The Borno State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Salisu Kwaya-Bura, on Sunday urged residents of Maiduguri to be on the alert after two positive patients went into hiding in the state. Kwaya-Bura, who is also a member of the state High Powered Committee on COVID-19, stated this while giving an update on the COVID-19 pandemic in […]

Dayo Johnson – Akure Three other positive cases of COVID-19 were today confirmed in Akure, the Ondo State capital by the state governor Rotimi Akeredolu. By this, the number of positive cases of COVID-19 in the state has risen to seven. This is coming barely 24 hours after the fourth patient, a police officer who […]

Worried by the hardship families not only in Plateau State but the entire country is passing through due to the ongoing lockdown, a Civil Society Organization, Equity International Initiative has urged the federal and Plateau State governments to explore other options to contain the COVID-19 disease as locking down the entire economy is not a sustainable option.

As Nigeria continues to combat COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown situation in the country, a leading real estate firm in the country, Bighomes, has distributed palliatives and relief funds to Nigerians to alleviate the suffering and hunger in many homes.
The distribution exercise which kicked off yesterday in Jahi, Abuja is expected to cover other places like Kado kuchi, Kubwa, Deidei, Gwarimpa village and Mpape all within the federal capital territory where about 500 homes will benefit from the palliatives distribution.

By Chinonso Alozie – Owerri The President of the Association of Resident Doctors, ARD, Jude Ogu has said that the first case of Covid-19 in Imo, was not a staff of the Federal Medical Center, FMC, in Owerri. In a statement to newsmen in Owerri, Ogu also said that the person was only transferred to […]

By Omeiza Ajayi – Abuja Minister of State in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, Dr Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, has assured residents particularly the target demography for its Palliatives, that the items would get to them as they cannot be diverted to anyone. The minister who had last week placed a curse on anyone who […]

Experts in the hospitality, travel and related sectors have stated that in a post-COVID-19 business world, only companies that are agile and quick to innovate will be productive and see a rise in earnings in the last quarter of 2020. This assertion was made at a video-conference “Impact of COVID-19 on the Hospitality and Tourism […]

By Ochuko Akuopha – Ozoro Tragedy struck at Otor-Iyede community, Isoko North Local Government Area, Delta State weekend as a 19-year old boy was killed and three others wounded by a thunderstorm. The thunderstorm which accompanied a heavy downpour that started at about 4pm on Saturday and lasted for two hours also destroyed some buildings […]

The Hon. Minister of Labour and Employment (State), Chief Festus Keyamo, SAN,  has congratulated the Ologbotsere of Warri and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) chief Ayiri Emami as he marks his forty-fifth birthday.

By Chioma Onuegbu – Uyo IN line with the recommendation of World Health Organisation to avert the spread of COVID-19 pandemic, Akwa Ibom State government has embarked on decontamination of some major cities and strategic locations across the state. Addressing journalists after the exercise at the weekend, Mr. Prince Ikim, state Chairman of Environmental Protection […]

The Nigeria Customs Service, Oyo and Osun Command, on Saturday said the 1,800 bags of rice released as a palliative to the Oyo State government were good for human consumption. This was in response to the claim by Oyo State Government that the bags of rice released to it by the command were infected and […]

The coffins are sealed directly at the hospital morgue near the tiny Italian town of Revello on the French border. Everyone in Revello understands it is safer that way since so many of those who have died across Italy’s pandemic-hit north first contracted the novel coronavirus. The tradition of families passing by open caskets to […]

Katsina State government on Sunday confirmed nine new cases of coronavirus in the state. The state governor, Aminu Masari, disclosed this to journalists in Katsina. He said: “We sent samples of 287 suspected persons to the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) for screening. “From the sample, nine tested positive for COVID-19. Four of the […]

By Innocent Anaba The National Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, has called on the Federal Government and other stakeholders to provide life insurance for journalists who are on the frontline in the coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. The union also called for the provision of adequate and effective Personal Protection Equipment and […]

…Clerics sentenced to one-month imprisonment By Omeiza Ajayi ABUJA —  A Mobile Court sitting at the Eagle Square in Abuja, the nation’s capital, has convicted five clerics, among them are three Imams and two Pastors for violating the presidential order shutting down the Federal Capital Territory FCT. They were convicted by Presiding Magistrate Idayat Akonni […]