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The General Manager, Rivers State Newspaper Corporation, Mr Vincent Ake has been relieved of his appointment with immediate effect by Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State. The sack was contained in a terse Government statement signed by, Paulinus Nsirim,Commissioner for ...

South Africa on Friday reported its first two deaths from the novel coronavirus outbreak as the number of confirmed cases breached the 1,000 mark, the government said. “This morning we wake South Africans up with sad news that we now ...

Former Ogun State Commissioner of Youth and Sports, Bukola Olopade, has confirmed testing positive for coronavirus. He becomes the first sports personality in Nigeria to contract the virus. Olopade, who had earlier announced in a video post on Tuesday that ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has handed over 180 candidates in the just concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination (UTME) to the police for prosecution over alleged involvement in examination malpractices. It said 70 per cent of the candidates ...

Man’s best friend could be about to become humanity’s best friend after a charity said it believes dogs can smell coronavirus. Medical Detection Dogs, which already does pioneering work in cancer research and diabetes detection, hope they will soon play ...

Hundreds are feared to have contracted coronavirus as 10 backpackers tested positive for the virus after attending a party on Bondi Beach. Florencia Barreiro revealed herself and nine pals have all contracted the infection which has placed the world on ...

The Nigeria Medical Association of Nigeria, Kogi chapter, on Thursday, said  27 confirmed cases of Lassa Fever disease from nine local government areas of the state had been reported by the state epidemiologist. This was contained in a press statement ...

An aircraft operated by Air-France KLM on Thursday arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos to evacuate some European nationals from Nigeria. It was gathered that the flight, which also left the same day, got special approval from the ...

Five guns which were used in James Bond movies, including the last weapon brandished by actor Roger Moore while playing 007, have been stolen from a house in north London by suspects with Eastern European accents, British police said on ...

A compton gangster has boasted about his key role in the murder of Tupac Shakur in a tell-all book – bragging that the night of the shooting was just “another day at the office”. Self confessed criminal Keffe D Davis ...

R&B singer R. Kelly has cited the novel coronavirus in asking a federal judge to free him from a federal jail in Chicago as he awaits trial on child p.o.r.n.ography and other charges, a court filing by his lawyers saying ...

Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus, Downing Street has said. The PM was tested yesterday after experiencing mild symptoms. ”Over the last 24 hours I have developed mild symptoms and tested positive for coronavirus. I am now self-isolating, but ...

Cristinao Ronaldo set a bad example for his Juventus teammates when escaping Italy’s coronavirus outbreak to “take pictures by the pool” in Portugal, says one former club boss. Giovanni Cobolli Gigli took charge of the Serie A giants as chairman ...

Paul Pogba has updated Manchester United fans on how he is keeping himself entertained in isolation amid the coronavirus outbreak. With Premier League football postponed until at least 30 April and the British population asked to stay at home, footballers ...

The Duchess of Sussex’s first gig after quitting the royal family has been revealed – with Meghan voicing a Disney documentary on elephants. Her fee for the project is going entirely to the Elephants Without Borders charity – an organisation ...

Kenya has banned the importation of second-hand clothes , popularly known as “mitumba”, as a way of limiting the spread of coronavirus. “Importation of used clothes is suspended with immediate effect to safeguard the health of Kenyans and promote local ...

Anyone who engages children under 12 years as domestic workers in Edo state now risks seven years imprisonment. Also, anyone convicted for recruiting or receiving any child or adult for forced labour or even permitting any place or premises for ...

Shanghai Shenhua want Odion Ighalo to return to China by offering an irresistible £400,000 weekly wage in a new contract. Ighalo, who is on loan to Manchester United, is at present on £300,000 weekly wage at the club. He took ...

Pope Francis is in coronavirus danger after a Vatican worker who lives in his residence was hospitalised for testing positive for coronavirus. The unidentified clergyman has lived in the Holy See’s Saint Martha’s guest house for years, reports said. Pope ...

South Korea on Thursday renewed its concerns about Japan’s plan to release contaminated water from its disabled Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea. South Korea’s Office for Government Policy Coordination said Japan should ensure that its plan does not ...

Business tycoons including Aliko Dangote and Herbert Wigwe are spearheading a coalition of private-sector organisations to support the Federal Government in tackling the COVID-19 virus in Nigeria. The initiative, which is called the Coalition Against Coronavirus (COCAVID), will involve the ...

Kaduna State Government has imposed curfew following what it called non-compliance to certain measures put in place to stop the spread of COVID-19. The Deputy Governor, Dr Hadiza Balarabe, who made this known on Thursday, in the second state broadcast ...

The United Bank for Africa, UBA, has said it would provide N5 billion to the COVID-19 Relief Support across Africa. The bank said it would provide the money through the UBA Foundation. According to tweets on its twitter handle on ...

All Church of England churches are to close with immediate effect, including for private prayer, in an effort to help limit the transmission of the coronavirus COVID-19. The archbishops and bishops of the Church of England have written collectively to ...

Debris is strewn across gardens after a man trying to make cannabis oil caused a huge explosion. Fire ripped through a block of flats with one neighbour leaping 12ft on to a trampoline to escape. James Toogood, 36, used butane ...