The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has confirmed 338 new coronavirus cases in Nigeria The NCDC made this known via its official twitter handle on Sunday. The breakdown of the coronavirus cases are, 177-Lagos 64-Kano 21-FCT 16-Rivers 14-Plateau 11-Oyo 9-Katsina 4-Jigawa 4-Kaduna 3-Abia 3-Bauchi 3-Borno 2-Gombe 2-Akwa Ibom 2-Delta 1-Ondo 1-Kebbi 1-Sokoto With this […]
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Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari will on Monday, the 18th day of May address Nigerians as the end of the first phase of the gradual easing of the coronavirus lockdown. Kokomansion gathered that the national coordinator of the presidential task force on COVID-19, Aliyu Sani, disclosed this in a program on Channelstv, Sunday Politics According to […]
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Emirates Group is planning to cut about 30,000 jobs to reduce costs amid the coronavirus outbreak, which will bring down its number of employees by about 30 per cent from more than 105,000. A media reported on Sunday that the company was also considering speeding up the planned retirement of its A380 fleet. An Emirates […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday received the coronavirus cure which was developed in Mad Personal Assistant to President Buhari on New Media, Bashir Ahmad made this known. He noted that the president reiterated that his government will listen to science before allowing any medicine to be given to Nigerians Ahmad tweeted, “President @MBuhari has received […]
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Lagos State Government on Thursday retracted its earlier statement on the COVID-19 status of the late 32-year-old Dubai returnee, saying outcome of his COVID-19 test “is negative”. Prof. Akin Abayomi, the state Commissioner for Health, made the clarification through his verified Twitter account handle on Thursday night. “I hereby inform the general public that the […]
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Boss Mustapha, Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, has advised that those with a cure for the Coronavirus disease to go through authoritised channels to get certified. He stated this while he was responding to questions about the alleged cure from Madagascar during the Thursday’s […]
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Nigeria has recorded 184 new cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing its total infections to 4,971. Nigeria Centre for Disease Control confirmed the new figures in a tweet late Wednesday, stating that 51 new cases were found in Lagos, 23 in Jigawa, 16 in Bauchi, 14 in Kano, 10 in the FCT, and 10 […]
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Akin Abayomi, Lagos commissioner for health, has announced that one of the Nigerians that the federal government evacuated from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is dead. He announced it in a tweet on Tuesday night, saying the deceased, who had “severe underlying health condition”, died from COVID-19–related complications. Abayomi appealed to residents of Lagos to be […]
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It is not for nothing that it is said that two heads are better than one. Then Prof. Kimse Okoko modified it to ‘two good heads.’ I believe that Gov. Nyesom Wike should involve his entire cabinet members (as it appears he does not) in managing Covid-19 in Rivers State. If he does that, I […]
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In a bid to curb the spread of COVID-19, many nations have at some point had to impose a complete lockdown in certain states or across the country. However, there are some who believe that placing Nigeria under a complete lockdown is not sustainable. In a chat with Channels Television’s COVID-19 Update, Mr Atedo Peterside […]
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