Arsenal striker Alexandre Lacazette is being investigated by the club after a video emerged online where he is seen inhaling gas from a balloon, according to media reports on Sunday. The video circulated online showed the 28-year-old French striker appearing to inhale from the balloon and sitting back as his eyes close. The club said […]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has given the Federal Government a 48-hour ultimatum to state the whereabouts of the Chinese medical team brought in purportedly to assist in the fight against the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. In a statement released by its spokesperson Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP said its position is predicated on […]
The World Health Organization has said that spraying disinfectant on streets and open spaces does not eliminate coronavirus and even poses a health risk. Many countries including Nigeria embarked on massive fumigation of streets and open spaces shortly after the disease became a pandemic. In a document released , WHO said disinfecting open surfaces as […]
A 27-year-old Ghanaian man, Derrick Amponsah, has been sentenced to seven years in prison for raping a 15-year-old student and biting her clitoris, leaving her to bleed profusely after the act. Ghanaian media reports that the incident took place at Manso Yawkrom in the Amansie West District of Ashanti Region. Derrick was arraigned before the Bekwai Circuit […]
The United States on Sunday recorded 820 new coronavirus fatalities in the previous 24 hours, but the country’s total death count neared 90,000, a Johns Hopkins University tracker reported. The latest toll, marked at 8:30 pm (0030 GMT Monday), was the lowest since 776 daily deaths were recorded on May 10, but the count ranged […]
A Somali governor and three bodyguards were killed in a suicide attack claimed by the Al-Shabaab jihadist group in the regional capital of Galkayo on Sunday, a security official said. The attacker rammed a scooter taxi into a car carrying Ahmed Muse Nur, the governor of the north-central Mudug province, and his security detail before […]
Japan dived into its first recession since 2015, according to official data Monday, with the world’s third-largest economy contracting by 0.9 percent in the first quarter as it wrestles with the fallout from the coronavirus. The drop in gross domestic product followed a 1.9-percent decline in the fourth quarter of 2019 as a tax hike […]
The death of a pregnant Algerian doctor from the COVID-19 disease after she was denied maternity leave has sparked an uproar and prompted the dismissal of a hospital director in Algeria. Health Minister Abderrahman Benbouzid sacked the director of the Ras El Oued hospital in eastern Algeria after Wafa Boudissa succumbed to COVID-19, a close […]
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), is expected to announce the next phase of ease of lockdown today – Monday The National Coordinator of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Sani Aliyu, made this known when he appeared on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics on Sunday. The PTF members chaired by the Secretary to the Government […]
Kaduna State Government has re-adjusted the two-day window of the restriction of movement order, to allow residents to visit neighbourhood markets to purchase food and other essentials. A statement by the Managing Director of Kaduna Markets Development and Management Company, Muhammad Hafiz Bayero on Sunday, said that Wednesdays and Thursdays were now the two-day windows […]