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Plateau State Government has directed a total lockdown of the state from 12 midnight of Thursday, April 9, 2020 to 11pm of Wednesday, April 15, to enable it carry out a state-wide fumigation across the 17 local government areas of ...

The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure has produced the first made in Nigeria ventilators. The development is aimed at combating the COVID-19 disease in the country. Ventilator is a vital equipment in the treatment of coronavirus patients. NASENI ...

At least five people have been killed and several others injured on Monday at Kakuri and Trikania community in Kaduna South Local Government Area of the state. The incident happened when police operatives and members of the Civilian Joint Taskforce ...

President Uhuru Kenyatta has directed the Ministry of Sports, Culture and Heritage to set aside Ksh.100 million to to cushion local artistes from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Addressing the Nation on the state of the COVID-19 outbreak in ...

The Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has remanded the two pilots of Carveton Helicopters, Samuel Ugorji and Samuel Buhari in prison custody, for allegedly disobeying the Executive Order issued by the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, ...

Tragedy struck in the early hours of Monday in the Angwa Tiv area of the Kogi State capital, Lokoja when a 23-year-old simply identified as Bayo committed suicide. Bayo, according to a source who resides on an adjacent street, was ...

Seven patients receiving treatment for COVID-19 have tested negative and discharged in Abuja. Muhammad Bello, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, just broke the news. Bello said, “Let me begin by appreciating the high level of compliance so far exhibited ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Wednesday night recorded sixteen new cases of Coronavirus. Ten cases were recorded in Lagos; two cases were recorded in the FCT, two in Oyo, one in Delta and one in Katsina state. ...

Controversial Nollywood actress, Nkechi Blessing has reacted to the recent sentencing of her colleague, Funke Akindele for disobeying an order restricting social gathering due to coronavirus. Funke Akindele-Bello was arrested and sentenced by the Lagos state police command over the ...

Nigerian singer and songwriter, Ayoleyi Hanniel Solomon, better known as Reekado Banks is currently stranded in another African country, Gabon, urging the federal government to open borders, so he can return home. The 26-year-old musician can not return to his ...

A student has spent thousands of dollars on becoming a real-life mermaid after being inspired to look like Disney princess Ariel when she met The Little Mermaid as a child. Corrine Hinton, 22, has shelled out at least $3,000 on ...

Lizzo, Billie Eilish and Sir Elton John will perform at a TV concert curated by Lady Gaga, which will celebrate health workers amid the coronavirus crisis. Gaga, along with the group Global Citizen, has already raised $35m (£28m) for the ...

A Romanian maternity unit was being investigated on Tuesday after 10 newborns tested positive for the novel coronavirus, with the suspicion they contracted the virus from healthcare staff. “The mothers tested negative, but the babies tested positive so we have ...

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has said private hospitals are not allowed to treat COVID-19. Abayomi was speaking in Alausa, Ikeja, in reaction to a COVID-19 patient who died at a private hospital in Lagos. He ...

The Seven-Up Bottling Company has announced donation of one million bottles of Aquafina drinking water brand and other beverages in its portfolio to the Lagos State Emergency Food Relief. Another one million bottles, according to the firm, will be donated ...

Police officers in Akwa Ibom deployed to various locations across the state say they stand the risk of contracting the virus. They accused the government and other relevant stakeholders of failing to provide them with protective items such as face ...

The Lagos State Government will from the next academic session enforce the entry age of 12 years for pupils seeking admission into junior secondary school (JSS1) to check the registration of under-aged kids. Also, a fine of N50,000 for first ...

Miss England 2019 has decided to hang up her crown and return to work as an NHS doctor during the coronavirus pandemic. Bhasha Mukherjee was a junior doctor specialising in respiratory medicine before competing in the Miss World pageant on ...

Actress Honor Blackman, who played iconic Bond girl Pussy Galore, has died aged 94. The star of film, TV and theatre appeared with Sean Connery in the 1964 classic Goldfinger. At 38 — five years older than 007 Sean at ...

The Imo State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested one Chidi Gogoh with over 247.03 kilograms of cannabis sativa, otherwise known as Indian hemp. The 48-year-old suspect was arrested around 1.30am on Sunday at his family ...

The Taraba State Police Command on Monday said it had rescued additional 27 children from a suspected child trafficker, Mary Yakubu, in Taraba. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, David Misal, disclosed this in a statement. Misal said one Mary Yakubu ...

Nollywood actress Eniola Badmus took to her Instagram page to share an emoji, tagging her colleague Funke Akindele Bello after she posted it. Eniola posted a heartbreaking emoji to express how she feels about the arrest and judgement the court ...

The daughter of Floyd Mayweather is disheveled and on the verge of tears in a mugshot taken shortly after she is accused of stabbing the mother of her boyfriend’s child. Iyanna Mayweather, 19, looked weathered and worse-for-the wear after being ...

Nigerian Bishop, David Oyedepo has said the root of Coronavirus disease has been cursed and that Nigeria will soon experience a liberation. In one of his preaching, Oyedepo, Presiding Bishop, Living Faith Church Worldwide said “The root of coronavirus is ...

A three-storey building under construction has collapsed in the Enugu metropolis, Enugu State. The building on Ezeluike Street, Olympic Layout, off One Day Street, Agbani Road, Awkunanaw, in the Enugu South Local Government Area of the state, collapsed on Sunday ...