More than 6,000 cases reported With more than 6000 COVID-19 cases reported in Africa, the virus is threatening fragile health systems on the continent. Infections are increasingly spreading not only between African countries but within different localities in the hardest-hit countries. For instance, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where COVID-19 cases were at […]

“Coronavirus” is a word that strikes terror into the hearts of millions of human inhabitants of an increasingly besieged planet earth. And I find it helpful, psychologically, to minimise the power and impact of the word by almost jokily abbreviating it to “coro”.

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

Amidst the persisting effect of Coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic on the Nigerian economy the stock market, yesterday, intched up with investors gaining N10.8 billion.

Nigerian banks’ credit profiles face severe risks resulting from the slump in oil price as well as the disruptions in operating environment due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Fitch Ratings has said.