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Coronavirus: Rwanda closes churches, schools

Rwanda's Ministry of Health has released a statement asking it's citizens to close down all places of worship and educational facilities following the confirmation...

Just In: 6 coronavirus cases confirmed in Ghana so far [Video]

Dr Badu Sarkodie, the Director for Public Health at the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has admitted that there are four more new coronavirus cases,...

He has 17,700 bottles of hand sanitisers but…

On March 1, the day after the first coronavirus death in the United States was announced, brothers Matt and Noah Colvin set out in...

Coronavirus: Ghana Consulate in US to suspend services

The Ghana Consulate in the United States has announced plans to suspend services effective March 16, 2020 over the widespread of the deadly novel...

Coronavirus: Brazilian President who met Trump tests positive

It has been announced Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has tested positive for coronavirus. It comes just six days after he met United States (US)...

Coronavirus: Porn site offers Italians free access

Pornhub has offered free access to all its contents including its premium services to people who live in Italy until April 3, amid the nationwide lockdown due to the...

Coronavirus: Trump declares national prayer day

 President Donald Trump has declared Sunday, March 15, 2020 as a National Day of Prayer in United States of America (USA) over the spread...

Coronavirus: T. D. Jakes cancels all church activities

Head pastor of The Potter’s House, a non-denominational American megachurch, has cancelled all church activities, gatherings, auxiliary ministries, including Sunday...

Newborn baby ‘tests positive’ for coronavirus

A newborn baby has reportedly been diagnosed with coronavirus in London, becoming the pandemic’s youngest victim. The child’s mother was reportedly rushed...

Coronavirus victim in Sudan dies

Sudan says a man in his 50s who died on Thursday in the capital, Khartoum, had coronavirus, confirming the country's first case....

Check out Bill Gates new job

Bill Gates said he’s stepping down from the board of Microsoft, the company he co-founded in 1975 and built into the world’s largest ...

How a pregnant goat was raped to death

The long arms of the law has caught up with a 22-year-old rapist, Sunday Ogaji, for allegedly defiling a pregnant goat till it died. ALSO...

Republic Bank honours Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago

The Republic Bank Ghana has held a dinner in honour of Dr Keith Christopher Rowley, Prime Minister for Trinidad and Tobago. The dinner, according...

Azerbaijani govt closes down opposition office ‘over coronavirus fears’

Azerbaijan’s opposition D18 Movement have been expelled from their offices in Baku by police claiming they were attempting to combat the spread of...

Watch: How Russia used Ghanaians to manipulate US elections

An investigation by CNN has revealed how Russia allegedly employed Ghanaians, mostly about age 20 as trolls with social media accounts, targeted at manipulating...

Soulja Boy’s soap company triples profits amid coronavirus pandemic

Soulja Boy chose the right time to invest in a soap company. The 29-year-old rapper recently revealed that he and manager Miami Mike invested in a...

Nigeria is now Coronavirus free as two patients recover fully

Nigeria is for now Coronavirus free after all of its two cases now test negative. Both first and second Coronavirus patients have now fully recovered, according...

Frightened Prince Charles forgets Coronavirus greetings [photos+video]

Prince Charles shocked onlookers when he literally jumped in panic after almost forgetting the official coronavirus guidelines on shaking hands as he arrived for...

Wife of Canadian Prime Minister, tests positive for coronavirus

Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, will isolate himself for 14 days after his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, tested positive for coronavirus. Grégoire Trudeau has mild symptoms...

Coronavirus: What happened to those who sat in the plane with the infected? – Mr Logic asks

Entertainment pundit cum musician, Emmanuel Barnes, popularly known as Mr Logic, has questioned aviation authorities in Ghana over the confirmation of two cases of...

Coronavirus: Stonebwoy’s New York show postponed

Authorities in New York have issued drastic directives to curb the spread of the deadly coronavirus. This has compelled dancehall artiste, Stonebwoy, to suspend...

Doctors claim new coronavirus ‘may cause damage to a man’s testicles

Doctors in China have urged male coronavirus patients to test their fertility as soon as they recover because the infection may damage the function of their testicles. No study...

US congresswoman marries her political aide [photo]

US congresswoman Ilhan Omar has announced her marriage to her chief campaign fundraiser, Tim Mynett. "Got married! From partners in politics to life partners, so...

MP pretends having coronavirus to test emergency helpline [watch]

A coronavirus phone operator left politicians in stitches after a Kenyan MP anonymously called the ministry of health hotline pretending to have symptoms during...

Coronavirus: Anxiety and confusion over testing

A group of first responders in Washington state, a scientist in California, a woman at an assisted living facility in Florida -- all worried...

Coronavirus: Uganda restricts travel from 16 countries including UK and US

Uganda has restricted visitors from some countries with what it terms high cases of coronavirus, including China, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, South Korea, and...

Female prison inmates beg for sex

Sex starved female prisoners in Kenya are pleading with authorities to implement new laws that will allow them to have sexual intimacy with their...

Italian medical chief dies from coronavirus

Italy’s medical community is mourning the death of the head of the medical association in the northern Italian region of Varese, Italy’s state-run ANSA...

Islamic scholar who said coronavirus was Allah’s punishment tests positive

Prominent Iraqi Shia scholar, Hadi Al-Modarresi, has been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, weeks after he claimed the deadly disease was undoubtedly "an act of Allah" against the Chinese for...

Dangote loses N240 billion in five hours due to coronavirus

Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, suffered a huge loss due to coronavirus on Wednesday March 11, as he lost N240 billion in five hours.  Dangote’s firms...

Pastor Chris gifted Benson Idahosa’s personal Bible by family [Photos]

Founder and Leader of Christ Embassy, also known as Love World Incorporated, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome has been gifted the personal Bible of the late...

Woman with coronavirus explains what it’s really like

A woman with coronavirus has explained what it's really like to be diagnosed and suffer the symptoms of the deadly illness, and has issued...

Just In: Cristiano Ronaldo quarantined over deadly coronavirus

Cristiano Ronaldo is remaining in quarantine in his Madeira home after Juventus team-mate Daniele Rugani tested positive for coronavirus.  The Portuguese star flew to his homeland to visit his...

Italian nurses battling coronavirus outbreak share photos of exhaustion

Italian nurses have shared photos showing themselves bruised and exhausted in the fight against coronavirus, as some revealed their faces have been rubbed raw by masks....

Togolese opposition leader faces coup plot allegation

Togo's National Assembly has summoned opposition leader Dr. Agbéyomé Messan Kodjo to the National Assembly on Wednesday, March 11 for allegedly plotting to overthrow...

Coronavirus: Trump halts travel from Europe to US

US President Donald Trump has announced sweeping new travel restrictions on Europe in a bid to combat the spread of the coronavirus. In a televised...

WHO declares coronavirus a global pandemic

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the worldwide outbreak of the new coronavirus as a pandemic, with more than 118,000 cases in...

Cured coronavirus patients share near death experience [Video]

Survivors of the deadly viral disease, Coronavirus have shared their near death experiences. 22-year-old Nil Monro tested positive after returning to Barcelona from Milan Fashion...

‘Will my Asian family accept my black boyfriend?’

Since the end of apartheid - and even for some years before that - young South Africans have been free to date whoever they...

Uganda sends $500,000 to China ‘by mistake’

Uganda's finance ministry has asked the Ugandan embassy in China to refund money sent "erroneously" to their account, after it emerged they sent almost...