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The city in China where the coronavirus pandemic began, Wuhan, has partially re-opened after more than two months of isolation. Crowds of passengers arrived at Wuhan train station on Saturday. People are being allowed to enter but not leave, according ...

US Embassy and Consulate in Nigeria says it is preparing emergency flights to evacuate its citizens in Nigeria despite airport closures. This is not unconnected to the exploding coronavirus cases in Nigeria which stand at 81 on Saturday morning according ...

Former boxing world champion Amir Khan has become the latest sportsman to help in the fight against the coronavirus, offering his wedding venue for use by Britain’s National Health Service. Khan is ready to hand over the keys to the ...

A Heathrow worker and his pharmacist daughter died from Covid-19 in less than 24 hours. Sudhir Sharma, 61, died on Wednesday after contracting the coronavirus, the day before his 33-year-old daughter Pooja lost her battle with the disease. Speaking of ...

A US-based lab has unveiled a portable test that can tell if someone has COVID-19 in as little as five minutes, it said in a statement Friday. Abbot Laboratories said the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had given it ...

The World Health Organization has confirmed newspapers remain safe to read during the coronavirus pandemic. The WHO has stated that the likelihood of an infected person contaminating commercial goods is low, and therefore the risk of contracting COVID-19 through receipt ...

The Lagos State Government will be closing down Marine Bridge partially for repairs from 8.00 PM on Saturday March 28, 2020 to Saturday, August 15, 2020. A statement From the Ministry of Transportation disclosed that the construction works by the ...

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has imposed a dusk to dawn curfew as part of stringent measures to halt the spread of coronavirus pandemic in the state. The governor has also ordered the closure of markets except those selling ...

Chinese Government has donated medical equipment to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in support of the fight against COVID-19 in Nigeria. Ambassador to Nigeria, Zhuo Pingjian, while delivering the medical items at the ministry in Abuja, said the outbreak of ...

Over 50 houses, including a church, have been destroyed by a bomb that exploded at about 12 midnight at Eleyewo in Akure North local government. The bomb was said to being conveyed by a lorry. Security operatives at the moment ...

Femi Fani-Kayode has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to conduct a live television broadcast to assure Nigerian people that he is well and that he has not fled the nation’s shores to seek medical treatment elsewhere. He said the rumours going ...

The last executive session of the Senate before sitting was suspended for two weeks was with a drama over COVID-19. About 35 Senators who recently came back from London after a seminar on Petroleum Industry Governance Bill were isolated by ...

A 14-year-old girl allegedly hanged her one-year-old son because she wanted to stay out with her friends. The teenager, Arisa Udsanee, had left the youngster with her parents who were angry when she returned home late in Bueng Kan, northeast ...

The Governor of Oyo State, Mr Seyi Makinde, has sacked his Special Assistant on Digital Media, Muritala Adigun, for allegedly feeding the public with misleading information. His letter of termination of appointment, signed by the Secretary to the State Government, ...

One of the confirmed positive cases of Coronavirus in Bauchi State has rejected the isolation centre at Bauchi Specialist hospital and return home. A reliable source at the hospital told Daily Trust Saturday that the patient who is an important ...

Juventus star Paulo Dybala revealed on friday how he “struggled to breathe” after contracting coronavirus which has killed over 9,000 people in Italy. The Argentine international announced last Saturday he was one of three Juventus players to catch the virus ...

Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Friday announced the donation of N50m to fight Coronavirus across Southeast Nigeria. Kanu made the announcement in a broadcast via Radio Biafra. He said that part of the donation ...

Italy recorded a shocking spike in coronavirus deaths on Friday with 969 new victims, the worst daily record for any country since the pandemic began. The infection rate, however, continued its downward trend, with the civil protection agency reporting nearly ...

Nigeria’s Super Falcons have been ranked as the first team in Africa after moving up by one spot to place 38th in the world in the FIFA Women’s World Football Ranking. In the ranking table for the month of March ...

Several marriage ceremonies were contracted on Thursday night in Kaduna State in a bid to beat the 24 hours curfew imposed by the state government which came into effect Thursday midnight. Daily trust gathered that Islamic wedding Fatiha earlier scheduled ...

Prof. Akin Abayomi, has said many Nigerians are trying to come into the country via the land borders since the closure of the airways. Abayomi, at a briefing on Friday, said 16 Nigerian students are currently at the Seme border ...

Travellers from Abuja to Jos, Bauchi and other parts of the North-East were stranded on Friday at a popular security checkpoint along the Bade-Keffi road as security agents enforced a 24 hours curfew imposed by the Kaduna State Government on ...

Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo Olu has just announced that the state will be supporting families with bags of rice, beans, garri, bread and some other essentials as families are asked to stay at home as the state just like ...

Nigeria has recorded five new cases of coronavirus in the Federal Capital Territory and Oyo State. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control made this known on Friday evening via its Twitter handle. NCDC tweeted, “Five new cases of #COVID19 have ...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation pipeline along Ojukwu Street, Navy Town axis of Satellite Town in Lagos is leaking. This was confirmed on Thursday by the Director-General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Mr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, to the News Agency of ...