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  Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday, announced that his former residence at the Presidential Hilltop, Abeokuta, Ogun State be used as Isolation centre for victims of the dreaded Coronavirus disease.   Obasanjo said the 32-room facility has been ...

  The Lagos state Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has stated that there will no longer be any curfew in the state The curfew had been planned by the government to allow the fumigation exercise of public space. Relying on experts advice, ...

  A lady on Twitter, has stirred up controversy on the platform after she stated that the day her husband asks her to pay rent would be the day she would pack out of his house.   The lady identified ...

  Verdict: False CLAIM: A viral message being shared among Nigerians on WhatsApp and Twitter claims that the Federal Government is set to pay citizens N8,500 per week to sustain the stay at home directive for the containment of the ...

Governor Rotimi Akeredolu this morning visited the scene of a strange massive blast that rocked Akure, Ondo State capital overnight. The blast, which occurred on Akure-Owo Road, was suspected to be from a meteorite. Tweeting about the incident the Governor ...

Twenty three passengers of the Niger State Transport Authority, Minna, travelling to Katsina State have been kidnapped. Punch gathered that two of the abducted passengers have been released after their families paid a ransom. It was reliably gathered that the ...

D’banj has revealed he slept in his room last night — 21 months after losing his first son. In a post on Instagram, he revealed he hasn’t slept in his room for the past months, but did last night and ...

Nigeria’s 43 cabinet ministers have donated 50 percent of their March salaries towards the federal government’s efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic, the Information Minister, Lai Mohammed, said on Saturday. According to Mohammed, the donation was coordinated by the Minister ...

The Lagos State Government will be closing down Jibowu and Yaba level crossing for the laying of track on the right side along the level crossings of the aforementioned. According to a Statement from the Lagos State Ministry of Transportation, ...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has ordered  a dusk-to-dawn curfew in the State starting from Sunday to allow the state to carry out a comprehensive disinfection. Sanwo-Olu, also announced that the state would shut its domestic airport. He said, “I ...

The city in China where the coronavirus pandemic began, Wuhan, has partially re-opened after more than two months of isolation. Crowds of passengers arrived at Wuhan train station on Saturday. People are being allowed to enter but not leave, according ...

US Embassy and Consulate in Nigeria says it is preparing emergency flights to evacuate its citizens in Nigeria despite airport closures. This is not unconnected to the exploding coronavirus cases in Nigeria which stand at 81 on Saturday morning according ...

A man who died after contracting coronavirus wrote daily updates from his hospital bed that he shared with his friends on Facebook. Danny Sharma, 38, had struggled with various health problems in recent years, including diabetes, which put him in ...

Former boxing world champion Amir Khan has become the latest sportsman to help in the fight against the coronavirus, offering his wedding venue for use by Britain’s National Health Service. Khan is ready to hand over the keys to the ...

A Heathrow worker and his pharmacist daughter died from Covid-19 in less than 24 hours. Sudhir Sharma, 61, died on Wednesday after contracting the coronavirus, the day before his 33-year-old daughter Pooja lost her battle with the disease. Speaking of ...

A US-based lab has unveiled a portable test that can tell if someone has COVID-19 in as little as five minutes, it said in a statement Friday. Abbot Laboratories said the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had given it ...

The World Health Organization has confirmed newspapers remain safe to read during the coronavirus pandemic. The WHO has stated that the likelihood of an infected person contaminating commercial goods is low, and therefore the risk of contracting COVID-19 through receipt ...

The Lagos State Government will be closing down Marine Bridge partially for repairs from 8.00 PM on Saturday March 28, 2020 to Saturday, August 15, 2020. A statement From the Ministry of Transportation disclosed that the construction works by the ...

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has imposed a dusk to dawn curfew as part of stringent measures to halt the spread of coronavirus pandemic in the state. The governor has also ordered the closure of markets except those selling ...

Chinese Government has donated medical equipment to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in support of the fight against COVID-19 in Nigeria. Ambassador to Nigeria, Zhuo Pingjian, while delivering the medical items at the ministry in Abuja, said the outbreak of ...

Over 50 houses, including a church, have been destroyed by a bomb that exploded at about 12 midnight at Eleyewo in Akure North local government. The bomb was said to being conveyed by a lorry. Security operatives at the moment ...

Femi Fani-Kayode has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to conduct a live television broadcast to assure Nigerian people that he is well and that he has not fled the nation’s shores to seek medical treatment elsewhere. He said the rumours going ...

The last executive session of the Senate before sitting was suspended for two weeks was with a drama over COVID-19. About 35 Senators who recently came back from London after a seminar on Petroleum Industry Governance Bill were isolated by ...

A 14-year-old girl allegedly hanged her one-year-old son because she wanted to stay out with her friends. The teenager, Arisa Udsanee, had left the youngster with her parents who were angry when she returned home late in Bueng Kan, northeast ...

The Governor of Oyo State, Mr Seyi Makinde, has sacked his Special Assistant on Digital Media, Muritala Adigun, for allegedly feeding the public with misleading information. His letter of termination of appointment, signed by the Secretary to the State Government, ...