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Saudi authorities have seized more than five million medical masks that were illegally stockpiled amid the coronavirus outbreak, state media reported on Sunday. The commerce ministry seized 1.17 million masks from a private store in Hail, northwest of the capital, ...

ADDRESS BY H.E. MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA  ON THE COVID- 19 PANDEMIC SUNDAY 29TH MARCH, 2020 Fellow Nigerians, From the first signs that Coronavirus, or COVID-19 was turning into an epidemic and was officially declared ...

Boris Johnson’s sister-in-law has said she has also tested positive for Covid-19. Gabriela Maia, who is married to Boris’s financier half-brother, Max, said she is “still recovering from the virus with some respiratory difficulties”. The 30-year-old, who is pregnant, told ...

The provost and deputy provost of the University of Ibadan, UI, College of Medicine, Professors Ezekiel Olapade-Olaopa and Obafunke Denloye, have tested positive to Coronavirus. Olapade-Olaopa, who made this known in a Whatsapp group message on Sunday morning said: “Dear ...

A man has allegedly stabbed his pregnant wife to death two months after their wedding in Anambra. Rita Onyemauchechukwu Onyebuchi and her husband  Mr Ikechukwu popularly called “Agbada”, both from Anambra state, got married on January 10, 2020. The deceased ...

All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, is celebrating his 68th birthday today with a message on his “preliminary thoughts on the economic action”the country might take should coronavirus “mortally threaten” our economy. In the 9-point measures he ...

Experts have cautioned against turning to alcohol to cope with the coronavirus lockdown as it can have severe implications on mental and physical health. The European arm of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said relying on alcohol is an ...

Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti on Sunday announced a lockdown in the state, directing residents to stay at home from Monday. The governor in a broadcast imposed a ban on all commercial activities as well as intra state travels,, except ...

Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau, the wife of Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, has recovered from coronavirus. “I am feeling so much better and have received the all-clear from my physician and Ottawa Public Health,” she wrote on her Facebook page. “From the ...

President Muhammadu Buhari will address Nigerians by 7pm today. His Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, disclosed this in a statement. Many Nigerians have been eager to hear what the President has to say on the raging COVID-19 ...

  Is paternity testing becoming an issue in Nigeria? We have seen that there is serious need for it because in many homes things are happening that are scary both to the lives of children and their parents. And for ...

Officials in the state of Illinois, United States, on Saturday reported the first death of an infant linked to the coronavirus  pandemic. The younger than one-year-old baby in Chicago tested positive for virus known as COVID-19. “There has never before ...

  The Comptroller-General ofNigeria Immigration Service, Mohammed Babandede, has tested positive for Coronavirus(COVID-19), he told PREMIUM TIMES Sunday morning, joining a list of officials who have tested positive to the virus. “I tested positive for COVID-19,” said Mr Babandede in a ...

Prof Jesse A. Otegbayo, the chief medical doctor, University College Hospital, Ibadan UCH has tested positive for coronavirus. This was disclosed on Sunday morning in a statement signed by the CMD himself. The statement reads: “On Monday 23rd March, we ...

Ben Bruce’s wife Evelyn Murray-Bruce, who sadly died of cancer this month has been laid to rest. She was laid to rest in the presence of her husband, children and very close friends. Evelyn is survived by her husband, children ...

There was bloodbath at Whitesand, a community between Festac in Amuwo Odofin area of Lagos and Isheri-Oshun area , as hoodlums numbering over 50 , attacked some persons, last Thursday. As you read this piece, two persons who had their ...

  At least, one person lost his life on Saturday when a police station and the official quarters of a Divisional Police Officer were burnt down in Kusada, headquarters of Kusada Local Government Area of Katsina State. The riot was ...

The Lagos State Government has taken delivery of a new isolation and treatment centre as additional measures to handle the coronavirus pandemic. The 110-bed facility which is located within the Mobolaji Johnson Arena, formally Onikan Stadium in Lagos Island comes ...

The Federal Capital Territory enforcement team on Saturday disrupted a wedding reception at Police Quarters at Wuse Zone 6 in Abuja. It was learnt that the enforcement, acting on a tip-off, stormed the venue and “dispersed” the hosts and guests ...

University College Hospital, Ibadan, in Oyo State has written an open letter to “well-meaning groups and associations” appealing for funds to enable it to upscale its isolation centre in response to the wide-spreading coronavirus disease. The letter made public on ...

An infant in Illinois under the age of one has died after testing positive for coronavirus. ‘There has never been a case of COVID-19 death in an infant,’ said Illinois Public Health Director, Dr Ngozi Ezike. The child was among ...

The Zaria Zonal Command of Kaduna state Vigilante Service (KadVS) on Saturday arrested four bridegrooms for violating the ban on large gathering imposed by the state government. Malam Bala Galadima, Zaria Zonal Commandant of KadVS, told the News Agency of ...

The number of coronavirus cases in Nigeria hit 97 on Saturday evening with eight fresh cases, says the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. “As at 10:40 pm 28th March, there are 97 confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported in Nigeria with ...

Mali recorded its first coronavirus death on Saturday, a day before the West African country voted in a long-delayed parliamentary election threatened by both the pandemic and security concerns. The kidnapping of the leader of the main opposition party earlier ...

Osun State Government on Saturday said it had received and kept in isolation some indigenes of the state that recently returned from the Ivory Coast. The travellers, said to be about 120, arrived in the state on Friday and moved ...