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Zimbabwe on Friday reported its first coronavirus case, a man who returned to his home in the tourist resort town of Victoria Falls from Britain at the weekend. “The is the first case of Covid-19 in Zimbabwe,” said Health Minister ...

A staff in the office of US Vice President Mike Pence, the pointman for Washington’s response to the coronavirus outbreak, has tested positive for the illness, a spokeswoman said Friday. “Neither President Trump nor Vice President Pence had close contact ...

An armed robbery suspect caught while operating in Owerri, the Imo State capital, has been set ablaze by an angry crowd. The incident occurred in the early hours of Friday at ‘Batcher Estate,’ near Mechanic Village along Umukoto, Nekede in ...

The University of Abuja on Friday announced the indefinite suspension of 24 students of the institution arrested during cult initiation in Gwako village along Gwagwalada Road in the Federal Capital Territory. The students, including seven final year students, arrested by ...

A 20-year-old woman in Anambra State on Thursday tried to kill herself after discovering that her boyfriend was a married man. The woman, Oluchi Akabilo, from Obosi, in the Idemili North Local Government Area of the state, allegedly took a ...

The unnamed Italian was discharged on Friday night after receiving treatment for nearly a month in Lagos, the state governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said Earlier in the week, Nigeria’s health minister Osagie Ehanire said the patient had tested negative and that ...

  Operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, IRTA, has busted a Kano-based human trafficking syndicate which specialized in selling Nigerians into slavery in Libya.   According to a report by The Vanguard, a 28-year-old mother of two, Nofisat ...

Google on Friday, March 20 posted a handwashing video Doodle recognising Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis and creating awareness about handwashing to curtail the coronavirus outbreak. In the video, Google explained that the doodle follows the official guidelines on how to properly ...

Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, on Friday, barred social, political, religious and family gatherings of more than 20 persons as part of efforts to check the spread of coronavirus. The governor, who announced that “all public and private schools ...

A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, rejected an application to compel the Federal Government to totally bar entry into the country from the US, Iran and China. Justice Inyang Ekwo refused the ex parte motion filed by an ...

Two FBI wanted Nigerians, Patrick Erakposhere Onajokpe and Macdonald Chukwuma Nnamdi, along with four others have been convicted in Warri and sentenced. Onajokpe and Nnamdi were convicted by Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court, Warri, Delta State for ...

Stallion Motors, an auto assembler and franchisee of nine global brands including Hyundai, has announced plans to introduce electric sport utility vehicle into Nigeria’s automobile market before the end of this year. The company’s Vice Chairman, Mr Haresh Vaswani, stated ...

Police have arrested a 33-year-old man from Makhese Village in Webuye West, Bungoma County after he allegedly beat up and killed his 3-year-old stepdaughter on allegations that she urinated in bed. The girl’s body was on Thursday morning (March 19) ...

Detectives have tracked down a prominent businessman suspected to have coronavirus. The businessman is said to have travelled to Lisbon, Portugal early in March. Since his arrival, he is said to have been to at least three high-end hotels in ...

Bodies of a police officer from Makutano Sub-Location in Mwala, Machakos County and that of his girlfriend were on Wednesday evening (March 18) found in the cop’s house. The police officer’s mother, Esther Kaloki, had gone to knock on the ...

The National Youth Service Corps has suspended its weekly Community Development Service activities indefinitely. This is coming a few days after shutting down its orientation camps nationwide. The suspension of the CDS was contained in a press statement obtained on ...

Musician Diamond Platnumz’s manager, Sallam Sharaf, has contracted coronavirus. Sharaf took to Instagram to announce that results for a coronavirus test he had taken, returned positive Thursday. “I have received coronavirus test results, and I would like to confirm that ...

A man has been arrested and charged with pretending to have coronavirus after claiming he tested positive on Facebook. Michael Lane Brandin turned himself into Tyler County Police after his post was reported multiple times to officers and and they ...

Authorities in Gigiri, Nairobi have arrested a police officer who took Ksh20, 000 bribe from a Runda motorist on Wednesday morning. Constable Mohammed Sirat had demanded Ksh20, 000 from Michael Kidula Mboya, claiming it was cash bail for a traffic ...

Argentina has ordered all its 45 million populace to stay at home in a lock down measure to curtail the spread of the deadly Coronavirus. Argentina is the latest country to enact measures ordering people to stay in their homes ...

  Despite only making just eight appearances for Manchester United, Nigeria international, Odion Ighalo, has been rewarded with a hefty bonus of £92,000 (approximately N39m), excluding his weekly £120,000 wages. Since joining the Red Devils on loan from Shanghai Shenhua ...

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics has given the Federal Government 15 days ultimatum for it to honour all pending agreements reached with it or risk industrial action. Addressing the press after the union’s 97th National Executive Committee meeting at ...

A witness at Sgt Jamilu Tanimu of Zaria City Police Division, yesterday narrated how a pair of shoes left at the scene of a robbery, linked a juvenile to the crime. Tanimu made this known while giving evidence at the ...

Top Tanzania rapper, Mwana FA, says he has tested positive for coronavirus. Mwana FA, said when he had returned from South Africa he started developing a fever and symptoms of the virus. Tests confirmed that he had Covid-19, the respiratory ...

The leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has directed churches in Nigeria to observe Sunday 22 and 29 March, 2020 as days of prayers against the coronavirus pandemic in Nigeria and globally. According to a Press Statement issued ...