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Phebean Ogundipe, author of famous English textbooks, Practical English and Brighter Grammar has died. She was 92. She died 27 March in Charlotte, North Carolina in the United States. Ogundipe, nee Itayemi, was born in Esa-Oke, Osun on 6 May ...

Bauchi Governor Bala Mohammed has offered N2 million as compensation for information that will lead to safe return  of his abducted brother. Unknown gunmen whisked away the governor’s elder brother, Adamu Mohammed about 7pm  at Kobi  street in Bauchi metropolis ...

The Oyo State COVID-19 Security and Enforcement sub-committee has reportedly impounded 22 vehicles during its special night operations. The operation was aimed at enforcing compliance at club houses and public places in Ibadan, the state capital. The Executive Chairman, OYRTMA, ...

The Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Sunday said he had donated his 10-month salaries towards the efforts being made to check the spread of coronavirus in the state. He also said the technical committee on COVID-19 set up by ...

The Chairman, Ekiti State Universal Basic Education Board, Prof Francisca Aladejana, said on Sunday that the state government would on Monday begin teaching of primary school pupils on the state-owned radio station, Ekiti FM 91.5, to minimise the effect of ...

The Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, has declared a one-day fast against the outbreak of the coronavirus disease. He enjoined residents of the state to fast today (Monday) in order to seek divine intervention towards ending the pandemic Ganduje said ...

The Federal Government is planning to connect all tertiary institutions in the country to the Internet in the next five years. The government also plans to reach 50 per cent of secondary schools and 25 per cent of primary schools ...

Coronavirus is killing someone every nine and a half minutes in New York – with Donald Trump thinking of putting the entire city in quarantine. It emerged yesterday 151 people had died of the virus there in 24 hours with ...

Wuhan locals claim coronavirus has killed 42,000 people in the city alone, more than ten times the national figure claimed by Chinese authorities, Daily Mail reports. The killer bug, which originated in Wuhan in China’s Hubei Province has claimed the ...

The Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Saliu Adetunji, indicated on Sunday that all major engagements had been suspended at the palace in view of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. The monarch made the disclosure in a statement by his Personal ...

The youngest female ­murderer in Britain could be locked up for ever after a court heard she plotted to kill another inmate. Sharon Carr – dubbed the Devil’s Daughter lost a legal bid for cushier conditions after her sick fantasies ...

The national leader of the All Progressives Congress yesterday announced a donation of N200m to support the efforts at curtailing the novel Coronavirus disease. A N100m of the donation would be donated to the Lagos State Government; while the remaining ...

The US recorded 518 new coronavirus-linked deaths in the span of 24 hours, according to data published Sunday by Johns Hopkins University. The record toll, higher than the previous day’s increase of 453, brings the country’s total number of deaths ...

The Ogun State Government said it has extended the closure of its borders till Monday night in alignment with the directive of the Federal Government concerning the restriction of movement within and outside its borders. Governor Dapo Abiodun in a ...

The Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen, has urged Nigerian women to take precautionary measures and stock their homes with food to remain at home to minimise the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Addressing journalists in Abuja on gender dimension ...

Iranian security forces are searching for 54 escaped inmates following a prison break over which four guards were arrested, Iran’s state news agency reported on Sunday. “Some prison guards were summoned and four of them were arrested and others released ...

President Patrice Talon announced on Sunday that Benin could not enforce public confinement because it lacks the “means of rich countries” who are fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. “Rich countries are putting up huge amounts of money and some are even ...

Spain confirmed another 838 deaths in 24 hours from coronavirus on Sunday, a new daily record bringing the total number of deaths to 6,528, according to health ministry figures. The number of confirmed cases in Spain has now reached 78,797 ...

Israel evacuated 274 of its citizens from Nigeria on Sunday. The move was not unconnected to the exploding cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria. The Israelis were evacuated via the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos and the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, ...

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 ...