The Federal Government has extended the ban placed on flights in the country as part of efforts to curtail the spread of coronavirus for another four weeks. The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Mr Boss Mustapha, disclosed this at the daily briefing of the task force on Wednesday. Mustapha, who is also […]
Juventus star Paulo Dybala revealed yesterday – wednesday that he has been given the all-clear six weeks after contracting coronavirus, but Serie A rivals Torino confirmed that one of their players had tested positive. “Many people talked in the past weeks ,but I can finally confirm that I am healed. Thank you once again for […]
Russia has emerged as a new hotspot for the dreaded coronavirus and in recent days have been recording the highest number of new infections in Europe. Russia has recorded more than 10,000 new cases of coronavirus for the fourth day in a row on yesterday (wednesday), surpassing Germany to become the country with the sixth-highest […]
A commercial vehicle driver, Gbenga Ogungbemi, and his friend, Tosin Olbamoyo, have been arrested by men of the Ogun state police command for allegedly killing a businesswoman, Evelyn Ebere, and stealing her N400,000. A statement by the state police command spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said Gbenga who usually takes the deceased to Ire-Ekiti where she buys palmoil, connived […]
Dr Bing Liu, a research assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh’s Medical Center’s Computational and Systems Biology Department, has been shot dead inside the home he shared with his wife in Pittsburgh. The well respected 37 year old researcher was alone at his home in the 200 block of Elm Court in Ross Township […]
The University of Ilorin (Unilorin) is currently leading the race to make a breakthrough in production of the first ever vaccine for Coronavirus (COVID-19). In a bulletin issued on Monday, the school said that a team of medical experts and scientists led by Prof. Mathew Kolawale of Medical Virology, is working on the project. According to the University, the Kolawale-led research […]
Some coronavirus patients in Gombe state were reportedly seen on the streets on Tuesday to protest over inadequate medical attention at the Kwadon Isolation Centre, Yamaltu Deba Local Government Area of Gombe State. The patients who blocked the popular Gombe/Biu Road, were said to be protesting against government’s negligence, inadequate food and medical attention in the isolation centre. Yes, they […]
Canadian singer, Grimes has confirmed that she and partner Elon Musk have named their newborn son, X Æ A-12. The 32-year-old singer, who gave birth to couple’s first child on Monday, took to Twitter to reveal the meaning of their son’s bizarre name. X [represents] the unknown variable,’ Grimes wrote, referring to the first letter […]
Hundreds of motorists were said to have passed the night at the Kara/Berger end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Monday/ Tuesday, as they were stranded following the enforcement of the curfew imposed on Lagos and Ogun states as well as the Federal Capital Territory by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) to limit the […]