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Pastor Adeboye donates another N20m to support Osun State COVID-19 relief...

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The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has made another donation of N20 million to Osun State...

Awala Boys: Teenage hoodlums terrorise Lagos community, kill three

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Amid lockdown occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic, residents of Aiyetoro community in Ajegunle, in the Ajeromi Ifelodun Local Government Area of Lagos State are...

Lockdown may increase domestic violence, activists warn

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Women rights groups, including 283 organisations, have urged the Federal Government to prepare for the likely surge in cases of sexual and gender-based violence...

Army arrests soldiers threatening to r.a.p.e women in a video 

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The Nigerian Army has arrested two soldiers seen in a viral video threatening to molest women in the Warri area of Delta State and...

Woman gives birth to baby boy 14 years after marriage

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A Nigerian woman has delivered a bouncing baby boy after 14 years of marriage. She delivered the baby boy during this lockdown period. A Facebook user...

Toke Makinwa expresses are dissatisfaction for cooking

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Toke Makinwa has expressed her dissatisfaction for cooking, saying it;s one thing she hates and can;t withstand. The media personality and author said she...

South Africa rolls out mobile testing in virus lockdown

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South African public healthcare workers dispersed into the buzzing streets of Johannesburg's Yeoville neighbourhood on Friday as Africa's worst virus-hit country rolled out mass...

China to mourn COVID-19 victims Today

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China will on Saturday hold a national mourning for martyrs who died in the fight against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak and compatriots...

OAU s,e,x-for-mark lecturer released from prison two years after

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A lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Richard Akindele, jailed for se,xu,al harassment has been released from prison after serving a...

Ronaldo becomes football’s first billionaire

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Juventus talisman Cristiano Ronaldo will become the third sportsman in the world after golf star Tiger Woods and boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr to have...

Police bust Abuja gang selling cocaine

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Six suspects dealing in cocaine and rohypnol in the Federal Capital Territory have been arrested by operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response...

Fifty-five-year-old patient dies of COVID-19 in Lagos

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A 55-year-old man who was admitted to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, has died in the facility. A reliable source at the tertiary hospital...

Nigeria records 20 new cases of COVID-19, total now 210

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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Friday night confirmed twenty new cases of Coronavirus in the country. Eleven cases were confirmed  in Lagos, three...

Kwara state denies record of coronavirus case

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Kwara State Government has denied that the state has recorded a case of COVID-19. It, however, said that all the six samples of suspected cases...

S.e.x workers evicted from Benin hotel over fear of COVID-19

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Commercial s.e.x workers were today evicted from a hotel at Ugbague area of Benin in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State over fear...

18 Chinese doctors are on their way to Nigeria to help

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The Federal Government has said that 18 Chinese doctors are on their way to Nigeria with medical supplies including ventilators, to assist in overcoming...

Police invite two Imams in Delta over Jumat during lockdown

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The Imams for the Ughelli main Mosque and Okorodafe Mosque were both invited by the Police following Friday Jumat services in the mosques despite...

World Bank excludes Nigeria in COVID-19 response money

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The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved $1.9 billion first set of emergency support operations for developing countries around the world, using...

Ondo state records FIRST coronavirus case

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Ondo State has recorded its FIRST coronavirus case, about five weeks after the first case of the disease was reported in Nigeria. The Governor of...

Tension in Kwara as UK returnee reportedly dies of COVID-19

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The death of a Chartered Accountant, Alhaji Jimoh Muideen, on Thursday night at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITHC) who just returned from...

Italian shoe designer, Sergio Rossi dies of coronavirus

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Sergio Rossi, one of the most famous Italian shoe designers, has died of the coronavirus disease, an Italian official said today. Several Italian media reported...

UN Chief commends Nigeria’s response to coronavirus

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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has commended Nigeria’s response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Speaking during a virtual news briefing in New York, Guterres singled...

Father, mother and 11 children contract coronavirus in Spain

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An entire family including eleven children have contracted COVID-19 in Spain and are under strict isolation in their home. The Cebrian Gervas family have been...

COVID 19: 30 persons quarantined in Imo Hotel

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The State Chairman, Imo State Hoteliers Association, Chima Chukwunyere, has said that the figures of those quarantined at a hotel Umuguma, in Owerri, were...

Lockdown: Women decry hike in prices of food items in Ekiti

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Some women in Federal Housing, Ado-Ekiti, on Friday said that the lockdown order, occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic, is taking its toll on them. They...

US nationals stranded at Lagos Airport over airspace permit

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American citizens who were scheduled to be evacuated from Nigeria through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos were yesterday stranded at the airport. The flight...

Oyakhilome speaks on arrests of pastors during coronavirus lockdown, says anyone...

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Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, founder, Christ Embassy has warned that anyone who arrests a pastor in this Coronavirus period is in danger. He was speaking on...

Private jet used by Lionel Messi forced to make emergency landing...

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An £12million private jet used by Lionel Messi has been forced to make an emergency landing at Brussels airport due to a fault with...

Boris Johnson to continue in self-isolation as he still has COVID-19...

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Boris Johnson has revealed he will remain in self-isolation as he is still suffering from a symptom of coronavirus. The prime minister entered self-isolation in...

Coronavirus: Trump tests negative for second time

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President Donald Trump said he has undergone a second coronavirus test on using a new diagnostic that produced a result in less than 15...

Lagos discharges four more COVID-19 patients

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The Lagos state government has announced the discharge of four coronavirus patients. Meanwhile, 18 patients had earlier been discharged, after making full recovery from the...

Kourtney Kardashian slapped her sister Kim so hard that her make...

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That epic brawl between the siblings left fans shocked when it was shown on Keeping Up With The Kardashians. But now, some eagle-eyed viewers have...

Cardi B hospitalised with stomach pains days after coronavirus warnings

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Rapper Cardi B revealed she had been hospitalised with stomach pains after suffering for four days. The 27-year-old mum-of-one shared a photo of herself in...

I thank God for making me sick – Immigration boss

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The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Muhammed Babandede, says he is thankful to God for making him contract COVID-19. Babandede, who tested positive for...

Lockdown: Soldier shoots motorist dead in Delta

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A motorist, identified as Joseph Pessu, was shot dead in Warri, Delta State, on Thursday, by a soldier for allegedly flouting the state government’s...

Two sentenced to death for killing UniOsun student

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An Osun State High Court sitting in Ikirun, on Thursday, sentenced two men to death by hanging for killing one Rofiat Adebisi, who at...

COVID-19 corpses can’t be claimed for burial – Lai Mohammed

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The Minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed, says corpses of persons who tested positive for coronavirus cannot be claimed for burial. He said such...

Kenyan pastors want churches listed as ‘essential services’

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A group of Kenyan pastors have asked the government to include churches in the list of "essential services" to allow them to remain open...

Mother who tested positive for coronavirus not allowed to touch her...

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For 10 days after giving birth to her first child, the mother was not allowed near him after she tested positive for coronavirus, for...

Tearful woman with coronavirus posts video from bed begging people to...

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A woman who tested positive for coronavirus has shared a tearful video from her hospital bed pleading with people to stay inside. Sharon Cook was...

Lockdown: NSCDC trains, deploys 300 personnel to Adamawa

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The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Adamawa State has trained and deployed 300 personnel across the state to sensitise and enforce...

Again, Spain registers more than 900 Covid-19 deaths

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Spain, one of the countries worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic, has registered 932 new COVID-19 deaths within 24 hours, bringing the total to...

Alicia Keys says she was ‘manipulated and objectified’ by photographer when...

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Alicia Keys has bravely opened up about her experiences as a young woman in the music industry, shedding light on some of her most...

Covid-19: FG urges states to provide 300-bed facility each

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The Federal Government has asked Governors to provide, at least, 300-bed space facilities in their respective state “in case of upsurge in the novel...

Rwandan soldiers accused of r.a.p.i.n.g women during lockdown

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Five Rwandan soldiers have been arrested after residents of a slum in the capital, Kigali, alleged that they r.a.p.e.d women as they enforced a...

No electricity disconnection during lockdown – IBEDC

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The Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company Plc (IBEDC) says there will be no disconnection of electricity to non-paying customers during this period of lockdown in...

Faithia Williams celebrates daughter as she turns a year older

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It's Fathia Williams daughter's birthday today. The daughter she shares with Saheed Balogun, Aliyah is a year older today and her proud mom can't...

Davido takes over daddy duties as Chioma goes into Isolation

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His fiancee tested positive for COVID-19 and has been taking away into Isolation. While she is away, Davido is part of the people taking...

Giving is for the NEEDY, not the GREEDY! Apostle Suleman defends...

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Apostle Suleman has defended his reasons for not giving the Nigerian Government a dime to help fight COVID-19 saying his money is for the...

Half a million people in Europe test positive for coronavirus

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More than half a million people have tested positive for coronavirus in Europe, but the number of people carrying the potentially deadly bug is...