The Nigerian Government has shut down Lafarge, a cement manufacturing company in Ewekoro, Ogun State, after an exclusive story by SaharaReporters on Friday. An employee of the company, who drove an Italian infected with Coronavirus with an ambulance to Lagos for medical attention, has also been arrested. A clinic situated inside the cement factory has also been…
[16:06, 2/28/2020] Deji Allen: …Gov: How Lagos Govt Diagnosed Patient Lagos State Government has raised its level of response to Coronavirus (COVID-19) incident, following a reported case of a patient diagnosed with the infectious viral disease in the State in the early hours of Friday. This is coming, just as the Chief Incident Commander and…
A 55-year-old man, Bashiru Adeyanju, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison without an option of fine for attempting to rape his 17-year-old daughter. The Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Ekiti State, Olawale Fapohunda, who led the prosecution team, told the court that the convict committed the offense on September 10, 2017, at No…
22-year-old Italian-Nigerian footballer, King Udoh, has tested positive to the coronavirus (Covid-19). According to reports, Udoh who plays professional football with Pianese, an Italian Serie C side team, is currently in the infectious disease department of La Scotte hospital in Siena and is said to be in good condition. They quarantined him last weekend after he started feeling…
Olufunke Oshonaike has become the first African female athlete to compete in seven Olympic Games after the former African table tennis champion secured her place at Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Japan. To be sure of being part of the party in Tokyo, Oshonaike defeated Cameroun’s Sarah Hanffou 4-1 in the second match of the…
Popular American actor and producer, Tyler Perry has requested another autopsy to investigate if his nephew took his own life or was murdered. Mr. Perry is not convinced his nephew hanged himself in prison, so he hired a famous medical examiner to look into how he really died. Tyler’s nephew, Gavin Porter, 26, was serving…
The Lagos Stat Governor, Babajide Sanwo Olu has reacted to the first case of coronavirus in the state. In a lengthy post on his official Twitter handle on Friday, Sanwo-Olu called for calm among Lagosians adding that the state governor has a firm control measure in place. “Dear Lagosians, yesterday we confirmed the first case…
The demand by the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria(MACBAN) to participate in the operations of the South West regional security network, Amotekun, has been turned down by the House of Assembly of the respective states. PREMIUM TIMES gathered that the houses of assembly of the states had concluded work on the bill after…
Nigerians on social media woke up to the disturbing news that the first case of the coronavirus has been recorded in the country, several weeks after other countries have had cases of the virus. Shortly after the news was made public by the Federal Ministry of Health, a Nigerian man on social media identified as…
Twenty-one persons were killed on Thursday as suspected bandits stormed Gurbi village in the Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State. The spokesman for the Katsina Police Command, SP Gambo Isah, confirmed the incident. Eyewitnesses said the bandits stormed the village about 3 am on motorcycles, armed with AK-47 rifles, shot at the villagers and…