One Vincent Ikechukwu has been asked to pay N40,000 by an Ado Ekiti Magistrate Court over failure to wear a face mask. The Governor Kayode Fayemi-led...
President Muhammadu Buhari has commended public-spirited Nigerians and organisations for their financial and material support towards the fight against COVID-19 pandemic. The President, however, called for...
For the second consecutive day, Nigeria’s COVID-19 infections figure hit the 300 mark after the nation’s centre for disease control confirmed 386 new cases in several...
Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, Friday confirmed 13 fresh COVID-19 cases in the state. Sule, who announced this during a review of the COVID-19 response at...
The Ekiti State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Mojisola Yahaya-Kolade, said on Friday the state government would set up a COVID-19 laboratory facility in a bid to...
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, said on Friday the COVID-19 isolation and treatment centres across the country were running out of...
Lagos State government said on Friday many COVID-19 patients flee from their homes to avoid being taken to the state’s isolation facilities for treatment. The state...
In a bid to check the spread of COVID-19 in Enugu State, the state government Friday commenced the distribution of one million units of fabric face...
The founder of Living Faith Worldwide, aka Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo has once again kicked against the closing of churches due to the COVID-19 pandemic....
The Kano State government has revealed that the State’s Commissioner for Health, Dr Aminu Tsanyawa, and 15 others who had earlier contracted COVID-19 have all tested...
The Socio Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has asked Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State to stop using the the COVID-19 pandemic to trample on...
The Lagos State government on Friday projected that COVID-19 cases might rise to 120,000 by July. The government said the projection was based on its model...
The number of patients suffering from the dreaded COVID-19 disease in Enugu State has increased with a nine-year-old who was confirmed positive with the virus. A...
Scores of residents in Cross River State got a rough treatment when many of them who were seen outside past the curfew time ordered by the...
The Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello has accused the Nigeria Centre of Disease Control (NCDC) of hiding something over COVID-19 and asked them to open...
The Federal Government on Thursday warned Nigerians abroad who desire to be evacuated back home not to pay money to any private account for their flight...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that COVID-19 could kill 83,000 to 190,000 people in Africa in the first year and infect between 29 million...
The Anambra State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), on Thursday called on the Kano State Government to stop distributing Almajiris to other parts...
Governorship aspirants under the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State have vowed to support whoever amongst them emerged as the flagbearer of the party in...
The federal government of Nigeria, through the Ministry of Health has admitted that its policy on self-isolation, which prescribes that people should stay at home for...
The Lagos State Commissioner of Health, Professor Akin Abayomi has reacted to reports that he tested positive to the dreaded novel Coronavirus disease. He posted on...
The Kano State government led by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has discharged 16 more COVID-19 patients from its facilities in the state after they all tested negative...
A passenger suspected to be COVID-19 positive travelling from Lagos to one of the northern states on Thursday died in Badeggi in the Katcha Local Government...
The Yobe State government led by Governor Mai Mala Buni has opened up on reports making the rounds regarding mass deaths in the State, purportedly associated...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Thursday night confirmed 381 fresh cases of COVID-19 in the country. The freshly infected persons have now increased the...
The Jigawa State government said on Thursday the 16 Quranic Education students (Almajiris) sent to the state from Kano State had tested positive for COVID-19. The...
The presidency Thursday explained why it shunned Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje’s request for N15 billion intervention to fight the COVID-19. The Special Adviser on Media...
A new study conducted in China has found Sars-CoV-2 RNA (Covid-19) in the semen of young coronavirus patients, JAMA Network Open, an American medical journal has...
The Lagos State government Thursday confirmed two more COVID-19 deaths in the state, adding that the number of confirmed cases in the state had increased to...
As part of efforts to check the spread of COVID-19, the Lagos State Government has asked operators of restaurants and eateries in the state to ensure...
The Federal Government of Nigeria through the Ministry of Health has given the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) the go ahead...
Thirty inmates of the Correctional Service Centre, Afokang have been released by the Ag. Chief Judge of Cross River, Justice Maurice Eneji, as part of measures...
The ECOWAS Commission has debunked reports that its health institution, West Africa Health Organisation has endorsed the COVID-19 cure developed by the Malagasy Institute of Applied...
Lebanon’s Ministry of Health has informed that no fewer than 25 passengers on a flight from the city of Kano to Beirut have tested positive for...
The woman whose name was announced as the index case of COVID-19 in Benue state, Susan Okpe, has lamented what she said is her continued detention,...
Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari has lamented the never ending atrocities of bandits in the state and said that banditry, and not COVID-19 is the major...
The Gombe State COVID-19 Task Force on Thursday, said the state government was tracing residents who mixed with COVID-19 patients who were protesting at the Kwandon...
Some COVID-19 patients at an isolation centre in Niger State have protested the way they were being treated. The patients, who were caught shouting on top...
A total of 11,231 new cases of covid-19 has emerged in Russia within the last 24-hours, the country’s covid-19 response team declared in a statement. Altogether,...
Edo State government on Wednesday intercepted over 100 passengers from Kano and Rivers State, screened and took their samples for COVID-19 test. It was learnt that...
A newly posted Divisional Crime Officer (DCO) to Achala Police Division in Anambra State has been ordered to submit himself for COVID-19 test due to his...
The Oyo State government has revealed how a 10-year-old boy who tested positive for COVID-19 in the state absconded to the northern part of Nigeria to...
The Federal Government has warned security agencies to stop harassing journalists and other essential duty workers as they enforce the COVID-19 curfew imposed by President Muhammadu...
The non inclusion of Almajiris in distribution of covid-19 palliatives in the country has been condemned by a group of Non Governmental Organisations (NGO), operating under...
Oil prices climbed up further on Thursday as U.S. inventories increased less than expected. Analysts however predicted that additional gains might be limited by the current...
The Niger State Government has said it intercepted at least 40 people who were Lagos bound from Kano despite the ban on interstate travels in place...
The number of people infected with the novel COVID-19 disease which was first recorded in Wuhan, China, has now reached 3.7 million people, according to data...
The Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir-El Rufai has disclosed that the ongoing deportation of Almajiris from various Northern States to their indigenous States was an...
The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, on Wednesday explained why the Federal Government will not give any COVID-19 patient to traditional medicine practitioners for treatment,...
The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Wednesday complained about the refusal of Nigerians to comply with the ban on interstate travels in the country, lamenting...
