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China has ordered American journalists at the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal to leave the country in the Communist government’s most severe move against foreign media in recent memory. The foreign ministry said in a statement ...

Major phone networks in the UK have reportedly gone down or are having issues, leaving Britons struggling to work from home in the coronavirus outbreak. UK mobile networks O2, EE, Vodafone and 3 are all said to be struggling just ...

Spanish health officials report that deaths from coronavirus in the country surged to 491 on Tuesday from 309 the day before. The number of confirmed cases also soared by 2,000 to 11,178, as Spain closed its borders and maintained a ...

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi, has said the Italian who brought Coronavirus to Nigeria is still potentially contagious and will remain in isolation at the Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba, until he no longer secretes the virus. ...

Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson have been released from the Australian hospital where they were in isolation since testing positive for the coronavirus last week, their son Chet said. “A quick update on my folks: They’re out of ...

The brother of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi has been found guilty of murdering 22 people. Hashem Abedi had denied helping to plan the “sudden and lethal” blast which killed or injured “nearly 1,000”. The Old Bailey heard the pair ...

African countries have been among the last to be hit by the global coronavirus epidemic but as cases rise, many nations are now taking strict measures to block the deadly illness. Watching from afar as the disaster unfolds in Asia ...

The daughter of famed hip-hop pioneer Eric B. — Erica Supreme Barrier has passed away after a serious car crash in Connecticut on Sunday. According to an Instagram post by “The Real Sister2Sister 2.0,” Erica died on Monday evening from ...

Italy’s national tally of cases of novel coronavirus contagion has increased to 31,506, with 2,503 deaths, the Civil Protection Agency says in its daily bulletin on Tuesday. Compared to Monday, the death toll has risen by 16 per cent, while ...

An Indian contractor staff with Dangote Industries Limited has been quarantined for Coronavirus at the Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria. Management of the Dangote Industries Limited in a statement on Tuesday said its attention had been ...

Kenyan authorities have raided a shop allegedly selling fake coronavirus testing kits. The Standard newspaper reported that police detained 10 people and locked the facility in the capital, Nairobi in Monday’s raid. The suspects advertised the testing kits online claiming ...

There’s no one right direction for everyone to follow in life, however, these poignant confessions could make you think twice about your chosen paths. People from around the world have taken to anonymous sharing app Whisper to reveal the choices ...

The Senate on Tuesday has called for travel ban on high risk countries with Coronavirus. The high risk countries are United Kingdom, China and others.

Lagos State health commissioner Akin Abayomi has asked passengers on the same plane with the third coronavirus patient in Nigeria to isolate for 14 days. The third coronavirus patient is a Nigerian, who returned from the United Kingdom last Friday, ...

Heartbreaking photos show how a woman who became engaged was forced to share the happy news with her grandfather through the window of his nursing home. Carly Boyd, 22, was proposed to over the weekend but restrictions over the coronavirus ...

Akwa Ibom State Government has proscribed 51 cults in secondary schools in the state following cult-related violence in schools. This is in addition to 32 other cult groups earlier outlawed by the state government in 2018. The proscription order titled, ...

Nigerians have taking to twitter to express their shock after s.e.x symbol, Idris Elba announced yesterday he has tested positive for coronavirus. Many begged the killer bug not to take the life of the man they called ‘s.e.x.i.e.s.t man alive’, ...

  A Nigerian Uber driver has shared photos of his car whose body parts were stolen by a marlian and a note left by the culprit indicating he is a marlian. The two side mirrors of his car were stolen, ...

Pastor Chris Okafor of Mountain of Liberation and Miracle Ministry, aka Liberation City, Ojodu Berger, Lagos has dissociated himself from claims of performing fake miracle on a woman, Bose Olasunkanmi, alleged to have been paid for the purpose. Five pastors, ...

The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has announced the postponement of its 9th convocation ceremony slated for Saturday, March 21, at its Headquarters in Jabi, Abuja, on health grounds. About 25, 000 graduating students were expected to participate in ...

The third case of coronavirus has been confirmed in Lagos. The Lagos State Ministry of Health, which confirmed the case, said the patient is unconnected with the index case. The infected, a 30-year-old Nigerian female who returned from the United ...

Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, has urged the Lagos State Government and Federal Government to conduct a thorough investigation of the Sunday explosion in the Abule Ado area of Lagos State to determine what really happened. The OPC ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has released the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination results of about 312,000 candidates who sat for the UTME on March 14, the first day of the examination. According to the board, the results were released ...

The University of Ilorin has instructed its returning international students to submit themselves for coronavirus tests at the school clinic before resuming for the second semester. The Director, Centre for International Education, UNILORIN, Prof. Felicia Olasheinde-Williams, gave the directive in ...

Three members of the Oodua People’s Congress, on Monday, appeared before an Osun State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Osogbo for subjecting one Nurudeen Adeniyi to torture over a missing mobile phone at a palm wine joint. Adeniyi was accused of ...