archiveApril 11, 2020

The Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) says it has placed four of its nurses on isolation, after their contact with a patient who died of COVID-19. Prof. Tokunboh Fabamwo, LASUTH Chief Medical Director, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Lagos. NAN...

  The Ogun State Government has reacted to incidences of violence, robberies and related crimes resurfacing in the state amid the COVID-19 lockdown. AIG Sola Subair (rtd), Special Assistant to the Governor on Security, in a statement on Saturday said government has swung into action. He noted that the affected...

  The Presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church International, popularly known as Winners’ Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, has expressed optimism that Coronavirus would soon become a thing of the past in Nigeria. Oyedepo stated this while donating an ambulance and Personal Protective Gears (PPE) to the Ogun State government...

  President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigerians must stay at home, listen and follow public announcements on how best to curb the spread of Coronavirus. Buhari who said this in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Saturday. The president said...

Sweden, which has adopted less stringent coronavirus restrictions than other European countries, has surpassed 10,000 cases of the potentially deadly virus, according to official data published on Saturday. An overall 887 people have died with COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus, according to the Swedish healthcare authorities. Sweden’s...

The United States on Saturday surpassed Italy for most fatalities from the new coronavirus of any country, according to Johns Hopkins University. A tally from the U.S. based university shows that at least 18,860 people have died from Covid-19, the respiratory disease related to the virus, in the U.S. Italy...

  Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, has rallied residents of the State to be full of prayers and imbibe Christlike sacrifice this season of Easter. The governor, who stated this in his Easter message to the people of the state, said that residents and especially those of the Christian...

Four detained journalists were on Saturday sentenced to death on charges of spying by a Yemeni court controlled by the country’s Iran-linked Houthi rebels, according to a rights advocate. The court in the Houthi-controlled capital, Sana’a, also ordered the continued jailing of six other journalists on similar charges, said the...

Osun Government says it has commenced investigation into allegation that some bags of rice distributed to the people as palliative to cushion effect of COVID-19 lockdown in the state are adulterated. Mrs Funke Egbemode, state Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, in a statement on Saturday in Osogbo, said the...

The Institute of Maternal and Child Health (Ayinke House), Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja, has recorded a COVID-19 related death, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Ayinke House is a 170-bed healthcare centre, upgraded on April 24, 2019, and domiciled at LASUTH, Ikeja. A reliable source at...