With the number of COVID-19 cases rising by 30 in a single day yesterday, bringing the tally to 373, panelists on an Arise TV programme, including Professor of Virology and former Vice Chancellor, Redeemer’s University, Prof. Tomori Oyewole, have warned that the nation may be in for a prolonged shutdown.Continue Reading
Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos, says the state government will feed 100,000 youths daily to cushion the effects of the lockdown on residents. The governor made the announcement during a media briefing on Tuesday. He said the exercise tagged, “Daily Food Kitchen Programme” will help to reduce hunger among youthsContinue Reading
The International Monetary Fund, IMF has projected that Nigeria’s economy will face the worst recession in 30 years. IMF stated further that Nigeria’s economy will recede by 3% in 2020 due to the Coronavirus pandemic, which has disrupted global supply chains. It noted that this would be the worst recessionContinue Reading
The European Union (EU) on Tuesday in Abuja donated €50m, an equivalent of N21 billion, in support of Nigeria’s fight against COVID-19 to the excitement of President Muhammadu Buhari. Leading a delegation to the State House for presentation of the donation to Buhari, Ambassador Kelti Karlsen described the fund, saidContinue Reading
Lagos has discharged another eight new patients diagnosed with COVID-19. This was made known in a Tweet by the Lagos state Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Tuesday. The governor said: “More great news today from our Mainland Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba. “Eight more people: two females and six males have testedContinue Reading
Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, has advised Nigerians to exercise restraint in accepting and disseminating information on alleged maltreatment of Nigerians and by extension Africans living in China. Onyeama said this on Tuesday at a briefing in Abuja. Flanked by the Chinese Ambassador in Nigeria, Dr Zhou Pingjian, theContinue Reading
The Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen. Yusuf Tukur Buratai has vowed that he will not leave the theatre of Operation Lafiya Dole until he gave a final blow on the Boko Haram insurgents in the northeast. The Nation reports that General Buratai had earlier announced his relocation to theContinue Reading
In line with its mandate of developing a template to manage the economy after the COVID-19 pandemic, the seven-man Economic Sustainability Committee headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is to devise ways to protect jobs and also create new ones after the pandemic, THISDAY has learnt. It was also gatheredContinue Reading
THE Federal Government is in talks with the Rivers State government over the detained Caverton Helicopter pilots, the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, said yesterday. The pilots were arrested by the police for flouting the state’s government’s directive by flying into the Air Force Base in Port Harcourt afterContinue Reading
President Muhammadu Buhari, Monday night, signed the Quarantine Order. The order gives a legal backing to the lockdown extension. The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, Lagos and Ogun States are affected. The Nigerian leader made the initial lockdown announcement in a national broadcast on Sunday, March 29. But legal practitioners andContinue Reading
