By Ike Uchechukwu – Calabar The Nigerian Medical Association in Cross River has launched a free Healthcare Connect Service at the Calabar Women and Children Hospital for residents in the state. Speaking during the launching of the Connect Service on Saturday in Calabar, Dr Ofem Enang, 2nd Vice President of NMA, National, said the service […]

The Osun government said on Saturday the COVID-19 patient who reportedly absconded from the Isolation Centre in Ejigbo in the early hours of Saturday has been found. The state’s Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, Funke Egbemode, who disclosed this in a statement in Osogbo, said the unnamed female patient had been returned back to […]

Shina Abubakar – Osogbo The missing COVID-19 patient from Osun State Isolation Centre in Ejigbo has been apprehended and returned to the centre. The patient, a woman, was apprehended in Ejigbo town and returned to the facility by the police on Saturday afternoon. She escaped from the centre early Saturday morning after she was allegedly […]

Says it has little or no expansion potential, Ondo to build three more isolation centres Dayo Johnson – Akure GOVERNOR Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has allayed the fear of the people of the state over the confirmed index case of a returnee military Army officer who tested positive to COVID- 19 pandemics. Akeredolu pointed […]

The coronavirus disease, covid-19, pandemic has affected countries in two major ways namely, loss of human lives and economic meltdown. In response, world leaders are battling the deadly virus with very difficult decisions that have a far-reaching impact on global commerce and trade. Among the commodities worst hit by scaling down of trade is crude oil, which has crashed to an all-time low of less than $20 per barrel.