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Kevin Hart and wife expecting their second child together

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Kevin Hart's wife Eniko is pregnant with their second child. The model revealed she's 'glowing and growing' as she made the announcement, while showing off...

COVID-19: Seven quarantined in Niger state

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The Niger State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Makunsidi Muhammad has disclosed that seven people in the state are currently on quarantine for coronavirus. Briefing newsmen...

Breaking: Coronavirus hits Osun, 2 new cases confirmed

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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Tuesday announced two new cases of the novel coronavirus increasing the confirmed cases in the country to...

Akeredolu shuts Ondo markets, malls for coronavirus

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All markets, malls and shops in Ondo state have been ordered to shut down for seven days, as part of measures to prevent the...

FG alerts Nigerians to dangerous computer coronavirus

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The Federal Government on Tuesday raised the alarm over the existence of an Android-based malicious and fraudulent coronavirus Ransomware application, which claims to provide...

Coronavirus: Three Abba Kyari’s aides test positive

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Three aides to the Chief of Staff to the President, Mr Abba Kyari, have reportedly tested positive for coronavirus. The Punch gathered that other members...

Coronavirus: Over 80 journalists ‘barred’ from Aso Rock

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The number of State House correspondents was yesterday pruned to 16 over the coronavirus pandemic. Only one of them is a newspaper reporter. The number...

Before testing positive for COVID-19, Kyari mingled with govs, ministers, others

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President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, many governors, ministers and other top government functionaries mingled with Malam Abba Kyari, the Chief of Staff...

Police inspector kills couple, commits suicide in Imo

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A police inspector, Kenneth Enamika, has committed suicide after killing a couple, Cajethan and Oluchi Aputanze, in Mgbidi, Oru West Local Government Area of...

Coronavirus: Kogi gets Isolation Centre

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Following the speed at which the dreaded Coronavirus is ravaging the country, the Kogi State Government has drawn a road map against the pandemic...

Coronavirus: Cameroon records first death

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Cameroon’s government on Tuesday announced the country’s first death due to coronavirus, saying the victim had returned from Italy and was already infected on...

Osinbajo self-isolates following Covid-19 scare in Aso Villa

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The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Tuesday afternoon toured the Presidential Villa beginning from the office of the Chief Staff to the President,...

Moscow orders all over-65s to stay at home excluding Putin

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The mayor of Moscow has ordered over-65s to either stay at home or escape to their country houses to avoid coronavirus. But the measures announced...

British tourist dies in Cape Verde after contracting COVID-19

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A 62-year-old British man has died in Cape Verde after contracting COVID-19, the government said on Tuesday, marking the West African archipelago’s first fatality...

Egypt imposes night-time curfew in bid to contain COVID-19

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Egypt is to impose a night-time curfew for two weeks from Wednesday to contain the spread of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli announced. “Movement...

Girl, 16, accused of killing father’s friend remanded in custody

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A 16-year-old girl accused of killing her father’s friend who allegedly attempted to r.a.p.e her has been arraigned before an Ebute Meta Magistrate Court...

Hantavirus: Man dies in China after testing positive to another virus

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A man has died in Yunnan province of China after testing positive to Hantavirus. The man died while on his way back to Shandong...

Just in: Another two test positive for coronavirus in Nigeria

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Two more Nigerians have tested positive for coronavirus today, after the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) announced today that two had tested positive...

Boko Haram fighters kill 70 soldiers in Borno

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Boko Haram terrorists have reportedly killed 70 soldiers in the restive North East Military sources said on Tuesday the insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades at a...

Sanwo-Olu orders closure of all markets, stores in Lagos

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Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has ordered the closure of all markets and stores in the state except markets that sell food, water, medicines,...

Kendall Jenner shares never-before-seen snaps and urges her friends to ‘quarantine...

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Keeping Up with the Kardashians star Kendall Jenner clinked cups with IMG Model Gigi Hadid in a slideshow of never-before-seen snaps that she nostalgically...

South Africa’s COVID-19 cases surge past 500

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South Africa reported more than 150 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, taking the new tally to 554, the highest in Africa, a day after...

India to go under total lockdown from tuesday midnight

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India’s 1.3 billion people will go under “total lockdown” from tuesday midnight for 21 days to combat the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, Prime...

COVID-19: Jigawa to convert hotels into isolation centres

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The Jigawa State Government says it is looking to convert some hotels in the state into isolation centres for the northwest region if the...

Bauchi Governor tests positive for coronavirus

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The Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, has tested positive to coronavirus (COVID-19). The governor’s Senior Special Assistant on Media, Mukhtar Gidado, just announced this...

Lagos CONFIRMS AMVCA attendees might be in danger… demands celebrities to...

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Oh dear! The Lagos state Commissioner of Health, Akin Abayomi has announced that all attendees of the just concluded African Magic Viewers' Choice Award...

Ope Saraki docked for money laundering

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Ope Saraki, cousin to former senate president was charged today with money laundering at a Federal High Court in Ilorin. The EFCC accuses Ope Saraki...

COVID -19: Police beg Oyo residents to obey government directives so...

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The Police Command in Oyo State has advised residents of the state to comply with the State and Federal Governments’ directives on Coronavirus without...

60 priests dead in Italy amid coronavirus pandemic as Pope calls...

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At least 60 priests have died in Italy amid the country's coronavirus pandemic as the Pope called on them to 'have courage' to attend...

Coronavirus: Bola Tinubu in support of total lockdown

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The National Leader of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu on Tuesday said he was in support of total shutdown if necessary to...

Princess Beatrice might postpone wedding again amid the coronavirus pandemic

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Princess Beatrice is 'looking to postpone wedding entirely' until 2021 amid the coronavirus pandemic, a royal expert has revealed. The royal, 31, had initially been...

Mother and daughter who are morticians are charged with selling a...

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Mother and daughter morticians in Colorado were arrested after they were accused of charging $1,000 for cremations they often wouldn't carry out and for...

Again! Nigeria records two new coronavirus cases

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Two new cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Lagos and Ogun states. According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), one case is...

COVID-19: Chinese government donate medical kits to Nigeria

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The Chinese government has donated locally made medical kits to Nigerian healthcare workers. The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, made this known via his...

Harvey Weinstein spends his 68th birthday in prison and is given...

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Disgraced film mogul and convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein spent his 68th birthday at a maximum security prison in upstate New York, where he was...

Popular Cameroon singer and saxophone player Manu Dibango dies of coronavirus

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Cameroon-born singer and saxophone player Manu Dibango has died from a coronavirus infection, according to a statement on his official Facebook page today. “It is...

Ecobank shuts branch in Abuja after man dies of coronavirus

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Ecobank Nigeria Limited has closed its Wuse II branch in Abuja over Nigeria’s first coronavirus death. The bank said the victim, Mr. Sulaiman Achimugu, a...

Kim Kardashian and Taylor Swift again! Reality star brands singer a...

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Kim Kardashian says Taylor Swift is lying in the latest round of the long-running celeb feud between the reality TV star, 39, and Grammy...

COVID-19: We may be heading the way of China, Italy if...

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The Federal Government on Monday said Nigeria had 40 coronavirus cases and one death caused by the disease. The Federal Government also advised...

Deji Adeyanju makes a HUGE U-TURN… tells Nigerians to support the...

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A known critic of the Buhari administration, Deji Adeyanju has made a huge u-turn. Deji in a tweet yesterday asked Nigerians to support the government...

Nigeria’s President tests negative for COVID-19

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Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has tested negative for the COVID-19 virus. According to reports, he was asked to carry out the test after his Chief...

Nairobi Pastor postpones wedding amid coronavirus anxiety

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A Nairobi-based pastor has postponed his wedding that was slated for Saturday, March 28, in obedience to the government directive banning public gatherings in...

Buhari Chief of staff, Abba Kyari tests positive for COVID-19

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Abba Kyari, the chief of staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, has tested positive for coronavirus days after returning from an official trip to Germany,...

32-year-old man gets N200,000 bail for allegedly stealing N40,000 phone

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An Ile-Ife Magistrates’ Court in Osun state, on Monday, admitted one Kehinde Olumide, 32, to N200,000 bail, for allegedly stealing a N40,000 Itel mobile...

Cross River female Senator, Rose Oko dies in London

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A Peoples Democratic Party member representing Cross River North Senatorial District in the National Assembly is dead. One of her aides who confirmed on condition...

Nigerian Immigration service suspends passport processing

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The Nigeria Immigration Service has suspended the processing of passport and migrant e-Registration across its offices. This was due to the current outbreak and spread...

Manchester United to sign Ighalo for £15m in the summer

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Manchester United are ready to sign Odion Ighalo for up to £15million this summer after it emerged the Nigerian striker’s loan runs out on...

Zimbabwe broadcaster, 30, dies from coronavirus

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The death of Zimbabwean broadcaster Zororo Makamba, 30, is a tragic illustration that even the young can succumb to coronavirus. Makamba had a high profile...

COVID-19: Makinde places ban on religious services, gatherings of over 30...

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Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo state has announced the ban on social gatherings including religious services, weddings, parties, and burial ceremonies, saying such gatherings...

Dozens of healthcare workers in America have tested positive for coronavirus

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Dozens of healthcare workers across the US are testing positive for coronavirus as they battle the highly-infectious disease on the front lines. At a Chicago...