Nigeria youth international Godfrey Bitok Stephen who plies his trade with Isloch in the Belarus top flight has tested positive for coronavirus. Bitok was part of the Imama Amapakabo U-23 national team that failed to qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games after crashing out of the Africa U-23 AFCON. ALSO READ: Football returns, beaches reopen […]

The Bundesliga on Saturday became the first major European football league to return to action since the coronavirus lockdown, with teams playing in empty, echoing stadiums. In the standout match of the day, Borussia Dortmund hosted Schalke 04 in the Ruhr derby in the cavernous Signal Iduna Park, which would normally have been packed with […]

Manchester United have set up a COVID-19 testing facility in the car park of their Carrington Training Complex to test players and staff for coronavirus ahead of a return to training next week. The Red Devils are the latest of a number of clubs who are carrying out testing in line with the Premier League’s […]

Since January, 2020 when resumed hostilities led to the sacking of some communities in the Irigwe Chiefdom of Bassa local government area of Plateau State, survivors of the deadly attacks have been subjected to all kinds of hardship.

As the battle for who control the heart and soul of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State rages between Governor Obaseki, and ex-governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, Chief Osamede Adun, popularly known as “Bob Izua”, a political chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party has finally openly pledged his loyalty to the governor. Every watcher […]

By Olasunkanmi Akoni Lagos State Government said it has distributed one ton of Downy Mildew Resistant (DMR) and Leaf Streak Resistant (LSR) – Y (Yellow) hybrid maize seedlings to 650 farmers despite fight against COVID-19 pandemic in the state. Downy Mildew and Leaf Streak are diseases that destroy the maize seeds thereby affecting farmers’ harvest […]

Bundesliga stars have been warned that catching coronavirus could cause ‘irreversible’ and ‘career-ending’ lung damage by a top sports doctor ahead of the league’s return this weekend. The German Football League (DFL) has drawn up strict rules to protect players from the risk of being infected with the virus with games being played behind closed […]

By Olasunkanmi Akoni As part of measures to further curtail the spread of COVID-19, Lagos State Government, on Tuesday, issued additional guidelines for the operations of all the commercial, industrial, institutional and recreational facilities that were recently unlocked in the state. The Lagos State Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Mr Tunji Bello, who […]

By Rasheed Sobowale Looking back a month ago, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Nigeria was lesser than half of a thousand. In April 15, according to a report by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), the number of people infected by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was 407 while only 12 sadly lost […]

Members of Nigeria’s main opposition party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) from Anambra have raised N120 Million for COVID-19 intervention. The funds raised will be used to help the less privileged families and persons in Anambra state while the COVID-19 pandemic rages on. The initiative, led by Mr. Peter Obi, the immediate past governor of […]