Bauchi state government has said it does not have any Coronavirus patient with a need for intensive care in the state.

Leaders and stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State have called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the leadership of the APC to rein in Comrade Adams Oshiomhole from destabilising the party and prevent a repeat of the Bayelsa catastrophe of losing the party to the opposition due to the draconian style of […]

By Olasunkanmi Akoni Lagos State Government has discharged 26 more patients from various isolation facilities having recovered fully and tested negative twice consecutively for COVID-19. With the latest record, the total number of cases successfully managed and discharged from isolation facilities has risen to 528. The state Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who is also the Incident […]

KANO – Chief Medical Director, Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, AKTH in Kano State, Professor Abdurrahman Abba Sheshe on Wednesday says it is unethical for health workers to run away and leave their patients at the critical time of the raging coronavirus pandemic.

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, on Wednesday, addressed residents of the state on confirmed positive cases of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), disclosing that all the eleven cases are people who entered the state illegally despite the Presidential order on restriction of inter-state movement and the state government’s closure of all boundaries and inter-state transportation.

Paraded IPOB members and AK-47 rifles recovered by Delta Police. Photo by Emma Amaize By Emma Amaize and Festus Ahon – Asaba Commissioner of Police, Delta State Command, Hafix Inuwa, has said the state’s police officers discovered three undercover training camps operated by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPoB at Ibusa, Okpanam, and Illah […]

By James Ogunnaike ABEOKUTA – Mixed reactions have continued to trail the insistence of the federal government decision to recommence the Home Grown Feeding programme Thursday, despite the lockdown order of the federal government. While some respondents query the rationale behind the programme, especially, now that all benefiting pupils are at home due to lockdown […]

Says time for Nigeria to get it right By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja Women miners under the auspices of Women In Mining, Nigeria, WIMN, Wednesday, hailed the Federal Government over the inauguration of Ajaokuta Presidential Project Inauguration Team, APPIT, on Monday, to reposition and facilitate bilateral agreement Nigeria reached with Russia at Sochi in order […]

The newly announced Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu buhari, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, Wednesday, said he is going to be loyal to his boss.

Arole Oodua & Ooni of Ife, Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi (Ojaja II) is partnering with ABUAD-Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti on clinical research aimed at developing drugs and vaccines for viral infections with special focus on Coronavirus pandemic. Ooni Ogunwusi made this known at his Ile-Oodua palace on Monday while receiving reports from his Clinical […]

By Juliet Umeh In light of the current COVID-19 pandemic, technology-driven ride-hailing service, Plentywaka, has introduced staff bus solutions for corporate organisations. The new solution referred to as “Plentywaka Staff Bus Solutions,” was to cushion the effect coronavirus and ease the stress of transportation of staff organisations. It noted that there have been growing concerns […]

By Rotimi Ojomoyela – Ado-Ekiti To avert the community spread of the dreadful COVID-19 pandemic, the Ekiti State government would next week begin random testing for residents across the state. The government also restated its commitment not to allow security agencies enforcing the lockdown to infringe on the rights of the suspected offenders in the […]

By Victor Young Workers in the electricity sector are celebrating, following the Federal Government’s termination of the appointment of Engineer Chris Okonkwo, who is President-General of SSAEAC, from the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN. SSAEAC is the Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies, and the letter of Okonkwo’s appointment’s termination described the action […]

…raise alarm over mode of transporting samples By Ike Uchechukwu – Calabar The Association of Medical Laboratory Scientist of Nigeria, AMLSN, Cross River Branch has predicted that there were possibilities of positive cases in the state, insisting that more test must be carried out to ascertain level of success. The Association also said that since […]

By Agbonkhese Oboh Over 50 percent of respondents to a poll by Lagos State Government have demanded another lockdown in the state to curb the spread of COVID-19. In the Twitter poll, Lagos State asked: “Considering the level of compliance with government’s directives on limiting the spread  of COVID-19 in a Lagos State, should the […]