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A preliminary study has found correlations between blood type and the likelihood of being hospitalised with COVID-19, which has infected 25,066 people worldwide, according to an AFP tally. Researchers at the Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China, conducted ...

There was pandemonium at the Gbagada General Hospital, Lagos, on Thursday when four white men suspected to have coronavirus were brought to the emergency ward of the hospital for treatment. According to sources at the hospital, the men said to ...

No fewer than 41 guests and workers of a hotel in Owerri, the Imo State capital have been quarantined by the State Government following a suspected case of COVID-19. The hotel, identified as Fancy Hotel, is situated at Road 7, ...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and 33 of its partners in the oil and gas sector have contributed $30 million, about ₦11.4 billion to curb the coronavirus pandemic and reduce its effects on the Nigerian economy and populace. The NNPC’s ...

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has said Nigeria’s health care system cannot withstand a coronavirus pandemic on the scale of America and Europe. He, therefore, called on the government and the citizens to do everything to curb the spread of the virus. ...

The Aliko Dangote Foundation has donated four ambulances to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control to aid its fight against COVID-19 spread in the country. The centre on saturday wrote on its website that it was grateful to the billionaire ...

South African police enforcing a coronavirus lockdown on Saturday fired rubber bullets towards hundreds of shoppers queueing outside a supermarket in Johannesburg, an AFP photographer said. Between 200 and 300 people gathered outside a popular grocery store, Shoprite, early Saturday ...

  Some angry mob has reportedly set a police station ablaze in the home state of President Muhammadu Buhari Katsina State. it was gathered that the police had blocked them from observing the weekly Friday Jumat prayer. The police were ...

Following the recommendation of the state’s inter-ministerial committee on COVID-19 based on situational reviews, Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, has approved the closure of all the state’s land borders with effect from 4am on Sunday, 29th March, 2020. The ...

Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai has tested positive for coronavirus. “Earlier this week, I submitted a sample for the Covid-19 test,” El-Rufai said in a video posted on Twitter. “The result came in this evening, and I regret to say ...

Two clerics have been arrested in Kaduna State for conducting congregational prayers. The state government announced this via Twitter on Saturday, noting that their action was in violation of the State public health preventive measures against the COVID-19. According to ...

The Lagos State Government has suspended its earlier decision to close Marine Bridge for six months for repair, following the swelling cases of COVID-19 in the state. The Public Affairs Unit of the State Ministry of Transportation (MOT) had announced ...

The late proprietor of Bethlehem Girls’ College, Rev Sis Henrietta Alokha, who died in the explosion that rocked Abule-Ado in the Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State, has been buried. The late Alokha, who was a member of ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced new cases of confirmed COVID-19. Nigeria now has 89 confirmed cases of the virus. NCDC, in a tweet, said seven of the new cases are in Lagos with one in Benue.

The (TRAWSO), Osun State on Friday offered rituals to the gods to wane the spread of coronavirus in the world especially Nigeria. A masquerader accompanied by some Ifa priests offered the propitiation in Osogbo, Osun state capital. The masquerader carrying ...

Princess Maria Teresa of Spain has died aged 86 after testing positive for coronavirus. The princess, of the Bourbon-Parma Royal Family in Spain, passed away yesterday her younger brother, Prince Sixtus Henry of Bourbon-Parma, announced. She was born in Paris, ...

  Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday, announced that his former residence at the Presidential Hilltop, Abeokuta, Ogun State be used as Isolation centre for victims of the dreaded Coronavirus disease.   Obasanjo said the 32-room facility has been ...

  The Lagos state Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has stated that there will no longer be any curfew in the state The curfew had been planned by the government to allow the fumigation exercise of public space. Relying on experts advice, ...

  A lady on Twitter, has stirred up controversy on the platform after she stated that the day her husband asks her to pay rent would be the day she would pack out of his house.   The lady identified ...

  Verdict: False CLAIM: A viral message being shared among Nigerians on WhatsApp and Twitter claims that the Federal Government is set to pay citizens N8,500 per week to sustain the stay at home directive for the containment of the ...

Governor Rotimi Akeredolu this morning visited the scene of a strange massive blast that rocked Akure, Ondo State capital overnight. The blast, which occurred on Akure-Owo Road, was suspected to be from a meteorite. Tweeting about the incident the Governor ...

Twenty three passengers of the Niger State Transport Authority, Minna, travelling to Katsina State have been kidnapped. Punch gathered that two of the abducted passengers have been released after their families paid a ransom. It was reliably gathered that the ...

Nigeria’s 43 cabinet ministers have donated 50 percent of their March salaries towards the federal government’s efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic, the Information Minister, Lai Mohammed, said on Saturday. According to Mohammed, the donation was coordinated by the Minister ...

The Lagos State Government will be closing down Jibowu and Yaba level crossing for the laying of track on the right side along the level crossings of the aforementioned. According to a Statement from the Lagos State Ministry of Transportation, ...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has ordered  a dusk-to-dawn curfew in the State starting from Sunday to allow the state to carry out a comprehensive disinfection. Sanwo-Olu, also announced that the state would shut its domestic airport. He said, “I ...