archiveApril 2020

The Nigeria Private Sector Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID) has so far realised N19.4 billion to help fight COVID-19 pandemic. The update of the contribution was made known in a document released by Mr Isaac Okorafor, Director, Communications of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in Abuja on Friday. Okorafor disclosed...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), on Saturday said the number of new cases of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19 ) pandemic outbreak in the country was 25 and not 26 as earlier confirmed. NCDC, through its verified Twitter account said it made an error in its reporting of confirmed cases,...

The daily pace of new coronavirus infections and deaths in Spain slowed again on Saturday as Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was expected to announce a new extension to lockdown measures that have confined most Spaniards to their homes for three weeks. The total death toll rose to 11,744 – the...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the fight against Coronavirus (COVID-19) is affecting the fight against polio and other diseases. Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, the Director- General of the organisation, disclosed this in a statement posted on the agency‘s website on Saturday. ”As you know, in recent years we have driven...

  Returns her to Isolation centre   The missing COVID-19 patient in Osun state, has been apprehended by the police and returned to the Isolation facility in Ejigbo, area of the State on Saturday. The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Ismail Omipidan confirmed this to newsmen in Oshogbo,...

    Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has ruled out taking the COVID-19 patients in the state to Lagos State for treatment. Governor Akeredolu said the state has the capacity to treat the patient who is a military officer that just returned from India. Akeredolu who spoke in Akure at...

  Schedule of free period revealed The Ogun State Government said the total lockdown imposed on the State which commenced by 11.00pm of Friday, will be suspended every 48-hours, to mitigate the effects of the sit-at-home directive. The governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun while addressing newsmen at his residence in Iperu-Remo,...

Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) has deployed 750 personnel for enforcement of compliance with the directive on lockdown of the state following Coronavirus pandemic. The Corps Commander of TRACE, Mr Seni Ogunyemi, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ota, Ogun,...

Osun State government on Saturday said contrary to the report that six persons who tested positive to coronavirus have escaped from its Ejigbo isolation centre, only one of them actually escaped from the facility. The government denied issuing a statement that six persons in the isolation centre located at the...

Dr Garba Abari, Director-General, National Orientation Agency (NOA), said on Saturday that the Federal Government was not importing Chinese medical experts to directly take charge of the fight against Covid-19 pandemic. Abari stated this when he featured on a Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) live programme in Abuja. He...