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A woman who was one of the first people injected as part of human trials for a coronavirus vaccine has said she is ‘doing fine’ after fake reports of her death. An online article claimed microbiologist Elisa Granato, who took ...

Sarah-Jane Mee has said she is planning to have a home birth because of the coronavirus pandemic. The 41-year-old Sky News presenter said that she did not want to go to hospital in case Covid-19 restrictions meant that she could ...

An Indian woman was allegedly gang r.a.p.e.d in a school where she had been quarantined for a night amid the nationwide coronavirus lockdown, a police official has said. The reported incident is said to have occurred last week in in ...

The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has announced another 91 new cases of Coronavirus in the country, taking the overall total to 1,273. Of the figures released on Sunday, Lagos recorded 43 new cases, Sokoto, eight; Taraba, six; and ...

Sudanese Model Nyakim has entered the Guinness Book of Records for having the darkest skin tone on earth. Nyakim, a model in Sudan was recently awarded the crown. Already dubbed the Queen of the Dark in her country, Nyakim in ...

Nollywood actress, Adunni Ade has returned to Islam, a religion she was born into. She said though her father never chooses any religion for his children, she started going to church after a while and she went for years, but ...

Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has rejected bags of rice sent to the state by the Federal Government as palliatives. It was gathered that most of the 1800 bags received by the state from the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has cautioned the public against consuming bleach or other disinfectants as proffered by United States President, Donald Trump. Trump had, at a news conference on Thursday, suggested using powerful cleaning agents, through an ...

The Kano Government has said the scores of deaths, in recent days, were unrelated with the dreaded Coronavirus pandemic. But it also quickly acknowledged it was jumping to conclusion by stating that the health ministry is probing the causes. Malam ...

  The Peoples Democratic Party on Sunday urged the President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to “immediately” visit Kano State after many persons have reportedly died under mysterious circumstances in the last one week. The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola ...

A suspected COVID-19 patient on Sunday afternoon ran to a police station for help after several attempts to reach the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) failed. The woman, it was gathered, had tried to reach the COVID-19 toll-free lines ...

A young man suspected to have contracted COVID- 19, who escaped from the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, Ondo, has returned to the hospital. Chief Medical Director of the Hospital, Dr. Oluwole Ige, who stated this in a chat ...

Esther Akinsanya, a Nigerian nurse has died with coronavirus in the London hospital where she worked alongside her sister who is now fighting for life in intensive care, the Evening Standard reports. The pair, who lived together and worked at ...

A coronavirus vaccine is ‘unlikely’ to be ready this year, Dominic Raab has said. The First Secretary of State, UK, who is currently leading the country while Boris Johnson recovers from Covid-19, warned that the process of making a vaccine ...

The Lagos State Police Command on Sunday said it has arrested 620 violators of Coronavirus lockdown in the state. Some of the 620 violators include interstate travellers and their drivers. Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Bala Elkana said on 21 ...

Two men have been charged with conspiracy to import Class A drugs after cocaine worth £3 million was discovered in a secret compartment in a lorry that had come by ferry from France to Dover. The National Crime Agency said ...

  A toddler born without arms or knees could soon take his first steps thanks to pioneering surgery. Nicholas Cabral, from Dallas in Texas, is set to undergo two operation which could cost a total of $60,000 in August. The ...

The Nigeria Police Force have arrested 95 inter-state travelers at Bhojson area, Ebute Metta for violating the COVID-19 restriction in order to stop further spread of the virus in the community. The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bala ...

Prof. Balarabe Maikaba, a prominent scholar and former Head of the Department of Mass Communication, Bayero University, Kano (BUK), is dead. Maikaba died on Sunday at a private clinic in Kano metropolis, after a brief illness. A relative of the ...

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As the coronavirus lockdown nears its sixth week in UK and with a weather improve, many Brits are growing impatient of the Government’s orders to stay at home whenever possible. Hundreds of locals were seen strolling along the seafront of ...

Nollywood actor, Junior Pope had congratulated his colleague, Mercy Johnson saying she had welcomed her 4th child. This misled a lot of bloggers, not knowing the Junior Pope account was FAKE. Now, Mercy’s husband, Prince Okojie has released a disclaimer ...

One person has been confirmed dead, while three others sustained injuries in an accident involving two trucks around Kara, Ayetoro, Ogun State axis of the Lagos–Ibadan highway. The Spokesperson of the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement (TRACE) Corps, Babatunde ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Saturday said Imo State has recorded its first case of coronavirus (COVID-19). The centre also said that Nigeria recorded 87 new cases of the coronavirus on Saturday including the one recorded in ...

A 30-year-old farmer, Salahatu Haruna, has explained the role he played in the kidnap of his half-brother, Yakubu, whose seven-year-old son was shot dead during the operation. Haruna reportedly masterminded Yakubu’s abduction to raise some money having become broke and ...