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Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 45-year-old man, Kolese Womiloju and his 25-year-old son, Taiwo Womiloju, over alleged killing of a Herdman, Abubakar Sidi Usman, at Gbagba Elewure village in Odeda Local Government Area of the state. The suspects ...

Another Nigerian pastor, Moses aka “Deadly Prophet” has begged the Nigerian Government especially the Delta state Governor, to please give him a chance to go to isolation centres to heal coronavirus patients and in 72hours there won’t be any coronavirus ...

The new Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero, has revealed that mass deaths recorded in Kano State are not connected to Coronavirus outbreak. Scores of people, including elites and prominent indigenes of the state, have died in Dala, Fagge, ...

An Israeli professor has claimed that coronavirus will disappear after 70 days with or without intervention. The unproven claims were made by Professor Isaac Ben-Israel, who is the head of the security studies programme at Tel Aviv University. He said ...

First Lady Melania Trump received happy birthday greetings from a number of well-wishers on Sunday, including her husband, President Trump. “Happy Birthday to Melania, our great First Lady!,” the president wrote on Twitter. Melania Trump, who turned 50 on Sunday, ...

Saudi Arabia has banned the death sentence for minors, its state-backed Human Rights Commission has said in a statement. It is the latest in a series of reforms pushed forward by the Saudi royal family. It comes a day after ...

A Texas mayor has been forced to apologize after getting caught breaking her own stay-at-home order by getting a nail salon to open just for her. Beaumont Mayor Becky Ames was photographed last Tuesday wearing a face mask as she ...

A Massachusetts factory that normally makes some of America’s most beloved board games, including Monopoly, Risk and Candyland, has pivoted to making personal protective equipment for heath care workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic, Governor Charlie Baker ...

The West African Examinations Council has denied cancelling the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination for school candidates. The Head of National Office, WAEC, Nigeria, Mr Patrick Areghan, in a statement on Sunday, urged Nigerians to disregard the fake ...

For the first time since the 1950s, the city of Miami has reportedly gone six weeks without a murder. According to the Miami Herald, police say the city, once known as America’s murder capital, did not report a homicide from ...

At a time when the world is struggling to control the spread and impact of Coronavirus, Senegal is employing it’s technical and medical expertise to implement mass testing in the country. Senegalese scientists have developed $1 quick diagnostic Covid-19 testing ...

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 ...