The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed twenty-two new cases of COVID-19 this evening. NCDC recorded thirteen new cases in Lagos, two each in Edo, Kano, Ogun and one in Ondo. See tweets below…….. More Details….Continue Reading
Omoyele Sowore, rights activist and presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2019 election, says the Buhari administration is the “virus destroying the country”. Nigeria has been battling the COVID-19 pandemic since March with new cases recorded daily. But Sowore, in a video, said the country willContinue Reading
Barring any last minute change, President Muhammadu Buhari will speak to the nation in a live broadcast today being Monday, at 7pm. This was disclosed in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media & Publicity, Femi Adesina. Adesina urged all media outlets to hook up to the president’s broadcastContinue Reading
Boris Johnson has said there is “no question” that the NHS saved his life after he was discharged from hospital. Downing Street announced on Sunday afternoon that the prime minister had left St Thomas’ Hospital in central London, but won’t immediately return to work as he continues to recover from coronavirus. In aContinue Reading
The Rivers State Government at the weekend explained that its actions against the Carveton Helicopters was mainly to protect the health of residents against the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. It insisted Governor Nyesom Wike was not in any way dragging the functions in the Exclusive List with the FederalContinue Reading
Niger Governor Abubakar Bello has declared the total lockdown of Niger State from Monday April 13th. This is coming on the heels of the discovery of the first COVID-19 case in the state. The case, according to the Commissioner of Health, Dr. Muhammad Maikusidi, came from Limawa Area in Minna.Continue Reading
The World Health Organisation has debunked insinuations that 5G mobile network was responsible for the raging Coronavirus pandemic, insisting that “viruses cannot travel on radio waves or mobile networks.” On the same day, President Muhammadu Buhari expressed optimism that Nigeria would triumph over the Coronavirus when he met with membersContinue Reading
Boss Mustapha, secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), says he never knew Nigeria’s healthcare system was in a very bad state until the coronavirus pandemic. Mustapha said his role as the chairman of the presidential task force on COVID-19 opened his eye to the current state of Nigeria’sContinue Reading
President Muhammadu Buhari has charged Nigerians, especially Christians, to imbibe the Christ-like quality of personal sacrifice for the sake of achieving greater good. President Buhari gave the charge Friday morning in his Easter message to Nigerians, encouraging all citizens to persevere through the hardship and unusual unpleasantness coming with theContinue Reading
President Muhammadu Buhari has granted Presidential pardon to the former governor of old Bendel State, late Prof Ambrose Alli and a foremost nationalist, late Chief Anthony Enahoro. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola disclosed this at a world news conference held at the Headquarters of the Nigerian Correctional ServiceContinue Reading
