A man has died in Washington state of COVID-19, state health officials said Saturday, marking the first such reported death in the United States. State officials issued a terse news release announcing the death, gave no details and scheduled a news conference. A spokesperson for EvergreenHealth Medical Center, Kayse Dahl, said the person died in […]

Liverpool’s 44-game run without defeat in the Premier League came to a crashing end as relegation-threatened Watford thrashed the European champions 3-0 on Saturday. Ismaila Sarr’s double and Troy Deeney’s strike 18 minutes from time ended Liverpool’s hopes of romping to a first league title in 30 years with an unbeaten season as they lost […]

To prevent accidents and other traffic mishaps, the House of Representatives has asked the Ministry of Works and Housing and other relevant agencies of government to immediately install traffic signs on the federal highways across the country.

The first death from the novel coronavirus has been confirmed on US soil, in Washington state, health officials said Saturday, after a handful of cases of unknown origin were detected, indicating the disease was spreading in the country. The fatality occurred in King County, the most populous in the state and home to Seattle, a […]

Militia fighters in Democratic Republic of Congo killed 24 people and injured 12 others, local officials said Saturday, the latest attack in the restive northeastern province of Ituri. The killings took place late Friday in a region where some 700 people have died since a surge in intercommunal violence in 2017. Dozens of militia groups […]

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman jailed in Tehran, believes she has contracted the new coronavirus as Iran struggles to contain a surge in new cases, her husband said on Saturday. The 41-year-old detainee complained that prison authorities are refusing to test her for the COVID-19 virus, despite suffering from a worsening “strange cold”, according to […]

Guinea’s opposition on Saturday called for the cancellation of a referendum on changing the constitution, as fresh protests against President Alpha Conde’s government broke out in the capital Conakry. Conde on Friday announced the referendum, planned for Sunday, would be postponed — possibly for two weeks — following growing domestic and international criticism over the […]

Mozambican police on Saturday were investigating the deaths of two young men found beheaded in a northern province prone to jihadist attacks. Shadowy attacks blamed on Islamists have hit the gas-rich Cabo Delgado province for two-and-a-half years, claiming more than 700 lives. At least 100,000 people have been displaced by the violence, according to the […]

By James Ogunnaike The number of quarantined persons on the recent outbreak of the deadly disease, Coronavirus has increased to 39 as against 28 earlier reported. This number included those that have had contact with the Italian when he visited Lafarge Africa facility in Ewekoro included the driver who picked him from a hotel in […]

Novak Djokovic captured his 79th career title on Saturday when he won the Dubai Championships for the fifth time, defeating Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-3, 6-4 in the final. The world number one is now on an 18-0 winning run this season, and 21-0 overall since late 2019, as he ended an eight-match win streak for his […]

The United States Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, on Friday warned Iran not to scuttle an upcoming agreement with the Taliban, accusing the US adversary of seeking to be a “spoiler.” Pompeo confirmed that a one-week partial truce was holding with the Taliban, who are scheduled to sign the landmark accord with the United States […]

Zinedine Zidane said the Clasico on Sunday will not decide the title race even if Real Madrid lose to Barcelona and fall five points behind them in La Liga. Yet opposite number Quique Setien believes Barca’s two-point cushion at the top makes the match at the Santiago Bernabeu “much more important for Madrid” than his […]

With the death of about two thousand, six hundred and sixty-six, (2,666), people, MIGAL’s researchers Thursday, developed vaccine against ‘Avian Coronavirus’, called Infectious Bronchitis Virus (IBV).

The number of cases of the new coronavirus in Italy has exceeded 1,000, the health ministry said Saturday, with the death toll rising by eight to 29 in the past 24 hours. The number of cases has reached 1,128 since the start of the epidemic a week ago, up from 888 on Friday. Around half […]

By Peter Duru, Makurdi The United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS, Country Director, Dr. Erasmus Morah has disclosed that over 150,000 people are currently receiving HIV/AIDS treatment in Benue state. Dr. Morah who made the disclosure at the official launch of the ‘Antiretroviral Therapy Surge Response and Undetectable Equals Untrabnsmittable’ in Makurdi said over one […]