More than 10 times as many people in Germany have likely been infected with the Coronavirus than the number of confirmed cases, researchers from the University of Bonn have concluded from a field trial in one of the worst-hit towns. The preliminary study results, which have yet to be peer-reviewed for publication in a scientific […]

Human Rights Watch on Monday called for an investigation into a spectacular gorge in northern Syria that has been used as a dumping site for dead bodies over several years. The 50-metre-deep hole in a desert area of Raqa province was once controlled by the Islamic State group, when it still ruled its “caliphate” straddling […]

ENUGU Urban Residents have accused the striking Resident Doctors at the State University Teaching Hospital, Parklane, of employing blackmail in a pandemic era, to intimidate the state government into accepting payment of jumbo salaries for the doctors that may not be sustained in a long run.

THE Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, has pointed to the privatization of state-owned enterprises through public offering as a catalysts for the stability of the stock market.

RESIDENT Doctors of the Enugu State University Teaching Hospital, ESUT-TH, who withdrew their services eleven days ago, have resolved to offer skeletal services so as to help combat the growing cases of COVID-19 index cases in the state that has risen to six

In Nigeria, businesses have reopened on the first working day after the easing of a lockdown imposed on key urban areas in a bid to restart Africa’s largest economy. But in the commercial hub, Lagos, traffic jams were absent, indicating that many are remaining indoors. The lockdown began five weeks ago to contain the spread […]

By Ikechukwu Odu – Nsukka There is tension in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State over the death of a 27-year-old, 500 level law student of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Augustine Ugwu, who was allegedly murdered by an officer of the Nigerian Police Force at Nsukka. The deceased was said to have gone to […]

Workers banged away at construction sites in Rome, police handed out masks in Madrid and older children returned to school in Vienna as Europe on Monday gingerly stepped out of its coronavirus lockdown. With their death and infection rates slowing and their economies in ruins, some of Europe’s biggest countries decided it was time to […]

Nigerian rapper, singer and composer, Mawthie, has revealed the inspiration behind his hit song, “Normally”. He said: “It’s actually a studio vibe. When I heard the beat, at first I looked at how I am living life and what was going on around me; obviously, I am living a good life. “So I thought it […]

THE IMF has cautioned the CBN against dollar rationing stressing that this will hamper foreign trade and investor confidence and thus slow down the nation’s economic recovery.