The Lagos State Government has released the list of hotspots with the highest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the state. State Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi released the statistics while providing updates on the state’s fight against the COVID-19 virus The data released revealed Eti-Osa Local Government Area as heading the list […]

Leagues have been warned their clubs may not be eligible for European football next season if they cancel their competitions prematurely due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Belgian top-flight announced on Thursday it was ending its season, with Club Brugge declared national champions. The league stated it was acting on advice from the government and […]

By Chioma Obinna Amidst the outbreak of Coronavirus disease, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, disclosed that deaths from the Lassa fever outbreak in the country have hits 185. The Centre in its Week 13 situation report noted that Nigeria has been battling Lassa fever outbreak since the beginning of the year with 951 confirmed […]

By Nasiru Suleiman – Sokoto The Sokoto State Police Command has confirmed the recovery of 22 bodies of persons allegedly killed by bandits in Sabon-Birni Local Government Area of Sokoto state. Sources close to the village had earlier informed that armed bandits invaded Gangara village Wednesday evening on motorbikes shooting sporadically. The sources noted that […]

By Evelyn Usman Two persons lost their lives, yesterday, while several others were injured in an auto crash involving a Siena bus and a Lagos State Government campaign bus at Ile-Iwe bus stop, Idimu in Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos. A report has it that the Siena bus loaded with passengers was heading inward […]

The Director General and Chief Executive Officer of the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), Dr. Rufus Ebegba, Friday, said the agency is set to develop and implement new guidelines that will help curtail the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

African Development Bank Group (AfDB), yesterday, said it has approved a new Gender Equality Trust Fund (GETF), that would unlock up to $2 billion in credit, in the first instance and further mobilise $5 billion in the long run, for women-empowered businesses in Africa.

Liverpool council’s director of public health Matthew Ashton has suggested the rise in coronavirus cases in the city may be influenced by the decision to allow the Reds’ Champions League match against Atletico Madrid to take place. There were just 14 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Liverpool on Friday, March 20, but that number has […]

As the world grapples with the ravaging scourge of the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, a Non-Governmental Organization, CPU Foundation has embarked on a humanitarian service of providing food items to some Deltans as a way of cushioning the effect of the lockdown directive put in place by the State Government. The distribution of the food […]

Accused keeps mum As Gov. Bello orders investigation By Boluwaji Obahopo – Lokoja A 22-year beauty queen, Elizabeth Oyeniyi, has accused Kogi State Commissioner of abduction, assaults and battering. The single mother of one, while narrating her ordeal to Dorothy Njemanze Foundation, said the commissioner abducted and battered her for advising him to be responsible […]

…urge Deltans to disregard trending threat video clip by two soldiers By Festus Ahon, Asaba Against the rumour making the rounds, Delta State Government has said soldiers were not killed in Warri, Delta State, urging the public, particularly Deltans, to discountenance video clips purportedly on Warri residents defying the stay-at-home order of the state government […]

  Ola Ajayi – Ibadan He said this just as he disclosed that volunteers will start training as from today. Alonge, who is the former Chief Medical Director of the University College Hospital, Ibadan said:  “As of yesterday, we are tracking close to 140 people and the concept is not to track them and ask […]

Says over 90 seeking IMF financial assistance Emma Ujah The Managing Director (MD) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Ms Kristalina Georgieva, has said that COVID-19 has created an economic crisis worse than what the world economy experienced under the global financial crisis in 2008. “It is way worse than the global financial crisis of […]

By Dayo Johnson – Akure Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State says today on his verified Twitter handle that “We have just received confirmation of our first positive #COVIDー19 case in Ondo State this evening. The infected person is currently under isolation and will be monitored. We have activated all necessary protocol to locate all […]

By Perez Brisibe TRADITIONAL Prime Minister of Tuomo kingdom in Delta and Bayelsa States, Chief Mike Loyibo, has described the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole as a man who has left an ineligible and uncommon footprint in the political history of Nigeria. Chief Loyibo in a statement, Friday, commended […]