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OPEC and Russia have postponed a meeting planned for Monday until later next week, OPEC sources said on Saturday, as a row intensified between Moscow and Saudi Arabia over who is to blame for…

This year’s Forbes list of top-earning wrestlers has been released and surprisingly, Brock Lesnar sits atop the list with Roman Reigns coming second. The ten wrestlers who made the list pulled in a combined $38.5 million before taxes…

A Former Director-General of the Nigeria Law School, Dr Koleade Abayomi, has died in the United Kingdom (UK) after contracting Coronavirus. A statement released by the Secretary of the Body of Senior Advocates of Nigeria (BOSAN), Seyi…

Juventus talisman Cristiano Ronaldo will become the third sportsman in the world after golf star Tiger Woods and boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr to have earned $1bn during his career. The Old Lady announced a…

Osun State government on Saturday declared only one coronavirus patient missing from its Ejigbo isolation centre, The government made the announcement while reacting to report that six persons who…

The Enugu State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Anthony Ugochukwu, is dead, The Nation is reporting. The newspaper said the death of the renowned surgeon on Friday night at a leading private…

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 door-to-door testing for…

Amidst lockdown occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic, residents of Aiyetoro community in Ajegunle, in the Ajeromi Ifelodun Local Government Area of Lagos State are living in fear of hoodlums popularly…

Popular singer, Salawa Abeni, became a trending topic online during the week when she released some semi-Nood pictures of herself on Instagram. She did this after an individual identified as Jason…

Prof. Akin Abayomi, Commissioner for Health of Lagos State, on Saturday, revealed how Lagos recorded its first death from coronavirus. According to Abayomi, the victim was a 55-year-old…

The world heavyweight title fight between Briton Anthony Joshua and IBF’s mandatory challenger Kubrat Pulev of Bulgaria originally scheduled for June 20 has been postponed, promoters Matchroom Boxing…

The Kwara government on Friday said there are no facts that UK returnee who died in Ilorin had coronavirus. This was contained in a statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Germans to remain at home over the upcoming Easter holiday. Markel noted that it would be “irresponsible” to give a date for when restrictions on public life…

The Senator representing Oyo Central Senatorial District, Senator Teslim Folarin has urged the Executive Governor of the Oyo State, Engr. Seyi Makinde to allow his deputy, Engr. Remi…

The deadly coronavirus may be spread through mere breathing or speaking and not just coughing and sneezing. This is the new scientific view of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences…

American singer-songwriter Alecia Beth Moore, widely known as Pink has begged her fans to take the coronavirus pandemic seriously as she revealed she tested positive for the illness. More…

Six persons with confirmed infection of coronavirus have reportedly escaped from isolation center in Osun. According to Tribune Online, the coronavirus patients escaped from the center at Ejigbo…

CLAIM: On Thursday, April 2, 2020, Fact-checkers at the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) received several copies of a WhatsApp message for verification on our Fact-Checking…

        Over 4,000 citizens of the United Kingdom have indicated interest in returning to their country amid the coronavirus pandemic. The British high commission in Nigeria broke the news in a tweet on Friday. This is coming…

        The Nigerian Army says two officers who threatened to rape women in Delta state, and infect them with HIV, have been arrested. In a video that went viral earlier on Friday, the officers had threatened the people of Warri in…

President Donald Trump on Friday recommended that Americans cover their faces with masks when outdoors to avoid contracting coronavirus. The advice came on Friday with over 275,000…

            Ivorian football legend, Didier Drogba and Cameroonian football legend, Samuel Eto’o have joined other Africans in calling out two French Doctors who asked for the new Coronavirus drug to be tested in Africa. During the…

Darker days ahead for the United States as it hits 7,000 Coronavirus deaths, with the most powerful nation on earth grappling to curtail the massive pandemic onslaught. There are at least 273,880 …

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, founder, Christ Embassy has warned that anyone who arrested a pastor in this Coronavirus period is in danger. He was speaking on reports that some pastors were arrested by…