Organised labour has pleaded with the Federal Government to provide palliatives and other necessary materials to workers on essential services, as the nation battles to contain the spread of coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic.

Markets to temporarily relocate to public schools The Edo State Government has directed the shutdown of markets in the state from Wednesday, April 8, 2020, for the commencement of fumigation of the facilities. Deputy Governor and Chairman, Edo State COVID-19 Response Technical Committee, Rt. Comrade Hon. Philip Shaibu, who disclosed this in a press briefing, […]

Other offenders to face 14 days quarantine By Ike Uchechukwu – Calabar Cross River State governor, Professor Ben Ayade, on Monday came hard on commuters over non-compliance to the no mask no movement order adding that offenders will pay N300 thousand to get their impounded vehicles back. Ayade directed that security agents should, henceforth, impound […]

At a Tehran mosque converted into a factory, women volunteers who would normally attend to visitors to the old battlefields of the Iran-Iraq war have joined the fight against coronavirus. Lined up like factory workers, around 15 women have taken up positions in front of table-top sewing machines to produce face masks. But instead of […]

New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo, on Monday said that fines for violating social distancing guidelines would be increased from $500 to $1,000. Cuomo also extended a shutdown in the epicenter of America’s deadly coronavirus pandemic until near the end of the month. He said the COVID-19 death rate in the state was “effectively flat” for […]

More than 50 doctors protesting the lack of safety equipment as they battle the coronavirus were arrested Monday in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, police and physicians said. The arrests occurred after more than 100 doctors and paramedics rallied near the city’s main hospital and then moved to protest in front of the chief […]

A major private hospital in Mumbai was shut to new patients and declared a coronavirus containment zone on Monday after 26 nurses and three doctors tested positive, an official said. Since the virus hit India — which has been under lockdown since March 25 with 111 deaths so far — medical workers have complained about […]

The Kaduna State Ministry of Health on Monday said it recorded one new case of COVID-19 on Sunday, bringing the number of positive cases to Five. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Amina Baloni said in a statement on Monday in Kaduna. Baloni said that ‘’So far, the state has sent 89 samples to Abuja […]

Spain overtook Italy on Monday as the country with most confirmed infections of the new coronavirus, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). With 130,759 infections, Spain now has around 1,800 more than Italy, ECDC figures showed. Spain superseded Italy over the weekend, according to the data, which was published on […]

As FG announces N500 b COVID-19 Stimulus package Reduces oil benchmark to $30 pbl Emma Ujah Faced with a weak fiscal position, the Federal government has approached the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a $3. 4 billion facility, in order to effectively tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. The Minister of Finance Budget and National Planning, Mrs […]