Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele has explained why her husband celebrated his birthday which led to social gathering amidst coronavirus pandemic. The star actress and her producer husband JJC Skillz early Sunday morning came under heavy bashing from Nigerians on social media. The backlash that trailed the celebrity couple was due […]
The Lagos State Government has announced that a 36-year-old man died of coronavirus in the state. The Lagos Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, made the announcement via his Twitter handle on Sunday. He said that the Nigerian died on Saturday in a private facility. Abayomi confirmed the death as […]
A policeman in Akwa Ibom State has been demoted for assaulting a medical doctor while enforcing the stay-at-home order of the state government, SaharaReporters reports. Dr Daniel Edet, a surgeon with the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, was assaulted by Edidiong Alexander, a police sergeant, while on his way to […]
Ekiti State governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, who recently tested negative for coronavirus, has narrated his experience in isolation, The Nation reports. Also reliving their “difficult times” in isolation were the Niger State Commissioner of Finance, Alhaji Zakari Abubakar, and the Chief Press Secretary to the state governor. Speaking out from […]
American rapper, YNW Melly, has contracted Coronavirus while in Florida’s Broward County Jail. The news was shared posted to his Twitter and Instagram accounts with the rapper now planning to file a motion for restricted release. “Melly has tested positive for COVID-19 while awaiting his trial in Broward County Jail. […]
A Pastor was paraded by residents of a South-West state after being nabbed packing human faeces. When questioned, the Pastor first claimed he wanted to use the faeces for an experiment before stating that he needed it as a fertilizer. When asked why he didn’t use that of his children […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has urged security agencies to deploy tact while enforcing the lockdown in Lagos, Ogun and the Federal Capital Territory, The PUNCH reports. Buhari had, on March 29, ordered the lockdown in the three locations for an initial period of 14 days to tackle the spread of the […]
The Nation reports that amidst the COVID -19 panic in the country, the Enugu State commissioner for Health Professor Anthony Ugochukwu has been reportedly dead. The renowned surgeon was said to have died Friday night at a leading private hospital, Memphys Hospital Enugu. The development was confirmed by the House […]
An entire Spanish family including eleven children have contracted Coronavirus and are under strict isolation in their home. The Cebrian Gervas family have been forced to lock themselves away in Valladolid in north-west Spain after every single one of them was diagnosed with the virus. Mother Irene Gervas was the […]
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has directed all its missions abroad to compile a list of willing Nigerian nationals who wished to come back home, The PUNCH reports. Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, disclosed that this was a sequel to requests by Nigerians stranded abroad in the wake […]
