Over 80 drone applications under review, training centre in pipeline — NCAA
Stories by Dickson Omobola Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, has said it is in the process of approving a new aviation training facility for drone operators. NCAA’s Director of Aerodrome and Airspace Standards, Engineer Godwin Balang, said the agency has chosen to be methodical to ensure the facility met all operational benchmarks. Balang, who spoke at the […]
COVID-19: Sirika receives medical equipment from United Nations
By Lawani Mikairu The Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika Tuesday took delivery of various medical equipment donated by the United Nations Systems to the Federal government to aid its efforts at combating the COVID-19 scourge in the country. The equipment were transported to Abuja free of charge to the federal government by Allied Air […]
COVID-19: Lagos discharges 9 more patients, total hits 70
As Sanwo-Olu says biggest focus now is security, welfare By Olasunkanmi Akoni The Lagos State Government has discharged another eight patients, six males, and two females from Infectious Disease Hospital, IDH, Yaba, having recovered fully and tested negative twice consecutively to COVID-19. With the newly discharged patients, a total of 69 patients have been successfully […]
Sex toys sales soar in Colombia amid coronavirus lockdown
Gerson Monje holds up his cellphone to proudly show off his online sex toy shop. A red banner reading “sold out!” is plastered across half of the products. While most Colombian businesses suffer during a five-week lockdown meant to curb the spread of the coronavirus, one online industry has seen an explosion in sales in […]
COVID-19 lockdown extension: Anap Foundation backs Buhari, calls for nationwide social distancing
The Anap Foundation COVID-19 Think Tank has endorsed President Muhammad Buhari’s extension of the lockdown in Lagos, Ogun and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). This is just as the Foundation stressed the important guidance on the urgent need for the entire nation to embrace Social Distancing to an extent feasible. In its release titled: EXTENSION […]
COVID-19: Kwara reverses position on markets, declares total lockdown
By Demola Akinyemi Contrary to its earlier directives, Kwara State government, on Tuesday, rescinded its decision to allow markets open for operations on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, henceforth. This is to give full effect to the total lockdown of the state the government announced last week Thursday. ALSO READ: EU COVID-19 N21 billion donation: We’ll […]
WHO unsure if coronavirus patients can get infected second time
The World Health Organization, WHO still has no idea if coronavirus patients build enough immunity to stop them from getting sick again in the future, a top doctor there has admitted. “With regards to recovery and then reinfection, I believe we do not have the answers to that. That is an unknown,” the WHO’s executive […]
BREAKING: Ganduje locks down Kano as COVID-19 rises to four
By Abdulmumin Murtala, Kano Kano state governor Abdullahi Ganduje has has lucked down Kano for seven days beginning from 10 pm on Thursday 16 March, 2020. The governor made the announcement after a meeting with various stakeholders in the state and the state security council on Tuesday. ALSO READ: Police uncover decomposed body in uncompleted building […]
Runsewe preaches fortitude in fight against COVID-19
By Jimoh Babatunde Director-General of National Council for Arts and Culture, NCAC, Otunba Segun Runsewe, has called on Nigerians, particularly residents of Lagos, Ogun and FCT, to brace up and fight off the COVID- 19 pandemic through strategic protocols already in place. Runsewe explained that President Muhammadu Buhari, as the father of the nation, is […]
COVID-19 lockdown unrest: Sanwo-Olu orders total clampdown on hoodlums
To flag off daily food kitchen for youths to douse tension among restive youths Says over 200,000 vulnerable households have been reached so far on palliative measures 600 childbirths recorded so far in Lagos on free of charge during lockdown ..Updating data for remittance of cash to about 250,000 indigents by the end of the […]
China approves 2 experimental COVID-19 vaccines for clinical trials
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage around the world, China has approved two experimental vaccines against COVID-19 for phase one and two clinical trials, Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday. These two new inactivated coronavirus vaccines were developed by the Wuhan Institute of Biological Products and a unit of Nasdaq-listed Sinovac Biotech in Beijing […]
