Category: ARTS & LIFESTYLE

In United Kingdom, more than 1,300 people were wrongly told they had coronavirus (COVID-19) due to a lab error with NHS Test and Trace. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said 1,311 people who took a test between November 19-23 across the UK were incorrectly told they received a positive result. It said there was an issue with a batch of testing chemicals, which meant their results were void. A DHSC spokesman said: ‘Swift action is being taken to notify those affected and they are being asked to…

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Reports have it that there was palpable tension in Enugu State on Monday following the report of a suspected Yellow Fever outbreak in three more local government areas of the state. Enugu State had been battling to contain the outbreak of the disease in two communities of Ette Uno and Umuopu in Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area of the state, which reportedly claimed 52 lives between late October when the outbreak was first reported and November 2020. The state government has also confirmed it had received reports of strange deaths…

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From all indications, the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which is ravaging the global community would not deter the government of Akwa Ibom State from planning the yearly Christmas festival come December 2020. In going ahead with the party hwever, the State Government said the 2020 Christmas edition especially activities at the Christmas village would be held with strict adherence to the COVID-19 safety protocols as detailed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). To avoid overcrowding and allow visitors to maintain social distancing, the government has allocated 11 hectares of…

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Data indicating that a vaccine being developed against COVID-19 is highly effective is the “best science news of the year,” a pharmaceutical industry association chief said, voicing hope that other vaccine candidates would show equally good results. A vaccine that has 90 percent efficacy and is pretty safe, that is a historic breakthrough,” the head of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA), Thomas Cueni, said. American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech announced Monday that their vaccine had proven 90 percent effective in preventing Covid-19…

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The late legendary James Bond (007) actor, Sir Sean Connery’s ashes are to be scattered in Scotland, Bahamas, as this was his last wish. His wife, Micheline Roquebrune, shared that it was the James Bond icon’s ‘final wish’ to have part of his ashes taken to the Bahamas and his homeland, Scotland. The widow who was married to Sean for 40 years revealed that she plans to hold a memorial service for him near his Scottish home when travel regulations allow it. She told The Scottish MailOn Sunday, “We are…

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A new study from Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons found ferrets given a nasal spray were blocked from being infected by ferrets sick with COVID-19 (file image) A nasal spray that blocked transmission of the novel coronavirus in ferrets may help prevent humans exposed to the pathogen from becoming sick. Researchers found that a lipopeptide, a type of compound, prevented the virus, known as SARS-CoV-2, from entering and infecting cells. After being given the spray, no ferrets were infected by sick animals while those that were given…

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Africa’s biggest youth awards, The Future Awards Africa (TFAA), has unveiled the nominees for its only category open to public voting, The Future Awards Africa Prize for Service to Young People. The awards have been described as the ‘Nobel Prize for Young Africans’, and the ‘most important youth awards’ by Forbes. It is a set of prizes given annually to celebrate and accelerate innovation, creativity and enterprise amongst young Africans aged 18 – 31. It has produced over 150 winners and over 1550 nominees since its first edition in 2006.…

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The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Saturday confirmed that no fewer than two persons died with 29 vehicles burnt at an early morning accident on Kara bridge on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. The Corps Marshal, FRSC, Boboye Oyeyemi, disclosed this in a statement issued by the Corps Public Education Officer (CPEO) Assistant Corps Marshal (ACM), Bisi Kazeem. Mr Oyeyemi described as unfortunate, but avoidable, the fatal crash that occurred at Kara bridge on the outward Lagos lane of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, stating that the crash involved a single tanker fully…

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Two men who allegedly duped a doctor into buying an “Aladdin’s lamp” for $93,000 — and even conjured up a fake genie — have been arrested in India, an official said Sunday. Laeek Khan approached police in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh after he realised the lamp did not have any magical powers, as described in the popular folk tale about Aladdin and his wish-granting genie that appears when it is rubbed.  “The cheats had struck a deal for much more but the doctor had paid about seven million…

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Pastor Babatunde Bakare, the Overseer of Citadel Global Community Church, who at some point in his life ran as vice presidential candidate to President Muhammadu Buhari is proposing Ordinary National Diploma (OND) from a recognised polytechnic as the minimum qualification for recruitment of people into the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) going forward. Apparently reacting and suggesting ways of correcting the anomalies that led to the #ENDSARS protests across the nation, Bakare said such OND holders should be those who finished in the second-class lower division at the minimum. He said…

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