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Brazilian Health Minister Nelson Teich resigned on Friday over what a ministry official said was “incompatibility” with President Jair Bolsonaro’s approach to fighting the country’s spiralling coronavirus crisis. Teich, a 62-year-old oncologist, served in the far-right president’s cabinet for less ...

The pilot of the helicopter that crashed while carrying Kobe Bryant and his daughter to a basketball tournament in California did not have alcohol or drugs in his system, according to the autopsy report released on Friday. Ara Zobayan, 50, ...

The Kaduna State Ministry of Health has said a four-month-old girl is among the 20 new coronavirus cases recorded in the state on Friday. The State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Amina Mohammed-Baloni, in a statement on Saturday, also said 15 ...

French police arrested one of the last key suspects sought over the Rwandan genocide on Saturday, prosecutors and police said. Felicien Kabuga, once one of Rwanda’s richest men and accused of financing the genocide, was living under a false identity ...

People who have had coronavirus should avoid having s.e.x for 30 days after recovering, an expert has claimed according to a report by The Mirror. Veerawat Manosutthi, a senior medical expert at the Thai Disease Control Department, has advised that ...

An Afghanistan man cuts off his wife’s nose with a kitchen knife after she asked for divorce amid a surge in domestic violence triggered by the coronavirus lockdown. In a news reported by The Daily Mail, The mother of a ...

Super Eagles midfielder, Wilfred Ndidi, and his wife Dinma have welcomed their first child together, a baby girl. The proud dad shared the news on his instagram writing; ”I’m Fortunate to know that ‘’God is gracious’’ – JAINA.”    

A Nigerian doctor and his wife have been struck dead by Coronavirus in the United Kingdom 10 days apart. Dr James Oniah, a retired radiologist, succumbed to Covid-19 on April 24 while Mary passed away from the virus on May ...

For a mother whose daughter has remained in captivity on account of refusal to renounce her faith, even after her fellow abductees have been set free, and who is alleged to have been impregnated by one of her captors, nothing ...

Oh dear, we don’t even know what to believe again o. Stiop dring coke, drink fruit juice and now this? .  Women who have at least one fruit drink a day are more likely to suffer heart disease than those ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday handed over a property forfeited by former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Allison-Madueke to the Lagos State government for use as an isolation centre for COVID-19 patients. The property consisting six ...

The barber shop owner from upstate New York who contracted Covid-19 after giving haircuts in violation of the state lockdown angrily denied Governor Andrew Cuomo’s claim that he infected more than a dozen others. Joseph LaLima Sr, 76, is the ...

The Imo State Government has queried a senior editor with the Imo Broadcasting Corporation, Mrs Ottih Vivian, for complaining of non-payment of her salaries and that of her colleagues. Ottih, a lawyer, had on May 4 in a Facebook post ...

After two months of inactivity, German top-flight league, the Bundesliga, will resume this afternoon. The sudden break in the Bundesliga was as a result of the outbreak of COVID-19, which has killed thousands of people and affected sporting activities and ...

President Muhammadu Buhari today felicitated with journalist/publisher, Ayobamidele Abayomi Momodu, popularly known as Dele Momodu, as he turns 60 today, May 16, 2020. The President, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, in ...

Police in Lagos have arrested one Habib Olapari, his teenage brother Rilwan and one Peter for allegedly hacking their neighbour Taiwo Eluyemi to death in front of his son. The suspects were said to have committed the alleged offence on ...

The Oyo State Government has suspended the executive members of the Bodija International Market in Ibadan for allegedly collecting illegal levies from the traders. Mr Adewale Osoniyi, the Caretaker Chairman of Aare Latosa Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Samonda, Ibadan, ...

  The former reality star who bought a house immediately after leaving the house shared the new photos of herself which sees her pose on her white benz. One more photo below…

A nudist couple who met while playing naked table tennis have tied the knot – in the buff. Nigel Seymour, 59, and 30-year-old care assistant Rachel spend their lives clothes-free. So when it came to exchanging vows, they were never ...

The Lagos State Police Command, on Wednesday, arrested four suspected human traffickers and rescued 24 girls, whose ages range from 13 to 27, from their hideout in the Abattoir area of Agege. Punch Metro gathered that the suspects, Okon Felix, ...

Chairman of DAAR Communications Plc, Raymond Dokpesi Jnr, has recovered from coronavirus. The founder of DAAR Communications Plc, Raymond Dokpesi, and two of his grandchildren also recovered from coronavirus on Thursday and were discharged from the University of Abuja Treatment ...

At least six persons drowned when a boat conveying them and other passengers capsized in Ogurude, Obubra Local Government Area of Cross River State. According to sources in the area, the victims were returning from a burial in a village ...

Slovenia, a mountainous nation of two million people, has become the first European country to proclaim an end to the coronavirus epidemic at home. The European Union state’s government said on Friday the COVID-19 spread is under control and there ...

Popular dancer, Kafayat Shafau, aka Kaffy, has said that people are always shocked to hear her speak fluently. She made this known during a recent Instagram Live session with her fans and budding dancers. She said, “What are the things ...

A 23-year-old man, Uchenna Mbahotu, has been arrested by the Divisional police headquarters in Orji Owerri North local government area, in Imo state, for allegedly taken sexual advantage of two minors, named Chinaemerem Akagha 11-year-old and Nmesoma Akagha, 9-year-old. The ...