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The US recorded 518 new coronavirus-linked deaths in the span of 24 hours, according to data published Sunday by Johns Hopkins University. The record toll, higher than the previous day’s increase of 453, brings the country’s total number of deaths ...

The Ogun State Government said it has extended the closure of its borders till Monday night in alignment with the directive of the Federal Government concerning the restriction of movement within and outside its borders. Governor Dapo Abiodun in a ...

The Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen, has urged Nigerian women to take precautionary measures and stock their homes with food to remain at home to minimise the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Addressing journalists in Abuja on gender dimension ...

Iranian security forces are searching for 54 escaped inmates following a prison break over which four guards were arrested, Iran’s state news agency reported on Sunday. “Some prison guards were summoned and four of them were arrested and others released ...

President Patrice Talon announced on Sunday that Benin could not enforce public confinement because it lacks the “means of rich countries” who are fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. “Rich countries are putting up huge amounts of money and some are even ...

Spain confirmed another 838 deaths in 24 hours from coronavirus on Sunday, a new daily record bringing the total number of deaths to 6,528, according to health ministry figures. The number of confirmed cases in Spain has now reached 78,797 ...

Israel evacuated 274 of its citizens from Nigeria on Sunday. The move was not unconnected to the exploding cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria. The Israelis were evacuated via the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos and the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, ...

Saudi authorities have seized more than five million medical masks that were illegally stockpiled amid the coronavirus outbreak, state media reported on Sunday. The commerce ministry seized 1.17 million masks from a private store in Hail, northwest of the capital, ...

ADDRESS BY H.E. MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA  ON THE COVID- 19 PANDEMIC SUNDAY 29TH MARCH, 2020 Fellow Nigerians, From the first signs that Coronavirus, or COVID-19 was turning into an epidemic and was officially declared ...

The new mum shared the adorable photo on her instagram page.    

Boris Johnson’s sister-in-law has said she has also tested positive for Covid-19. Gabriela Maia, who is married to Boris’s financier half-brother, Max, said she is “still recovering from the virus with some respiratory difficulties”. The 30-year-old, who is pregnant, told ...

The provost and deputy provost of the University of Ibadan, UI, College of Medicine, Professors Ezekiel Olapade-Olaopa and Obafunke Denloye, have tested positive to Coronavirus. Olapade-Olaopa, who made this known in a Whatsapp group message on Sunday morning said: “Dear ...

A man has allegedly stabbed his pregnant wife to death two months after their wedding in Anambra. Rita Onyemauchechukwu Onyebuchi and her husband  Mr Ikechukwu popularly called “Agbada”, both from Anambra state, got married on January 10, 2020. The deceased ...

All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, is celebrating his 68th birthday today with a message on his “preliminary thoughts on the economic action”the country might take should coronavirus “mortally threaten” our economy. In the 9-point measures he ...

Odion Ighalo has won the Manchester United’s March Goal-of-the-Month award, for his sparkling effort against LASK in the Europa League. The former Super Eagles top striker scored a stunning goal against the Austrian club, after some skilled ball juggling in ...

Experts have cautioned against turning to alcohol to cope with the coronavirus lockdown as it can have severe implications on mental and physical health. The European arm of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said relying on alcohol is an ...

Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti on Sunday announced a lockdown in the state, directing residents to stay at home from Monday. The governor in a broadcast imposed a ban on all commercial activities as well as intra state travels,, except ...

Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau, the wife of Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, has recovered from coronavirus. “I am feeling so much better and have received the all-clear from my physician and Ottawa Public Health,” she wrote on her Facebook page. “From the ...

President Muhammadu Buhari will address Nigerians by 7pm today. His Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, disclosed this in a statement. Many Nigerians have been eager to hear what the President has to say on the raging COVID-19 ...

  Is paternity testing becoming an issue in Nigeria? We have seen that there is serious need for it because in many homes things are happening that are scary both to the lives of children and their parents. And for ...

Officials in the state of Illinois, United States, on Saturday reported the first death of an infant linked to the coronavirus  pandemic. The younger than one-year-old baby in Chicago tested positive for virus known as COVID-19. “There has never before ...

  The Comptroller-General ofNigeria Immigration Service, Mohammed Babandede, has tested positive for Coronavirus(COVID-19), he told PREMIUM TIMES Sunday morning, joining a list of officials who have tested positive to the virus. “I tested positive for COVID-19,” said Mr Babandede in a ...

Prof Jesse A. Otegbayo, the chief medical doctor, University College Hospital, Ibadan UCH has tested positive for coronavirus. This was disclosed on Sunday morning in a statement signed by the CMD himself. The statement reads: “On Monday 23rd March, we ...

Ben Bruce’s wife Evelyn Murray-Bruce, who sadly died of cancer this month has been laid to rest. She was laid to rest in the presence of her husband, children and very close friends. Evelyn is survived by her husband, children ...

There was bloodbath at Whitesand, a community between Festac in Amuwo Odofin area of Lagos and Isheri-Oshun area , as hoodlums numbering over 50 , attacked some persons, last Thursday. As you read this piece, two persons who had their ...