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The Imams for the Ughelli main Mosque and Okorodafe Mosque were both invited by the Police following Friday Jumat services in the mosques despite the 14-day lockdown ordered by the Delta State Government. Hundreds of Muslims had despite the lockdown, ...

Ondo State has recorded its FIRST coronavirus case, about five weeks after the first case of the disease was reported in Nigeria. The Governor of the state, Rotimi Akeredolu, announced this via his verified Twitter handle this evening. He revealed ...

The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved $1.9 billion first set of emergency support operations for developing countries around the world, using a dedicated, fast-track facility for COVID-19 response. However, the global financial powerhouse excluded Nigeria from the ...

The Federal Government has said that 18 Chinese doctors are on their way to Nigeria with medical supplies including ventilators, to assist in overcoming the COVID-19 global pandemic. The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, said this on Friday in ...

Commercial s.e.x workers were today evicted from a hotel at Ugbague area of Benin in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State over fear of possible spread of coronavirus in the area. Speaking with journalists, the Owner of the facility ...

Kwara State Government has denied that the state has recorded a case of COVID-19. It, however, said that all the six samples of suspected cases so far tested in the state have been negative. “The Kwara State Technical Committee on ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Friday night confirmed twenty new cases of Coronavirus in the country. Eleven cases were confirmed  in Lagos, three cases confirmed in the FCT, 3 in Edo, twi in Osun and one in Ondo ...

  After previously targeting a return on April 30, the Premier League announced on Friday that play will not resume by that date and matches remain suspended indefinitely. The Premier League originally announced their suspension on March 13 following Arsenal’s announcement that ...

American citizens who were scheduled to be evacuated from Nigeria through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos were yesterday stranded at the airport. The flight could not get clearance to fly over some countries whose airspace has been closed on ...

Some women in Federal Housing, Ado-Ekiti, on Friday said that the lockdown order, occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic, is taking its toll on them. They decried the sudden hike in prices of some food items and disruption of their petty ...

The State Chairman, Imo State Hoteliers Association, Chima Chukwunyere, has said that the figures of those quarantined at a hotel Umuguma, in Owerri, were 30 in number. Chukwunyere spoke in Owerri, on Friday, as he called on the Nigeria Centre ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has commended Nigeria’s response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Speaking during a virtual news briefing in New York, Guterres singled out Nigeria as one of the developing countries that have “shown a remarkable capacity to ...

Sergio Rossi, one of the most famous Italian shoe designers, has died of the coronavirus disease, an Italian official said today. Several Italian media reported that Rossi, who was born in 1935, died on Thursday in a hospital in Cesena ...

An entire family including eleven children have contracted COVID-19 in Spain and are under strict isolation in their home. The Cebrian Gervas family have been forced to lock themselves away in Valladolid in north-west Spain after every single one of ...

The death of a Chartered Accountant, Alhaji Jimoh Muideen, on Thursday night in University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITHC) who just returned from the United Kingdom where he had gone to attend the graduation ceremony of one of his children ...

Five Rwandan soldiers have been arrested after residents of a slum in the capital, Kigali, alleged that they r.a.p.e.d women as they enforced a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of Covid-19, the army has said. Residents of Nyarutarama have ...

The Federal Government has asked Governors to provide, at least, 300-bed space facilities in their respective state “in case of upsurge in the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic spreading across the country”. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, ...

The Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company Plc (IBEDC) says there will be no disconnection of electricity to non-paying customers during this period of lockdown in Coronavirus pandemic. Its Chief Operating Officer, Mr John Ayodele made this known in a statement issued ...

Alicia Keys has bravely opened up about her experiences as a young woman in the music industry, shedding light on some of her most harrowing ordeals. The American singer-songwriter recalled an incident when she was “manipulated” and “objectified” while shooting ...

Spain, one of the countries worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic, has registered 932 new COVID-19 deaths within 24 hours, bringing the total to 10,935, the Health Ministry in Madrid announced on Friday. For the second day in a row, ...

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Adamawa State has trained and deployed 300 personnel across the state to sensitise and enforce compliance with directives issued by government. Speaking to journalists at the Command Headquarters in Yola, the ...

For 10 days after giving birth to her first child, the mother was not allowed near him after she tested positive for coronavirus, for fear of infecting her newborn. And even though she has since been reunited with her son, ...

A group of Kenyan pastors have asked the government to include churches in the list of “essential services” to allow them to remain open as the country battles the Covid-19 outbreak. The preachers representing churches in Makueni country in eastern ...

An Osun State High Court sitting in Ikirun, on Thursday, sentenced two men to death by hanging for killing one Rofiat Adebisi, who at the time of her death was a student of the Osun State University, Osogbo. Giving his ...

A motorist, identified as Joseph Pessu, was shot dead in Warri, Delta State, on Thursday, by a soldier for allegedly flouting the state government’s sit-at-home order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Eyewitnesses said the middle-aged motorist, who was ...