…awaiting 283 samples from Abuja By Bashir Bello, Kano The State Coordinator, Rapid Response on Covid-19, Dr Tijjani Hussaini on Tuesday says 85 contact persons out of 267 have turn out to have symptoms related to Covid-19 in the state. This was as he said it has also discharged three contact persons while awaiting results […]

Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, Tuesday, at the weekly PTF briefing on COVID-19, said the first set of Nigerians anxious to return to the country would be evacuated soon. He said he is working with the technical team, to do everything possible to make it next week Monday. The minister last Friday had said that […]

By James Ogunnaike, Abeokuta Ogun State Government, Tuesday donated additional patrol vehicles and motorcycles through the State Security Trust Fund (OGSTF) to security agencies operating within the State. Given out were 69 pick-up vans to the State Police Command, the QRS received 10, TRACE got 10 while the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps took […]

By Chioma Obinna The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on Tuesday, declared the emergency phase of the 2020 Lassa fever outbreak over following successive the decline in cases below the emergency threshold, and an epidemiological review carried out by NCDC in collaboration by the World Health Organisation, WHO. In a press statement made available […]

The board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday approved Nigeria’s request for $3.4 billion emergency support to address the severe impact of the COVID-19.

An employee of APM Terminals Apapa has tested positive for COVID-19, an official said Tuesday. The last time the worker was at the port was April 16, but his COVID-19 infection was confirmed on April 27. The company’s General Manager, External Relations, Daniel Odibe, made the disclosure in a statement in Lagos. “APM Terminals hereby […]

A top New York City doctor who was on the front line of the US fight against coronavirus has taken her own life. Dr Lorna Breen, who was medical director of the emergency department at New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital in Manhattan, died of self-inflicted injuries on Sunday, police said. The 49-year-old’s father, Dr Philip Breen, […]

As PDP releases list of LG/Ward Executives We will study list C’River PDP It’s a laudable development ― Stakeholders By Ike Uchechukwu – Calabar There was an unusual calm in Cross River as the National Secretariat of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, released the list of Local Government and Ward executives in the state that […]

By Perez Brisibe PATANI – THE Patani local government council chairman, Perez Omoun, has applauded the traditional prime minister of Tuomo kingdom in Delta and Bayelsa States, Chief Mike Loyibo for extending his palliatives in cushioning the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic outside his kingdom to the area. The Patani boss made the commendation […]

By Chioma Obinna  As Lagos State government commenced enforcement of compulsory use of face masks, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has warned that several washes, drying and stretching of the fabric face mask over time reduce its effectiveness even as it noted that non-medical face masks cannot prevent the […]

Apple and Google developed a new API for iPhone and Android that would allow app developers to create contact tracing apps for the novel coronavirus. The Apple-Google approach relies on Bluetooth connectivity between devices to determine the risk of exposure of an individual to a person who tested positive to COVID-19. The object of such […]

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has set a target to test two million people for COVID-19 across the country in the next three months. The Director-General of NCDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, said the target is a very ambitious one and therefore sought the collaboration of all social partners, and the state governors to […]

US President, Donald Trump on Tuesday, had a telephone conversation with Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari over the coronavirus pandemic in the country. This was revealed by Lai Mohammed, minister of information, at the media briefing of the presidential task force on COVID-19. He said the US president promised to send across ventilators to Nigeria. He […]

An employee of APM Terminals in Apapa, Lagos, has tested positive for COVID-19. The company’s General Manager, External Relations, Daniel Odibe, who disclosed this in a statement in Lagos Tuesday, said the staff COVID-19 infection was confirmed on April 27. He said: “APM Terminals hereby informs the port community and general public of a positive […]

By Evelyn Usman A couple has been arrested in Lagos for allegedly stealing a one-month-old baby from the eastern part of the country. The suspects, a male and a female who claimed to be a couple, were arrested at 2a.m. on Sunday, while sneaking the baby into Lagos. Another couple, who had paid N150,000 for […]