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Coronavirus: Jack Ma donates masks, test kits to all countries in Africa

Chinese billionaire and co-founder of Alibaba, Jack Ma, says he will donate masks, test kits and protective suits to all countries in Africa to...

First Liberian with Coronavirus suspended from work

Liberia's President George Weah has suspended a government official who tested positive for Coronavirus after he returned to the country from Switzerland, becoming the...

Queen Elizabeth flees Buckingham Palace over coronavirus

The coronavirus pandemic has chased Queen Elizabeth II from Buckingham Palace, according to reports. The Queen, 93, and Prince Phillip, 98, were chauffeured off to Windsor...

Meet the 43-year-old woman who has given birth to triplets [Photos]

A 43-year-old woman has given birth to three beautiful babies. The Limpopo Department of Health took to Facebook to congratulate the 43-year-old mother and the...

Coronavirus: Marijuana on high demand in Europe after coffee shop closures

Marijuana smokers queued up to stockpile weed in Holland yesterday after the country's famous 'coffee shops' were ordered to shut over coronavirus fears.   Leaving the widespread quest...

Coronavirus: Obinim reveals next plan of action after suspension of church activities

Founder and Leader of the International God’s Way Church, Bishop Daniel Obinim, has revealed what his church would be doing following the suspension of...

Mother of two becomes first person to receive COVID-19 trial vaccine

The first human trials of a new vaccine scientists hope will protect against Covid-19 have been carried out. The US National Institutes of Health, an...

Coronavirus: Vietnam weighs suspending all travel visas

Vietnam’s government is proposing a suspension of visas to travelers from all countries for two weeks due to the spread of the novel coronavirus,...

Man arrested for fake news on coronavirus

Police in Kenya have arrested a 23-year-old man for publishing false information on the spread of coronavirus. Elijah Muthui Kitonyo was arrested in Mwingi town...

Coronavirus: Morocco closes public baths

Morocco will close all public baths, known as hammams, in an effort to reduce the spread of the coronavirus, the interior minister has announced. The...

Clinic accused of selling fake coronavirus test kits

A health care regulator in Kenya has raided a clinic in the capital Nairobi that it accuses of selling coronavirus test kits for $30...

Four African countries confirmed first COVID-19 cases in a day

Two countries apiece to the East and the West of Africa recorded index cases of coronavirus pandemic. The current tally of countries affected is...

Lagos explosion: Death toll rises to 20, families search for missing relatives

Akinpelu Dada, John Ameh, Success Nwogu, Samson Folarin, Olaleye Aluko, Deji Lambo, Oluwatosin Omojuyigbe and John Charles The death toll in the Abule-Ado explosion in Lagos...

Lagos explosion: 3 year old rescued unhurt from rubbles

Emergency officials have rescued a three-year-old girl, Favour, from the rubble at the Abule-Ado explosion site in Lagos. Chairman, Nigeria Red Cross Society (NRCS) Lagos...

Nigerian doctor dies of coronavirus

Minister of State for Health, Adeleke Mamora, has said that a Nigerian medical doctor residing in Italy, has died of Coronavirus.  Olumide Okunuga, a 63-year-old Nigerian...

‘The day I discovered I was born without a private part’

I was born with a condition called Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome (MRKH), where you have no womb or vagina, and you can also find yourself with...

How a female teacher died after saving her students in Lagos gas explosion

Among the victims who died in Nigeria's recent gas explosion is Rev Sr Henrietta Alokha SSH, Principal of Bethlehem Girls College, Abúlé Ado near...

Coronavirus: Divorce cases up in China

Divorce rates in China have risen significantly because 'couples are spending too much time together at home' during coronavirus self-isolation, according to register offices...

Top official carries Liberia’s first infection from abroad

A Liberian government official returning from Switzerland has tested positive for Coronavirus, becoming the country’s first confirmed case. Nathaniel Blama, the head of the Environmental...

Coronavirus: Four South Africans left in Wuhan

The South African government has said that four of its citizens had to remain behind during repatriation from Wuhan in China - the epicentre...

Gas explosion: Heartbroken man cries bitterly as he questions God [Video]

A heartbreaking video of a man who is one of the victims of Nigeria's recent gas explosion is fast circulating on the internet. The...

Coronavirus: Choir shares public health tips in new song [Watch]

A South African-based ministry, Ndlovu Youth Choir, has joined the public health campaign on coronavirus with an amazing song. Don’t Panic, don’t spread rumours, we...

7 Ghanaians arrested for drug trafficking in Lagos [Photo]

Seven people, who were identified as Ghanaian nationals, have been arrested at Abule-Egba, Lagos State for allegedly attempting to smuggle illicit substance into the...

Coronavirus: Why getting tested for COVID-19 can be painful

Reports are emerging that being tested for the new coronavirus can be painful. The respiratory illness has now killed five Australians with more than 310...

This beautiful couple died in Nigeria’s gas explosion [Photo]

Victims of the painful Lagos gas explosion which happened on Sunday morning are now being named. One Twitter user who lost a friend and...

Coronavirus: First human trial for vaccine to start on March 16

The first participant in a clinical trial for a vaccine to protect against the new coronavirus will receive an experimental dose on Monday, according...

Coronavirus: How to speak to your children about the Covid-19 pandemic

Parents have been advised to discuss coronavirus with their children but must be careful not to share too many scary details. While young people may...

Gas explosion: 17 dead, 50 buildings destroyed; rescue efforts underway [Video+Photos]

Rescue efforts are ongoing in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos, after a gas pipeline exploded on Sunday, resulting in the death of at least 17 people.  A spokesman...

Why Prince George and Princess Charlotte aren’t allowed best friends at school

Prince George and Princess Charlotte have extraordinary lives ahead of them as members of the Royal Family. As third and fourth in line to the...

T. B. Joshua reveals when and how Coronavirus will end [watch]

Founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), Temitope Balogun Joshua, simply known as T.B. Joshua, says the deadly Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) will soon go...

Foreign couple kidnapped in Burkina Faso in 2018 ‘found alive’

A Canadian woman and her Italian partner kidnapped in Burkina Faso in December 2018 have been released to the United Nations' peacekeeping mission in...

Herbalists cash in over coronavirus fear

There is no known cure for the new coronavirus, but in the medicinal herbs souq in Tunis, anxious Tunisians are consulting with herbalists and...

Coronavirus: Supreme Court suspends proceedings

Supreme Court in Rwanda has issued a statement restricting face to face court activities as a precaution in the wake of the fast-spreading new...

Coronavirus: Mandatory 14 days self-quarantine to be imposed on travelers to Ghana

Government has announced that people arriving in Ghana from countries with 200 or more reported cases of coronavirus will not be allowed into the...

Coronavirus: University of Ghana cancels lectures on all its campuses over a recorded case

The University of Ghana has cancelled lectures on all its campuses with immediate effect after a student tested positive for novel coronavirus. A statement signed...

AngloGold Ashanti confirms case of coronavirus at Obuasi Gold Mine

AngloGold Ashanti Ghana has confirmed an employee at its Obuasi Gold Mine in Ghana, has tested positive with the COVID-19 virus. The employee is a...

Coronavirus conference cancelled

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has cancelled a round-table conference called 'Doing Business Under Coronavirus' scheduled for Friday in New York due to the spread...

Tiwa Savage addresses lesbian rumours after fan pledges to expose her

Nigeria's pop star, Tiwa Savage, has lambasted a fan who called her out claiming she is sleeping with her own hairstylist, Chyna Bee. The...

Rwanda confirms first coronavirus case; President Kagame cautions against panic

President Paul Kagame has called upon Rwandans to showcase discipline and not to panic in the wake of the country’s confirmation of its first...

Coronavirus: University of Ghana cancels all interim assessments

The University of Ghana has suspended all interim assessment for students, effective March 15 until further notice. A circular issued by executives of the Students’...