaduna State has recorded a new case of COVID-19, bringing the total number of confirmed positive cases in the state to five. In a statement issued on Monday by the Commissioner for Health, Dr Amina Baloni, the state sent samples ...

Kwara State has recorded two cases of COVID-19 (coronavirus). Mr Rafiu Ajakaye, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor confirmed this in a statement on Monday. “One is the wife of the UITH patient, a UK returnee, who died last Thursday ...

Two more coronavirus (COVID-19) patients have been discharged in Lagos State. The state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, announced this in a tweet on Monday, bringing the total number of people that have been discharged in the state to 31. He explained ...

The killers of Mrs. Funke Olakunrin, daughter of Afenifere leader, Chief Reuben Fasoranti, have been arrested by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS. This is coming nine months after her brutal murder, It was reliably gathered that three out ...

Edo Government says it has recorded two new cases of coronavirus making a total of 11 confirmed cases in the state. The state’s Commissioner for Health, Dr Patrick Okundia, disclosed this while addressing newsmen in Benin on Monday. “The fight ...

Ethiopia’s ministry of health has announced the country’s first deaths as a result of Covid-19, the respiratory illness caused by coronavirus. The two deaths were announced one hour apart by Health Minister Lia Tadesse. Dr Lia said the first victim, ...

Scotland’s chief medical officer resigned Sunday after two consecutive weekend trips to her summer home — violating her own advice to stay home during the coronavirus outbreak. Catherine Calderwood announced her departure in a statement after conferring with Scotland’s First ...

The UK coronavirus death toll has today broken the 5,000-mark after 403 died in England alone. NHS England confirmed the latest victims were aged between 35  and 106 – with 15 having no underlying health conditions. In Scotland, two further ...

A dad has warned people to stay home after his one-year-old son started suffering from Covid-19 symptoms after a singular trip to Tesco. Peter Jones explained how his son is in hospital recovering from a coronavirus infection, with the family ...

Different countries have been evacuating their citizens from Nigeria and now, the Canadian Government are also doing the same. Photos here  show the citizens waiting at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja to return return to the country.    

Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State has directed workers in the state’s civil service to resume work on Monday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the government had earlier directed workers to stay at home as part of ...

Some suspected hoodlums have carted away bags of garri from the Bayelsa State Emergency Management Agency’s warehouse at Igbogene, Yenagoa, that are being distributed as relief materials to cushion the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. It was gathered that the ...

The Ogun State Police Command has refuted the claim that the death of the Divisional Police Officer, Ibara Police Station, Abeokuta, Olusegun Dada, is in connection with the arrest of a masquerader. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, ...

The Abia State Government has expressed sadness over the death of a medical doctor from Abia State who died in the United States. Dr Caleb Anya is among three Nigerians confirmed to have died of Coronavirus in America. In a ...

A group of Lebanese in Kano State have donated food items and other essentials worth over One Hundred Million Naira (N100m) as their contribution to the state palliative programme to the poor in the population as the world battles the ...

Seven people were killed when two suicide bombers, suspected to be members of Boko Haram jihadist group, attacked a village in northern Cameroon on Sunday, police and a local official said. “Two Boko Haram bombers blew themselves up at around ...

Bodies are being left to rot on the side of road as officials struggle to cope with coronavirus deaths in an Ecuadorian city. At least 150 corpses were left on the street or kept in the homes of grieving relatives ...

More reactions have continued to trail the Federal Government’s decision to invite medical doctors from China to assist in managing COVID-19 cases in the country. The latest of such reactions is coming from the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) who described ...

A somber mood has engulfed Ikoli Village in Malava Constituency, Kakamega County, Kenya after a 25-year-old woman killed her 36-year-old husband before attempting suicide. Joy Indeche fatally stabbed Bryan Indimuli multiple times in the stomach before turning the kitchen knife ...

Abia Police command has arrested two policemen in Ikwuano and Isiala Ngwa North LGAs for contravening the Inspector General of Police, IGP’s guidelines on lockdown enforcement in some states due to coronavirus outbreak. The Abia Police Commis-sioner, Ene Okon who ...

Police have warned they will fine and arrest anyone caught breaking the coronavirus lockdown guidelines as Britain is set to enjoy a mini heatwave. Parents of teens and young adults who are caught breaking the rules could also be slapped ...

A pensioner is believed to have stabbed his wife before killing himself amid the coronavirus lockdown, an inquest heard. Alan Smith, 71, and his wife Elsie were found dead in their home in Barrington, near Cambridge, after being called by ...

China’s first official confirmed coronavirus victim may have caught the deadly disease late last year, official government data shows. According to the report seen by the South China Morning Post, the first patient to suffer from Covid-19 was recorded on ...

Residents in a working-class district of the Ivory Coast city of Abidjan on Sunday destroyed a coronavirus testing centre that was under construction, police and health ministry officials said. Videos posted on social media, showed several dozen people dismantling the ...

The Federal Government has set machinery into motion to evacuate willing Nigerians from the United States of America (USA) over the COVID-19 pandemic. In a memo titled evacuation of Nigerians from the US by the Consulate General of Nigeria, Nigerians ...