WHO Director-General Tedros: warns against reinfection by recovered COVID-19 patients The World Health Organisation has warned that recovering from coronavirus may not protect people from reinfection as the death toll from the pandemic zoomed past 200,000 around the globe on…
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COUPLE ARRESTED FOR USING THEIR SON FOR RITUAL
THE SUSPECTS A herbalist, Lajuwon Ogunleye, and his wife Adetutu Apalaya have been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command on charges of conspiring and killing their 7-year-old son, Pelumi Apalaya. The couple were arrested alongside one Fatai Sefiu, following…
Read MoreCORONAVIRUS CASES HIT 1095 AS NIGERIA RECORDS 114 MORE CASES
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 114 new cases of the coronavirus pandemic in Nigeria. The NCDC said the new cases were recorded in eight states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The states according to the…
Read MorePOLICEMAN IN LAGOS BRUTALISES PEPPER SELLER OVER N200 BRIBE
A policeman in Lagos has attacked a pepper seller and the motorcycle rider that conveyed her at the time for refusing to pay a N200 bribe. The woman simply identified as Mrs Folorunsho was on her way to the Mile…
Read MoreCOVID-19: OKONJO-IWEALA GETS WHO’S APPOINTMENT
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala : named Special Envoy of Special Envoy of WHO’s Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator. Nigeria’s former finance minister, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was named by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as its Special Envoy for the newly inaugurated…
Read MoreMIKANO LIMITED SACKS 600 WORKERS
Mikano International Limited, Lagos, Nigeria, has sacked over 600 workers as a result of biting Coronavirus effect. Family members of some of the sacked workers expressed shock over the sack of their bread winners. According to one of the affected…
Read MoreNOLLYWOOD LOSES VETERAN ACTOR
Yomi Obileye Veteran Nollywood actor, Yomi Obileye is dead. The actor died on Friday morning from an undisclosed ailment. Obileye was known for Tade Ogidan’s movie, ‘Hostages’ in 1997, and ‘Palace’, a soap opera which featured Liz Benson, Jide Kosoko,…
Read MorePlateau State has been added to the list of states with confirmed cases of coronavirus in Nigeria
The virus in Nigeria has now spread to 26 states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. On the night of Thursday, April 25, 2020, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced 108 new cases in seven states and the…
Read MorePOLICE ARREST KIDNAPPERS OF FOUR KADUNA SEMINARIANS
The Seminarians The police have arrested kidnappers of four seminarians in Kaduna, who were abducted from their hostel on January 9,6 2020. One of the four abducted seminarians, Nnadi Michael, was later found dead in the bush while three were…
Read MoreCORONAVIRUS: SOUTH AFRICA, EGYPT AND 2 OTHERS WORST-HIT NATIONS IN AFRICA
Testing for coronavirus in Johannesburg: South Africa has the largest number of cases on the continent Very little now separates South Africa, Egypt, Morocco and Algeria as the worst hit by the coronavirus. The four countries now account for about…
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