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Three persons have tested positive for Coronavirus in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja. According to a report by The Punch,  the capital index case is an official of the Federal Inland Revenue Service. He was one of the passengers on the British ...

The spiritual and traditional head of the Aborigine Ogboni worldwide, Oba Olakisan Adetoyese has offered to perform rituals to appease to gods in bid to end the scourge of coronavirus in the country. Oba Adetoyese said that the federal government ...

The Spanish Government is ordering the closure of all hotels across the country by next Thursday so they can be converted into hospitals after the country’s death toll rose by 169 in a day to 1,002 The Ministry of Health ...

There are 10 new cases of confirmed coronavirus in Nigeria, the Federal Government has announced. Three of the new cases are in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja and seven new cases in Lagos State. This brings the total number ...

American television talk show host Andy Cohen is the latest celebrity to test positive for the novel coronavirus. The 51-year-old host of the long-running late-night show “Watch What Happens Live” revealed on his Instagram page that he tested positive for ...

2019 Big Brother Naija former housemate, Diane Yashim, popularly called Diane Russet, has recounted how she once ‘hated God’ because of what she went through after the death of her father. The reality star in a recent interview with The ...

A cluster of 35 coronavirus cases linked to a marriage ceremony near Sydney and new government measures have hit Australia’s multi-billion-dollar wedding industry and forced many tearful couples to cancel the big day. Restrictions on gatherings of more than 100 ...

The Anambra state police command have arrested 75-year- old man, Raphael Mbanyereude aka Papa Okoye, pictured above, for allegedly defiling two sisters aged two and four in Okija, Ihiala Local government area of Anambra state. In a statement released on ...

Gboyega Akosile, chief press secretary to the governor says some hospitals in Lagos state have started receiving patients suffering from chloroquine poisoning. Akosile who quoted Oreoluwa Finnih, senior special assistant to the governor on health, urged people to stay away ...

A man in Spain has been arrested for walking the streets wearing a T-Rex dinosaur outfit to take his trash outside while the country is on lockdown. It is gathered that the man who tested positive for coronavirus was arrested ...

Canada’s cases of the COVID-19 respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus passed more than 1,000 on Friday. The sobering reality of the pandemic has made Prime Minister Justin Trudeau roll out a series of measures to stop further spread of ...

An Osogbo Magistrates’ Court on Friday ordered the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi, to appear in person for the hearing of a matter bordering on allegations of assault filed against him by the Agbowu of Ogbaagba, Oba Dirkrullahi Akinropo. ...

American country music legend Kenny Rogers has died aged 81. A family representative said he “passed away peacefully at home from natural causes”. Rogers topped pop and country charts during the 1970s and 1980s, and won three Grammy awards. Known ...

There was chaos on Friday in Minna, Niger State, when angry commercial motorcyclists, popularly known as okada riders, burnt down the office of the Federal Road Safety Corps . The okada riders were angry over the death of one of ...

A former General Evangelist, Christ Apostolic Church, Prophet Samuel Abiara, has urged world leaders to seek God’s intervention by convening national prayer sessions in addition to proactive medical measures being taken to end the COVID 19 pandemic. Abiara, who said ...

Zimbabwe on Friday reported its first coronavirus case, a man who returned to his home in the tourist resort town of Victoria Falls from Britain at the weekend. “The is the first case of Covid-19 in Zimbabwe,” said Health Minister ...

A staff in the office of US Vice President Mike Pence, the pointman for Washington’s response to the coronavirus outbreak, has tested positive for the illness, a spokeswoman said Friday. “Neither President Trump nor Vice President Pence had close contact ...

An armed robbery suspect caught while operating in Owerri, the Imo State capital, has been set ablaze by an angry crowd. The incident occurred in the early hours of Friday at ‘Batcher Estate,’ near Mechanic Village along Umukoto, Nekede in ...

The University of Abuja on Friday announced the indefinite suspension of 24 students of the institution arrested during cult initiation in Gwako village along Gwagwalada Road in the Federal Capital Territory. The students, including seven final year students, arrested by ...

A 20-year-old woman in Anambra State on Thursday tried to kill herself after discovering that her boyfriend was a married man. The woman, Oluchi Akabilo, from Obosi, in the Idemili North Local Government Area of the state, allegedly took a ...

The unnamed Italian was discharged on Friday night after receiving treatment for nearly a month in Lagos, the state governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said Earlier in the week, Nigeria’s health minister Osagie Ehanire said the patient had tested negative and that ...

  Operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, IRTA, has busted a Kano-based human trafficking syndicate which specialized in selling Nigerians into slavery in Libya.   According to a report by The Vanguard, a 28-year-old mother of two, Nofisat ...

Google on Friday, March 20 posted a handwashing video Doodle recognising Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis and creating awareness about handwashing to curtail the coronavirus outbreak. In the video, Google explained that the doodle follows the official guidelines on how to properly ...

Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, on Friday, barred social, political, religious and family gatherings of more than 20 persons as part of efforts to check the spread of coronavirus. The governor, who announced that “all public and private schools ...

A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, rejected an application to compel the Federal Government to totally bar entry into the country from the US, Iran and China. Justice Inyang Ekwo refused the ex parte motion filed by an ...