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MultiChoice Nigeria says it has put together a relief package of N1.2 billion to help fight the outbreak of COVID-19 in the country. In a statement issued on Wednesday, entertainment and media company announced a number of…

The All England Club have cancelled this year's Wimbledon due to the coronavirus pandemic following an emergency board meeting on Wednesday. Wimbledon had hoped to hold off making a final…

        Music superstar David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido has tested negative for coronavirus. He revealed this in a tweet on Wednesday afternoon. His fiancee, Chioma, tested positive for COVID-19, which informed his first…

As the coronavirus raged through China, Ms. Wu, a housewife in her 30s in southern Guangdong province, spent almost two months in isolation with her out-of-work spouse. They fought…

          Twelve new cases of #COVID19 have been reported in Nigeria; 9 in Osun, 2 in Edo and 1 in Ekiti State As at 12:30 pm 1st April there are 151 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. Nine have been discharged with two…

In 1918, a pandemic virus, called the Spanish flu blew across the world like the current coronavirus and killed at least 50 million people. In Nigeria, then under colonial rule, an estimated…

Andrew Jack, British actor and dialect coach, has passed away at 76 after contracting coronavirus. Jill McCullough, Jack’s agent, said the veteran actor died in a hospital in Surrey on Tuesday, following complications from COVID-19, the…

First City Monument Bank (FCMB) has announced a temporary suspension of the season seven edition of its promotion for savings account customers tagged, ‘’FCMB Millionaire…

The National Coordinator, Nigeria Sex Workers Association, Amaka Enemo, says sex workers in the country have been forced to suspend activities, especially in Lagos and Abuja due to the lockdown…

Thirty-one coronavirus patients in Ghana have been discharged after recovering from the disease. Kwaku Agyemang, the country’s health minister, broke the news during an interview with journalists on Tuesday. The country has…

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, says contrary to reports that the Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Abba Kyari, is at the Mainland Infectious Disease…

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and 11 other African leaders on Tuesday called on the  African Union, United Nations and  World Bank   to help combat the spread of coronavirus in Africa.…

The Councillor for Iwogu ward in Keana council area of Nasarawa state, Ibrahim Oboshi, has reportedly got married to two women, Nazira Ozegya and Rabi Akose, on the same day. The wedding according to reports was held on the 28th March,…

CLAIM: A 4:17 minutes video released on YouTube by Gido24 TV claims Aisha Buhari, the first lady, has ordered burning of the office of Abba Kyari, the president’s chief of staff. The video widely…

The value of a country’s currency should, irrespective of whether it is operated on a fixed, floating or managed-float currency regime, depict the performance of the country’s economy and how long the country can maintain the…

For patients with the worst effects of the infection, a ventilator offers the best chance of survival. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), some 80% of people with Covid-19 – the disease caused by coronavirus –…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says there are more than 50 trials for a vaccine on COVID-19. When she appeared on a Channels Television programme on Tuesday,  Fiona Braka, country officer for WHO in Nigeria, said there is…

.....Numbers unknown in FCT, Lagos ......10,000 required nationwide – Experts ........‘No patient in Lagos needs ventilator’ As the number of confirmed cases from the deadly COVID-19 pandemic increase in the country,…

Akin Abayomi, Lagos commissioner for health, says complaints by Nigerians on medical attention provided at isolation centres is as a result of lack of preparedness for the nature of the centres. A video which went viral on social…

Davis Cup-winning former US captain Patrick McEnroe said Tuesday he has tested positive for coronavirus but is feeling well and no longer has symptoms. The 53-year-old younger brother of seven-time…

With the public outrage following the flouting of government’s directives by some religious institutions last weekend over the number of worshippers that could attend mosques and churches for…

Seyi Makinde, governor of Oyo state, says though he made a joke about COVID-19, the disease is real. At a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rally held in Ibadan on March 18, the governor had said the disease is not in his party. “They…

Few days to his graduation, a 25-year-old Nigerian student, Bassey Offiong in Western Michigan University, Detroit, United States, was struck dead by deadly Coronavirus. The Chemical Engineering…

CLAIM: On March 31, 2020, fact-checkers at the Centre for Democracy and Development spotted a WhatsApp broadcast message which has gone viral in Northern region of Nigeria with the claim that…