Madagascar’s government has announced it will dispatch troops and doctors to an eastern town after several bodies were found in the streets and where two people died from the novel coronavirus. Madagascar’s cabinet held a special meeting on Sunday to discuss the situation in Toamasina, the country’s second-largest city. The Indian Ocean island nation has […]
Thailand is conducting tests on macaque monkeys as it races to produce a cheaper, alternative coronavirus vaccine it hopes will be ready by 2021, a top researcher said on Monday. More than 100 candidate vaccines are currently in various stages of development around the world, at least eight of which are in clinical trials with […]
The Federal Government has said 69 stranded persons including 50 trafficked Nigerian ladies arrived in the country from Lebanon on Sunday. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, disclosed this via his Twitter handle while appreciating the Lebanese Government and the Lebanese community in Nigeria for their support in the evacuation process. He wrote – “With the […]
May 27 is traditionally the children’s holiday in Nigeria. First established by the United Nations in 1964, the day remains important in the lives of many Nigerian kids. On this day every year, children are granted a holiday while several social activities are centred on them. Excused from school, most kids converge at stadiums and […]
Six women were murdered and two more were injured by alleged gang members at a women’s prison near the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa, the National Penitentiary Institute said on Sunday. The Killers broke through gates and the roof of a building at the women’s prison in Tamara. When they gained entrance into the prison, they went […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday May 25, announced that it has suspended the use of hydroxychloroquine in solidarity trial for the treatment of COVID-19. The drug trial was suspended on grounds of safety concern following a report published by Lancet, which revealed that more people are dying from the use of hydroxychloroquine to combat COVID-19. WHO […]
Nigerian President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), said on Sunday that he observed the Eid-el-Fitr prayers at his State House residence because of the raging COVID-19 pandemic. He explained that his decision was in compliance with the measures put in place by the PTF which prohibited mass gatherings. Buhari was joined at the prayers by […]
Dencia has launched an attack on Burna Boy and his girlfriend, British rapper Stefflon Don. Taking to Twitter, the Cameroonian-born singer and beauty entrepreneur called Burna his Boy ‘one of the biggest haters in the industry’ and accused the Odogwu singer and girlfriend Stefflon Don of bullying ‘everyone.’ She wrote: ‘Burna Boy is one of the biggest […]
Espanyol and Leganes fans, holding current season tickets, will be handed free passes for the entire 2020-2021 campaign to compensate for missing matches due to the shutdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the two La Liga clubs said on Tuesday. The Spanish top-flight is set to resume in June after being provisionally suspended in March […]
La Liga president Javier Tebas said Sunday he hopes the resumed season will start on June 11 with the Seville derby, “one game for all of Spain”. Tebas told Movistar Plus television. “It is possible that on Thursday, June 11, we could have the first Liga game,” “We would like it to be the Seville […]