Mass testing to commence weekend — Task Force The Oyo State COVID-19 Task Force, on Sunday, relaxed the existing curfew imposed on the state in respect of the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic to between 8.p.m. and 5 a.m. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Seyi Makinde, Mr Taiwo Adisa, confirmed that the decision […]

The Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has implored environment activists, community leaders and local councils to continue to push for actions and behaviours that preserve the pristine features in Nigeria’s forest belt amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic. The governor made the call on the occasion of the commemoration of the World Biological Diversity Day […]

The Edo State Government has announced the discharge of 18 more coronavirus (COVID-19) patients, who have tested negative for the virus and cleared from the state’s isolation centres. The Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, who disclosed this in a statement, charged all residents to take advantage of the ongoing massive screening and testing exercise […]

By Soni Daniel – Abuja Former speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Umar Na’Abba,  has been released from isolation after being quarantined for 14 days upon his return from the United Kingdom where he was stranded in the wake of Covid-19  outbreak. It was gathered that Na’Abba and a member of his family returned […]

President Muhammadu Buhari, has approved funding of six Medical Simulation, Research and Training Facilities in Colleges of Medicine, through the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund). In a statement on Sunday, in Abuja, TETFund’s Director of Public Affairs, Mrs Ngoba Briggs, said the facilities would aid the setting up of Molecular Science Laboratories with capacity for […]

China is “open” to international cooperation to identify the source of the novel coronavirus, but any investigation must be led by the World Health Organization and “free of political interference”, China’s foreign minister said Sunday. Wang Yi blasted what he called efforts by US politicians to “fabricate rumours” about the origins of the virus and […]

The Chinese virology institute at the centre of US allegations it may have been the source of the COVID-19 pandemic has three live strains of bat coronavirus on-site, but none match the new global contagion, its director has said. Scientists think COVID-19 — which first emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan and has killed […]

As Muslims in the country mark the end of the annual Ramadan fasting, eminent Nigerians, including President Muhammadu Buhari, have called on Nigerians, especially Muslim faithful, to use the occasion of the Eid-el-fitr celebrations to unite in prayers to defeat coronavirus.

Two people from two English Premier League (EPL) clubs have tested positive for the coronavirus after a second batch of testing, the Premier League said on Saturday. Since the players returned to limited group training on Tuesday, eight positive tests for the virus have been confirmed from England’s top flight clubs. “The Premier League can […]

Despite the instruction not to observe congregational Eid-el-Fitr prayers, Kano, Bauchi, Nassarawa, Jigawa, Borno, Zamfara, Niger, and Taraba states, have vowed to observe the traditional Sallah prayers today.

Varied reactions greeted Friday’s roll-out of guidelines for Lagos State post-lock down businesses re-opening by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.

THE National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, has said that police and other security agencies engaged in human rights violations including extortion during the lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus.

South-West is leading other regions in the number of coronavirus confirmed cases across the nation, statistics from the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) as of last Thursday, May 21 has shown.

In this interview, the Deputy Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Toby Okechukwu, representing Aninri/Awgu/Orji River Federal Constituency of Enugu State, speaks on what the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and the Presidential Task Force, PTF, on COVID-19 pandemic should do to set Nigeria free of the virus.

REVEREND Father Anselm Gbenga Adodo is a scholar and a pioneer of alternative medicine in Africa. He is also a Benedictine monk and priest of the Roman Catholic Church in Edo State. He founded Nigeria’s first alternative medicine and research laboratory enterprise in Nigeria known as Pax Herbal Clinic and Research Laboratories in Ewu, Edo State in 1997.