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Spanish midfielder Dani Ceballos has revealed Arsenal players showed signs of coronavirus symptoms following manager Mikel Arteta’s diagnosis, but were not tested.   Arteta became the first high-profile figure in English football to test positive for the illness back in March, and has now made a full recovery. Arsenal’s entire first-team squad were subsequently quarantined for a two-week period and ... Read More »

Ekiti State Governor and Chairman of the Governors’ Forum, Dr Kayode Fayemi  yesterday revealed that the nation is not out of the danger yet as far as the rampaging Coronavirus pandemic is concerned. In a statewide broadcast, the Ekiti Governor said  the Pandemic Peak Projection(PPP) is still Ahead “The scientists tell us that while Nigeria has succeeded in keeping confirmed ... Read More »

Borno State Government has confirmed the death of His Highness, the Shehu of Bama, Kyari Ibn Umar Elkanemi who passed on Monday afternoon in Maiduguri. He died in his mid-60s. Commissioner for Home Affairs, Information and Culture, Babakura Abba Jato took advantage of a routine media briefing usually held daily by Borno’s high powered response team on prevention and control ... Read More »

The rampaging pandemic, Coronavirus is not abating anybit as Raymond Dokpesi Jnr, Chairman of DAAR Communications Plc, has today tested positive for coronavirus. The media mogul disclosed this in a short message to members of staff in Abuja, AIT reported on Monday evening. Dokpesi was said to have been self-isolating in the past week, before he developed malaria symptoms and started ... Read More »

Mohammed Atiku-Abubakar, a son of Nigeria’s former vice-president and presidential candidate of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has now tested negative for coronavirus. Mohammed broke this news himself this afternoon. “I have just received my second consecutive negative result,” Mr Atiku-Abubakar told newsmen Monday afternoon. “My discharge is currently being processed, and I hope to be home this evening.” ... Read More »

Lateef Raheem, the late chief security officer (CSO) to Bola Ahmed Tinubu, had COVID-19, the media office of the former Lagos state governor has said. But Tinubu and his wife, Remi, have both tested negative to the disease, Tunde Rahman, his spokesman, said in a statement issued on Monday afternoon. Another aide tested positive and has been isolated while his ... Read More »

… No more patient on the run, says commissioner BY INUSA NDAHI, MAIDUGURI Hauwa Mohammed, 42 year-old female, who tested positive to COVID-19 has reported herself to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital following which she received apologies from laboratory officials at the UMTH and Borno’s commissioner of health. The apology became necessary after Hauwa protested that she did not ... Read More »

Ronaldinho has opened up about his Paraguayan ordeal for the first time after being arrested for entering the country with a fake passport. The former Brazil and Barcelona star has been placed under house arrest after being picked up alongside his brother by authorities for using the forged documents. Still under investigation, he is under house arrest at the Palmaroga ... Read More »

  Kaduna State Government has extended the lockdown occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic in the state by 30 days. This was contained in a statement on Sunday signed by Muyiwa Adekeye, media aide to Governor Nasir El-Rufai. The government had imposed its quarantine orders on the state for one month beginning March 26. According to the statement, the governor’s extension ... Read More »

6:45pm; Sunday, April 26, …Says Covid-19 not death sentence … 16 of Borno’s cases from community transmission … Asks citizens to expect NCDC’s midnight update after Borno’s briefings … No face mask, no market tomorrow Two patients, Abbas Kaka Hassan, a 24 year-old male and Hauwa Mohammed, 42 year-old female, are on the run after testing positive to Covid-19 at ... Read More »

The Governor of the State of Osun, Mr Adegboyega Oyetola, has warned citizens and residents of the State against breaching the COVID-19 lockdown directives aimed at halting the spread of the pandemic in the State. This followed the report of 12 new confirmed cases in the State after almost a two-week lull without reporting any positive cases, one which brought ... Read More »

BY DAHIRU SULEIMAN, DUTSE. Irked by constraint of lock down on the down trodden masses, a Dutse based activists, Comrade Bosuwa has call on the elected political office holders across jigawa state to show mercy by way of offering a helping hands in both cash and kinds to communities within their constituency’s. Speaking to our correspondent in Dutse Bosuwa said ... Read More »

… Explains discrepancy between NCDC, Borno’s figures … No face mask, no entering markets Monday, Thursday Of the investigative tests carried out within the last 24 hours, no positive case was recorded in Borno state, commissioner of health and secretary of the state’s high powered response team for prevention and control of covid-19, Dr Salisu Kwayabura has said. Speaking at ... Read More »

  By Prof. Usman Yusuf   I raised alarm in an article I wrote which was published in the Daily Trust Newspaper (page 6) on April 22nd, 2020 on how COVID-19 was ravaging Kano city. I opined that if urgent action was not taken by the Federal Government, the city could become the epicenter of the virus on the African ... Read More »

            Four new Convid – 19 positive cases today occurred in Ekiti State. According to the state Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, the four new cases were communicated to the government by the NCDC. ” The new cases are primary contacts of the 4th recorded case, a male doctor, aged 45 years old, who carried out ... Read More »

* ZULUM DECLARES MONDAY, THURSDAY AS FREE DAYS TO RE-STOCK BY INUSA NDAHI, MAIDUGURI The Borno State Commissioner for Health, who is member of the State’s High Powered Response Team for the prevention and control of COVID-19, Dr. Salisu Kwayabura has said that the person who led the burial of the first index case and later tested positive to the ... Read More »

Boko Haram fighters have opened fire on the convoy carrying the family of a former governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff. Security sources told SaharaReporters that the insurgents attacked the convoy while traveling from Abuja to Maiduguri to attend the three-day prayer of Sheriff’s late father, Alhaji Galadima Modu, who died following a fire outbreak at his residence ... Read More »

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the interim forfeiture of Gravity FM, Igboho and some properties belonging to Ex-Registrar of Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Dibu Ojerinde. According to the forfeiture order published on Friday April 24, in the PUNCH newspaper, Justice Ijeoma L. Ojukwu ruled that each of the said properties was acquired with public ... Read More »

Dr Tasuku Honjo, 2018 Nobel Prize winning Professor of Medicine, has said that the Coronavirus is not natural but manufactured by China at a laboratory in Wuhan. His words: “If it is natural, it wouldn’t have adversely affected the entire world like this. Because, as per nature, temperature is different in different countries. If it is natural, it would adversely ... Read More »

The ex-Nigeria international played for the Nerazzurri for two years before joining their city rivals AC Milan in 2000 Former Inter Milan striker Christian Vieri has recalled an encounter between Taribo West and former coach Marcello Lippi, with the Nigerian legend claiming to have heard God’s voice to play in a match. West joined Inter Milan in 1997 from French ... Read More »