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The Cross River State Government on Monday turned back 35 American oil workers over coronavirus screening. The state government was said to have asked the workers to go for further screening in Lagos or Abuja before they would be allowed ...

Billionaire businessman and one of Africa’s richest entrepreneurs, Mike Adenuga, on Monday, announced a donation of N1.5 billion to the initiatives to combat coronavirus in Nigeria. He announced the donation in a letter sent to the Lagos State Governor, Jide ...

Drake’s son Adonis has made his Instagram debut, more than two years after his birth. Rapper Drake, 33, who has kept his son out of the private eye, posted a series of candid snaps of himself with the toddler and ...

The police in Imo state have arrested a housewife, Mrs. Ada Amuzie, for killing a commercial s.e.x worker, identified simply as Hapiness. The police said Amuzie had accused Happiness of dating her husband, Ejike Lambert Amuzie. It was gathered that ...

Prince Charles was today allowed out of self-isolation one week after being diagnosed with coronavirus and is in ‘good health’, royal aides have said. The 71-year-old Prince of Wales had a ‘mild’ form of the illness which first saw him ...

A recovered COVID-19 patient, Oluwaseun Ayodeji Osowobi, has shared how she successfully beat the virus and tested positive twice following treatment at Mainland Hospital, Yaba, Lagos. In a series of tweets on her handle, she shared her survival story, revealing ...

Saudi Arabia is hijacking mobile phone data to track the movements of its citizens living in the US, new information leaked by a whistleblower suggests. Data shows that the kingdom’s three biggest mobile phone providers sent millions of requests to ...

The Federal Competition & Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) is to prosecute four supermarkets and their proprietors in Abuja for alleged arbitrary hike of prices of sanitizers, hand-wash liquids, disinfectants and other anti-bacterial hygiene products. According to Court documents, the four ...

Police in Shinyalu, Kakamega County, Kenya are searching for a man who allegedly killed his younger brother following a quarrel over Sh160. Shinyalu OCPD Robert Makau said the suspect, 31, went into hiding after killing his brother, 23, in a ...

Lawmakers in the Senate chamber of the National Assembly have agreed to contribute 50 percent of their salaries to the efforts to curb the spread and treatment of coronavirus in the country. The Senate Committee Vice Chairman on Media and ...

The Finance Minister, Zainab Ahmed, on Monday, stated that President Muhammadu Buhari has allowed skeletal operations in the financial system and money markets during the lockdown in Lagos, Abuja and Ogun. In a statement on Monday titled, “Notice to affected ...

Two Chinese expatriates working in Ebonyi state have been kidnapped by unknown gunmen. The incident, it was learnt, happened in Ishiagu, Ivo Local government area of the state. They are said to be working for a mining company in the ...

As corporate bodies and individuals have been supporting the federal and state governments with resources to cushion the effect of the coronavirus pandemic, Nigerians have called on telecommunication companies to cut down on data price or give free data. Following ...

The Lagos State Government has confirmed that five additional patients who have recovered from Coronavirus, COVID-19, have been discharged on Monday from Infectious Disease Centre, Yaba Mainland Hospital. Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Gbenga Omotosho, when contacted through his ...

Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde has tested positive for coronavirus. He made the announcement via his Twitter handle. “I just received my COVID-19 confirmation test result. It is POSITIVE. I am asymptomatic and will continue to self-isolate. “I have designated ...

    The CEO of fancy hotel, Christogonus Aguwa Osuagwu who just came back from Europe, where Corona Virus is ravaging has been reported died.   Açording to report from undisclosed source, instead of subjecting himself to test, he flew ...

Sitting on a beach in Devon and staring up at the sky, teen sweethearts Sam Penny and Derek MacMillan wondered where life would take them. It was then, as a plane flew overhead, that Sam suggested Derek could join the ...

The German Mission in Nigeria is planning to evacuate interested nationals from Nigeria. This is not unconnected to the exploding cases of COVID-19 in the country which hit 111 on Sunday, March 29. Some countries including France and Israel have ...

The Police have arrested Pastor Augustine Yiga of Revival Church Kawala, Rubaga Division in Kampala, Uganda over false utterances and passing harmful propaganda relating to the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the country. Yiga had said coronavirus is just a ...

The daughter of a cabbie who died of Covid-19 believes he caught the killer disease off cash from one of his fares. Relatives of Spencer Kurash join families across the UK to speak of their horror a death toll passed ...

President Donald Trump says the US will not foot the bill for Prince Harry and Meghan’s security amid reports that the pair have moved to the US from Canada. Mr Trump tweeted he was “a great friend and admirer of ...

A Nairobi hotel has released a Kenyan student it had detained over a Sh45,000 bill she had accumulated during her Covid-19 isolation stay. Nairobi News had reported last week that Mayombe Odubah had been detained at Pride Inn hotel by ...

Media Personality cum singer Tanasha Donna has finally admitted to have ended her relationship with Tanzanian singer Diamond Platnumz. In an Interactive Insta-Live, Donna disclosed that its never easy to deal with a breakup, but she will be sharing her ...

Justin Bieber took to Instagram on Sunday afternoon to host a virtual Sunday Service with some of his personal favorite preachers. And during the nearly one hour discussion, the 26-year-old took a moment to voice how ‘obsessed’ he is with ...

Police in Tanzania’s commercial capital Dar es Salaam are holding a couple for allegedly spreading false information about coronavirus. Dar es Salaam’s police chief Lazaro Mambosasa said that the husband and wife ridiculed the government while they were on public ...