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Alfa Sa’adu, a medical doctor of Nigerian origin who lives in the United Kingdom, has died of the coronavirus. Sa’adu, 68, who is also the galadima of Pategi in Kwara State, died of complications from the disease on Tuesday. Aisha ...

A man who bonded out of jail went home to find his girlfriend sleeping with her lover, so he allegedly killed them both, according to police. Kenyatta Bellamy, 50, left jail on Tuesday after spending a year behind bars for ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has donated three ventilators to two General hospitals to support the Federal Government’s fight against Coronavirus in the country. The board disclosed this in a statement, signed by Dr Fabian Benjamin, Head of ...

The drug for the treatment of the dreaded coronavirus will be ready soon if the testing of the vaccine is completed. The assurance was given by the Chairman of the Imo State Taskforce on COVID-19, Prof. Maurice Iwu in Owerri ...

A call has gone to well-meaning individuals in the country, as well as, corporate organisations to support the government in its efforts at combating the prevalent coronavirus pandemic, as government alone cannot provide the wherewithal to tackle the disease. Ogun ...

Bauchi residents are rushing to stock food items and other essential products barely some hours to the total lockdown of the state. The state government announced that effective Thursday night, movement into and out of the state would be restricted ...

Lionel Messi has confirmed Barcelona players are taking a 70 per cent pay cut during the coronavirus pandemic. Additional funds will be directed to club staff throughout the crisis with a statement made on Monday following reports that players were ...

Co-founder and CEO of iROKOtv, Jason Njoku has revealed on social media how his 73-year old mom miraculously survived coronavirus. Writing on twitter, he explained how he felt during her ordeal, but grateful she is back home from the hospital. ...

The Kaduna State government on Tuesday withdrew the licence of Liberation College Tirkania over the alleged r.a.p.e of a nine-year old pupil by the proprietor, Mr Samuel Ejikeme. Commissioner for Education, Dr Shehu Makarfi said in a statement that the ...

Every April 1 is celebrated as April Fools’ Day but this year some countries have warned their citizens against making April Fool’s Day pranks that are related to coronavirus. Countries like Thailand and India threaten jail time for those who ...

Criticism has trailed a clergyman who is selling a small bottle of oil and a piece of red yarm as ‘protection kits against coronavirus.’ The faith healer identified as Bishop Climate Wiseman, head of the Kingdom Church in Camberwell, south ...

A Kashmiri villager faked his death and travelled more than a hundred miles in an ambulance with four others in a desperate bid to circumvent India’s virus lockdown and return home, police said on Wednesday. Hakim Din was being treated ...

  Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday he “cannot” declare a nationwide lockdown even in the face of a spike in the number of confirmed coronavirus infections. “If I’m asked whether we can impose a lockdown like France, ...

Piers Morgan has revealed that his youngest son Albert, 19, has shown ‘mild symptoms’ of coronavirus. Piers who shares Albert, Spencer, 26, and Stanley, 22, with his ex-wife Marion Shalloe and also has an eight-year-old daughter, Elise, with wife Celia ...

Despite lockdown, tragedy struck in Lagos on Tuesday as Dangote Cement silo truck crushed six persons to death after Epe Long bridge, Epe area of Lagos. Director-General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, Dr. Femi Oke-Osanyintolu confirmed that six people ...

Harrowing video footage and photos appear to show the moment bodies are loaded onto freezer truck with a forklift outside a New York hospital as coronavirus cases soar. The video, posted to social media was shared as the state’s coronavirus ...

Premier League ace Jack Grealish crashed his car following a 4am party – just hours after urging fans stay indoors for the virus lockdown. The Aston Villa hypocrite, 24, apparently smashed the £80,000 Range Rover into three parked cars near ...

An Enugu- born prophetess, Mrs. Sun Okoye, has claimed she has discovered drugs capable of curing the deadly COVID-19 coronavirus disease ravaging the world. She said she was ready for invitation from the federal and state governments to confirm the ...

The president of Belarus has shrugged off any concerns about coronavirus – and has urged residents to drink vodka and go to saunas. The country has seen no restrictions or lockdowns, with sporting fixtures all being played as normal. President ...

A woman who was diagnosed with Covid-19 and her baby have died during a caesarean section. The 37-year-old mother-to-be died in hospital in Spain on Sunday, local media reports. She was in quarantine at home with a high fever and ...

It’s been days in Nigeria, weeks in some countries and months in another since there has been a  coronavirus lockdown, in most parts of the world. Pyjamas are naturally becoming the national uniform and nobody has a clue what day ...

While the idea of building houses on the moon was once confined to the realm of science fiction, NASA hopes it could become a reality in the near future. Now, scientists have revealed a rather unusual building material for lunar ...

A “healthy” teenager died from suspected coronavirus after being told he had “nothing to worry about”. Luca Di Nicola, 19, worked as a chef at a family restaurant in Enfield, North London, before contracting Covid-19. Originally from east Italy, Luca, ...

The federal government on Tuesday said it would increase its capacity to test for the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) to 1,500 per day from the present 500 tests daily. The Director General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe ...

    Nigerians have slammed Regina Daniels’s mom — Rita Daniels, saying the tears she shed in a video where she wept about what the world is currently passing through is fake and ‘self-praise’. In the video, she lamented over ...