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China’s Foreign Ministry announced Friday the temporary suspension of all entries into the country  from Saturday. The entry restriction came as the coronavirus pandemic hits over 540,000 people worldwide and the United States upstaged China  and Italy as the new ...

France on Thursday reported that 365 people, including a 16-year-old girl, had died from the coronavirus over the last 24 hours, the country’s highest daily toll. Top French health official Jerome Salomon told reporters that a total of 1,696 people ...

Somalia has tragically lost former footballer, Abdulkadir Mohamed Farah to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Somali Football Federation has confirmed. Farah passed away at a Northwest London Hospital on Tuesday (24 March 2020), after testing positive to the deadly virus last ...

Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan are reportedly making California their new home. People magazine and The Sun reported Thursday that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex left Vancouver Island, Canada, where they’d been staying since the royal couple announced their ...

Argentinian security forces have detained more than 6,000 people since extensive restrictions on personal movement were introduced in a bid to combat the novel coronavirus pandemic. Criminal charges have been filed against 6,191 suspects throughout the country, the presidential office ...

A man named Emmanuel Benson, who had close contact with two persons that recently arrived Lagos from the United Kingdom, has been told to go home by medical personnel at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, after testing positive for ...

Lagos State warned on Friday that coronavirus cases in the state may surge to 39,000 in the coming weeks if proactive measures were not put in place to avoid the situation. Lagos currently has 44 confirmed cases, which include 41 ...

Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi had said that five persons are under self-observation in the state. Among the five is an Indian who arrived the country recently and staff of First Bank who had contact with a returnee. The Governor ...

Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule has revealed that he actually come into contact with two confirmed cases of coronavirus at the presidential villa Abuja while carrying out his official duties. He disclosed that the virus is not a death sentence ...

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye has donated Intensive Care Unit beds with ventilators to Lagos State. The 78-year-old cleric also donated ICU beds and ventilators to the Ogun State and Plateau State ...

The Federal Government says four stadia in the country will be used as isolation centres in the fight against coronavirus pandemic. It also said all National Youth Service Corps orientation camps in the country would as well be used as ...

The General Manager, Rivers State Newspaper Corporation, Mr Vincent Ake has been relieved of his appointment with immediate effect by Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State. The sack was contained in a terse Government statement signed by, Paulinus Nsirim,Commissioner for ...

South Africa on Friday reported its first two deaths from the novel coronavirus outbreak as the number of confirmed cases breached the 1,000 mark, the government said. “This morning we wake South Africans up with sad news that we now ...

Former Ogun State Commissioner of Youth and Sports, Bukola Olopade, has confirmed testing positive for coronavirus. He becomes the first sports personality in Nigeria to contract the virus. Olopade, who had earlier announced in a video post on Tuesday that ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has handed over 180 candidates in the just concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination (UTME) to the police for prosecution over alleged involvement in examination malpractices. It said 70 per cent of the candidates ...

Man’s best friend could be about to become humanity’s best friend after a charity said it believes dogs can smell coronavirus. Medical Detection Dogs, which already does pioneering work in cancer research and diabetes detection, hope they will soon play ...

Hundreds are feared to have contracted coronavirus as 10 backpackers tested positive for the virus after attending a party on Bondi Beach. Florencia Barreiro revealed herself and nine pals have all contracted the infection which has placed the world on ...

The Nigeria Medical Association of Nigeria, Kogi chapter, on Thursday, said  27 confirmed cases of Lassa Fever disease from nine local government areas of the state had been reported by the state epidemiologist. This was contained in a press statement ...

An aircraft operated by Air-France KLM on Thursday arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos to evacuate some European nationals from Nigeria. It was gathered that the flight, which also left the same day, got special approval from the ...

R&B singer R. Kelly has cited the novel coronavirus in asking a federal judge to free him from a federal jail in Chicago as he awaits trial on child p.o.r.n.ography and other charges, a court filing by his lawyers saying ...

Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus, Downing Street has said. The PM was tested yesterday after experiencing mild symptoms. ”Over the last 24 hours I have developed mild symptoms and tested positive for coronavirus. I am now self-isolating, but ...

The Duchess of Sussex’s first gig after quitting the royal family has been revealed – with Meghan voicing a Disney documentary on elephants. Her fee for the project is going entirely to the Elephants Without Borders charity – an organisation ...

Kenya has banned the importation of second-hand clothes , popularly known as “mitumba”, as a way of limiting the spread of coronavirus. “Importation of used clothes is suspended with immediate effect to safeguard the health of Kenyans and promote local ...

Anyone who engages children under 12 years as domestic workers in Edo state now risks seven years imprisonment. Also, anyone convicted for recruiting or receiving any child or adult for forced labour or even permitting any place or premises for ...

Shanghai Shenhua want Odion Ighalo to return to China by offering an irresistible £400,000 weekly wage in a new contract. Ighalo, who is on loan to Manchester United, is at present on £300,000 weekly wage at the club. He took ...