A member of the House of the House of Representatives, Rep. Shehu Koko has urged the Federal government to include suspension of payment of electricity and water bills for two months, as palliatives for the less privileged.

Connected Development (CODE)  a civil society organisation, has urged Federal and State Governments to provide comprehensive data of interventions, recipient organisations and expenditure of donated funds for tackling COVID-19.

The Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Ministerial Monitoring Team, on Tuesday, took its sensitisation campaign on Covid-19 to residents of Kuje Area Council.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has backed the lockdown of Lagos, Ogun and the Federal Capital Territory on the orders of President Muhammadu Buhari, claiming that it is right and in accordance with relevant laws of Nigeria.

The number of coronavirus cases in Russia jumped to 2,337 on Tuesday, an increase of 500, as the country recorded its biggest daily rise for the seventh day in a row. READ ALSO: Fact check: Russia releases 800 tigers; lions to force citizens stay at home over covid-19 In Russia, 18 people who contracted the coronavirus […]

 The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Tuesday distributed millions of Naira worth of relief materials to victims of armed banditry displaced from three local government areas of Niger.

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Tuesday distributed millions of Naira worth of relief materials to victims of armed banditry displaced from three local government areas of Niger.

Kaduna State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Amina Baloni, said on Tuesday the two confirmed coronavirus cases in the state are contacts of the index case. The National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) had on Monday confirmed two new cases, bringing the number of cases in Kaduna to three. The state governor, Nasir El-Rufai had on […]

With the canard making the rounds that the pandemic disease, coronavirus, is an airborne disease, the World Health Organisation, WHO, has faulted the report, saying that the virus codenamed covid-19 is not an airborne disease.

 France, Germany, and Britain have made the first use of a bartering mechanism set up to circumvent U.S. sanctions against Iran, to send medical supplies to the crisis-hit country, the German Foreign Office says.

By Chioma Onuegbu – Uyo Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State has signed into operations the quarantine and restriction of movement regulations 2020 in view of the serious and imminent threat to Public Health by COVID-19 pandemic. According to a statement signed yesterday by the Commissioner for Information Mr. Charles Udoh, the new law […]

The Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Ministerial Monitoring Team, on Tuesday, took its sensitisation campaign on Covid-19 to residents of Kuje Area Council.

 A Kaduna-based Non-Governmental Organisation, Lifeline Education Foundation has commended the Kaduna State Government for evacuation of 5, 000 Almajiris to their homes, to prevent spread of Covid-19.

The management of Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) on Tuesday assured its customers of steady power supply in spite of shutting its offices outlets in Lagos and Ogun state.

 Residents of parts of Port Harcourt were forced off the streets on Tuesday by security personnel as Gov. Nyesom Wike imposed a dusk to dawn curfew in parts of the state.