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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

About 15 shop owners were said to have slumped due to the wildfire that razed Amu Timber, a Lagos popular plank market on Saturday morning. Residents were divided over when the fire started. Some said the fire started around 11pm while others said it was around 12am. The Nation Correspondent counted more than seven burnt houses. Goods worth hundreds of billions were lost to the inferno. The shop owners, some of who live in far places, could not savage any of their goods. None of those on ground knew the cause of the fire. “It couldn’t have been from the electric distribution because we don’t use power from either Ikeja Electricity Distribution or Eko Disco. “We all use generating set in this market, ” a trader told The Nation. Some residents lamented that the fire service didn’t respond on time and when their vehicle arrived, it came with half tank water. “It took another one hour before three more vehicles arrived. I think the state fire service could do b

- Nigerian media personality Daddy Freeze has noted that all pastors that do not obey the rules of Christ are Marlian pastors  - The controversial man described Marlian pastors as people who ask their congregation to pray bad for their enemies  - Daddy Freeze also claimed that pastors that tell congregants to pay their seed to the church to have a better life are Marlians  Popular controversial media personality Daddy Freeze has called out pastors that do not obey the rules of Jesus Christ.  The media personality said those pastors are Marlians because they fail to obey Christ.  According to Daddy Freeze, Marlians are people who don't obey rules which means that any pastor that does not follow the rules of Christ is also one of them.  Daddy Freeze, who is known for coming after pastors who he believes are not doing the right thing, shared his thoughts on his Instagram page . He also listed examples of pastors that are Marlians. He said pastors that ask their congre

Ogun State government on Wednesday said that there is no confirmed case of Lassa Fever in the State. The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) erroneously listed Ogun as one of the affected states. But reacting, the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Tomi Coker, in a release, said there is no case of confirmed Lassa Fever in Ogun, adding that government had however put its health officials on red alert in the event of a suspected case. Coker therefore allays the fear of residents of the State, advising them to avoid contact with rodents and ensure personal as well as environmental hygiene. Describing Lassa Fever as an endemic acute viral hemorrhage illness that is transmitted from rodents to human, and human to human, the Commissioner advised health workers across the state to maintain a high index of suspicions for Lassa and treat all cases of fever symptoms with caution. She added that all suspected cases of Lassa Fever should be reported to the Local Government Area