Sadiya Umar Farouq, the Honourable Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, gave a briefing at the daily media interaction of the Presidential Task Force. During her briefing, she tried to bring her audience up to speed with activities and interventions in her ministry since her last briefing on May 1, 2020. Her opening salvo caught people’s attention: “In the time since I was here last, we have made progress on the overhauled Home Grown School Feeding Programme and sensitization has already begun in the three frontline states of Lagos, Ogun and the FCT in readiness for full implementation.”

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Team on Monday arrived Cross River State for on the ground assessment/tour of the facility, following the State’s zero COVID-19 status.

A Civil Society Organisation (CSO), has advocated total opening of the economy in order to save small businesses, service-oriented and entertainment industries from extinction due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Yemen’s Saudi-backed government accused its Houthi foes of covering up a big outbreak of coronavirus in areas they hold and the United Nations warned that the country could suffer a “catastrophic” food security situation due to the pandemic. The Aden-based government also called for urgent global assistance to help Yemen’s war-ravaged health sector deal with […]

AS Nigeria joined the rest of the world to mark the 2020 World Hypertension Day on May 17, the need to avoid a hypertension diagnosis became more paramount. Making healthy lifestyle choices such as maintaining a healthy weight is crucial. People who are overweight should try to lose weight, and people of normal weight should […]

Chinese technology giant Huawei on Monday assailed the latest US move to impose restrictions that cut it off from semiconductor (chips) suppliers as a “pernicious” attack that will sow chaos in the global technology sector and other industries. The Commerce Department said on Friday it was tightening sanctions on Huawei — seen by Washington as […]

Following bandits attacks on communities in Ruma and Batsari councils of Katsina State, the district head, Mu’azu, who holds the traditional title of Sarkin Ruma Katsina, said: “My people will prefer to die from coronavirus infection.

Nigerian Army troops on Sunday killed 20 Boko Haram and Islamic State of West African Province, (ISWAP) terrorists at the north west of Baga town in Borno.

By Chioma Obinna Few months back, Vanguard published a pathetic story of Daniel Joseph, a nine-year-old boy who is suffering from the cancer of the eye and seeking the sum of N7 million and in order to go for life-saving surgery as part of his treatment. Good Health Weekly published his story twice a few […]

Yemen, already pushed to the brink of famine by a five-year war, could see a “catastrophic” food security situation due to the coronavirus pandemic and lower remittances from the Gulf, the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Monday. The conflict between a Saudi-led coalition and the Iran-aligned Houthi movement has caused what the […]

Death had not fazed gravedigger Mohammed Shamim up to now, but since the grip of the coronavirus crisis has tightened in New Delhi, the Indian capital, a shiver runs up even his spine each time he sees a hearse pull up at the cemetery he tends. “I’ve been burying the dead for the last two […]

Says some books have gone out of circulation after winning prizes By Prisca Sam-Duru Anambra State-born Ndidi Dorothy Chiazor-Enenmor is an award-winning author of many children’s books. Married with four children, Chiazor-Enenmor holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and a Post Graduate Diploma in English from the University of […]

 Total (TOTF.PA) has called off plans to acquire Occidental Petroleum’s assets in Ghana, the French energy company said on Monday.

 Oyo State has recorded 11 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, the latest figures released by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) have revealed.

By Egufe Yafugborhi PORT HARCOURT – GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has lost his Special Assistant, Electronic Media, Simeon Nwakaudu to sudden death. Paulinus Nsirim, Commissioner for Information and Communications, disclosed in a statement that “Nwakaudu died today (Sunday) at the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital (RSUTH) after a brief illness.” READ ALSO: COVID-19: […]