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Governor Nyesom Wike has declared all Rivers state borders shut indefinitely, barring movement in and out of the state from Thursday to guard against Corona Virus. The governor in a state broadcast Wednesday said his administration’s increasing measures have become ...

Idris Elba has hit out at accusations he was paid to announce that he’d contracted the potentially deadly coronavirus. The 47-year-old actor, who was diagnosed two weeks ago, has been in isolation with his wife Sabrina, 29, who revealed she’d ...

US President Donald Trump has said he hopes the US will shake off coronavirus by Easter, even as New York’s governor sounded the alarm that the illness is spreading faster than “a bullet train”. The president told a White House ...

There was gridlock at the Lokoja end of the Abuja/Lokoja Expressway on Tuesday as the driver of a J5 commercial bus was allegedly beaten to death for not paying N500 to produce officials on time. Eyewitnesses told Punch correspondent that ...

Hon. Justice Afam Nwobodo of the Enugu State High Court has sacked the traditional ruler of Umuogbugbuagu Autonomous Community, Ugwuoba in Oji River Local Government Area of the State, Chief Anayo Anochili. He held that Anochili was not qualified ab ...

The son of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, Mohammed Atiku Abubakar, has accussed the Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, of lying about how he contacted coronavirus. Mr  Abubakar, in a short message shared with Premium Times via a WhatsApp platform, said ...

Divorce filings are skyrocketing from quarantine-weary and financially stressed couples, according to top matrimonial attorneys, who are experiencing a 50 percent rise in inquiries from potential clients. According to leading Manhattan family-law experts, some couples forced to spend time together ...

Sudan’s minister of defense, Lt Gen Jamaleldin Omar, has died of a heart attack in South Sudan, where he was taking part in peace negotiations between the government and armed movements in Juba, a spokesman for the Sudanese army said ...

A 16-year-old Prince, Oloyede Adeyeoba, has been approved by the Ondo state government as the Arujale of Okeluse in Ose local government area of the state. The ratification of the appointment of the Senior Secondary 3 Student was done alongside ...

A housewife, Salamat Kehinde, has been arrested by the personnel of the Osun State Police Command for allegedly setting ablaze a house belonging to her husband. The incident, which happened in Ori Eru, Iwo, saw a six-bedroom building belonging to ...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has tested negative for coronavirus, 24 hours after he went into self-isolation following fears he could have physically interacted with some persons who tested positive. In a tweet by Senator Babafemi Ojudu, Special Adviser to the ...

A police inspector, Kenneth Enamika, has committed suicide after killing a couple, Cajethan and Oluchi Aputanze, in Mgbidi, Oru West Local Government Area of Imo State. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Orlando Ikeokwu, told punch correspondents on ...

All markets, malls and shops in Ondo state have been ordered to shut down for seven days, as part of measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Governor Rotimi Akeredolu gave the order on Tuesday. Last week, the state closed ...

The Niger State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Makunsidi Muhammad has disclosed that seven people in the state are currently on quarantine for coronavirus. Briefing newsmen in Minna, Makunsidi said that out of the seven people, one is in Suleja while ...

  The Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry Enugu Nigeria, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, on Tuesday, said God would save the world from the coronavirus pandemic. This is coming as the Catholic Diocese of Enugu suspended handshaking during Mass, weddings and ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Tuesday announced two new cases of the novel coronavirus increasing the confirmed cases in the country to 46. One of the two new cases was confirmed in Lagos State with the other case ...

The Federal Government on Tuesday raised the alarm over the existence of an Android-based malicious and fraudulent coronavirus Ransomware application, which claims to provide updates on COVID-19 and infections near the user. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai ...

President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, many governors, ministers and other top government functionaries mingled with Malam Abba Kyari, the Chief of Staff to the president shortly before he tested positive to the coronavirus (COVID-19). Kyari, who returned to ...

The number of State House correspondents was yesterday pruned to 16 over the coronavirus pandemic. Only one of them is a newspaper reporter. The number was out of the over100 journalists accredited to cover activities of the Presidency. Presidential spokesman, ...

Three aides to the Chief of Staff to the President, Mr Abba Kyari, have reportedly tested positive for coronavirus. The Punch gathered that other members of staff in Kyari’s office have been asked to self-isolate. The Presidential Task Force on ...

A 16-year-old girl accused of killing her father’s friend who allegedly attempted to r.a.p.e her has been arraigned before an Ebute Meta Magistrate Court sitting in the Yaba area of Lagos State. The young girl, a Senior Secondary School (SSS) ...

Egypt is to impose a night-time curfew for two weeks from Wednesday to contain the spread of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli announced. “Movement will be banned on all public roads from 7 pm to 6 am… for two ...

A 62-year-old British man has died in Cape Verde after contracting COVID-19, the government said on Tuesday, marking the West African archipelago’s first fatality from the disease. The man arrived on the island of Boavista, a tourist hotspot and one ...

The mayor of Moscow has ordered over-65s to either stay at home or escape to their country houses to avoid coronavirus. But the measures announced by mayor Sergei Sobyanin on his website would not affect 67-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin ...

The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Tuesday afternoon toured the Presidential Villa beginning from the office of the Chief Staff to the President, Abba Kyari. It is believed that the vice president, Yemi Osinbajo, who was not in the ...