Coronavirus pandemic

World Health Organization has on Friday issued a grim warning that the second year of COVID-19 was set to be “far more deadly”. The warning comes as Japan extended a state of emergency amid growing calls for the Olympics to be…

Google.org has joined hands with a consortium of COVID-19 researchers to announce the launch of Global.health, an open-access epidemiological data platform that enables experts to track disease spread in real-time and to forecast future…

National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has on Thursday said Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product recorded a slight growth of 0.11 per cent grew in Quarter Four (Q4) 2020, from the 6.11 per cent contraction in Q3, signaling a gradual recovery…

Japanese government has on Friday denied reports that the Tokyo Olympics are set to be canceled over coronavirus pandemic. Though much of Japan is under a state of emergency due to a second wave of COVID-19 infections, Tokyo organisers…

National Universities Commission (NUC) has directed vice-chancellors of universities to begin academic activities on January 18. The announcement was in compliance with the directive of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19. MDB…

Dubai has disclosed plans to cut its budget to $15.5 billion in 2021 after its economy was impacted by a plunge in tourism and other sectors amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. The emirate, one of the seven that make up the United Arab…

Aisha, the wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, has said the COVID-19 pandemic is a sign that God is not happy with the world. She said this on Friday at the national mosque, during a public lecture to mark Nigeria’s 60th independence…

COVID-19 crisis has disproportionately affected tourism, a sector that accounts for millions of jobs around the globe. While no one can say with certainty when the sector will recover, people are starting to dream of getaways again -…

World Health Organisation (WHO) has said the coronavirus pandemic is ‘easily the most severe’ emergency that the agency has ever declared. On January 30, WHO declared coronavirus as a global emergency, as the death toll from the…

Federal Government has refuted circulating reports that there is an increase in airfares due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, disclosed this while inspecting the resumption of flight activities from…

Cambridge university has become the first university in the world to scrap all face-to-face lectures for a full year due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Britain's second oldest university made this huge decision because “social…

UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has expressed confidence that “good old football with fans will come back very soon” despite the ongoing global fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Domestic and continental club…

Tottenham midfielder Dele Alli has thanked his fans for their support after escaping serious injury during a knifepoint robbery attack, at his north London home in the early hours of Wednesday. Alli took to Twitter on Wednesday…