The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) will invoke relevant laws that enables it to mandatorily evacuate recalcitrant COVID-19 patients to treatment centres, the FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Bello has said. Bello, a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Anthony Ogunleye, on Thursday in Abuja said the measure was one of the decisions taken […]

Gov. Gboyega Oyetola of Osun says there is still one Coronavirus patient at the isolation centre in the state. Oyetola in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Ismail Omipidan, on Thursday in Osogbo, said the COVID-19 patient had been receiving treatment but still positive. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 18 COVID-19 […]

ALTHOUGH ABC Transport was the first transporter in the country to shut down operation as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, reports reaching Vanguard has it that the company is set to hit the ground running as soon as it the Pandemic is contained.
Already ABC Cargo Express, a division of ABC Transport Plc has added 10 new units of SHACMAN heavy duty trucks to boost its cargo operations in Nigeria.

IN the first three months of 2020, Porsche handed over 53,125 cars to customers worldwide. Compared to the year before, deliveries were down by five percent due to effects of the coronavirus pandemic. The Cayenne was the most popular model with 18,417 deliveries. It was followed by the Macan with 15,547 vehicles.

NECESSITY, they say is the mother of inventions. This is what the outbreak of Coronavirous pandemic has turned many organisations, agencies as well as military and paramilitary bodies across the globe.

MELINDA, the wife of Bill Gates – Microsoft co-founder, tycoon and philanthropist – has said she fears that the bodies of people who have been killed by the coronavirus will litter the streets of Africa.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Thursday screening of 3,000 people found nearly 14% tested positive for antibodies for the novel coronavirus, suggesting that 2.7 million residents across the state may have been infected with the disease. Cuomo noted that the survey was preliminary and had limitations, including the possibility that New York, like […]

By Chioma Obinna As the world marks this year’s World Malaria Day, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN, has identified malaria infection as one risk factor that would increase the case fatality of COVID-19 even as it noted that about 97 per cent of the country’s population was at risk of malaria infection. Stating this in […]

By Kayode Ojewale THE National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, in its renewed efforts at combating and addressing the coronavirus pandemic, has put in place some regulatory measures to ensure quality, safety and efficacy of diagnostic test kits to aid the detection of the virus in patients. According to a press […]

JUXTAPOSED with our population, Nigeria’s Coronavirus numbers are among the smallest in Africa and the world at large. With 782 confirmed cases, 197 recoveries and 25 deaths as at Wednesday, April 22, 2020, a false sense of being on top of the pandemic might be difficult to shake off, especially among politically-minded elements in government. […]

By Ahmed Badamosi The Avocats Sans Frontières France (Lawyers Without Borders France), ASF France, has added its name to the list of foreign organizations who see nothing good in Nigeria. It is well known that there are some groups which never pull the attention of the rest of the world to any positive happening in […]

IN one of his bestsellers, The Zahir, Paulo Coelho said there are two major problems in life: knowing when to begin and knowing when to stop. If, for example, Nigeria had closed its borders early on and enforced quarantine for all returning Nigerians, whoever they are, things might have been different today. I’m sure many others would say […]

By Mark Columbus Orgu MANY socio-political analysts have described Sen. Omo-Agege as a man who has done what the great Napoleon Bonaparte could not do. A bold man, who has concentrated his efforts in good legislations/governance rather than play politics, which is a standard practice by true politicians all over the world. Indeed, as a […]

By Ibrahim Kabiru Dallah It is very easy to sight or sense a Nigerian adult whose childhood was disfigured permanently in formative years. Even as adults, they still flaunt an aura of self-importance very egoistically; but act like untamed forlorn urchins, whether in cities or villages of domiciliary. The basic belief in such fellows is […]

By Owei Lakemfa PRESIDENTS of the United States, US, in most cases, tend to see themselves as lions at liberty to devour leaders of smaller or weaker countries who they treat as antelopes. That mentality was jolted 59 years ago when a supposed antelope in the mouth of a lion not only fought to prise […]