COVID-19: Dettol donates hygiene products to LASG

COVID-19: Dettol donates hygiene products to LASG

By Chioma Obinna To strengthen efforts against the spread of COVID-19 in Nigeria, Dettol has donated over 12,000 units of its antiseptic liquid and antibacterial soap to the Lagos State Safety Commission. This comes as part of concerted private and public sector efforts nationwide to ensure that citizens continue to adhere to safe health practices […]
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FG extends closure of Airports by four weeks

FG extends closure of Airports by four weeks

By Lawani Mikairu The federal government Wednesday announced the extension of the current closure of Airports and flights into the country by four weeks. Disclosing the extension at the briefing of the presidential task force on COVID-19 on Wednesday, Mr Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the government of the federation, said after due consultation, the federal […]

COVID-19: Nigeria is institutionally weak to tackle major emergencies

COVID-19: Nigeria is institutionally weak to tackle major emergencies

By Olu Fasan A FEW years ago, some foreign security experts visited Nigeria to study its crisis management system with a view to offering advice and support. What they found shocked them. Nigeria’s standards, they said, were below what they had feared. The country’s technical ability to handle crisis was very low. There was little […]

UK PM to present plans to ease COVID-19 lockdown measures on Sunday

UK PM to present plans to ease COVID-19 lockdown measures on Sunday

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would present the government’s plans to ease the UK’s COVID-19 lockdown on Sunday. “We will, of course, be setting out the details about that plan on Sunday,” Johnson said on Wednesday during his first appearance at Prime Minister’s Questions in parliament after undergoing treatment for COVID-19. The prime minister […]

Johnson says UK plans to conduct 200,000 COVID-19 tests daily by end of May

Johnson says UK plans to conduct 200,000 COVID-19 tests daily by end of May

The UK government intends to double the number of tests for the coronavirus run per day by the end of May and to carry out up to 200,000, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency said that the country had begun producing a new […]

Fund NCDC adequately to tackle f COVID-19 — parties tell FG

Fund NCDC adequately to tackle f COVID-19 — parties tell FG

Advocate inclusive approach to defeat pandemic By Chris Ochayi – Abuja Registered political parties in Nigeria have called on the Federal Government to provide adequate funds to the National Centre for Diseases Control, NCDC, to enable it to increase testing capacity and creation of isolation centers in order to defeat the dreaded Coronavirus, COVID-19 pandemic. […]

Oyo State Govt. arrests 8 illegal business operators on school premises

Oyo State Govt. arrests 8 illegal business operators on school premises

The Oyo State Government, on Tuesday, arrested eight persons for establishing a block making industry illegally on the land belonging to the Community Basic School Ologuneru area of the state. Dr. Nureni Adeniran, the Executive Chairman, Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), said the eight persons would be brought to justice in a statement […]

CACOVID strengthens Rivers, Enugu states against COVID-19 

CACOVID strengthens Rivers, Enugu states against COVID-19 

The private sector Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID) yesterday strengthened its  fight against the scourge with the handover of a fully equipped isolation centre in Port Harcourt, Rivers State and donation of beds and    accessories in Enugu, Enugu State. 
CACOVID is a joint initiative of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Aliko Dangote Foundation, Access Bank, UBA, GTBank and private sector organisations. 

COVID-19:  ABCON donates relief materials to 2000 families

COVID-19:  ABCON donates relief materials to 2000 families

Association of Bureaux De Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON) has donated essential food items to 2000 families across the six geopolitical zones as its contribution to mitigate the impact of the COVID – 19 pandemic on homes.

UK’s confirmed COVID-19 death toll tops 30,000

UK’s confirmed COVID-19 death toll tops 30,000

Another 649 COVID-19 patients have died, bringing the total Coronavirus-related death toll in Britain to 30,076, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Robert Jenrick, said on Wednesday. The figures include deaths in all settings, including hospitals, care homes, and the wider community. Chairing the Downing Street daily briefing, Jenrick told reporters that […]

Creeping tyranny in the land of promise

Creeping tyranny in the land of promise

By Emmanuel Umohinyang We view this wicked act as not just man’s inhumanity to fellow man, but a very serious threat to our noble profession and womanhood – Nigeria Association of Women Journalists, NAWOJ, Akwa Ibom State Council, condemning the arrest and detention of Mary Ekere, a female journalist with The Post by the state […]