Authorities in the Chinese city where the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic began were moving forward Wednesday with efforts to test all 11 million residents for the virus within 10 days after a handful of fresh infections were found there. The United States (US) government’s top infectious disease expert, meanwhile, issued a blunt warning that cities and […]

Akwa Ibom State Government has discharged five more recovered COVID-19 cases with only one positive patient remaining in the state.

By Femi Bolaji – Jalingo The six are among the 17 COVID-19 cases so far recorded in the state. The state commissioner for Information and member of the state’s technical Committee on COVID-19, Danjuma Adamu disclosed this at a briefing in Jalingo, the state capital. He explained that the six patients who recovered from the […]

•Losses hit N65.6bn in April By Udeme Akpan Nigeria’s power sector has suffered a major setback as losses associated with insufficient gas supply distribution infrastructure and transmission infrastructure increased last month. Data obtained by Vanguard, from the Advisory Power Team, Office of the Vice President, indicated that the value of the losses is N65.64 billion […]

THE Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, has said that the strike action being proposed will commence today in the port facilities in the southern part of the country if the arrested port workers are not released by midnight yesterday.