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No fewer than nine persons have been arrested in Ebonyi State for violating the state government’s ban on burials, weddings and others in the state. The Commissioner for Police, Awosola Awotinde, stated this during a live phone-in programme on the ...

A 25-year-old Nigeria, a student at Western Michigan University has died Saturday after contracting coronavirus. Bassey Offiong, was expected to graduate with a chemical engineering degree in a few weeks. His sister, Asari Offiong, said her brother told her he ...

More than 700,000 cases of the novel coronavirus have been officially declared around the world since the start of the pandemic, according to an AFP tally at 0800 GMT Monday based on official sources. There have been at least 715,204 ...

The death toll from alcohol poisoning in Iran has risen to 300 after people started to consume methanol because of a rumour that high proof alcohol could cure the coronavirus. Iranian media reports that more than 1,000 have been sickened ...

The former Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido, and his wives have tested negative for coronavirus which has killed many people globally. This was contained in a statement signed by the former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria’s son, Adam Sanusi, ...

Moscow entered lockdown today in a bid to slow the spread of coronavirus after the capital recorded more than 1,000 cases of the disease. Streets in the Russian capital were deserted today with Red Square empty after mayor Sergei Sobyanin ...

Singer 9ice’s ex-wife, Toni Payne yesterday sent the internet melting after going on the page of her ex-husband’s new wife, Olasunkanmi to wish her a happy birthday. Sunkanmi had turned a year older yesterday and Toni jumped on her page ...

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it has ordered the manufacturing of Chloroquine for emergency stock for possible clinical treatment of Coronavirus. The agency’s Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, in a statement made available to ...

The Enforcement Team of the Federal Capital Territory FCT Administration on Sunday evening shut down over 23 neighbourhood mosques and prayer grounds in the highbrow districts of Maitama, Wuse, Garki, and Asokoro. The enforcement team which was split into six ...

A plane believed to be conveying coronavirus medical supplies has crashed during takeoff. The aircraft, bound for Haneda, Japan, crashed at Manila International Airport in the Philippines, killing all the eight people on board, on Sunday. It had reportedly been ...

Ex-Beauty Queen, Anna Banner is starting another drama on instagram again. Anna has unfollowed her baby daddy, singer Flavour despite Flavour still follows her. It’s not the first time she would unfollow the singer, then follow him back. Let’s see ...

Spain has become the third country to surpass China’s coronavirus infection total after the number of cases rose by almost 6,400 overnight. Health authorities said Monday that they had diagnosed a total of 85,195 cases of the virus, up by ...

Phebean Ogundipe, author of famous English textbooks, Practical English and Brighter Grammar has died. She was 92. She died 27 March in Charlotte, North Carolina in the United States. Ogundipe, nee Itayemi, was born in Esa-Oke, Osun on 6 May ...

Bauchi Governor Bala Mohammed has offered N2 million as compensation for information that will lead to safe return  of his abducted brother. Unknown gunmen whisked away the governor’s elder brother, Adamu Mohammed about 7pm  at Kobi  street in Bauchi metropolis ...

Don Jazzy is just an ordinary human being who understands that when someone insults you unexpectedly could only mean, he is frustrated, angry or HUNGRY. Lol. So the music producer, joined many on twitter asking for God;s blessings and mercy ...

The Oyo State COVID-19 Security and Enforcement sub-committee has reportedly impounded 22 vehicles during its special night operations. The operation was aimed at enforcing compliance at club houses and public places in Ibadan, the state capital. The Executive Chairman, OYRTMA, ...

The Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Sunday said he had donated his 10-month salaries towards the efforts being made to check the spread of coronavirus in the state. He also said the technical committee on COVID-19 set up by ...

The Chairman, Ekiti State Universal Basic Education Board, Prof Francisca Aladejana, said on Sunday that the state government would on Monday begin teaching of primary school pupils on the state-owned radio station, Ekiti FM 91.5, to minimise the effect of ...

The Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, has declared a one-day fast against the outbreak of the coronavirus disease. He enjoined residents of the state to fast today (Monday) in order to seek divine intervention towards ending the pandemic Ganduje said ...

The Federal Government is planning to connect all tertiary institutions in the country to the Internet in the next five years. The government also plans to reach 50 per cent of secondary schools and 25 per cent of primary schools ...

Coronavirus is killing someone every nine and a half minutes in New York – with Donald Trump thinking of putting the entire city in quarantine. It emerged yesterday 151 people had died of the virus there in 24 hours with ...

Wuhan locals claim coronavirus has killed 42,000 people in the city alone, more than ten times the national figure claimed by Chinese authorities, Daily Mail reports. The killer bug, which originated in Wuhan in China’s Hubei Province has claimed the ...

The Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Saliu Adetunji, indicated on Sunday that all major engagements had been suspended at the palace in view of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. The monarch made the disclosure in a statement by his Personal ...

The youngest female ­murderer in Britain could be locked up for ever after a court heard she plotted to kill another inmate. Sharon Carr – dubbed the Devil’s Daughter lost a legal bid for cushier conditions after her sick fantasies ...

The national leader of the All Progressives Congress yesterday announced a donation of N200m to support the efforts at curtailing the novel Coronavirus disease. A N100m of the donation would be donated to the Lagos State Government; while the remaining ...