archiveMay 8, 2020

Lagos State Government has reacted to the report that the State Commissioner of Health, Professor Akin Abayomi has reacted to reports that he tested positive to the dreaded novel Coronavirus disease. The Commissioner posted on his Twitter account, @ProfAkinAbayomi, Friday morning that the report was fake and urged the general...

Nigeria has recorded 381 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 3,526. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control(NCDC), confirmed this in a tweet on Thursday. The centre said this is the highest number of cases recorded in a single day in the...

Yobe State Commissioner for Health, Dr Muhammed Gana, has said that they were investigating reported rising mysterious deaths in some parts of the state. Gana, who is also the Vice-Chairman, Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control, spoke in Damaturu, the state capital, according to the News Agency of Nigeria. Gana...

The Lagos State House of Assembly has asked Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to account for expenses incurred from donations received in the fight against COVID-19 in the state. At the plenary presided over by the Speaker, Mr Mudashiru Obasa, the House asked Sanwo-Olu to introduce a co-chairman from the executive arm...

UN health agency says it is ready to collaborate with Madagascar The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday called for clinical trials of Madagascar's Covid Organics, a herbal drink that is said to prevent and cure patients suffering from the novel coronavirus or COVID-19. "We are advising the government of...

The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Thursday indicated that Nigeria was making headway in getting local cures for COVID-19, PUNCH reports. The PTF Chairman and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, stated this at the task force press conference in Abuja. He said the Complementary and...

  President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday expressed happiness on the exoneration of the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, by the bank’s board, from allegations of impropriety and fraud levelled against him by some officials of the bank. The president also held talks with the Prime...

  The Federal Government has moved forward the planned evacuation of the first batch of Nigerians from the United States from Saturday to Sunday. The Consulate General of Nigeria in New York said in a statement that the Nigerians would be evacuated by Ethiopian Airlines, which will depart the Newark...