A pregnant COVID-19 patient has been delivered of a baby at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH). The hospital disclosed this on its Twitter handle Monday...
The Borno State health surveillance and investigation team has found the 24-year-old man who went into hiding after testing positive for COVID-19 in the state. The...
Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai will join a host of other discussants in a panel titled “This Isn’t the West – How Africa’s Informal Sector Responds...
A Nigerian man has criticised ‘African Queen’ crooner, 2face Idibia, for donating the sum of N10 million to the Federal Government of Nigeria in its ongoing...
A national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and and his wife Senator Remi Tinubu have both tested negative for covid-19. A...
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has charged the Federal Government to immediately intervene in the mass deaths going on in Kano State. In a statement issued...
President Muhammadu Buhari will today (Monday) address Nigerians by 8pm over the covid-19 lockdown order. Many Nigerians had been apprehensive as debates had raged over whether...
One of the Covid-19 patients, who escaped and went into hiding after testing positive in Borno State, had been found. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr...
Governor Abdulahi Ganduje of Kano State has accused the Federal Government through the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, of abandonment in the face of its efforts...
The All Progressives Congress (APC), has berated the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over its comments on the COVID-19 pandemic and the reported increase of deaths in...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to the claim that the Federal Government shared expired rice to some states as Covid-19 palliatives. The party said...
Human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), has demanded for detailed information on the strange deaths and mass burials reportedly happening in Kano. The Senior Advocate...
The number of people confirmed to have COVID-19 worldwide has risen to more than 2.97 million with no fewer than 206,000 reported dead according to data...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Director General (DG), Chikwe Ihekweazu, has said that the country was in desperate need of Covid-19 testing kits. He...
The U.S. dollar sold for N450 at the parallel market last Friday, having depreciated by 4.6% or N20 compared to the value at which it closed...
The administration of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu has said that some of the 1,800 bags the Federal Government sent to Ondo State were expired and not healthy...
A class action suit has been filed against the Peoples Republic of China for not being transparent enough on the novel COVID-19 disease and the adverse...
The Bauchi State government led by Governor Bala Mohammed has recorded three new positive cases of COVID-19 in the state. This was disclosed to journalists on...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Sunday night confirmed 91 new cases of COVID-19 in 15 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory...
The Management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has denied rumours that it had concluded plans to divert the April and May monthly stipends of...
The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire and the Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, Sunday briefed President Muhammadu Buhari...
The Borno High Powered Committee on Coronavirus (COVID-19) has urged residents of Maiduguri to be on the alert after two positive patients went into hiding in...
The management of the University of Lagos Sunday announced the temporary closure of its Medical Centre after the facility was exposed to a COVID-19 patient. A...
Osun State Governor, Gboyega Oyetola, Sunday confirmed two coronavirus-related deaths in the state. The governor, who disclosed this at a press briefing at the Government House...
The strides that our country has made in the fight to end malaria could understandably be overlooked against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. Perhaps more...
Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, the Senate Minority Leader, representing Abia South has warned the Federal Government led by President Muhammadu Buhari not to extend the ongoing COVID-19...
Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi on Sunday said he cannot order a total lockdown of the state due to covid-19 pandemic because of its economic peculiarities...
Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, has responded to the spread of the COVID-19 disease to the state by imposing a dusk to dawn curfew in the...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urges Nigerian governors to urgently provide information on spending details on COVID-19 in their state, and to immediately redirect...
The Oyo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned the state Governor, Seyi Makinde, against playing politics with the COVID-19 pandemic in the...
The four family members of Katsina State COVID-19 index case, Dr. Aliyu Yakubu, who died as a result of the disease, have been discharged after testing...
The Lagos State Government on Saturday announced that six COVID-19 patients have been discharged from the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) Isolation Centre, Idi-Araba, after recovery...
The Minister of Power, Alhahi Saleh Mamman has explained why it would not be possible for the Federal Government to give free electricity to Nigerians for...
The Chairman of Amuwo Odofin local government area of Lagos, Mr. Valentine Buraimoh, on Saturday dismissed reports on the alleged widespread cases of COVID-19 in the...
John Hopkins University said on Saturday the global coronavirus death toll had now reached 200,000 with 2.8million confirmed infections. The university released the latest figures just...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Saturday night confirmed 87 new cases of COVID-19 in the country. The latest figure has increased the number of...
Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, Saturday evening confirmed four new COVID-19 cases in the state. The governor, who disclosed this in a statement, said the four...
Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, Saturday relaxed the COVID-19 lockdown in the state. However, the governor said the state’s borders would remain closed and asked religious...
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has postponed the entrance examination into Air Force Comprehensive Secondary Schools and Air Force Secondary Schools until further notice. The NAF...
Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, Saturday confirmed 74 new cases of coronavirus in the state. Ganduje, who disclosed this at a press briefing in Kano, said...
Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, Saturday confirmed another case of COVID-19 in the state. Akeredolu, who disclosed this on his Twitter handle, said the new case...
The Lagos State government Saturday confirmed another COVID-19 death in the state, bringing the total fatality in Nigeria’s commercial nerve centre to 19. The state Ministry...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, said on Saturday the number of COVID-19 cases on the continent had increased to...
The General Manager of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), Mr. Olajide Oduwoye, said on Saturday residents of the state defying the COVID-19 lockdown were...
The Kaduna State government Saturday confirmed one new case of coronavirus in the state. With the new case, the number of active cases in the state...
Management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has described as fake news, report that it would not pay corps members their April and May allowances....
If there is any programme of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration that has enjoyed the most attention, spiced with unfair criticisms – hinged mostly on beer...
Can Africa really afford lockdowns, and can they be effective? Put differently, given the social and economic circumstances of Africa and the impending ‘economic pandemic’, can...
Kaduna State Governor, Nasiru El-Rufai has said that the state could not relax the COVID-19 lockdown in the state for the Ramadan because of the dangers...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has stated that it is teaming up with countries and partners worldwide to accelerate work on drugs and a vaccine for...
