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  At least, one person lost his life on Saturday when a police station and the official quarters of a Divisional Police Officer were burnt down in Kusada, headquarters of Kusada Local Government Area of Katsina State. The riot was ...

The Lagos State Government has taken delivery of a new isolation and treatment centre as additional measures to handle the coronavirus pandemic. The 110-bed facility which is located within the Mobolaji Johnson Arena, formally Onikan Stadium in Lagos Island comes ...

The Federal Capital Territory enforcement team on Saturday disrupted a wedding reception at Police Quarters at Wuse Zone 6 in Abuja. It was learnt that the enforcement, acting on a tip-off, stormed the venue and “dispersed” the hosts and guests ...

University College Hospital, Ibadan, in Oyo State has written an open letter to “well-meaning groups and associations” appealing for funds to enable it to upscale its isolation centre in response to the wide-spreading coronavirus disease. The letter made public on ...

An infant in Illinois under the age of one has died after testing positive for coronavirus. ‘There has never been a case of COVID-19 death in an infant,’ said Illinois Public Health Director, Dr Ngozi Ezike. The child was among ...

The Zaria Zonal Command of Kaduna state Vigilante Service (KadVS) on Saturday arrested four bridegrooms for violating the ban on large gathering imposed by the state government. Malam Bala Galadima, Zaria Zonal Commandant of KadVS, told the News Agency of ...

The number of coronavirus cases in Nigeria hit 97 on Saturday evening with eight fresh cases, says the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. “As at 10:40 pm 28th March, there are 97 confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported in Nigeria with ...

Mali recorded its first coronavirus death on Saturday, a day before the West African country voted in a long-delayed parliamentary election threatened by both the pandemic and security concerns. The kidnapping of the leader of the main opposition party earlier ...

Osun State Government on Saturday said it had received and kept in isolation some indigenes of the state that recently returned from the Ivory Coast. The travellers, said to be about 120, arrived in the state on Friday and moved ...

A preliminary study has found correlations between blood type and the likelihood of being hospitalised with COVID-19, which has infected 25,066 people worldwide, according to an AFP tally. Researchers at the Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China, conducted ...

There was pandemonium at the Gbagada General Hospital, Lagos, on Thursday when four white men suspected to have coronavirus were brought to the emergency ward of the hospital for treatment. According to sources at the hospital, the men said to ...

No fewer than 41 guests and workers of a hotel in Owerri, the Imo State capital have been quarantined by the State Government following a suspected case of COVID-19. The hotel, identified as Fancy Hotel, is situated at Road 7, ...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and 33 of its partners in the oil and gas sector have contributed $30 million, about ₦11.4 billion to curb the coronavirus pandemic and reduce its effects on the Nigerian economy and populace. The NNPC’s ...

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has said Nigeria’s health care system cannot withstand a coronavirus pandemic on the scale of America and Europe. He, therefore, called on the government and the citizens to do everything to curb the spread of the virus. ...

The Aliko Dangote Foundation has donated four ambulances to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control to aid its fight against COVID-19 spread in the country. The centre on saturday wrote on its website that it was grateful to the billionaire ...

South African police enforcing a coronavirus lockdown on Saturday fired rubber bullets towards hundreds of shoppers queueing outside a supermarket in Johannesburg, an AFP photographer said. Between 200 and 300 people gathered outside a popular grocery store, Shoprite, early Saturday ...

  Some angry mob has reportedly set a police station ablaze in the home state of President Muhammadu Buhari Katsina State. it was gathered that the police had blocked them from observing the weekly Friday Jumat prayer. The police were ...

Following the recommendation of the state’s inter-ministerial committee on COVID-19 based on situational reviews, Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, has approved the closure of all the state’s land borders with effect from 4am on Sunday, 29th March, 2020. The ...

Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai has tested positive for coronavirus. “Earlier this week, I submitted a sample for the Covid-19 test,” El-Rufai said in a video posted on Twitter. “The result came in this evening, and I regret to say ...

Two clerics have been arrested in Kaduna State for conducting congregational prayers. The state government announced this via Twitter on Saturday, noting that their action was in violation of the State public health preventive measures against the COVID-19. According to ...

The Lagos State Government has suspended its earlier decision to close Marine Bridge for six months for repair, following the swelling cases of COVID-19 in the state. The Public Affairs Unit of the State Ministry of Transportation (MOT) had announced ...

The late proprietor of Bethlehem Girls’ College, Rev Sis Henrietta Alokha, who died in the explosion that rocked Abule-Ado in the Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State, has been buried. The late Alokha, who was a member of ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced new cases of confirmed COVID-19. Nigeria now has 89 confirmed cases of the virus. NCDC, in a tweet, said seven of the new cases are in Lagos with one in Benue.

The (TRAWSO), Osun State on Friday offered rituals to the gods to wane the spread of coronavirus in the world especially Nigeria. A masquerader accompanied by some Ifa priests offered the propitiation in Osogbo, Osun state capital. The masquerader carrying ...

Princess Maria Teresa of Spain has died aged 86 after testing positive for coronavirus. The princess, of the Bourbon-Parma Royal Family in Spain, passed away yesterday her younger brother, Prince Sixtus Henry of Bourbon-Parma, announced. She was born in Paris, ...