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A player in the Italian third division – Serie C – has tested positive for coronavirus. He is believed to be the first case of a footballer in Europe to be infected with the coronavirus. BBC in a live update identified the player as Paul Akpan Udoh, who is an Italian-Nigerian footballer. Udon is a 22-year-old player, who plays for Pianese in Serie C. He was said to be diagnosed on Thursday and has been quarantined. A statement from the Tuscany region read, “Two new suspected positive cases of Coronavirus in Tuscany. Both are awaiting confirmation by the Higher Institute of Health. “One is a 22-year-old man in the Siena province, a Pianese player, who last Saturday had symptoms in a hotel in Alessandria, where he was training with the team ahead of Sunday’s game (at Juventus U-23s). “He did not play the game that morning as he had a high fever. The team returned to Piancastagnaio, while he went home. Wednesday morning, he was tested in his home

The mother of the slain Assistant Captain of Remo Stars Football Club, Tiamiyu Kazeem, has said operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad had attempted to arrest her son two weeks before his death on Saturday. The mother stated this on Tuesday morning when the Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, paid a condolence visit to the family of the deceased. She said her late son, born on August 7, 1994, was not an internet fraudster (aka ‘Yahoo boy’) but a professional footballer She said, “Two weeks before his death, my son complained that operatives of SARS usually surround his car. In fact, he called his father on many of these occasions. “There was a certain day that his elder brother’s wife put to bed and he was at the hospital. Just as he went in, I was called that SARS operatives had surrounded his car. I rose and went there and on getting there, I met them. “I called one of their bosses immediately because, during Gbenga Daniel’s tenure, I served all policemen in the sta

The country's health ministry says the affected person is a 'foreigner' who is hospitalised and in isolation . Egypt has confirmed its first case of a deadly coronavirus that emerged in central China at the end of last year and has since spread to more than two dozen countries around the world. Health Ministry spokesman Khaled Mugahed said in a statement on Friday that the affected person was a "foreigner" who did not show any serious symptoms. Officials were able to confirm the case through a follow-up programme implemented by the government for travellers arriving from countries where the virus has spread. The ministry statement said the person was hospitalised and in isolation. It did not specify the person's nationality or their point of entry. The development made Egypt the first country in the African continent to report a confirmed case, and the second in the Middle East region, after the United Arab Emirates late last month diagnosed its fi

It was learnt that fire fighters, when alerted, swung into action and succeeded in puting out the fire, stopping it from consuming the entire building. Contacted, the spokesperson to Obasanjo, Kehinde Akinyemi, said he would get back to our correspondent. He is yet to do so as at the time this report is being filed. A building belonging to former President Olusegun Obasanjo was said to have caught fire on Wednesday evening. The fire, it was learnt, started around 9pm at the backside of the house, located at Ita Eko, opposite African Grammar School, Abeokuta the Ogun State capital. The cause of the inferno could not be immediately ascertained. Watch the video