Whenever the Nigeria Professional Football League, NPFL  resumes for the current season, all the players in the top division will undergo COVID-19 tests. This is one of the outcomes of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) board meeting held via video conference on Friday, reports sportsvillagesquare.com. ALSO READ: BILLIONAIRE: Rapper Kanye West bickers with Forbes over valuation […]

China has confiscated over 89 million poor quality face masks, a government official said Sunday, as Beijing faces a slew of complaints about faulty protective gear exported worldwide. Demand for protective equipment has soared as nations across the globe battle the deadly coronavirus, which has infected around 2.9 million people. But a number of countries […]

Christopher S. Jeyarajah better known as Chris Jey is a Sri Lanka born talent booker, event planner, marketer, and event promoter, who also lived in Iran and four other countries.

By Elizabeth Osayande The President, PEN (Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists) Nigeria, Mr Folu Agoi, has said they will use creative writing to fight COVID-19. Mr. Agoi said this at during a special online rendezvous of the Nigerian Centre of PEN International, aka PEN Nigeria, to launch PEN’s Free the Word WhatsApp platform, part […]

Everton said they are “appalled” at one of their players widely reported to be Italian international Moise Kean hosting a house party contravening the social distancing measures recommended by the British government due to the coronavirus pandemic. The 20-year-old striker filmed himself hosting the party, the Daily Mirror reported. The Mirror says Kean sent video […]

Former Golden Eaglets player, Kenneth Omeruo has said that the country’s Under-17 players who excelled at the FIFA World Cup and made it to Europe often failed to shine because of bad choices they made. Nigeria has won the FIFA U-17 World Cup five times but only hand full of the Eaglets stars make a […]

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent Freedom of Information (FoI) requests to the 36 state governors urging them to “urgently provide information on spending details on COVID-19 in your state, and to immediately redirect public funds budgeted for security votes and life pensions for former governors from the state to invest in and improve public healthcare facilities and access to quality education.”

Authorities in Nigeria’s largest city of Lagos have made wearing of masks mandatory in a bid to halt the coronavirus, a spokesman said Sunday. “Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu announced on Saturday that wearing of face masks in public was now compulsory in the state,” his spokesman Gboyega Akosile told AFP. He said the measure was aimed […]

Forbes magazine has finally confirmed Kanye West‘s billionaire status, but according to the musician, they still shorted him on his actual net-worth. Editors at the money mag claim West, 42, took issue with his published $1.3 billion estimates, texting staffers that apparently don’t know “how to count” that his net-worth is actually closer to 3.3 […]

A former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has replied critics of the tribute he paid to the late Mallam Abba Kyari, Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari. The top chieftain of the party in opposition at the federal level, PDP, says he has his humanity in a piece titled ‘For the record’.

The Edo State Government has commissioned a 30-bed isolation centre at the Stella Obasanjo Hospital, Benin City, as it ramps up efforts to curtail the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). The Edo State Deputy Governor and Chairman, Technical Sub-committee on COVID-19 Response, Rt. Hon. Comrade Philip Shaibu, who commissioned the facility, said the centre was built […]

Nigerian comedian, Kelvin Anagbogu, popularly known as ‘Lord Lamba’ has lambasted famous comedians online for being scared of competition from upcoming comedians.

10 months ago, the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development did not exist. But then 10 months ago if you said Corona, young people would think of a beer brand while older folks would think of an old car model, ToyotaCorona. The Coronavirus, also, did not exist.

For nearly 100yrs, healing and deliverance ministries rented the land. Millions were made. Jets bought. Now, we have a pandemic and the government is telling them to stay home, one can’t but ask as an African traditionalist, if government has not been conniving to fool the people all along, knowing the healing and deliverance ministries were outright scams?

…..Our testing centre in Kano dysfunctional says NCDC By Joseph Erunke, Abuja A 70- year old woman, who identified herself as Sadma Ahmed, has accused the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC and the Kano State Government of neglecting her son-in-law to die of coronavirus. Mrs Ahmed alleged that the late son-in-law, who showed symptoms […]