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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Friday night confirmed twenty new cases of Coronavirus in the country. Eleven cases were confirmed  in Lagos, three cases confirmed in the FCT, 3 in Edo, twi in Osun and one in Ondo ...

American citizens who were scheduled to be evacuated from Nigeria through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos were yesterday stranded at the airport. The flight could not get clearance to fly over some countries whose airspace has been closed on ...

Some women in Federal Housing, Ado-Ekiti, on Friday said that the lockdown order, occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic, is taking its toll on them. They decried the sudden hike in prices of some food items and disruption of their petty ...

The State Chairman, Imo State Hoteliers Association, Chima Chukwunyere, has said that the figures of those quarantined at a hotel Umuguma, in Owerri, were 30 in number. Chukwunyere spoke in Owerri, on Friday, as he called on the Nigeria Centre ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has commended Nigeria’s response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Speaking during a virtual news briefing in New York, Guterres singled out Nigeria as one of the developing countries that have “shown a remarkable capacity to ...

Sergio Rossi, one of the most famous Italian shoe designers, has died of the coronavirus disease, an Italian official said today. Several Italian media reported that Rossi, who was born in 1935, died on Thursday in a hospital in Cesena ...

An entire family including eleven children have contracted COVID-19 in Spain and are under strict isolation in their home. The Cebrian Gervas family have been forced to lock themselves away in Valladolid in north-west Spain after every single one of ...

The death of a Chartered Accountant, Alhaji Jimoh Muideen, on Thursday night in University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITHC) who just returned from the United Kingdom where he had gone to attend the graduation ceremony of one of his children ...

Five Rwandan soldiers have been arrested after residents of a slum in the capital, Kigali, alleged that they r.a.p.e.d women as they enforced a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of Covid-19, the army has said. Residents of Nyarutarama have ...

The Federal Government has asked Governors to provide, at least, 300-bed space facilities in their respective state “in case of upsurge in the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic spreading across the country”. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, ...

The Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company Plc (IBEDC) says there will be no disconnection of electricity to non-paying customers during this period of lockdown in Coronavirus pandemic. Its Chief Operating Officer, Mr John Ayodele made this known in a statement issued ...

Spain, one of the countries worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic, has registered 932 new COVID-19 deaths within 24 hours, bringing the total to 10,935, the Health Ministry in Madrid announced on Friday. For the second day in a row, ...

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Adamawa State has trained and deployed 300 personnel across the state to sensitise and enforce compliance with directives issued by government. Speaking to journalists at the Command Headquarters in Yola, the ...

For 10 days after giving birth to her first child, the mother was not allowed near him after she tested positive for coronavirus, for fear of infecting her newborn. And even though she has since been reunited with her son, ...

A group of Kenyan pastors have asked the government to include churches in the list of “essential services” to allow them to remain open as the country battles the Covid-19 outbreak. The preachers representing churches in Makueni country in eastern ...

An Osun State High Court sitting in Ikirun, on Thursday, sentenced two men to death by hanging for killing one Rofiat Adebisi, who at the time of her death was a student of the Osun State University, Osogbo. Giving his ...

A motorist, identified as Joseph Pessu, was shot dead in Warri, Delta State, on Thursday, by a soldier for allegedly flouting the state government’s sit-at-home order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Eyewitnesses said the middle-aged motorist, who was ...

That epic brawl between the siblings left fans shocked when it was shown on Keeping Up With The Kardashians. But now, some eagle-eyed viewers have noticed evidence that proves just how vicious it was. Kim and Kourney were screaming at ...

The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Muhammed Babandede, says he is thankful to God for making him contract COVID-19. Babandede, who tested positive for the virus last week, said in a short video that the sickness had given him ...

The Minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed, says corpses of persons who tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) cannot be claimed for burial. He said such corpses would be handled by the ministry of health because they are contagious. He ...

The Lagos state government has announced the discharge of four coronavirus patients. Meanwhile, 18 patients had earlier been discharged, after making full recovery from the novel virus. With this development, Lagos state government has discharged 22 of its 98 confirmed ...

President Donald Trump said he has undergone a second coronavirus test on using a new diagnostic that produced a result in less than 15 minutes, and it determined he has not been infected. “I think I took it really out ...

An £12million private jet used by Lionel Messi has been forced to make an emergency landing at Brussels airport due to a fault with the plane. The Barcelona star’s favoured plane was making its way to Tenerife in the Canary ...

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, founder, Christ Embassy has warned that anyone who arrested a pastor in this Coronavirus period is in danger. He was speaking on reports that some pastors were arrested by government officials in a bid to enforce social ...

Boris Johnson has revealed he will remain in self-isolation as he is still suffering from a symptom of coronavirus. The prime minister entered self-isolation in 11 Downing Street for seven days last Thursday night after testing positive for COVID-19. However, ...