By Rasheed Sobowale The Director General (DG) of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, on Tuesday, during a Presidential Task Force Briefing on the COVID-19 (coronavirus) in Abuja revealed that Nigeria has been testing about 500 suspected cases of the virus per day. Dr Ihekweazu answering the questions fielded by journalists […]

As shutdown of markets, state borders and interstate transport take effect in Enugu State, the Chairman of Nkanu East Local Council, Hon. Uchenna Nwobodo, has announced a 15-man Committee to coordinate awareness campaign and enforcement of the State Government’s directives on the fight against the Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19).

A 12-year-old girl has died in Belgium after testing positive for COVID-19 — making her Europe’s youngest known victim, officials announced Tuesday. The girl — who was not identified — died Monday, Belgium’s crisis-center coronavirus spokesman Emmanuel Andre revealed, saying the loss “shook us.” Andre called it “an emotionally difficult moment because it involves a […]

As inmates of Kaduna Correctional Centre protested for fear of the COVID-19 pandemic,adherents of the Shia sect in Kaduna have raised concern over the plight of their leader in the correctional facility ,Sheikh Ibrahim Yakubu el-Zakzaky.

As the nation gets more stringent about non-essential travel and bans on group gatherings to slow the spread of coronavirus, one expert says the pandemic may result in an unintended rise in drug and alcohol relapses among those who are in recovery. “Yes, we are already starting to see an increase in relapses,” Dayry Hulkow, […]

 As a responsible social citizen and as part of its strategic partnership with the Lagos State government, a frontline manufacturer of paints and allied products, Berger Paints Nigeria PLC has  supported the State government’s efforts in combating the devastating Covid 19 pandemic through the provision of paints towards building more isolation centres in the State.

Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti, on Tuesday, named an eight-man management committee for the COVID-19 Pandemic Support Account recently set up by the state government.

To have any idea whether our current social distancing efforts in the United States are helping slow the spread of coronavirus, and to gauge how long we should go on this way, scientists need to know how many people have mild or asymptomatic cases of Covid-19. There could be many such people. Since their symptoms […]

By Egufe Yafugborhi – Port Harcourt Rivers State Waste Management Agency (RIWAMA) has charged its service providers to raise the bar in discharge of their duties as the menace of Corona Virus challenges the agency to keep Rivers cleaner than ever before. Sole Administrator of RIWAMA, Bro Felix Obuah who gave the charge in Port […]

Ogun State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Tomi Coker, on Tuesday, confirmed a new case of the coronavirus in the state. Coker, who disclosed this at a press briefing in Abeokuta, said the new case is a 30-year-old female from Sagamu area of the state. The commissioner said two of the four cases in Ogun have […]