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Africans in southern China’s largest city say they have become targets of suspicion and subjected to forced evictions, arbitrary quarantines and mass coronavirus testing as Beijing steps up its fight against imported infections, drawing US accusations of xenophobia. China says ...

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday appealed to Nigerians to continue to stay at home in view of the COVID-19 pandemic ravaging the world. Buhari in a statement by his media aide, Garba Shehu, assured Nigerians of the federal government’s plan to ...

Eric Bailly has made a kind-hearted donation to under-privileged people affected by the coronavirus crisis in his native Ivory Coast. The Manchester United defender has his own charity – the Eric Bailly Foundation – and he has managed to send ...

Delta State has confirmed its third Coronavirus case, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa revealed on Saturday. According to Okowa, the patient, a male was diagnosed in Asaba on Saturday and is currently being managed by healthcare professionals. “We have just confirmed the ...

The mayor of an Italian town famous for its bonfire celebrations on Good Friday was forced to apologise after locals turned up to pray with the priest in defiance of a coronavirus lockdown. The southeastern town of San Marco in ...

Thirteen new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in NIgeria. The Nigeria Centre of Disease Control(NCDC) said 11 of the new cases are in Lagos while Kano and Delta have one each. They bring the total cases in the country ...

Property worth several millions were on Saturday destroyed when a newly established online radio station, Agidigbo Radio, went up in flames at Monatan , area of Ibadan . The incident, which drew hundreds of residents , also caused stir as ...

A new study examining air samples from hospital wards with COVID-19 patients has found the virus can travel up to 13 feet (four meters) twice the distance current guidelines say people should leave between themselves in public. The preliminary results ...

Cristiano Ronaldo has been told he cannot expect preferential treatment after taking part in a secret training session in his native Madeira. The Juventus superstar was pictured training at a stadium on the island, despite the public being told to ...

Ten out of the 17 Ivory Coast returnees that tested positive for the coronavirus disease, who were receiving treatment at the Osun State isolation centre have been discharged after testing negative twice. Governor Adegboyega Oyetola, while addressing journalists on the ...

A gorgeous model and ex-Miss Colombia has been having s.e.x every day with her boyfriend in the hopes of falling pregnant with a green-eyed baby. Elizabeth Loaiza, 31, revealed the raunchy details of her s.e.x life with her boyfriend and ...

The Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) says it has placed four of its nurses on isolation, after their contact with a patient who died of coronavirus. Prof. Tokunboh Fabamwo, LASUTH Chief Medical Director, made this known today in Lagos. ...

Police arrested a dozen people and fired tear gas in a Nile Delta village on Saturday, as villagers protested the burial of a COVID-19 victim, a security source said. Relatives had taken the body of a retired doctor from her ...

Fears coronavirus could ‘wipe out’ native communities are growing after a boy from an Amazon tribe fell critically ill. The 15-year-old is a member of the Yanomami community, along the Brazilian-Venezuelan border. He is now in intensive care after being ...

The United States became the first country to report more than 2,000 coronavirus deaths in a single day, marking a grim milestone as billions around the world celebrated the Easter holiday weekend under lockdown from home. The global death toll ...

The Lagos State Government says it has discharged four new COVID-19 patients, who have now tested negative to the virus following their treatment at the state’s isolation facilities. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu made this known in a tweet via his verified ...

Kano state on Saturday confirmed the index case of coronavirus, otherwise known as COVID-19 in the state. The State Commissioner of Health, Dr Aminu Ibrahim Tsanyawa, who confirmed the case, could not give detail of the patient. However, he assured ...

The Ogun State Police Command on Saturday arrested some suspects in connection with the unrest foisted on residents in parts of the state. This was contained in a statement signed by AIG Sola Subair (rtd.), the Special Adviser on Security ...

The Federal Capital Territory Administration said it discharged four new coronavirus patients from its Gwagwalada Isolation Centre. It announced this on Saturday via its Twitter handle, adding that the total number of discharged cases in the capital city has risen ...

A patient has died of COVID-19 complications in a private hospital in Lagos, says the state Health Commissioner, Prof Akin Abayomi on Saturday. Abayomi revealed this via his verified Twitter handle while giving an update on coronavirus in the state. ...

Denmark will reopen schools and day care centres on Wednesday as it relaxes lockdown rules after a number of coronavirus cases in the country have stabilised. Remaining lockdown measures, such as the closure of bars, restaurants, shopping complexes and bans ...

  Floyd Mayweather’s 19-year-old daughter, Yaya may face up to 99 years in prison for allegedly stabbing someone. Iyanna “Yaya” Mayweather who was arrested earlier this month after allegedly stabbing Lapattra Jacobs, who shares a child with Mayweather’s boyfriend, YoungBoy ...

  Another patient has died from coronavirus related complications in Lagos state, the state’s commissioner for health, Prof. Akin Abayomi confirmed. Prof. Akin Abayomi made the announcement via his Twitter handle @ProfAkinAbayomi, adding that the patient died in a private ...

  Philadelphia Eagles Legend Pete Retzlaff has died at the age of 88, he passed away on Friday, April 10, 2020 of natural causes, according to the team’s obituary. In a statement on Friday, Eagles Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Lurie ...

  Archbishop Samson Mustapha Benjamin led a protest against the launch of 5G network in Nigeria. Archbishop Samson Mustapha Benjamin who is the general overseer of Resurrection Praise Ministries International, has been seen in a video making rounds on the ...