The 2020 Formula 1 season will start in Austria on 5 July, the first of a run of eight races in Europe. An F1 statement said the championship would begin across three consecutive weekends – two in Austria on 5…
*Man kills neighbour for not allowing him watch movies during lockdown (Punch) *Lagos reassures of commitment to end COVID-19 (Guardian)
Man kills neighbour for not allowing him watch movies during lockdown (Punch) A occupant of Taiwo Street, Mafoluku, Oshodi area of Lagos, Taiwo Eluyemi, dispersed some neighbours who came to his apartment to watch movies on Wednesday in compliance with…
Spectre of second wave haunts Italy as government mulls path out of lockdown
The European country worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic is approaching a fateful decision on how to start lifting a nearly two-month-long lockdown on May 4, with experts warning that Italians must learn to “coexist” with the virus for months…
Coronavirus: Hope as Italy records first fall in active virus cases
The number of people officially identified as infected with coronavirus in Italy has fallen for the first time since the country’s outbreak began, authorities have said. As of Monday, there were 108,237 people either being treated in hospital or recovering…
A beautiful thing’: the African migrants getting healthy food to Italians
After years of exploitation, former fruit pickers set up a co-operative near Rome selling vegetables and yoghurt. Now they are working ‘twice as hard’ to get supplies to families under lockdown. Ismail bends over the vegetables in the middle of…
Brescia threaten to forfeit matches if Serie A re-starts
The president of bottom-of-the-table Brescia has said that it makes no sense to try to complete the Serie A season and that he would rather forfeit matches than put his team on the pitch. A national lockdown has been in…
I don’t know if I’ve contracted Coronavirus –Nwankwo
Nigeria international, Simy Nwankwo, who plays for Crotone in the Serie B in Italy, has opened up on how scary life has been since the outbreak of the coronavirus in the country, adding that people have been living in fear…
Why I snubbed Eagles – Ogbonna (Punch)
West Ham defender, Angelo Ogbonna, has explained that he opted to play for Italy rather than Nigeria because it was the right thing to do for him. Ogbonna an Italian of Nigerian descent has been capped 13 times by the…
Nigeria/Russia Relations: The missing link – Hussaini Monguno
On November 15, 1884, 14 mainly European countries gathered in Berlin for a meeting which lasted to February 26, 1885. The aim of that conference was to split the continent of Africa and share it to the Europeans who were…
60-year-old man dies while watching porn in adult toy shop (Punch)
A 60-year-old British man has died while watching porn at a sex shop in Italy. According to Dailymail, the man was suspected to have suffered a heart attack while watching a pornographic film in the private booth in a sex top shop Marghera near Venice.…