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The Federal Competition & Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) is to prosecute four supermarkets and their proprietors in Abuja for alleged arbitrary hike of prices of sanitizers, hand-wash liquids, disinfectants and other anti-bacterial hygiene products. According to Court documents, the four ...

Police in Shinyalu, Kakamega County, Kenya are searching for a man who allegedly killed his younger brother following a quarrel over Sh160. Shinyalu OCPD Robert Makau said the suspect, 31, went into hiding after killing his brother, 23, in a ...

Lawmakers in the Senate chamber of the National Assembly have agreed to contribute 50 percent of their salaries to the efforts to curb the spread and treatment of coronavirus in the country. The Senate Committee Vice Chairman on Media and ...

The Finance Minister, Zainab Ahmed, on Monday, stated that President Muhammadu Buhari has allowed skeletal operations in the financial system and money markets during the lockdown in Lagos, Abuja and Ogun. In a statement on Monday titled, “Notice to affected ...

Two Chinese expatriates working in Ebonyi state have been kidnapped by unknown gunmen. The incident, it was learnt, happened in Ishiagu, Ivo Local government area of the state. They are said to be working for a mining company in the ...

As corporate bodies and individuals have been supporting the federal and state governments with resources to cushion the effect of the coronavirus pandemic, Nigerians have called on telecommunication companies to cut down on data price or give free data. Following ...

The Lagos State Government has confirmed that five additional patients who have recovered from Coronavirus, COVID-19, have been discharged on Monday from Infectious Disease Centre, Yaba Mainland Hospital. Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Gbenga Omotosho, when contacted through his ...

Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde has tested positive for coronavirus. He made the announcement via his Twitter handle. “I just received my COVID-19 confirmation test result. It is POSITIVE. I am asymptomatic and will continue to self-isolate. “I have designated ...

    The CEO of fancy hotel, Christogonus Aguwa Osuagwu who just came back from Europe, where Corona Virus is ravaging has been reported died.   Açording to report from undisclosed source, instead of subjecting himself to test, he flew ...

The German Mission in Nigeria is planning to evacuate interested nationals from Nigeria. This is not unconnected to the exploding cases of COVID-19 in the country which hit 111 on Sunday, March 29. Some countries including France and Israel have ...

The Police have arrested Pastor Augustine Yiga of Revival Church Kawala, Rubaga Division in Kampala, Uganda over false utterances and passing harmful propaganda relating to the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the country. Yiga had said coronavirus is just a ...

The daughter of a cabbie who died of Covid-19 believes he caught the killer disease off cash from one of his fares. Relatives of Spencer Kurash join families across the UK to speak of their horror a death toll passed ...

President Donald Trump says the US will not foot the bill for Prince Harry and Meghan’s security amid reports that the pair have moved to the US from Canada. Mr Trump tweeted he was “a great friend and admirer of ...

A Nairobi hotel has released a Kenyan student it had detained over a Sh45,000 bill she had accumulated during her Covid-19 isolation stay. Nairobi News had reported last week that Mayombe Odubah had been detained at Pride Inn hotel by ...

Police in Tanzania’s commercial capital Dar es Salaam are holding a couple for allegedly spreading false information about coronavirus. Dar es Salaam’s police chief Lazaro Mambosasa said that the husband and wife ridiculed the government while they were on public ...

No fewer than nine persons have been arrested in Ebonyi State for violating the state government’s ban on burials, weddings and others in the state. The Commissioner for Police, Awosola Awotinde, stated this during a live phone-in programme on the ...

A 25-year-old Nigeria, a student at Western Michigan University has died Saturday after contracting coronavirus. Bassey Offiong, was expected to graduate with a chemical engineering degree in a few weeks. His sister, Asari Offiong, said her brother told her he ...

More than 700,000 cases of the novel coronavirus have been officially declared around the world since the start of the pandemic, according to an AFP tally at 0800 GMT Monday based on official sources. There have been at least 715,204 ...

The death toll from alcohol poisoning in Iran has risen to 300 after people started to consume methanol because of a rumour that high proof alcohol could cure the coronavirus. Iranian media reports that more than 1,000 have been sickened ...

The former Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido, and his wives have tested negative for coronavirus which has killed many people globally. This was contained in a statement signed by the former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria’s son, Adam Sanusi, ...

Moscow entered lockdown today in a bid to slow the spread of coronavirus after the capital recorded more than 1,000 cases of the disease. Streets in the Russian capital were deserted today with Red Square empty after mayor Sergei Sobyanin ...

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it has ordered the manufacturing of Chloroquine for emergency stock for possible clinical treatment of Coronavirus. The agency’s Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, in a statement made available to ...

The Enforcement Team of the Federal Capital Territory FCT Administration on Sunday evening shut down over 23 neighbourhood mosques and prayer grounds in the highbrow districts of Maitama, Wuse, Garki, and Asokoro. The enforcement team which was split into six ...

A plane believed to be conveying coronavirus medical supplies has crashed during takeoff. The aircraft, bound for Haneda, Japan, crashed at Manila International Airport in the Philippines, killing all the eight people on board, on Sunday. It had reportedly been ...

Spain has become the third country to surpass China’s coronavirus infection total after the number of cases rose by almost 6,400 overnight. Health authorities said Monday that they had diagnosed a total of 85,195 cases of the virus, up by ...