It’s TV at home as German football returns with ‘ghost games’

Nicole Bartelt has been a loyal fan at all but two of Borussia Dortmund’s home matches since 2008, but when the Bundesliga restarted Saturday after a two-month hiatus because of the coronavirus, she was forced to keep away from the stands. Nevertheless, Bartelt, 44, was not complaining that the derby with Schalke was played behind […]
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COVID-19: PDP gives FG 48-hour to declare Chinese doctors’ whereabouts

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has given the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government a 48-hour ultimatum to declare the whereabouts of the Chinese medical team it brought in purportedly to assist in the fight against the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in our country.

I remain a bonafide member of PDP, Kashamu insists

Senator Buruji Kashamu has described his purported expulsion from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as unjust, saying ‘the act was done in gross and willful violation of an order of the court.

YCRI launches campaign against domestic, sexual abuses

In its bid to combat the increasing cases of sexual and domestic abuses, especially, against women and children in Nigeria, a non governmental organisation, NGO, Youth and Conflict Resolution Initiatives, YCRI, has launched the Campaign Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, CADSV.

Carragher reveals argument he used to persuade Owen to stay

Jamie Carragher “was convinced” Michael Owen shouldn’t leave Liverpool to join Real Madrid. Owen burst onto the scene at Anfield as a teenager, spending eight years in the first team before departing in 2004. The striker himself claims that he decided to sign for Real “to prove Carra wrong”, his former team and roommate having […]

41 persons die of Lassa fever in Bauchi

Dr Rilwanu Mohammed, Executive Chairman, Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Agency (BASPHCDA), said 41 persons had died of Lassa fever from January to date in the state. Mohammed, who disclosed this in Bauchi on Saturday, noted that Lassa fever is more deadly than Coronavirus (COVID-19). The PHCDA boss explained that a case of Coronavirus reported […]

Osun discharges another COVID-19 patient

The Osun government on Saturday, said it had discharged another coronavirus patient from its isolation and treatment centre, having recovered fully from the disease. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Rafiu Isamotu, in a statement in Osogbo, said this brings the number of cases successfully managed and discharged in the state to 32. According to […]

COVID-19 lockdown: RATTAWU receives palliatives from Enugu govt

The Enugu State Government, in fulfillment of its plan to give palliatives to all journalists operating in the state, on Saturday, distributed food items to the members of the Radio Television Theatre Art Workers Union (RATTAWU) to cushion the effect of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) on them.

Pregnant COVID-19 patient in Lagos delivers baby boy

By Olasunkanmi Akoni A COVID-19 patient on Saturday gave birth to a baby boy after a successful caesarean section delivery at the Gbagada Isolation Centre, Lagos. It was a moment of joy and celebration by health workers when the mother finally gave birth to the baby boy early in the morning. Announcing the great feat […]

Covid 19: School feeding programme breeds corruption — NAPTAN

The National Parents Teachers Association, (NAPTAN), has described the Federal Government’s decision to feed school children during the lockdown as creating corruption to enrich some people, especially as the association was sidelined while drafting the policy.

Clearing backlog of surgeries will take 11 months after COVID-19 — Report

By Chioma Obinna The CovidSurg Collaborative has projected that, based on a 12-week period of peak disruption to hospital services due to COVID-19, it will take 11 months to clear the backlog of surgeries that have been cancelled. The report also stated that 28.4 million elective surgeries would be cancelled worldwide this year. The modelling […]

Benue: Communal clashes, herdsmen attacks claim 80 lives in four months

There is utter outrage and disquiet in Benue state at the moment over the spate of communal crisis and herdsmen attacks in parts of the state in the last few weeks amid the scourge of the novel Coronavirus pandemic that has precipitated a sharp downturn in the economic fortunes of the ordinary man.

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