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 ...
Read More »COVID -19: Makinde imposes curfew in Oyo, shuts markets
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 ...
Read More »China donates medical equipment to Nigeria
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 ...
Read More »50 houses destroyed in Ondo midnight bomb explosion
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 ...
Read More »Coronavirus: Buhari must hold live broadcast on his health – Femi Fani-Kayode
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 ...
Read More »Senators sneak into private hospitals for COVID-19 tests
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 ...
Read More »14 year-old girl hangs her own baby son because she wanted to stay out with her friends
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 ...
Read More »Makinde fires media aide over false information on Facebook
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, ...
Read More »Coronavirus patient rejects Bauchi isolation centre, returns home
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 ...
Read More »‘I struggled to breathe – Dybala shares coronavirus nightmare
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 ...
Read More »COVID-19: IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu donates N50m
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 ...
Read More »Italy Records 969 Coronavirus Deaths In One Day
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 ...
Read More »Women’s football: FIFA ranks Nigeria first in Africa
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 ...
Read More »Residents contract ’emergency marriages’ to beat curfew in Kaduna
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 ...
Read More »COVID-19: Nigerian students stranded at Seme border –Lagos
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 ...
Read More »Kaduna curfew: Travellers to Jos, North east stranded at Bade-Keffi road
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 ...
Read More »Lagos to distribute rice, beans, garri to families as people stay at home to avoid COVID-19 (Photos)
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 ...
Read More »Nigeria records 5 new COVID-19 cases
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 ...
Read More »Another NNPC pipeline leaks in Lagos
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 ...
Read More »Coronavirus: China imposes entry ban, cancels visas
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 ...
Read More »COVID-19: 365 people die in one day in France
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 ...
Read More »African football legend Mohamed Farah dies from COVID-19
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 ...
Read More »Prince Harry and Meghan relocate to Los Angeles
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 ...
Read More »Coronavirus: Argentina detains 6,000 people
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 ...
Read More »Lagos University Teaching Hospital sends away man who tested positive for coronavirus over lack of bed space
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 ...
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