archiveMay 19, 2020

  U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to permanently pull funding from the World Health Organisation (WHO) if it does not commit to “major substantive improvements” within 30 days, according to a letter to the WHO chief shared by Trump on Twitter. In a four-page letter to WHO director general...

  The Mountain of Fire and Miracles (MFM) Ministries has directed the repeat of her 30 days Prayer Retreat, whose second session ends this weekend. The General Overseer of MFM worldwide, Dr. Daniel Olukoya, who gave the directive, stated: "From 8th of June. We restart the prayers using the former...

We will reveal identity of company with 38 infections Tuesday —Makinde considers measures for opening religious centres The Governor of Oyo State, Engineer Seyi Makinde, on Monday, released a food advisory, which he said experts have certified as immune boosters that could help the human body prevent attacks of COVID-19....

  Managing Director, China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) Nigeria Ltd, Michael Yigao, says the 15 Chinese medical experts that arrived in the country on April 8 are helping to train its staff in the prevention of the coronavirus. Yigao revealed this on Monday while reacting to questions raised by...

  ’Lecturers underpaid PAYE’ The war of words between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), over the Integrated Personnel Information System (IPPIS), is getting hotter as the Federal Government has said that ASUU members underpaid Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Tax running into billions of...

The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha, said nine local government areas in the country accounted for 51 per cent of the total number of COVID-19 infections in the country. He spoke at the PTF press briefing...

  Rejects China’s loans, recommends Ogunlesi’s initiative in Rome Subsidiary central to revamping economy, he proposes Says hunger will push Nigeria into revolution Nigeria’s leading political economist, Prof Pat Utomi, has recommended how Nigeria can effectively manage grave socio-economic realities that will follow the lookdown, asking governments at all levels...

  The World Health Organisation (WHO) ha said that in developing an effecting regimen for the treatment of COVID-19, it was not trying out new drugs but repurposing available ones to determine their effect on the virus. It also said it was still at the information gathering stage of the...

  We’ve lost a gem, state’ll immortalise him, says Makinde The Oyo State Executive Council, on Monday, conducted a valedictory session in honour of the erstwhile Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources, Rt. Honourable Kehinde Ayoola. The council members severally eulogised the late former speaker of the state assembly, declaring...

  Nigeria has recorded 216 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in the country to 6,175. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) made this known on Monday. The centre said that nine patients died of coronavirus-related complications in the country, bringing the total number...