ilorin—Kwara State government said yesterday it has uncovered plots by some prominent opposition figures to incite the public to protest against the lockdown order in the state.

The Federal Government said yesterday that Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, was not conducting enough test because it was best to do the test when a patient is symptomatic.

abuja—Some residents of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, have protested against an alleged decision by the authorities to site a cemetery for COVID-19 victims and other infectious diseases close to their residences.

kaduna—The Task Force on COVID-19 in Kaduna State has expressed concern that the risk assessment of the pandemic indicated there could be as high as 57,000 new cases in the state, if there was no effective enforcement and implementation of the lockdown order.

LAGOS—THE Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, yesterday, commended medical doctors, nurses, and health workers for managing the Coronavirus pandemic since the case was reported in the country described them as outstanding and courageous.

IBADAN—Oyo State government, yesterday, kicked off the decontamination and fumigation of all necessary areas in the State as a way of containing the spread of the Coronavirus.

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday extended for another two weeks the lockdown imposed on the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Lagos and Ogun states to check the spread of coronavirus in the country.

Dayo Johnson – Akure The third positive case of COVID-19 has been confirmed in Akure, the Ondo State capital. A statement by the information and Orientation commissioner Donald Ojogo in Akure said the patient is a Medical doctor. Ojogo said in the statement that ” the third positive case in Ondo State is a Medical […]

ADDRESS BY H.E. MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE EXTENSION OF COVID- 19 PANDEMIC LOCKDOWN AT THE STATE HOUSE, ABUJA MONDAY, 13TH APRIL, 2020 1. Fellow Nigerians 2. In my address on Sunday, 29th March, 2020, I asked the residents of Lagos and Ogun States as well as the Federal […]

By David Royal President Muhammadu Buhari has extended the presidential lockdown order in Ogun, Lagos, and Abuja to two more weeks to be able to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in the country. Buhari said this in a nationwide broadcast on Monday. According to the president, the approach to the virus remains in […]

….promises to make facemasks made of local fabrics available Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has extended the movement restriction and curfew imposed in the state by two weeks, following the expiration of the initial order on Monday night. The restriction will now end on April 27th. The new directive which was contained in a […]

The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has expressed worry over the Federal Government’s Social Investment Programme, SIP, saying it is not getting to poor Nigerians.

By Sam Eyoboka THE General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has said the coronavirus pandemic would not end until God proves to the world that He is God. He, however, urged Nigerians to remain on guard and not to be ‘unwise amid the Coronavirus pandemic.’ Preaching in a […]

By Chioma Obinna The President of the Commonwealth Medical Association (CMA), Dr. Osahon Enabulele, has urged Governments of various countries in the Commonwealth of Nations to urgently deploy more resources and provide adequate Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) and other incentives for physicians and other health workers, to aid the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Enabulele […]

….Five churches shut for contravening stay at home order By Dayo Johnson A mild drama took place in a church in Akure, the Ondo state capital on Easter Sunday as a pastor jumped a fence to escape arrest for flouting government’s ban on religious gathering as part of measures to curb the spread of Covid-19. […]