By Sola Adeyeye The truth is that Bill Gates has NEVER advocated vaccines SOLELY for Blacks. Bill Gates correctly noted the poor infrastructure for health care delivery in Africa. He very correctly argued that the outbreak of any pandemic will devastate Africa unless global resources are deployed for making vaccines. To twist such clear-headed advocacy […]
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President Donald Trump of the United States has suspended funding of the World Health Organisation (WHO) for mismanaging the COVID-19 Pandemic. President Donald Trump told journalists on Tuesday that the organisation “failed in its basic duty”. “Today I am directing my administration to halt funding while a review is conducted to assess the World Health Organization’s […]
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Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje has declared a lockdown of the state over the increasing spread of the novel Coronavirus in the state. This was disclosed in a post on Twitter by Salihu Tanko Yakasai, Special Adviser on Media to the Governor, on Tuesday. Kano State currently has four confirmed Coronavirus cases. According to Yakasai, […]
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NIGERIA – President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday, made his his second nationwide broadcast on the efforts by the Federal Government to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, extending the lockdown in Lagos and Ogun states as well as the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. ADDRESS BY H.E. MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE […]
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Nigeria’s leading opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the confession by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, on the nation’s health sector has confirmed the failure of the Muhammadu Buhari administration. According to the party, the SGF’s comments also served as a further vindication of its […]
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What could be worse than a pandemic overwhelming health care systems and causing global economic collapse? Florida knows the answer: a pandemic that rages into hurricane season, which is already on the horizon and causing the Sunshine State to dramatically update its storm preparations. “COVID is bad, a hurricane is bad. If you combine the […]
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The Federal Government of Nigeria has urged state governments not to relax either the lockdown orders declared by the Federal Government or the stay-at-home order imposed on some states by their governors. This appeal was made by Dr. Sani Aliyu, National Secretary of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, at a press briefing in Abuja […]
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Liverpool legend Kenny Dalglish has tested positive for coronavirus but is not showing symptoms of the disease, his family said Friday. The 69-year-old former Scottish international striker, who started his career at Celtic, was admitted to hospital on Wednesday for treatment for an infection that required intravenous antibiotics. “He was subsequently tested for COVID-19 despite […]
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With the confirmation of 17 new cases of the coronavirus pandemic as announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Nigeria now has 305 infections recorded. In a tweet on Friday evening, the NCDC revealed that the latest cases were recorded in six states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The states include Lagos […]
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In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, says he did not know Nigeria’s healthcare system was in a very bad state. Mustapha said his role as the chairman of the presidential task force on COVID-19 opened his eye to the current state of Nigeria’s […]
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