By David Royal The President of the National Association of Resident Doctors, Dr Aliyu Sokomba, has revealed that a doctor treating COVID-19 patients at the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Edo State, has been infected with the diseases. Sokomba said this on Thursday while on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme. He said six doctors had died […]

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed that there are 10 new cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria as at 8:00pm Thursday. This puts the total number of cases to 184. Of the 10 new COVID-19 cases, seven of them are from Lagos, the epicentre of the pandemic and three others at the Federal […]

Victor Ogunyinka The global confirmed cases for COVID-19 have now crossed the one million mark globally with the United States of America, China, Italy and Spain highest hit nations. The total number of confirmed cases as at the time of filing thing report according to worldometer, is 1, 001, 069, with about 51, 378 deaths […]

Giving is for the needy not the greedy, says Apostle Suleman By Prince Osuagwu, Hi-Tech Editor The Federal Government has come under attack for going on social media to beg Elon Musk, the United States billionaire, for ventilators to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. Musk, who is the founder and Chief Engineer, SpaceX, had tweeted on […]

By Henry Umoru, Abuja Senate Minority Whip, Senator Philip Aduda, Peoples Democratic Party, FCT, yesterday donated 1,000 bags of rice (10kgs) and 150 cartons of hand sanitizers to the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA is to assist in the fight against the dreaded Conoravirus, COVID-19 in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT. Presenting the items in […]

By Ike Uchechukwu – Calabar The Commissioner for Health, Dr Beta Edu, Thursday night confirmed that the COVID-19 case in Cross River tested negative. Confirming the report to Vanguard on phone Thursday night, Edu said the case from UCTH that went viral on the various social platform came out negative. ALSO READ: COVID-19: We are […]

Nicole Buchanan wasn’t even allowed to say goodbye to her husband. Three weeks ago, Conrad Buchanan was a healthy, vivacious Florida DJ who loved dancing with his daughter. But on March 14, the 39-year-old started feeling sick. His wife Nicole tried to get him tested for coronavirus but was denied. “We couldn’t get him tested. […]

By Joseph Erunke, Abuja The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has insisted that its confirmed cases of coronavirus in Akwa Ibom State which it put at five on Wednesday, was true. The agency’s insistence on the number came following the denial by Akwa Ibom State Government that nobody was tested positive in the state […]

The Police Community Relations Committee, PCRC, on Thursday, in Lagos donated Coronavirus prevention equipment and materials to the Zone 2 Police Command.

After eight days of isolation and treatment, the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Prof. Jesse Otegbayo, has tested negative for COVID-19. The Head of Public Relations Unit of the hospital Mr Toye Akinrinlola confirmed that the last test on his blood sample has come back negative. Akinrinlola said the […]