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No fewer than 27 people have been placed on compulsory self-isolation in Bauchi State. The compulsory isolation which covers a minimum of 14 days is to determine their coronavirus (COVID-19) status. This was disclosed in a situation update given by ...

The older brother to the Bauchi State Governor, Adamu Mohammed Duguri has been kidnapped. He was allegedly whisked away around 7:30 pm this evening at Anguwar Jaki in Bauchi metropolis. Although efforts to reach the Police to confirm the incident ...

It seems Taylor Swift isn’t the only one who has fallen out with Kim Kardashian. The reality star’s sister Kourtney physically lashes out at the 39-year-old and yells about her ‘fat ass’ during an angry argument on Keeping Up With ...

The Prince of Wales has tested positive for coronavirus, Clarence House has announced. Prince Charles, 71, is displaying mild symptoms “but otherwise remains in good health”, a spokesman said, adding that the Duchess of Cornwall, 72, has been tested but ...

Theater Arts and Motion Picture Practitioners Association of Nigeria (TAMPAN) has suspended movie production effective from Friday, March 27, due to the widespread of the coronavirus pandemic. According to the National President of the association Bolaji Amusan, who made known ...

The National Examinations Council (NECO) has postponed indefinitely the 2020 National Common Entrance Examination into Federal Unity Colleges earlier scheduled to hold on Saturday, March 28 2020. The announcement came as the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, has rolled ...

Harvard President Lawrence S. Bacow said he and his wife have tested positive for coronavirus. “We started experiencing symptoms on Sunday — first coughs then fevers, chills, and muscle aches and contacted our doctors on Monday,” he said in a ...

At least 92 soldiers from Chad have been killed in the deadliest-ever attack by the Boko Haram armed group on the country’s military forces, President Idriss Deby said on Tuesday. “We lost 92 of our soldiers, non-commissioned officers and officers,” ...

Corps members willing to travel to their various homes should be allowed to go, this was the directive given in a memo to all Area Coordinators signed by Sanusi A.R on behalf of the NYSC DG. The decision, according to ...

Rapper Slim Thug has tested positive for coronavirus amid the outbreak. But the musician, 39, took to Instagram to warn others after he fell ill despite following precautions with masks, gloves and “everything on”. The rapper – who has the ...

The speaker of the Edo state House of Assembly, Frank Okiye, has tested positive for Coronavirus. This was confirmed by the Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu today while briefing journalists. He said the state is taking measures to tackle further spread ...

Abba Kyari, chief of staff to President Muhammadu Buhari has been moved to Lagos for treatment of his coronavirus infection, media sources claim. He will be treated at the Mainland Infectious Disease Hospital, in Yaba. University of Abuja Gwagwalada Teaching ...

Chairman, Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has told all governors to go into self-isolation immediately after being exposed to contacts who have tested positive for Coronavirus. Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari and Governor Bala Mohammed ...

Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally has died of coronavirus aged 81. The complications brought on by the disease killed him. Terrence had died at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Florida, according to his representative. The star suffered with chronic COPD and he ...

The Minister of Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Malam Muhammad Bello, has ordered the closure of shops in markets and neighborhood centers to traders across Abuja due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. In a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Anthony ...

Governor Nyesom Wike has declared all Rivers state borders shut indefinitely, barring movement in and out of the state from Thursday to guard against Corona Virus. The governor in a state broadcast Wednesday said his administration’s increasing measures have become ...

Idris Elba has hit out at accusations he was paid to announce that he’d contracted the potentially deadly coronavirus. The 47-year-old actor, who was diagnosed two weeks ago, has been in isolation with his wife Sabrina, 29, who revealed she’d ...

US President Donald Trump has said he hopes the US will shake off coronavirus by Easter, even as New York’s governor sounded the alarm that the illness is spreading faster than “a bullet train”. The president told a White House ...

Cardi B took to Instagram on Tuesday to criticize the US government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and for not paying for its costs. The 27-year-old rapper wore a surgical mask and pink T-shirt as she accused President Donald Trump, ...

There was gridlock at the Lokoja end of the Abuja/Lokoja Expressway on Tuesday as the driver of a J5 commercial bus was allegedly beaten to death for not paying N500 to produce officials on time. Eyewitnesses told Punch correspondent that ...

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has donated 1m euros (£920,000) to fight the coronavirus outbreak in Spain. Guardiola, who is at his home in Barcelona, has been working with his lawyers over the past few days to work out the ...

Hon. Justice Afam Nwobodo of the Enugu State High Court has sacked the traditional ruler of Umuogbugbuagu Autonomous Community, Ugwuoba in Oji River Local Government Area of the State, Chief Anayo Anochili. He held that Anochili was not qualified ab ...

Davido has revealed how he is struggling to cope with self-isolation following the spread of coronavirus in Nigeria. David Adeleke had to self-isolate after he attended a show with more than 50 people in the ancient city of Ibadan on ...

The son of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, Mohammed Atiku Abubakar, has accussed the Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, of lying about how he contacted coronavirus. Mr  Abubakar, in a short message shared with Premium Times via a WhatsApp platform, said ...

Divorce filings are skyrocketing from quarantine-weary and financially stressed couples, according to top matrimonial attorneys, who are experiencing a 50 percent rise in inquiries from potential clients. According to leading Manhattan family-law experts, some couples forced to spend time together ...