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The Senate on Wednesday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to personally address Nigerians on the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. The upper chamber also urged the Federal Government to take more drastic precautionary measures against the spread of the disease. The resolutions ...

A fast rising Port Harcourt artist Bright Moses known by his stage name as Shine BM or Bright Music is currently fighting for his life. It was learnt that the upcoming musician was attacked by yet to be identified cultists ...

The Federal Government has inaugurated a special task force to take charge of the national response strategy and management of the COVID-19. The task force will be headed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, while ...

Ulrika Jonsson has described her first night of s.e.x in five years as “fantastic”. The Swedish TV presenter, 52, divorced her third husband Brian Monet last year after the pair found themselves in a “s.e.xless marriage”. She later admitted she’d ...

Police in Ganze, Kilifi County have arrested a middle-aged man who confessed to killing his wife over allegations that she was engaging in an extramarital affair. Festus Baya Maitha, a civil servant attached to the IDs department in Kilifi, told ...

A routine question from her doctor about menstruation set Kenyan Julian Peter, now 29, down a path that led her to discover she was born without a womb, cervix or a vagina. Twelve years on she shared her story with ...

One person was reportedly killed on Tuesday during a clash between two rival groups over the control of a motorcycle/tricycle garage at Ganmo area, Ilorin, Kwara State. Daily trust correspondent gathered that the clash was triggered by two rival groups ...

Brazil confirmed its first COVID-19 death on Tuesday, as Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro declared a state of emergency over the virus outbreak. The South American country’s first victim was a 62-year-old man with underlying health conditions who died ...

Saudi Arabia has suspended prayers inside all but the holiest two mosques in Islam as the kingdom steps up efforts to contain the new coronavirus. Mosques will be temporarily shut for the five daily Islamic prayers as well as the ...

She claims she looks like the actress and even went ahead to make the same hair and tried a similar look of her makeup. Yay or nay

Lol, we can’t confirm how true this is, and ofcourse it had better be a lie. It had better just be. The F? So a lady with the twitter handle — @coolfrancess, says her uncle went to LUTH to have ...

  Brazilian authorities had recaptured 586 inmates who escaped from their minimum-security prisons after their right to leave on temporary furloughs was suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic. But they estimated that 789 others remained on the run, after a ...

The UK’s coronavirus case total has soared to 1,950 after 407 more patients tested positive in the biggest day-on-day increase yet. Scotland announced its second fatality, taking the UK’s total to 56, but a further increase in the overall death ...

A senior doctor who was diagnosed with coronavirus has described how she beat the bug – with chicken soup, lemonade and paracetamol all playing a part. Dr Clare Gerada, 60, caught the deadly virus after returning from a conference in ...

A cheating husband who caught coronavirus on a secret break to Italy with his mistress is now in isolation in the UK with his wife who has no idea how he caught it. The woman has no idea how her ...

Idris Elba has suggested that he may have caught coronavirus from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s wife Sophie, 44, after the two met shortly before they both tested positive for COVID-19. The actor, 47, revealed in a video shared to ...

Men with an older brother are more likely to be gay, a study suggests. Researchers looked at almost 5,400 men across ten scientific studies and found those with an older brother were 38 per cent more likely to be gay ...

Facebook has committed thousands of dollars to helping its staff of 45,000 employees manage expenses during the coronavirus  pandemic that is spreading across the globe. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced full-time workers will be given their six-month bonuses, along with an ...

The National Youth Service Corps has asked corps members currently in orientation camps across the country to vacate the camps over coronavirus fears. The virus has killed over 7000 persons globally and three cases have been confirmed in Nigeria, although ...

The first dog in the world to catch coronavirus has died in Hong Kong after it was declared disease-free and returned home to its owner. The 17-year-old Pomeranian, whose owner contracted COVID-19 last month, had been quarantined at a government ...

Former Chelsea and Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas showed he’s not about to let the coronavirus get the better of him by shouting a friendly hello to his neighbours. The Spaniard, 32, who now resides in Monaco, took to his plush ...

Ogun state governor, Dapo Abiodun, has disowned his Commissioner for Youths and Sports, Oludare Kehinde, who reportedly castigated a leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Aremo Olusegun Osoba. The 36-year-old Commissioner was quoted by an online news platform to ...

South Africa’s central bank has warned citizens against scammers visiting homes to “recall” banknotes and coins they said were contaminated with the novel coronavirus. The criminals carried fake identification badges and provided false receipts to victims, who were told they ...

Gunmen on Tuesday kidnapped two daughters of late Chief Emiola Adesina, Director of Sports in the Old Western Region in Ibadan, Oyo state. A family source told reporters in Ibadan that the abductors are demanding a ransom of N100million. Professor ...

China has ordered American journalists at the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal to leave the country in the Communist government’s most severe move against foreign media in recent memory. The foreign ministry said in a statement ...