German Chancellor Angela Merkel will quarantine herself at home after being treated by a doctor who has since tested positive for the novel coronavirus, a government spokesman said Sunday. “The Chancellor has decided to quarantine herself immediately at home. She will be tested regularly in the coming days… (and) fulfil her official business from home,” […]

In its determined effort to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, the Oyo State Task Force on COVID-19 has activated emergency Operating Centres (EOCs) in the state.

MTN Nigeria on Sunday said its team would start working from home as part of the precautionary measures to stop the spread of COVID-19

The Gombe state chapter of Nigeria Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has called off the indefinite strike it embarked upon on March 16. Dr Saidu Alhassan, the state President of the association disclosed this at a news conference in Gombe on Sunday. Alhassan said that the association decided to call off the strike for the […]

Brazil’s top football clubs are handing over their stadiums to allow health authorities to turn them into field hospitals and clinics to fight the coronavirus pandemic. With football in the country suspended until further notice, more than half the clubs in Brazil’s Serie A have given up their stadiums as authorities in densely populated Sao […]

The Federal Inland Revenue Service  (FIRS ) has collected the sum of N338.1 billion revenue for January 2020 as against N620.2 billion tax target for the month. According to a FIRS document obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Sunday, the figures represent the aggregate collection by states’ coordinating units on […]

Google and YouTube have launched new resource pages to help teachers and families continue to educate students while they’re home from school due to the novel coronavirus. Google’s page, called Teach From Home, offers recommendations on how teachers can teach remotely using Google products. Right now, the page features ideas like doing a video call […]

Sony has issued an update to clarify its stance on backwards compatibility for the PlayStation 5, saying the upcoming console will support an “overwhelming majority” of the 4,000-plus existing PS4 titles. Prior to the update, Sony’s Mark Cerny, the system architect for the PS5 who detailed its full hardware specifications in a live-streamed presentation on […]

The Ekiti State Police Command, on Sunday, said it would start immediate enforcement of the orders by the state government banning all public gatherings exceeding 20 people until further notice, over the deadly Coronavirus. This was contained in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ado Ekiti by the command’s […]

Gunmen have abducted two players of Heartland Football Club of Owerri, Imo State on Benin-Akure, expressway, Ondo State on Sunday night. Reports had it that the victims, Dayo Ojo and Benjamin Francis were travelling to Akure, the Ondo state capital after their club declared a holiday for the team as a result of the COVID-19 […]

MTN Nigeria said on Sunday its team would start working from home as part of the precautionary measures to check the spread of COVID-19 The company’s Senior Manager, External Relations,  Funso Aina, said in a statement that from Monday workers are expected to perform their duties from home. According to him, the telecommunication giants would […]

The number of people killed in France by the coronavirus outbreak has increased by another 112 to a total of 674, the top French health official said on Sunday. The rise in the death toll was identical to that of the previous day. “The virus kills and it is continuing to kill,” said top French […]

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has called on other states in the federation to follow the Lagos State Judiciary directives that were announced in an effort to prevent the possibility of the court houses in the state becoming centers for the spread of the dreaded coronavirus.

By Abdulmumin Murtala – Kano The management of the Bayero University Kano has dismissed rumors doing the round that cases of Corona Virus have been identified in the university saying it is fake news. This is contained in a statement from the university management on Sunday signed by Lamara Garba the Secretary, Information & Publication […]

Nigerian police with megaphones struggled to keep the faithful in bustling Lagos away from church on Sunday, as worshippers in Africa faced tough restrictions aimed at halting the spread of coronavirus. “Go home, coronavirus is not a joke,” a uniformed officer shouted at a crowd in the tightly-packed slum Makoko. Authorities in the city of […]