Fast-rising Nigerian Fintech mobile money company, Funds and Electronic Transfer Solutions, FETS, operators of fetswallet on Wednesday commenced the immediate disbursement of N20, 000 conditional cash transfer to the poorest and most vulnerable as directed by President Muhammadu Buhari in his address to the Nation on Sunday 29 March. Despite the partial shutdown of retail […]

European airline giant Lufthansa said Thursday it has placed 87,000 workers — more than 60 percent of its workforce — on government-backed shorter hours schemes, as air travel idles amid the coronavirus crisis. Among the group’s 135,000 employees, cabin crew, ground crew and for the first time ever pilots are all affected by the measure, […]

Indonesia confirmed 113 new coronavirus infections on Thursday, taking the total in the Southeast Asian country to 1,790, health ministry official Achmad Yurianto said. READ ALSO: Spain sheds nearly 900,000 jobs since coronavirus lockdown He reported 13 new deaths from the virus, taking the total to 170, while a total of 112 so far had […]

McLaren drivers Carlos Sainz and Lando Norris have taken voluntary pay cuts as part of a raft of cost-cutting measures to help the team survive the coronavirus crisis with Formula One in lockdown. The British-based team will also use the UK government’s furlough scheme to guarantee 80 per cent of salary for staff up to […]

The Defence Headquarters has dismissed the torture videos being circulated on social media and alleged to have been perpetrated by military personnel while implementing the COVID-19 stay at home order. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, in a statement on Thursday, said the videos being circulated were the handiwork of mischief- makers to […]

Malaysia reported 208 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, taking the total to 3,116, the highest in Southeast Asia. READ ALSO: Greece quarantines camp after migrants test coronavirus positive The Ministry Of Health recorded a total of 50 deaths, with five reported on Thursday. vanguard

Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, and his wife, Hafsat, have tested negative to Coronavirus. The Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Abba Anwar, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Kano.‎ ‎He said: “We thank Almighty Allah for this result which shows negative. That is how He (Allah) wishes. All those whose results are […]

Spain has shed close to 900,000 jobs, more than half of them temporary, since it went into lockdown in mid-March to fight the coronavirus outbreak, social security data showed on Thursday. Spain, which has the world’s second-highest death toll from the disease after Italy, has banned all but essential outings since March 14. This week […]

Comrade Austin Okai has distributed 2000 hands sanitisers to Youth Groups, Peer Groups, Associations, Organisations, Women Groups, Market Men/Women and the elders as efforts to prevent and curb the spread Of the Pandemic. Without political undertone, poised for selfless and social emancipation, the people’s Comrade and social critic has proved his mettle of matching words […]