Major League Baseball may be plotting a return, but Dr Anthony Fauci has some bad news for everyone hoping for team sports to return. Fauci, the infectious disease expert who’s a part of the White House’s coronavirus task force, says that without widespread testing and quick results, sports may be sidelined for the duration of […]

Stallion Group, one of the largest conglomerates in sub-Saharan Africa, has kicked off the distribution of COVID-19 palliatives to hospitals in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR. A giant player in agric business, fishing, automobile, steel, packaging and logistics, Stallion Group said it joined the fight against […]

The United States will not allow Iran to purchase conventional arms after a UN prohibition on this expires in October, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday.

Emma Ujah The Federal Government has disbursed the sum of N43,416,000,000.00 ($120.6 million) to 24 states of the federation through performance-based grants under the World Bank-Assisted States Fiscal Transparency, Accountability and Sustainability (SFTAS) Programme-for-Results. The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, disclosed this in a statement issued by Mr Hassan Dodo, […]

Kaduna State achieved the highest number of results (nine) and got the highest share with N3. 960 billion, while Katsina and Benue got the lowest amount of N540 million each as Federal Government disbursed the sum of N43,416,000,000.00 ($120.6 million) to 24 states. The fund is through a performance-based grant under the World Bank-Assisted States […]

More evidence-based diagnoses are emerging about the pathophysiology of COVID-19, and the right protocol for its management. The recent being intravascular coagulation (thrombosis), diagnosed via autopsies performed on patients who died of COVID-19 in Italy. Thrombosis is the formation of a blood clot, known as a thrombus, within a blood vessel. It prevents blood from flowing […]

ABUJA- VICE President Yemi Osinbajo has said that Nigeria’s massive population constitutes a challenge in the fight against the prevailing Coronavirus pandemic in the country.

Workers in Kaduna State have rejected deduction of 25 per cent from salaries of senior civil servants in the state as announced by Governor Nasiru Ahmad El-Rufa’i.

*Says obesity, diabetes, hypertension make people vulnerable to coronavirus By Chioma Obinna & Gabriel Olawale Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, has said one out of every five Lagosians that exhibit respiratory symptoms are infected with COVID-19. Professor Abayomi also warned that the disease also affects the kidneys and the blood. The commissioner, […]

The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 said on Wednesday Federal Government establishments, banks, construction companies, manufacturing, and others can commence operation from May 4. The National Coordinator of the PTF on COVID-19, Dr. Aliyu Sani, stated this during the daily briefing by the task force in Abuja. Aliyu said the resumption would be based […]