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The Commissioner for Health in Enugu State, Professor Anthony Ugochukwu is dead. The surgeon died at a private hospital in the state on Friday night, April 3. Jeff Mbah, the lawmaker representing Oji River state constituency in the Enugu House of Assembly confirmed the death of the Commissioner who he described as a genius and […]
Continue ReadingJean Paul Mira, the French doctor who alongside his colleague Camille Locht asked for a new Coronavirus drug to be tested in Africa, has apologized after their statement triggered a worldwide outrage. It was reported earlier that Jean Paul Mira and Camille Locht who spoke on a live TV interview, insisted that Africa is the best place […]
Continue ReadingThe missing Coronavirus patient from Osun State Isolation Centre in Ejigbo, Nigeria has been found, apprehended and returned to the centre, according to The Punch. The patient, a woman, was apprehended in Ejigbo town and returned to the facility by the police on Saturday afternoon. Chief Press Secretary to Osun State Governor, Ismail Omipidan, confirmed […]
Continue ReadingThe Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Friday night confirmed twenty new cases of Coronavirus in the country. Eleven cases were confirmed in Lagos, three cases confirmed in the FCT, 3 in Edo, two in Osun and one in Ondo Two new deaths have been recorded in Lagos and Edo State, with twenty-five cases […]
Continue ReadingUnited Nations (UN) has praised Nigeria for it’s handling of the Coronavirus pandemic. Nigeria, Africa’s most populated country with an estimated 200 million inhabitants, currently has 190 cases of COVID-19 but has managed to keep the death toll to just two. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, while speaking at a virtual news briefing in New […]
Continue ReadingEight inmates of the Kaduna Correctional Centre were allegedly killed by prison officials after they engaged in a protest at the facility. It was reported that on Tuesday, March 31, inmates engaged in a riot over a rumoured suspected case of COVID-19 at the facility. The prisoners demanded to be released from the congested centre following claims […]
Continue ReadingCommercial sex workers were on Friday evicted from a hotel at Ugbague area of Benin in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State over fear of possible spread of coronavirus in the area. Speaking with journalists, the Owner of the facility who only gave his name as Osagie, said the eviction became necessary because of […]
Continue ReadingAfro beat singer, Seun Kuti has shared his thoughts about the Nigerian system, which he said has pushed many professional or specialist graduates into taking up careers they never studied in the university. Seun thinks young Nigerians who graduated as professionals have been turned to do all sorts of jobs different from their specialties in […]
Continue ReadingMaola Shopping Mall in the Ebute Ero Market at Idumota, Lagos State has been gutted by fire. The cause of the fire, which affected shops 35 and 36 in the shopping mall, was unknown as of the time this report was filed. Director General (DG), Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, said emergency responders […]
Continue ReadingA Police officer has been arrested for assaulting a ports worker who was picking up his friend who works with a medical equipment company in Lagos. Recall that President Buhari who issued a lockdown order in Lagos, Ogun state and Abuja, stated that seaports in Lagos shall remain operational. Hospitals and all related medical establishments […]
Continue ReadingKogi State governor, Mr. Yahaya Bello, has ordered a fast investigation into the allegation of battering of a beauty queen, Elizabeth Oyeniyi, by the state Commissioner for Water Resources, Mr. Abdumumini Danga. The beauty queen had accused the Commissioner of assaulting and raping her over a Facebook comment she made. Oyeniyi said: “I left Abuja […]
Continue ReadingAn Osun High Court on Thursday April 2, sentenced two men to death by hanging after being found guilty of murder. The men identified as Elijah Oyebode, 25, Yusuf Ajibade, 28, and Jelili Raji, 35 were first arraigned on November 14, 2017 on three-count-charge of conspiracy to commit murder, murder and stealing. They were accused of killing one […]
Continue ReadingAn Italian nurse allegedly strangled his doctor girlfriend to death because “she gave him Coronavirus.” After committing the crime, 28-year-old Antonio De Pace reportedly called cops to tell them he had murdered young medic, Lorena Quaranta, 27. When Police arrived at the scene, they found her dead in their apartment in Italy, while De Pace was […]
Continue ReadingEkiti State government has confirmed the third case of coronavirus at one of its isolation centres. Ekiti state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Mojisola Yaya-Kolade, said a 23-year-old male suspect has been placed on symptomatic treatment and investigation. Dr Yaya-Kolade also said the second person, who fell victim of the disease in the state, as announced […]
Continue ReadingNigerian government has fired back at at the Playwright and Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, over his comments on the 14-day lockdown ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari, saying that he is not an expert in that area. The Presidency told Prof. Soyinka that he lacked professional competence to kick against the decision of the President […]
Continue ReadingA woman said to be a single mother-of-three attempted suicide by jumping into the Osun river in Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria over her inability to continue providing for her children due to the lockdown. Kafayat Alake jumped into the river yesterday, April 1, a few hours after the state government imposed a stay-at-home order on residents […]
Continue ReadingNigeria has recorded 23 new cases of Covid-19. This brings the total number of confirmed cases to 174. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control announced the new cases on Wednesday night. Of the new cases, 9 are in Lagos, 7 in the FCT, 5 in Akwa Ibom, 1 in Kaduna and 1 in Bauchi State […]
Continue ReadingFormer Somali Prime Minister, Mr. Nur Hussein, died on Wednesday in Britain, about a week after being diagnosed with COVID-19. According to reports, Hussein’s family confirmed the death at King’s College Hospital in London. The former Prime Minister served between November 2007 and February 2009 in the transitional government of Somalia. The current Somali Prime […]
Continue ReadingOne of Nigeria’s renowned power-lifters and star at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio De Janeiro, Ndidi Nwosu, is dead. The death of Nwosu was confirmed by Queen Uboh, the former President of the Nigeria Powerlifting Federation. According to Ms Uboh, the husband of the late powerlifter Ikechukwu Nwosu, called her to convey the sad […]
Continue ReadingNigerian judge, Justice M.S Sifawa of the Sokoto State High Court, Tuesday sentenced one Freedom Inah to 10 years imprisonment over N1.8 million fraud. Inah, who works as a travel agent of the Gulf Centre International Travel and Tourism, United Arab Emirate (UAE) and Top Valley Speciality Hospital, UAE, was arraigned by the Economic and […]
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