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A 12-year-old with no pre-existing medical conditions is fighting for life on a ventilator after contracting coronavirus. The girl, who has been named only as Emma, was diagnosed with pneumonia on March 15 and tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday ...

Three junior doctors at the same NHS hospital have contracted coronavirus, it is reported. It is believed the professionals, each aged 30, are on ventilators and are being treated by colleagues at a hospital which has not been named. They ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has announced four new coronavirus infections in the country. The announcement states that Nigeria’s COVID-19 infections now peak at 40. The NCDC made the announcement via its verified Twitter handle @NCDCgov on Monday night. ...

Juventus striker Gonzalo Higuain controversially broke quarantine rules in Italy to be with his cancer-stricken mother, his brother has revealed. The former Chelsea forward, 32, fled the coronavirus-hit country – where almost 5,000 people have died – seven days into ...

You’d be hard pressed to stroll into a supermarket and be met with an endless supply of toilet paper since the coronavirus outbreak has caused shortages across the world due to people stockpiling. But a talented baker has used his ...

The Bayelsa State Government has barred persons coughing, sneezing or showing any sign of respiratory infection from boarding any commercial vehicles and boats in the state. This was contained in a statement on Monday by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of ...

Samuel Eto’o posted an emotional birthday message to Ronaldinho as the Brazilian football legend spent his 40th birthday in a Paraguayan jail. Together at Barcelona, Samuel Eto’o and Ronaldinho won two Champions League titles, four La Liga, one Copa del ...

Former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has reacted to reports that his son refused to isolate himself upon return. Atiku had on Sunday revealed that his son tested positive for the deadly disease. He said he has been moved ...

A 30-year-old passenger who was aboard a Mombasa-bound bus from Nairobi is said to have collapsed and died at the Mtito Andei stopover. According to the police report, the man started coughing, collapsed and died. Police said the incident was ...

  Football players Dayo Ojo and Benjamin Iluyomade have been kidnapped by gunmen, according to a press statement from Nigeria Professional Football League outfit, Enyimba. The incident took place on Sunday along the Benin-Owo expressway as the trio of Ojo, Iluyomade and Emmanuel ...

Borno Government has imposed a four-week ban on visitors to all Internally Displaced Persons Camp (IDPs) camps in the state. The move is the strategy to containing the outbreak of the virus in the state. The Chairperson of the State ...

The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu has warned Nigerians against social visits to police stations nationwide. According to a series of tweets by the Nigeria Police, the IGP also cautioned the citizens to minimise official visits to police stations, ...

One of the daughters of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has reacted to her brother testing positive for coronavirus in a video saying, her brother Mohammed Abubakar didn’t deliberately spread COVID-19 in Abuja has been speculated. While addressing Nigerians, she said ...

The federal government of Nigeria has said it will deploy the military and police to enforce social distancing as part of efforts to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus disease. Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, disclosed this while briefing ...

The federal government has announced immediate closure of all its borders to human traffic. The announcement comes as Nigeria recorded 36 cases of COVID-19, including one death. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, stated this ...

Lol, yes i said it (jokes). So Ay Comedian and his family are also staying at home to avoid contracting the deadly bug. AY shared the video implying one of the good reasons to stay at home for him is ...

The Ebonyi State government has banned all forms of public gathering in the state for one month. Deputy Governor Dr Kelechi Igwe announced the ban on Monday during a town hall meeting at the International Conference Centre in Abakaliki. He ...

Passengers at most of the Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) terminals today scrambled for position in buses in defiance to the social distancing directive passed by the state government. In the wake of rapidly increasing cases of Coronavirus disease in the ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Monday, arraigned the former Head of Service, Winifred Oyo-Ita, and two others before a Federal High Court, Abuja. The two others are one Garba Umar and Ubong Effiok. They were arraigned alongside six ...

The peace deal reached with bandits in Sokoto State has resulted in the surrender of weapons and recovery of over 300 cows, the State’s Commissioner for Security Matters Col. Garba Moyi (rtd) has disclosed in an interview with Dailytrust. Commenting ...

A commercial motorcyclist, whose identity could not be immediately ascertained, was on Sunday crushed to death by a truck in Osogbo, Osun State. The crash occurred at the popular Olaiya junction around 5.15pm, when a truck coming from the Ogo ...

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 35-year-old man, Habeeb Kasali, for allegedly killing his wife’s suspected lover, Bamidele Johnson. Kasali was reported to have used a pair of scissors to stab Johnson several times in his ...

Four persons have been apprehended by the operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Nasarawa State for alleged involvement in examination malpractices. They were apprehended on Saturday during the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. Parading the suspects at ...

Spanish opera singer Placido Domingo has announced through a Facebook post that he has coronavirus and is in self-isolation. In his statement, Domingo, 79, urged others to be ‘extremely careful’ and follow the basic guidelines of hand washing and social ...

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha has described the COVID-19 pandemic as deadlier than the Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast and other criminal activities in other parts of the country. He made the remark ...