The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, has disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 to pick up and test samples of COVID-Organics, the self-acclaimed cure by Madagascar of the disease. Mustapha, who doubles as Chairman of the PTF on COVID-19, stated this at the […]
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Data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), has shown that households in Nigeria spent a total of N2.02tn on fuel and electricity in 2019. The NBS said in a new report on consumption expenditure pattern that household expenditure on fuel/light accounted for 11.57 per cent of the total non-food consumption expenditure in 2019. Households […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the ineffectiveness of Muhammadu Buhari, as well as his failure to lead from the front are responsible for Nigeria’s failure to check the spread of COVID-19. The PDP raised the alarm following the increase in infection and mortality rates in Nigeria. According to the opposition party, the crisis […]
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The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Sunday confirmed 248 new COVID-19 cases in Nigeria, bringing the total infections to 4,399. According to the agency, Nigeria also recorded 17 more deaths from the pandemic, taking the country’s death toll to 143 with total recoveries rising to 778. Eighty-one of the new cases were in […]
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Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) has reported 239 new COVID-19 cases, increasing the total number of infections in the country to 4,151 cases. NCDC confirmed the new cases in a tweet on Saturday night. According to the agency, 97 of the cases were in Lagos, 44 in Bauchi, 29 in Kano, and 19 in […]
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The novel pandemic has shook countries to their very base. Claiming lives and means of livelihood, crashing economies and bringing businesses to slow screeching halts. Governments of countries have frantically employed scatter-gun approach in a divine bid to push back, salvage its existence and economy from cosmic moribund and annihilation. Africa as a continent was […]
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The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC), on Tuesday, confirmed 148 new COVID-19 cases in the country, taking Nigeria’s total cases to 2,950. Of the new cases, 43 are in Lagos, 32 are in Kano, while 14 are in Zamfara. Ten are in the FCT, nine in Katsina, seven in Taraba, six in Borno and […]
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BY REUBEN ABATI This is a piece around and about what I have seen about Corona Virus in Nigeria, from a sociological perspective, and not a report of any pathogenic experience. It has been more than a month since the Federal Government placed Lagos and Ogun states, and the Federal Capital Territory on a lockdown […]
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Further to the pronouncement of Mr. President in the broadcast of Monday, 27th April, 2020, in which he directed the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 to provide implementation guidelines on the new measures to control COVID-19 pandemic, the following are hereby issued for: – General Information to the Public; – Guidance to States and Security […]
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The Coordinator of the Presidential Task Force set up for Kano on Covid-19, Dr Nasiru Sani Gwarzo, has linked the recent mysterious deaths in Kano to Covid-19. Kano State Government had initially denied that the mysterious deaths involving some of the prominent citizens of the State were due to Covid-19 infections. However, the state Governor, […]
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