As a responsible social citizen and as part of its strategic partnership with the Lagos State government, a frontline manufacturer of paints and allied products, Berger Paints Nigeria PLC has  supported the State government’s efforts in combating the devastating Covid 19 pandemic through the provision of paints towards building more isolation centres in the State.

Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti, on Tuesday, named an eight-man management committee for the COVID-19 Pandemic Support Account recently set up by the state government.

To have any idea whether our current social distancing efforts in the United States are helping slow the spread of coronavirus, and to gauge how long we should go on this way, scientists need to know how many people have mild or asymptomatic cases of Covid-19. There could be many such people. Since their symptoms […]

By Egufe Yafugborhi – Port Harcourt Rivers State Waste Management Agency (RIWAMA) has charged its service providers to raise the bar in discharge of their duties as the menace of Corona Virus challenges the agency to keep Rivers cleaner than ever before. Sole Administrator of RIWAMA, Bro Felix Obuah who gave the charge in Port […]

Ogun State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Tomi Coker, on Tuesday, confirmed a new case of the coronavirus in the state. Coker, who disclosed this at a press briefing in Abeokuta, said the new case is a 30-year-old female from Sagamu area of the state. The commissioner said two of the four cases in Ogun have […]

…Describes the plan as an expression of insensitivity By Johnbosco Agbakwuru, Abuja The Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, has warned the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, not to go ahead with the planned increase in electricity tariff from April 1, 2020. The organised labour said it would be an act of insensitivity on the part of […]

Thailand’s government issued a warning Tuesday that April Fool’s Day jokes about the novel coronavirus are punishable by a law which carries a sentence of up to five years in prison.

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta has expressed sadness over the death of retired Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG), Mr. Chris Olakpe.

The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Taiwo Adisa, has said that his boss, Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde, did not contract COVID-19 at the much-talked-about Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) unification rally. Contrary to insinuations in some quarters that the governor of Oyo State, Engineer Seyi Makinde, who on Monday, tested positive to COVID-19, […]

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden warned that the use of surveillance to track coronavirus cases during the pandemic could continue once the crisis subsides, according to a report. “When we see emergency measures passed, particularly today, they tend to be sticky,” Snowden said in an interview with the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, CNET reported. “The […]