The United Kingdom has announced an Increase in Fine for covid -19 travel offenders, and the addition of Poland & Turkey to it’s quarantine list. Travellers arriving in the UK from Poland, Turkey and three Caribbean islands will have to self-isolate for 14 days from 04:00 on Saturday. Poland’s infection rate has risen, while the […]
Uganda has reopened its international borders for the first time since March when they were closed as a control measure against the coronavirus pandemic. The East African country closed its borders to passenger travel even before it registered its first case of Covid-19, but continued to allow both land and air cargo. The national carrier, […]
INDEPENDENCE DAY ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE OCCASION OF NIGERIA’S SIXTIETH INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY, THURSDAY 1ST OCTOBER 2020 Fellow Nigerians I speak to you today as your President and fellow citizen on this epoch occasion of our country’s 60th independence Anniversary. As President, I wish to […]
Bayern Munich striker, Robert Lewandowski has been named UEFA Men’s Player of the Year for 2019/20. The Polish international, 32, who scored 55 goals in 47 games, including 15 in the Champions League, beat off competition from Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne and Bayern team-mate Manuel Neuer to emerged the winner. The award was […]
American rapper, Nicki Minaj and her husband Kenneth Petty have reportedly welcomed their first child together. According to TMZ, the 37-year-old gave birth on Wednesday, September 30, in Los Angeles. The site shared that the gender of the child and the name have not yet been made available. The rapper revealed her pregnancy in August […]
US President Donald Trump and wife Melanie Trump has tested positive for Covid, he has just announced on Twitter. The president tweeted: Earlier Vice-Presdient Pence and Trump appeared at a coronavirus task force briefing in the rose garden of the White House on Monday – and as you can see below, they were fairly close […]
US President Donald Trump has said he and the US first lady are in quarantine after one of his closest aides Hope Hicks ( pictured below ) tested positive for coronavirus. He tweeted that both he and Melania Trump were now awaiting their own test results after Hope Hicks was infected. The 31-year-old adviser to […]
People entering the UK from Turkey and Poland from Saturday must self-isolate for two weeks. They join other popular destinations on the quarantine list, including Spain, France, and parts of Greece and Portugal. And the fine for repeatedly breaking the self-isolation rules in England has increased to £10,000. The quarantine list is decided by the […]
Nigeria has developed a Covid-19 test kit that can give results in less than 40 minutes and does not need extensive training to use. Health Minister Olurunimbe Mamora said it was much faster and 10 times cheaper than the PCR testing method currently being used. The kit is yet to be approved by regulatory bodies […]
South Africa has opened its borders to travellers from all African countries, but has retained restrictions against countries with higher coronavirus infection rates including the UK, the US and Russia. The country closed its borders in March to limit the spread of the virus. It will from Thursday reopen some land borders and its three […]