Chelsea powered to their biggest Premier League win of the season and cemented their place in the top four as Mason Mount and Pedro inspired a 4-0 demolition of Everton on Sunday. Frank Lampard’s side won for just the second time in seven league games thanks to goals from Mount, Pedro, Willian and Olivier Giroud […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday met with Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The President’s Personal Assistant on Photographs,  Mr. Sunďay Aghaeze, who confirmed this to journalists, said the governor updated President Buhari on the latest development on the coronavirus index case in Lagos and ongoing efforts by the state government […]

Mr Gbenga Fasua, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) Chairmanship Candidate in Akure South Local Government, Ondo in the upcoming local government elections, has alleged that he was attacked by gunmen on Friday. Fasua, in a chat with journalists in Akure, Ondo State, on Sunday, said that the attackers destroyed some of his property including SDP […]

Two Bulgarians have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the first cases in the Balkan country, health authorities said early Sunday. Neither had travelled anywhere recently or been in contact with anyone who had returned from a country with a coronavirus outbreak, chief state health inspector Angel Kunchev said. “Samples from two patients — a […]

Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, will find out next month, if the Confederation of African Football, CAF, would give Nigeria the green light to host the 2020 Africa Women Cup of Nations. CAF is considering the bids from Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea after Congo Brazzaville backed out, and South Africa who were on standby also declined […]

A quarter of the Italian population was in lockdown on Sunday as the government took drastic steps to stop the spread of the deadly coronavirus sweeping the globe, while Iran recorded another 49 deaths and the national airline suspended flights to Europe. Italy’s COVID-19 death count is now 233, more than any other country outside […]

The Lagos State Police Command said on Sunday a 16-year-old girl has been arrested for allegedly stabbing a 49-year-old security guard, Babatunde Ishola, to death while trying to rape her. The Command spokesman, Bala Elkana, who disclosed this in a statement, said the deceased was a friend to the girl’s father. She claimed that the […]

United States President, Donald Trump, signaled Saturday that he has no intention of halting campaign rallies despite surging coronavirus infections, as a case was confirmed for the first time within miles of the White House. The president struck a defiant tone as he spoke to reporters about the outbreak at his Mar a Lago resort […]

A 64-year-old man died of the novel  coronavirus Saturday in Argentina, authorities said, making him Latin America’s first fatality in the global epidemic. The Buenos Aires man had returned from  Europe on February 25, Argentina’s health ministry said in a statement, without specifying which country or countries he had visited. He became ill on February […]

Delta Governor, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa on Sunday congratulated Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on her appointment as a member, Presidential Economic Advisory Council (PEAC) of South Africa.