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A city in China has banned its residents from eating dog and cat meat with a groundbreaking new law in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Animal activists have demanded the Chinese government prohibit the consumption of pets for ...

Thailand’s controversial king has been self-isolating in a luxury hotel in the Alpine resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen with his entourage. King Maha Vajiralongkorn, also known as Rama X, is said to have booked out the entire Grand Hotel Sonnenbichl after ...

A six-week-old infant has died of complications relating to COVID-19, the governor of the US state of Connecticut said Wednesday, in one of the youngest recorded deaths from the virus. Governor Ned Lamont tweeted that the newborn was “brought unresponsive ...

The Lagos State COVID-19 Taskforce, mandated by the State Government to monitor and enforce compliance against public gatherings exceeding 25 people, was on Tuesday attacked by some Muslim worshippers at the Agege Central Mosque. Speaking on the incident, the General ...

Point of Sale transactions recorded 175,911 failure rate or 15.55 per cent of total transactions on Tuesday, as the movement restriction directive of the Federal Government commenced. According to the live PoS report of the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement Plc on ...

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors has confirmed the death of one of its members from Lassa fever. President of the Association, Aliyu Sokomba told Channels Television that the medical doctor who worked in Benue state, died today at the ...

Nigeria has recorded 23 new cases of Covid-19. This brings the total number of confirmed cases to 174. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control confirmed this night announced the new cases. Of the new cases, 9 are in Lagos, 7 ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has launched a WhatsApp service to engage Nigerians on how to curtail the spread of coronavirus, COVID-19, in the country. Announcing the development in a tweet on Sunday, the health agency explained that ...

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 12 new cases of Coronavirus, with total number of cases in the country rising to 151. According to NCDC, the new cases were discovered in Osun, Edo and in Ekiti States respectively. ...

An actor and dialect coach who appeared in Star Wars and worked with A-list celebrities has died after contracting Covid-19, his agent has said. Andrew Jack, 76, died in a Surrey hospital on Tuesday. Agent Jill McCullough said she had ...

The UK coronavirus death rate has today jumped by 563 to 2,352. Britain’s positive Covid-19 cases have also risen – with 29,474 infected people – up from 25,150 yesterday. The Department of Health today confirmed the number of deaths in ...

Alfa Sa’adu, a medical doctor of Nigerian origin who lives in the United Kingdom, has died of the coronavirus. Sa’adu, 68, who is also the galadima of Pategi in Kwara State, died of complications from the disease on Tuesday. Aisha ...

A man who bonded out of jail went home to find his girlfriend sleeping with her lover, so he allegedly killed them both, according to police. Kenyatta Bellamy, 50, left jail on Tuesday after spending a year behind bars for ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has donated three ventilators to two General hospitals to support the Federal Government’s fight against Coronavirus in the country. The board disclosed this in a statement, signed by Dr Fabian Benjamin, Head of ...

The drug for the treatment of the dreaded coronavirus will be ready soon if the testing of the vaccine is completed. The assurance was given by the Chairman of the Imo State Taskforce on COVID-19, Prof. Maurice Iwu in Owerri ...

A call has gone to well-meaning individuals in the country, as well as, corporate organisations to support the government in its efforts at combating the prevalent coronavirus pandemic, as government alone cannot provide the wherewithal to tackle the disease. Ogun ...

Bauchi residents are rushing to stock food items and other essential products barely some hours to the total lockdown of the state. The state government announced that effective Thursday night, movement into and out of the state would be restricted ...

Co-founder and CEO of iROKOtv, Jason Njoku has revealed on social media how his 73-year old mom miraculously survived coronavirus. Writing on twitter, he explained how he felt during her ordeal, but grateful she is back home from the hospital. ...

The Kaduna State government on Tuesday withdrew the licence of Liberation College Tirkania over the alleged r.a.p.e of a nine-year old pupil by the proprietor, Mr Samuel Ejikeme. Commissioner for Education, Dr Shehu Makarfi said in a statement that the ...

Every April 1 is celebrated as April Fools’ Day but this year some countries have warned their citizens against making April Fool’s Day pranks that are related to coronavirus. Countries like Thailand and India threaten jail time for those who ...

Criticism has trailed a clergyman who is selling a small bottle of oil and a piece of red yarm as ‘protection kits against coronavirus.’ The faith healer identified as Bishop Climate Wiseman, head of the Kingdom Church in Camberwell, south ...

A Kashmiri villager faked his death and travelled more than a hundred miles in an ambulance with four others in a desperate bid to circumvent India’s virus lockdown and return home, police said on Wednesday. Hakim Din was being treated ...

  Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday he “cannot” declare a nationwide lockdown even in the face of a spike in the number of confirmed coronavirus infections. “If I’m asked whether we can impose a lockdown like France, ...

Piers Morgan has revealed that his youngest son Albert, 19, has shown ‘mild symptoms’ of coronavirus. Piers who shares Albert, Spencer, 26, and Stanley, 22, with his ex-wife Marion Shalloe and also has an eight-year-old daughter, Elise, with wife Celia ...

Despite lockdown, tragedy struck in Lagos on Tuesday as Dangote Cement silo truck crushed six persons to death after Epe Long bridge, Epe area of Lagos. Director-General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, Dr. Femi Oke-Osanyintolu confirmed that six people ...