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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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), on Monday confirmed 20 new cases of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Nigeria. In a post on its Twitter handle, the centre said 13 of the cases were recorded in Lagos State, two each in Edo, Kano and Ogun states and one in Ondo State. The announcement of […]
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A 200-bed hotel owned by former first lady, Patience Jonathan, will be converted into a COVID-19 isolation and treatment centre. The hotel, is said to be worth about N2 billion and currently under interim forfeiture by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in 2018. The Nation reports that Patience struck the deal with First […]
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Lagos State Government has announced the discharge of six more COVID-19 patients from its isolation Centre after they were declared free of the virus. Lagos Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu announced this on this social media pages on Monday. According to the Governor, the discharged patients include one female and five males. With the discharge of the […]
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NIGERIA – President Muhammadu Buhari, will on Monday, April 13 deliver a national broadcast by 7pm. The information was disclosed in a statement released by Femi Adesina, special adviser to the president on media and publicity. “President Muhammadu Buhari will broadcast to the nation Monday, April 13, 2020, at 7pm,” the statement read. “Television, radio […]
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Edo state government has established mobile courts to prosecute violators of guidelines put in place to check the spread of coronavirus disease in the state. Offenders would be tried under the Edo State Dangerous Infectious Diseases (Emergency Prevention) Regulations 2020. Recall that Governor Obaseki had on Tuesday, March 31, 2020, signed the Quarantine Regulations, made […]
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Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), on Saturday announced 13 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the country’s total number of infections to 318. 13 new cases of #COVID19 have been reported; 11 in Lagos, 1 in Delta & 1 in Kano As at 9:30pm 11th April there are 318 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported […]
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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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