April 1, 2020

Virus-Linked Fraud Schemes Cost US Consumers Nearly $5m

Virus-Linked Fraud Schemes Cost US Consumers Nearly $5m

April 1, 2020 6:04 pm

Coronavirus-related fraud schemes are rising fast and have cost US consumers some $4.77 million so far, a government watchdog said Tuesday.

The Federal Trade Commission said it had more than 7,800 coronavirus-related reports from consumers as of Monday, double the number from a week earlier.

The consumer protection agency said the fraud complaints include emails about travel and vacation cancellations and refunds, online shopping scams and government and business imposter schemes.

Many of the schemes were also being perpetrated by mobile text or robo-calls, the FTC said.

The median loss for consumers was $598.

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Coronavirus Transforms New York As US Deaths Top 4,000

Coronavirus Transforms New York As US Deaths Top 4,000

April 1, 2020 6:03 pm

Emergency field hospitals were readied in New York’s Central Park and at the home of the US Open tennis tournament as the number of American deaths from the coronavirus pandemic surged past 4,000 — higher than the toll in China.

The pandemic has killed more than 1,700 New Yorkers and President Donald Trump, a native of the city, warned in Washington of “a very, very painful two weeks” to come for the entire country.

Already the hardest-hit area, America’s financial capital is in a race to ramp up hospital capacity before cases peak.

Around a dozen tents, equipped with 68 …

Harry And Meghan Embark On New Life In Los Angeles

Harry And Meghan Embark On New Life In Los Angeles

April 1, 2020 6:00 pm

Every starry-eyed ingenue arriving in Los Angeles faces the same question: how to catch that big break in Hollywood? For Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, it’s far more complicated.

The pair, who formally stepped down as senior members of the British royal family this week, have reportedly already relocated to sunny California.

They are currently rumored to be hunkering down at a compound in Malibu, the exclusive beach community outside Los Angeles long favored by A-listers and movie moguls.

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But how the couple will achieve their …

Auto Industries Join Tight Race To Make Ventilators

Auto Industries Join Tight Race To Make Ventilators

April 1, 2020 5:59 pm

The automotive industry is offering its expertise and manpower to the hospital sector as it gears up to build mechanical ventilators during the coronavirus pandemic, an initiative that is being met with some scepticism.

American auto manufacturers General Motors and Ford, French car companies PSA and Renault, Germany’s Volkswagen group and Formula 1 engineers have joined the ranks in response to a massive global shortage of the vital piece of medical equipment.

As hospitals around the world face a surge of patients with breathing difficulties from COVID-19, the scarcity of ventilators has forced doctors to make life-or-death decisions.

Repurposing car …

Mata Trolls Matic Over Training Regime During Lockdown

Mata Trolls Matic Over Training Regime During Lockdown

April 1, 2020 5:58 pm
Juan Mata has trolled his Manchester United team-mate Nemanja Matic by jokingly saying the Serbia midfielder is only claiming to be doing his training regime during the coronavirus lockdown.With the Premier League suspended until at least April 30 and Britain effectively shuttered by the pandemic, United’s players have been forced to keep in shape from home after their training ground was closed.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s team have been given personalised regimes to keep fit in case the season resumes.

Matic has made a series of Instagram posts showing his training routine.

“Every day is a gym day,” read the …

Pastor Who Spent 27 Years For Murder He Didn't Commit

Pastor Who Did 27 Years For Murder He Didn’t Commit

April 1, 2020 1:35 pm

Enugu, Nigeria – Each morning, 56-year-old Clinton Kanu wakes up on a thin mattress laid on the tiled floor of his tiny flat.

He lives on the third floor of a modest apartment building in the southeastern Nigerian city of Enugu, in a flat not much bigger than a walk-in closet.

He takes a moment to look around the room. There is not much to see. A battered, rust-coloured armchair sags in the corner beside a barred window that overlooks the neighbourhood’s red dirt roads. Sunlight filters through a lace curtain, exposing the dirt caked into the textured pattern painted …

6 Interesting Medical Records In Guinness World Records

6 Interesting Medical Records In Guinness World Records

April 1, 2020 1:35 pm

Guinness world records known from its inception in 1955 until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

There are so many records that have been broken from different countries and the book has sold 100 million copies in 100 different countries and 37 languages.

There are some interesting Health World Records and below are some:

Worst Pandemic
The pneumonic form of plague (bacterial infection), also known as …

Lightning Strike Leaves 20 Dead In Congo

Lightning Strike Leaves 20 Dead In Congo

April 1, 2020 1:35 pm

Twenty people were killed on Wednesday when a lightning strike damaged a high-voltage power line in a suburb of the Congolese capital Brazzaville, the local mayor and witnesses said.

The mayor of Kintele, Stella Mensah Sassou Nguesso, told state radio that seven bodies had been sent to a nearby morgue and another 13 to a mortuary in the capital.

An eyewitness said lightning “cut through two high-voltage cables,” electrocuting people on the ground.

“One cable fell on a house… and electrocuted three occupants,” said the eyewitness, who gave his name only as Rock.

“The other cable, which fell into a …

MultiChoice Snubs Subscribers, Donate ₦1.2bn To FG

MultiChoice Snubs Subscribers, Donate ₦1.2bn To FG

April 1, 2020 1:33 pm

Despite Nigerians’ plea for a slash in monthly subscription fees amid the coronavirus crisis, DSTV owners, MultiChoice appears to have shunned the request.

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Many Nigerians at home and on social media have been begging MultiChoice to reward their loyalty by giving them either free subscription for a certain period or reduction in rates.

On Wednesday, the company announced N250million to the Federal and Lagos State governments to support its efforts to curtail COVID-19.

MultiChoice was, however, silent on any kind of offer for the millions of Nigerians who keep the

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Sani, Kanu Caution Security Against Brutalising Nigerians

Sani, Kanu Caution Security Against Brutalising Nigerians

April 1, 2020 1:33 pm

Shehu Sani, a former lawmaker representing Kaduna Central senatorial district at the National Assembly, has reacted to the alleged unprofessional and high-handedness being displayed by some security personnel in enforcing the government’s social distancing and stay-at-home order.

In some viral videos flying around social media platforms, men in Nigerian army and police uniforms have been seen brutalizing and harassing the people all in the name of enforcing government orders.

And the former lawmaker cautioned that the situation was being approached wrongly by the security agencies.

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Shehu Sani tweeted, “To

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Kanu Reacts As Lagos Govt Denies Knowing Kyari’s Location

Kanu Reacts As Lagos Govt Denies Knowing Kyari’s Location

April 1, 2020 1:33 pm

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has reacted to reports that the Lagos State government does not know the whereabouts of Abba Kyari, President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff.

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, had on Tuesday said he did not know the whereabouts of Abba Kyari, contrary to reports that the CoS is at the Mainland Infectious Disease Hospital (IDH) Isolation Center in the State.

Recall that Kyari on Sunday informed Nigerians, via a letter, that he tested positive for COVIID-19 and would be in Lagos on Monday for

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Virus Hits U.S. Aircraft Carrier, Over 100 Sailors Sick

Virus Hits U.S. Aircraft Carrier, Over 100 Sailors Sick

April 1, 2020 12:16 pm

Over 100 sailors on a U.S. nuclear aircraft carrier, Theodore Roosevelt, have been stricken by coronavirus.

Capt. Brett Crozier has written the Navy for help.

The virus-hit ship is now docked near Guam, America’s Pacific Ocean island.

“The spread of the disease is ongoing and accelerating,” Crozier wrote in the letter published by San Francisco Chronicle.
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He underscored the desperation of the people aboard the aircraft carrier.

Read Also: US In Trouble: 240,000 Americans May Die From Coronavirus

“We are not at war. Sailors do not need to die. If we do not act now, we are failing to

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