President Donald Trump signed into law Friday the $2 trillion rescue plan to salvage a US economy crippled by coronavirus, on a day the nation saw a record 18,000 new confirmed cases of infection. Hours earlier, the House of Representatives passed the package, with lawmakers uniting to greenlight the mega-plan as the world-topping number of US infections […]

The United States Government has announced a 7 million dollars (about N2.6 billion) emergency health and humanitarian aid to Nigeria amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This is part of a 274 million dollars (N103 billion) assistance package to no fewer than 63 countries affected by the disease, according to a statement by the Department of […]

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has expressed the possibility of his administration shutting down the state totally soon if the cases of people testing positive to Coronavirus, COVID-19 continue in the state.

From the first known patient in late January to now almost 100,000 infected, the United States has earned the unwanted distinction of leading the world in confirmed coronavirus cases. Close to 1,500 people have succumbed to the COVID-19 illness — though for now the death rate remains far lower than Italy and several European countries. […]

By Joseph Erunke THE Federal Capital Territory, FCT branch of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, has urged the federal government to allow other laboratories test for coronavirus. The organisation also said there was the urgent need for the government to decentralize testing and turn around time for tests of the virus, by unbundling the workload […]

A former presidential aspirant on the platform of All Progressives Congress, APC, Adamu Garba II, has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s approach to the coronavirus outbreak as disappointing.

A renowned medical practitioner and former presidential aspirant, Dr Thomas-Wilson Ikubese, has written to President Muhammadu Buhari, suggesting measures to fight against the pandemic virus, Covid-19, otherwise known as Corona virus, that is currently ravaging the world and the attendant effect on, especially Nigerians.

The Enugu State Government has ordered the closure of all land borders and inter-state transportation in the state till further notice, with effect from 6 pm on Tuesday, March 31, 2020, except those on medical emergency services. In a statement by the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Simon Uchenna Ortuanya, the state government also […]

By James Ogunnaike ABEOKUTA – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday, said his former residence at the Presidential Hilltop, Abeokuta, Ogun State be used as Isolation centre for victims of the dreaded Coronavirus disease. Obasanjo said the 32-room facility has been handed over to the Ogun state government for immediate take over. READ ALSO: Enugu Parklane […]

The enlarged Inter-Ministerial Committee on Coronavirus set up by Governor Okezie Ikpeazu met today to review progress made to prevent the disease from afflicting the state as well as put in place control and mitigation plans in case of an unlikely outbreak and wish to restate that the state is yet to record any case […]

Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Friday charged corporate organizations and private individuals to complement the government’s efforts in curbing the spread of COVID-19 in the state and the country as a whole. The governor, who made the call while unveiling the economic stimulus package for the indigent and the most vulnerable people in the […]

The Enugu State Government has ordered the closure of all land borders and inter-state transportation in the state till further notice, with effect from 6pm on Tuesday, March 31, 2020, except those on medical emergency services.

RESIDENT Doctors of Enugu State University of Science and Technology Teaching Hospital, ESUT-TH, Parklane, have suspended their indefinite withdrawal of services and resumed work in the tertiary hospital.

Victor Ogunyinka The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed five new cases of coronavirus in Nigeria, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 70. Of the new confirmed cases, three, according to NCDC are from the Federal Capital Territory, while two are from Oyo State. This comes barely 24 hours that 14 […]

The National President of Inter Party Advisory Council, IPAC, High Chief Peter Ameh has called for a total lockdown of the entire country in order to effectively restrain the spread of the deadly novel coronavirus, COVID-19 pandemic.