An Onitsha-based cleric, Prophet Chukwuemeka Ohanaemere popularly known as Odumeje, has apologised to people of Awka, Anambra state capital over alleged threat to destroy their festival, known as Imo-Awka. The controversial cleric also tendered unreserved apology to the people of Read more…
Month: June 2020
A second outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus has struck the Democratic Republic of the Congo, even before an earlier outbreak in a volatile eastern region has formally ended. The Congolese health ministry said Monday it had identified six cases Read more…
Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu on Monday disclosed the readiness of Biafra for independence and sovereignty. Kanu said in a statement by the IPOB Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful in Owerri that they were Read more…
Russia’s newly approved drug for combating Covid-19 will soon be supplied to the country’s hospitals, with the first deliveries expected on June 11. Trials have shown the medication to be highly effective in fighting the virus. On Saturday, the country’s Read more…
An autopsy commissioned for George Floyd’s family found that he died of asphyxiation due to neck and back compression when a Minneapolis police officer held his knee on Floyd’s neck until he stopped breathing, ignoring his cries of distress, the Read more…
Coughing is one of the hallmark symptoms of being infected with the novel coronavirus. So it’s no surprise that many are swigging dextromethorphan, a workhorse cough suppressant, to calm those bone-rattling expulsions of germs and air. It may be doing Read more…
Having sex in your own home with someone from a different household is illegal from today, after the government altered its coronavirus legislation. At 11.30am on Monday, a change to the law was introduced that bans two people from different Read more…