Nigeria on Monday discharged five coronavirus patients at the Infectious Disease Centre, Yaba Mainland Hospital, Lagos under the supervision of Lagos State Government and Lagos state ministry of health. This brings to eight the total number of discharged patients from the Centre. The patients are said to have fully recovered from the virus and tested […]

Nkiruka Nnorom The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor E.A Adeboye, on Monday donated some medical supplies to the Lagos State government to support its quest to effectively contain the coronavirus pandemic in the state. The items include 8,000 hand sanitizers, 8,000 surgical face masks, and 200,000 hand gloves. The […]

Aston Villa captain Jack Grealish posted a public apology on Monday for breaking UK government guidelines on social distancing as police opened an investigation into an incident in which a Range Rover crashed into parked cars. Villa expressed their disappointment with Grealish and said the 24-year-old will be fined with the proceeds going to a […]

Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has said the command would give the enforcement of coronavirus lockdown in the state a human face.

The Nigerian Government has confirmed the second death from coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, announced this on Monday at a press briefing in Abuja, the nation’s capital. He said, “Till date, three persons have been discharged after successful treatment. But sadly, another fatality was recorded over the weekend […]

By Bashir Bello – Kano Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State has on Monday ordered the arrest of the defaulter, no fewer than nine vehicles who defied the order on closure of all borders linking in and out of the state as part of measures to prevent the spread of the raging Coronavirus to […]

By Soni Daniel, Northern Region Editor Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, has faulted claims by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Ebun Olu Adegboru, that President Muhammadu Buhari does not have the powers to shut down three states in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic currently ravaging the world and Nigeria. It will be […]

By James Ogunnaike – Abeokuta Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun has announced that the total lockdown of the state which was scheduled to commence today (Monday by 11pm) has been shifted till Friday this week. The shift in date for the lockdown, according to the Ogun State governor would enable both the state and its people […]

A cleric, Augustine Yiga, has been accused by the Uganda prosecutors of telling his congregation their is no coronavirus in Uganda and Africa. The controversial pastor has been charged and jailed by the country’s authorities for “doing acts likely to cause the spread of COVID-19”, AFP reported. Report indicated that the alleged denial of the […]

THE coronavirus test of a suspected case in Agadagba-Obon in Ese-Odo council area of Ondo State has come out negative.