COVID-19 Report: Over 1 Billion text messages sent via MTN network
Online critics posited that MTN should have offered reduced or free data tariffs when the leading mobile network operator announced earlier in March that it’s over 70 million subscribers will be able to send 300 free SMS messages per month as part of the company’s Y’ello Hope package created to assist its customers as a […]
How Hello Products is supporting the fight against COVID-19
Before the Ebola outbreak, carrying a hand sanitizer around was considered a fad. Many Nigerians did not know what a hand sanitizer was, except for a privileged few who had been exposed to them abroad. Some of those early adopters even opted for the flavoured sanitizers such as aloe vera, lavender or strawberry, without paying […]
South-East Govs should send back Almajiris imported to East ― Ezeife
By Johnbosco Agbakwuru, Abuja A former governor of Anambra State, Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife has tasked South-East governors to do everything within their reach to ensure that the Almajiris that were taken to the area especially to the South East are sent back. The former governor said that the Almajiris posed a great risk to the […]
COVID-19: Bayelsa Vigilante intercepts bus loaded with Almajiris
By Emem Idio YENAGOA – A 14 seater passenger bus carrying teenagers suspected to be Almajiri was on Wednesday evening intercepted at the Patani/Bayelsa border axis of the East-West Road by men of the Bayelsa State Vigilante. The passengers who claimed to have come from Zamfara State were rounded up by men of the Vigilante, […]
COVID-19: Cleaners get more health allowance than us – Delta Med Lab Scientists
*We pay highest in the country – DTSG By Perez Brisibe UGHELLI – THE Delta State chapter of the Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria, AMLSN, Thursday said its members receive an average of N30, 000 as health allowances in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, adding that its personnel are paid far lesser […]
FBI serves warrant on Sen. Richard Burr over coronavirus-related stock sales
FBI agents reportedly seized the cell phone of a North Carolina senator Wednesday as part of a Justice Department investigation into the lawmaker’s eyebrow-raising stock trades at the start of the coronavirus crisis. Sen. Richard Burr, the North Carolina Republican who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, handed over his phone to the agents after they […]
