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On February 26, with northern Italy beginning to suffer from the coronavirus, Juventus went to Lyon to play the first leg of the Champions League round of 16, a match that perhaps should not have been played, and which some point to…

While there’s zero factual support for a conspiracy theory linking the COVID-19 virus to 5G cellular technology — and the scientific community has concluded that 5G is safe — the UK government was forced today to explicitly address…

The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, on Saturday met with the leadership of the National Assembly to intimate it with an Executive proposal to establish a N500 billion COVID-19 Crisis…

Carrie Symonds has announced she has coronavirus after fiancee Boris Johnson went into isolation with the deadly pathogen. Ms Symonds posted on Twitter earlier today and said: ‘I’ve spent the past week in bed with the main symptoms…

Wilfred Ndidi has addressed comparisons between himself and former Leicester City midfielder N’Golo Kante. Kante played a key part in Foxes’ title winning squad in 2016 before making the switch to Chelsea. Ndidi has been instrumental…

South Africa’s Telkom, Samsung and the government have teamed up to develop a track and trace database to identify the whereabouts of people who may have contracted coronavirus. The virus has infected 1,462 people in the country and…

Liverpool are not concerned that Sadio Mane will leave for Real Madrid despite interest in his signature, El Mundo Deportivo cite The Athletic as saying. The Senegalese forward has blossomed into one of the world’s best attacking talents…

The Federal Government has declared that no licence has been issued for the deployment of 5G Technology in the country. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy Dr Isa Ibrahim Pantami…

Former Archbishop Emeritus of Lagos, Catholic Church, Anthony Okogie has said Coronavirus outbreak in Nigeria is a blessing in disguise. He said the outbreak of COVID-19 had been a dangerous yet revelatory…

As the coronavirus continues to spread worldwide, so too are rumours and conspiracy theories about the disease, this time in relation to the 5G technology. There have been viral posts on…

Residents in the UK have burnt some masts over claims that coronavirus is linked with 5G technology. The BBC reports that masts in Birmingham and Merseyside were burnt during the week by irate individuals over the claims which have…

These are very abnormal times. The earth we laboured to build is shutting down before our eyes and we have no magic wand. Although we’ve faced several challenges in our lifetimes, overcoming…

Ondo Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has ruled out taking the COVID-19 patient in the state to Lagos for treatment. Governor Akeredolu said the state has the capacity to treat the patient,…

The Osun State Government has recovered the Coronavirus Disease patient who was declared missing from the isolation centre in Ejigbo area of the state. This was confirmed to The Eagle Online by the state Commissioner for…

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…