The COVID-19 crisis in Oyo seem to be worsening as nineteen more members of staff of the same company in Ibadan South-West local government area are the latest cases in Oyo state. Seyi Makinde, governor of Oyo, confirmed this in a statement issued just after midnight on Monday. Recall that on Saturday, the results for […]
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Nigerian troops have eliminated 20 Boko Haram terrorists in a decisive offensive operations in Baga town, Borno State. In a decisive intercept offensive operation, troops of 130 Battalion with the support of Army Super Camp Baga, had a fierce encounter at the north west of Baga town with BHT/ISWAP Criminals on the 17th of May […]
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Nigeria’s minister of aviation, Hadi Sirika, has disclosed that the government has caught Flair Aviation, an aviation company with ties to the United Kingdom, operating commercial flights into Nigeria. The minister said the aircraft has been seized and the crew are being interrogated. According to Sirika, the company was given clearance for humanitarian operations. Information […]
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The Federal Republic of Nigeria has crossed the 5,000 mark on Thursday with 193 new COVID-19 cases confirmed in 14 states and the federal capital territory (FCT). According figures announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) one minute before midnight on Thursday, 5,162 cases have now been recorded in 34 states and the […]
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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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Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported 146 new cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing its total infections to 4,787 Announcing the cases in a tweet late Tuesday, the NCDC said 57 of the cases are in Lagos. Read the tweet below: BREAKING: 146 new cases of #COVID19; 57-Lagos27-Kano10-Kwara9-Edo8-Bauchi7-Yobe4-Kebbi4-Oyo3-Katsina3-Niger2-Plateau2-Borno2-Sokoto2-Benue1-Gombe1-Enugu1-Ebonyi1-Ogun1-FCT1-Rivers 4787 cases of #COVID19 in […]
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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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Legal giant and founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Afe Babalola, has said shutting down schools indefinitely over the COVID-19 pandemic is not advisable. In a statement on Monday, he suggested ways schools and universities can be reopened in four weeks and still guarantee its students of safety. Babalola listed the conditions under which […]
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Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 242 new cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the country’s total infections to 4,641. In a tweet late Monday, the NCDC reported 88 new cases in Lagos, 64 in Kano, 49 in Katsina and 13 in Kaduna. According to the health agency, Ogun state had nine […]
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The Lagos State Government has announced the recovery and discharge of 33 new COVID-19 patients, increasing the number of recoveries in the state to 502. The state Ministry of Health, through its verified Twitter handle on Monday, said the patients were nine females and 24 males, all Nigerians. It said that 17 of the patients […]
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