The Coronavirus pandemic is likely going to last till 2022 until 60% to 70% of the population has been infected, a team of longstanding pandemic experts predicted in a new report. The experts said because of its ability to spread from people who don’t appear to be ill, the virus may be harder to control […]
57-year-old Nina Rudchenko from Maryanske was assaulted by two brothers aged 27 and 30. The brothers dragged Nina to a local cemetery and made her dig her own grave, which they then buried her in. When the brothers thought she had died, they left and that’s when Nina escaped from the hole she was in. […]
The Presidency has provided more details about the telephone conversation between President Muhammadu Buhari and President Donald Trump of the United States of America. It was reported earlier that there was a telephone conversation on Tuesday afternoon between Buhari and Trump. A statement on Tuesday night, signed by Femi Adesina, the President’s Spokesman, explained that during the […]
President Donald Trump had a telephone conversation with President Muhammadu Buhari earlier on Tuesday, solidarising with Nigeria over the coronavirus pandemic. According to Lai Mohammed, minister of information, who disclosed this at the media briefing of the presidential task force on COVID-19, the US president promised to send across ventilators to Nigeria. The minister said […]
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is “alive and well”, a top security adviser to the South’s President Moon Jae-in said, downplaying rumours over Kim’s health following his absence from a key anniversary. “Our government position is firm,” said Moon’s special adviser on national security Moon Chung-in, in an interview with CNN on Sunday. “Kim Jong Un […]
A coalition of Nigerian legal practitioners has dragged the People’s Republic of China to court over the effects of the Coronavirus outbreak on the West African giant. The lawyers are demanding $200 billion as damages for the “loss of lives, economic strangulation, trauma, hardship, social disorientation, mental torture and disruption of the normal daily existence […]
Saudi Arabia has abolished flogging as a form of punishment. The country’s Supreme Court made the announcement on Saturday. The court explained that the “human rights advances” are part of reforms pushed by King Salman Bin Abdul Aziz and his son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. It said the reform was intended to “bring the […]
The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine has begun in Oxford. Two volunteers were injected out of more than 800 people recruited for the study. Elisa Granato (pictured above), a scientist, was the first volunteer to be injected and she said she volunteered because she wanted to try to support the scientific […]
TIME magazine, the world renowned publication, has commended Ghana for being the first country in the world to use medical drones in the fight against the deadly COVID-19. Vice President Bawumia last year launched the Zipline Medical Drones service in the country, and the drones have since been delivering essential medical service to remote areas […]
Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has said the Lebanese government would institute legal action against its citizen, Wael Jerro, who advertised a Nigerian woman for sale on Facebook. She stated this on Wednesday while giving an update on the case. According to reports, Jerro, who resides in Beirut, Lebanon, put up the passport of […]