Police fired tear gas at a crowd of Kenyan ferry commuters as the country’s first day of a coronavirus curfew slid into chaos. Elsewhere, officers were captured in mobile phone footage whacking people with batons. Virus prevention measures have taken a violent turn in parts of Africa as countries impose lockdowns and curfews or […]

THE Oyo State COVID-19 Security and Enforcement sub-committee has impounded a total of Twenty-Two (22) illegally parked vehicles during its special night operations, to enforce compliance at clubhouses and public places in Ibadan.

…Tasks Sanwoolu on accountability of the donated funds, facilities … Calls for Investigation into allegations that NCDC not attending to ordinary Nigerians The Federal government has been told to extend its grants and donations to other States, in its efforts to combat the rapid spread of coronavirus in Nigeria. President Buhari announced that a sum […]

As Italy mourns thousands of coronavirus dead, and survivors brace for life in an economic wasteland, one rung of society looks to win big: organised crime. “The Italian mafia can turn threats into opportunities,” top government anti-mafia investigator Giuseppe Governale told AFP. Over 10,000 people have died in Italy of the flu-like disease, which has […]

The coronavirus pandemic is driving up the price of heroin, methamphetamine, and fentanyl as Mexican cartels scramble to get their hands on Chinese-manufactured chemicals now in short supply. “The cartels are having a lot of difficulties producing drugs right now, and when the supply is low the price always goes up,” a US federal law […]

The Nigerian Air force has postponed the entrance examination into it’s Military secondary schools for male and female in Jos owing to the Corona virus pandemic.

By Sam Eyoboka WORLD Council of Churches, WCC general secretary, Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit and WCC moderator, Dr Agnes Abuom have urged people and churches to give highest priority to “doing whatever we can do to protect life” and “ask churches not to have public services tomorrow as this can become hubs of transmission […]

Saudi authorities have seized more than five million medical masks that were illegally stockpiled amid the coronavirus outbreak, state media reported on Sunday. The commerce ministry seized 1.17 million masks from a private store in Hail, northwest of the capital, after authorities Wednesday confiscated more than four million masks stored in a facility in the […]

  Being locked down or in self-isolation can get very boring and tiring pretty quickly, for Anime lovers, here are 8 anime titles to help you through these trying times. Ascendance of a Bookworm season 2 The first season of Ascendance of a Bookworm aired late last year and made it on our list of […]

Dutch officials have recalled tens of thousands of masks imported from China and distributed to hospitals battling the coronavirus outbreak because they do not meet quality standards, the health ministry said Saturday. They received delivery of masks from a Chinese manufacturer on March 21, the ministry said in a statement to AFP. They received a […]