archiveApril 2020

  .seeks partnership with private sector to expand Oyo economy Oyo State governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, on Monday, declared the readiness of his administration to upgrade the popular Akufo Farm Settlement to an Agricultural Estate. The governor stated this during an on-the-spot inspection tour of the Farm Settlement as well...

Mohammed Atiku, son of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has tested negative twice for coronavirus. Consequently, he is set to be discharged from Gwagwalada Specialist Hospital, Abuja, where he has been receiving treatment. “I have just received my second consecutive negative result,” Mohammed Atiku tweeted. Recall that the former Vice...

  For Nigeria to handle COVID-19 successfully, especially in view of Nigeria`s weak public health system and paucity of funds, the country needs to depart from international strategy by developing a Nigerian Strategy in managing COVID-19 and diversification of the economy in view of dwindling oil revenue. Dr. Olisa Agbakoba...

The Federal Government says it has commenced the payment of the Upgraded Hazard allowances for frontline health workers fighting against the spread of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Nigeria. The Minister of State for Health, Dr Olorunnimbe Mamora, made this known at the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force...

  ADDRESS BY H.E. MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE CUMULATIVE LOCKDOWN ORDER OF LAGOS AND OGUN STATES AS WELL AS THE FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY ON COVID- 19 PANDEMIC AT THE STATE HOUSE, ABUJA, MONDAY, 27th APRIL, 2020 Fellow Nigerians I will start by commending...

  Orders immediate total lockdown of Kano for two weeks President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered phased and gradual relaxation of the lockdown order on FCT, Lagos and Ogun states to contain the spread of COVID-19. The President, in a broadcast on Monday evening, said the decision was informed by socio-economic...

The Lagos State Ministry of Health, on Monday, said that the state had recorded 43 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total confirmed cases in the state to 746. The ministry, through its Twitter account, said that 587 cases were active and 123 discharged, while 15 cases had been transferred to...

Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has approved the COVID-19 testing centre at the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital (UNIMEDTH) laboratory in Ondo. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Wahab Adegbenro, disclosed this in an interview with newsmen shortly after the governor’s weekly press briefing at the Government House...

Activities in the nation’s bourse on Monday resumed for the week on a positive note with a marginal growth of 0.07 per cent due to mild increases in MTN Nigeria and some Tier one banks. Specifically, the All-Share Index increased by 16.90 points or 0.07 per cent to 22,616.28 compared...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says fighting COVID-19 in Africa needs total solidarity. The WHO Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo said this on its official twitter account @WHOAFRO on Monday. “That’s why the polio programme is lending its tools of personal computer, workforce and surveillance network right-pointing magnifying...