English Football League (EFL) has instructed that the 2019/20 academy season should come to an end with immediate effect. The directive was not only taken by EFL but in conjunction with the Premier League who had been running the Academy Games Programme together for long, adding that the declaration was due to the coronavirus pandemic. … Read more
The Premier League season has been unanimously suspended by all the football clubs at the shareholder’s meeting held yesterday, Friday, 1 May 2020. The clubs’ stakeholders all agreed to the new development as the government has not reversed the rules that guide the social distancing and stay-at-home order. The league emphasized that any return to … Read more
Laolu Omogunwa, a commercial motorcyclist, popularly known in Nigeria as Okada rider, is currently on the run having raped a pregnant woman to coma in a bush at Ago Akingboye in Irele Local Government Area of Ondo State. Mrs Sade Jawo had hired Omogunwa at Ajagba to take her to a farm settlement where she … Read more
Donations have poured in to support a poor Kenyan widow based in Mombasa identified as Peninah Bahti Kitsao, who pretended to be cooking for her 8 children but was actually boiling stones. Before the outbreak of Coronavirus, Peninah worked as a laundry woman and was able to gather enough money to feed her family, but … Read more
There is outrage in Akure, Ondo State capital, as policemen attached to Ijapo Divisional Police Station have reportedly taken to their heels after causing a fatal vehicular accident. At about 8:30pm on Friday, the policemen while enforcing dusk to dawn curfew, threw a log of wood at the tyre of a speeding Sports Utility Vehicle … Read more
ThPUNCH(under DAAR Communications, High Chief Raymond Dokpesi, his daughter-in-law, and six members of his family have tested positive for coronavirus. This came three days after his son and Chairman of the board of the company, Raymond Dokpesi Jnr, also tested positive for the virus. According to ait.live, a test conducted by the Nigeria Centre for … Read more
Forty-six staff of Gotel Communications, a media outfit owned by Nigeria’s former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, have been dismissed by the organisation. Atiku had dished out top-notch economic ideas on Thursday, particularly on how the economy can avoid recession. Gotel Communication is a television and radio broadcast conglomerate transmitting from Yola, the Adamawa State capital. … Read more
No less than two Doctors, two Nurses and other medical health workers have tested positive to COVID-19 after attending to a Delta infected female patient, Omamuzo Ijala. Delta State had recorded 8 new COVID-19 cases barely 24hours after the Delta State Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa relaxed the statewide restriction of movement order imposed by the … Read more
Anderson Cooper, the CNN anchor whose sexual orientation has not been an issue of debate in the public space, is the proud father of a bouncy baby boy. The media personality shared a picture showing how he is feeding the baby who was put to bed through surrogacy. Taking to his IG page, he wrote: … Read more
Popular music producer and singer, Micheal Collins Ajere is also known as Don Jazzy has advised the federal government of Nigeria to take the Nigerian workers’ welfare as the first prerogative duty of the government. Don Jazzy has used the chance of the workers’ day, 1 April 2020, to send this message via his twitter … Read more
Nigerians have commemorated the late comedian, Gbenga Adeboye, after his demise 17 years ago. It was yesterday the comedian Icon reached 17 years he departed this world, so his son, Oladipupo Igwe Elijah Adeboye, and other Nigerians took to the internet to remember him. Elijah Adeboye shared the photo of his late dad and wrote: … Read more
Lecturer at Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Mr. Tolu Ojemuyiwa, has expressed his experience with the sellers of locally made face masks. Ojemuyiwa narrated the experience he had some days back while discussing with friends yesterday, 30 May 2020, on WhatsApp group chat. He wrote his experience and I quote: “I think we should be very … Read more
Police operatives in Ejigbo, Lagos have uncovered a house where a 26-year old single mother, Miss Blessing Okite, camps female and male sex workers for a fee of N500. P.M.EXPRESS reports that the activities took place at Imodo compound, Ejigbo area of Lagos, where the lady, Blessing, resides with her 8-year old daughter. Police intelligence … Read more
The Plateau State Government on Thursday has forbidden all movements within the state in order to curb the community spread of coronavirus. In his address, Governor Simon Lalong said the move is part of his administration’s efforts in battling the virus following the only confirmed case in the state. The governor remarked that it was … Read more
Officials of the Gender Based Violence Response Team of the Vicar Hope Foundation, Umuahia, have rescued a 2-year old child locked up for several days in an uncompleted building at Zone 5, Agbama Housing Estate, Umuahia, Abia State capital. The child, found to be suffering from exhaustion,dehydration and malnourishment, was suspected to have been locked … Read more
A 19-year-old White woman has died mysteriously after she ignored warnings from social media users when she revealed her plans to dabble into voodoo and summon an African spirit known as Papa Legba. Katelyn “Kat” Restin, a 19-year-old Virginia woman, was found dead after she allegedly drowned in a bathtub according to one of her … Read more
The Bauchi State government on Friday has recorded nine new cases of Coronavirus bringing the number of positive cases in the State to 38. Dr Aliyu Maigoro, Bauchi State Commissioner for Health, told Newsmen that the results were sent in last on Thursday night by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Abuja. He confirmed … Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari has lifted the lockdown measures aimed at curbing the effect of Coronavirus, but it is important you watch out for these mysterious things while you step out from Monday, May 4th 2020. According to worldometres.info, a total of 3,310,039 Coronavirus cases have been recorded worldwide, 234,143 have died and 1,043,245 have recovered. … Read more
Over 216 people have been arrested and convicted for violating lockdown order in Niger State. Majority of the offences include lack of wearing a face mask while others include, driving vehicles during the period of lockdown, organizing social events/gathering, conveying passengers during the lockdown, and carrying more than the prescribed numbers of passengers required during … Read more
Speculations are rift that a public figure from Warri who donated palliatives to support effects of lockdown may have tested positive to COVID-19. Samples obtained from the prominent personality whose identity would remain withheld during contact tracing for an earlier reported case turned out positive, a source revealed. However, Contact tracing for the public figure … Read more