The Lagos State Government has urged the public to desist from stigmatising health facilities that might have been exposed to COVID19 cases in the state. Dr. Abiola Idowu, Executive Secretary, State Health Facility Monitoring and Accreditation Agency (HEFAMAA), made the plea in a statement on Thursday night. Idowu was reacting to a list of some […]

Says malaria share similar symptoms with COVID-19  By Chioma Obinna As the world marks this year”s World Malaria Day today, the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, has urged Nigerians to avoid self-medication at this time the country is battling community transmission of COVID-19 as malaria share similar symptoms with the disease. The medical doctors also urged […]

Supports handover of refinery mgt to independent body By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, CISLAC, and Transparency International Nigeria, TI, Friday, called for urgent reform in the oil and gas sector over alleged corrupt practices. This was contained in a statement signed by the Executive Director, CISLAC, Auwal Ibrahim Musa, where […]

The Edo State Government has shut down Omosefe Orphanage Home in Benin City, over poor facilities and lack of professional care-givers to attend to children in the facility. Commissioner for Social Development and Gender Issues, Hon. (Mrs.) Maria Edeko Esq. gave the order to close the facility during an unscheduled inspection of the orphanage in […]

Georgia pushed ahead with its plan to become the first U.S. state to allow an array of merchants to reopen on Friday following a month-long shutdown to stanch the coronavirus outbreak, even though both U.S. President Donald Trump and health experts voiced disapproval. Gyms, hair salons, tattoo parlors, and some other businesses have been given […]

All new vaccines, diagnostics, and treatments against the new coronavirus must be made equally available to everyone worldwide, the World Health Organization said on Friday as it outlined a plan to accelerate work to fight COVID-19. Launching what he called a “landmark collaboration” to speed the development of effective drugs, tests, and vaccines to prevent […]

In Nigeria’s Benue state, the food basket of the country, Mercy Yialase sits in front of her idle rice mill. Demand is high across the nation, but she already has mounds of paddy rice that are going nowhere amid the COVID-19 lockdown. “I can’t mill because the marketers are not coming,” Yialase said, referring to […]

By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja As part of efforts to contain the spread of the deadly Coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic in the country, seven start-ups who are currently deploying solutions and platforms to mitigate the rapid spread of the virus on Friday, received $3,000 support fund from the #COVID19 Innovation Challenge Virtual Demo Day. This was […]

South Africa’s Finance Minister Tito Mboweni said on Friday there was more than $4 billion available from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to help South Africa fight the COVID-19 crisis. “We too are entitled to approach the IMF and World Bank for funding. The IMF has indicated that South Africa is entitled to […]

The United States will not take part in the launching of a global initiative on Friday to speed the development, production, and distribution of drugs and vaccines against COVID-19, a spokesman for the U.S. mission in Geneva told Reuters. “There will be no U.S. official participation”, he said in an email reply to a query. […]

Bosnia’s autonomous Bosniak-Croat Federation on Friday loosened restrictions that kept seniors and children from leaving their homes at all, in order to stop the spread of the coronavirus, after the top court ruled those restrictions violated the constitution. As of today, people older than 65 will be allowed to leave their homes from 0900 to […]

British luxury brand Burberry (BRBY.L) will continue to pay its employees who are unable to fulfill their roles because of store or site closures during the coronavirus crisis and will not rely on government help, it said on Friday. The group, which warned last month its fourth-quarter sales would be 30% lower due to the […]

Prime Minister Boris Johnson faces the biggest conundrum of his premiership as he recuperates from COVID-19: how to lift a lockdown that is destroying swathes of the British economy without triggering a deadly second wave of the outbreak. Johnson, 55, is on the mend at his country residence after spending three nights in intensive care […]

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said the coronavirus crisis would not make Brexit negotiations easier, adding that Berlin would use its EU presidency in the second half of the year to ensure there is a “good result” for both the EU and Britain. READ ALSO: EU, Britain continue post-Brexit negotiations via video “Whether I think the […]

Abia Government on Friday said it had traced 209 contacts of the two index coronavirus cases in the state and placed them under surveillance in an isolation facility. The Abia Commissioner for Information, Chief John Okiyi-Kalu, made this known in a statement made available to the News Agency on Nigeria (NAN) in Umuahia. Okiyi-Kalu said […]