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Egypt has arrested and charged four prominent activists and authors who called for the government to release prisoners amid the coronavirus outbreak. The four women were arrested on Wednesday on the charge of spreading false news and violating the country’s ...

A 60-year-old inmate was among 25 others, who participated at the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), by the JAMB at the Ikoyi Custodial Centre school on Thursday in Lagos. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent, who monitored the examination, ...

Four Indian men convicted of the gang r.a.p.e and murder of a student in Delhi in 2012 have been hanged. Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh were sentenced to death by a trial court in 2013. The ...

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has directed churches in the country to conduct services online or use house cell based service. It also asked the churches to observe March 22 and March 29 as days of prayers against the ...

Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor on Thursday ordered the arrest of two people who appeared in a video drinking a disinfectant in a bid to stave off the new coronavirus. The young men were separately seen gulping down a steriliser in ...

Coronavirus has killed more people in Italy than in any other country, after deaths there rose by 427 in a day. The number of deaths now stands at 3,405, which is more than in China where the virus originated last ...

  A Pensioner in a coronavirus lockdown in Spain was brought to tears after her neighbours surprised her with a cake for her 80th birthday. The footage filmed in Lavapies, Madrid, shows the heartwarming moment a neighbour knocks on the ...

More than 1300 coronavirus suspects are being tracked in Lagos, after being in contact with the 11 confirmed positive cases, commissioner for health, Professor Akin Abayomi said yesterday. He said the government is following up the huge number of suspects ...

  Mrs Charlotte Oduro is a proven and approved marriage counselor in Ghana and for the past few years have been advising both women and men on how to make their marriage and relationships work.   In an interview with ...

  A man has authoritatively told Italian Authorities that he isn’t ready to be quarantined or made to stay indoors because his wife is another big problem.   The unidentified white disclosed in an interview after he was spotted outside ...

A twitter user has shared a gist of how her neighbour — a man went missing in November last year and his wife fasted, prayed and almost ran mad, only for the man to be seen in Ibadan, Oyo state ...

Ex beauty queen Iheoma Nnadi Emenike has showed off her new born. The now mom of two shared the photo on Instagram and says she can’t thank her husband enough.

Liberia’s oldest church, the Providence Baptist Church, has become the first in the country to suspend prayer services in the wake of coronavirus. The church in the capital, Monrovia, was established in 1821 by freed black slaves from the US. ...

A gang of thugs smashed a Sainsbury’s shop front in south London in a nighttime raid as supermarkets come under huge pressure amid coronavirus fears. Six men tried stealing alcohol from the New Kent Road store in Elephant and Castle ...

4 Kourtney Kardashian appeared to suggest the coronavirus was God punishing people for ‘evil’ behaviour. The reality star, 40, took to her Instagram Stories and shared a highlighted passage from the bible which had ‘Pay attention children’ written above it. ...

Four new cases of Coronavirus have been confirmed in Lagos, bringing the total confirmed cases in the state to 11. The state Commissioner of Health, Professor Akin Abayomi broke the news in a press briefing today. Professor Abayomi said tests ...

Amidst the fear of the spread to the state, Oyo state government on Thursday said the state has no record of positive case of the coronavirus. However, the government said there is the suspected case of an individual, a UK returnee who ...

Mauritius has confirmed its first three cases of coronavirus. Two of the three cases involve cruise ship workers aged 21 and 25, while the third is a traveller from the UK aged 59. Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth said the three ...

Former Cardiff City and Aston Villa midfielder Peter Whittingham has died at the age of 35. Whittingham had been fighting for his life in Cardiff’s Heath Hospital, before passing away on Thursday morning. Police confirmed he had suffered a fall ...

Liverpool and Senegal striker Sadio Mane has donated a whooping £41,000 to a health organization fighting the spread of coronavirus in Senegal as the West African nation comes to grips with the global pandemic. Senegal has 27 confirmed cases of ...

The Italian national who brought the deadly Coronavirus to Nigeria has now tested negative to the disease. Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi disclosed this on Thursday at a news conference to give update on the pandemic. He ...

Following the recent directives by the Lagos and Ogun state governments placing a ban on all religious meetings and gatherings of more than 50 worshippers in Lagos, as part of the precautionary steps towards managing the further spread of the ...

A top Kenyan doctor is waiting for his results after developing coronavirus symptoms. Ahmed Kalebi, the co-founder and chief executive of Lancet Laboratories, tweeted that he had self-isolated after developing fever and cough. The doctor said he had travelled to ...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) is presiding over the monthly National Economic Council (NEC) meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Leading a prayer at the opening of the meeting, Nasarawa Governor, Abdullahi Sule, prayed God to help with wisdom to ...

The Niger State Government has directed the closure of Public and Private Schools as well as Tertiary Institutions across the State. The closure will take effect from Monday, 23rd March 2020. The closure of the Public, Private Schools and Tertiary ...