Former Arsenal duo Johan Djourou and Alexandre Song are among nine players sacked by Swiss club FC Sion for refusing to take an unemployment settlement in light of the coronavirus. The entire squad was contacted on social messaging service WhatsApp by president Christian Constantin on Tuesday. Constantin’s message asked the players to take a “technical […]

Georgia on Saturday declared a nationwide state of emergency over the novel coronavirus pandemic, allowing the government to regulate prices for food and medicines if needed. “The situation is grave and is expected to worsen,” President Salome Zurabishvili said in a televised address to the nation, saying the state of emergency is effective immediately and […]

The Nigerian Railway Corporation plans to suspend all passenger services in the country effective from Monday, the Federal Government has said. The Personal Assistant on New Media to the President, Bashir Ahmad, who disclosed this via his verified Twitter handle, said the decision is not unconnected to the spread of the novel COVID-19 in the […]

  By Dirisu Yakubu – Abuja Following increasing cases of the Coronavirus pandemic in the country, the Nigeria Railway Corporation, yesterday announced its decision to stop railway services across the country. In a brief statement signed by Yakub Mahmood, the corporation’s Deputy Director (Public Relations), the public would be informed in due cause of resumption […]

A plane from China carrying 500,000 masks to help Greece combat the coronavirus outbreak landed at Athens International Airport on Saturday. Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias was among those at the airport to receive the load which was donated by the Chinese public electricity company State Grid and Greek electricity supplier Admie, in which the Chinese […]

Mauritius has recorded its first death from coronavirus, the health minister said Saturday, just the third in sub-Saharan Africa, as the archipelago nation imposed a lockdown to contain the outbreak. “There have been 14 confirmed cases so far, one of which died on Thursday evening,” Health Minister Kailesh Jagutpal said, without providing details about the […]

Tallest model in sub-Saharan Africa, Bakare Mubarak, has taken the fight to curtail coronavirus to the streets of Lagos. To combat the disease, Mubarak took the hand-washing campaign to the streets, washing hands and using sanitisers on Lagosians, to push the World Health Organisation, WHO, message in fighting the pandemic. He and his crew also […]

Everybody remembers the day of the final match in 1980 People recall where they watched the match, who captained the gallant team, who scored the goals and how they celebrated that victory that night and several nights after that eventful Sunday, March 22, 1980. For 4 decades, they have told and retold the stories. At […]

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has only given its approval to  May and Baker, a Pharmaceutical Company, to produce more Chloroquine as a clinical trial for the cure of coronavirus.

By Egufe Yafugborhi PORT HARCOURT – RULING Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers state has defied the global caution of restricted public gatherings over Corona Virus (Covid-19) as 3534 delegates including Governor Nyesom Wike gather in Port Harcourt for Saturday’s PDP state congress. Wike, had in a state broadcast Friday afternoon, also ordered schools across […]