The Lagos State Government has set up food banks across the state to cater for 200,000 households in 377 wards in the state to cater for the most vulnerable during the mandated lockdown to curb the spread of Coronavirus. Residents, who cannot afford meals during the lockdown will receive food provided by the state.…
The former Commissioner for Sports in Ogun State, Bukola Olopade, has tested positive for Coronavirus. In a video he posted online, Olopade said, “A few days ago, I did make a video that I have been tested for COVID-19. I did promise to make it public once it was done and it has come out…
File photo The Nigerian Government has converted all National Youth Service Corps camps and four stadia in the country into isolation centres. Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday dare, said this on his Twitter handle on Friday. “Mr President has approved for the Ministry of Youth and Sports to open and make available…
The Sokoto State Government on Friday announced the closure of entry points into the ancient city in order to curtail the spread of Coronavirus in the country. Governor Aminu Tambuwal in a broadcast said that only the movement of medical supplies and essential food items will be allowed into Sokoto from other parts of…
The United States Government has urged nurses and doctors around the world interested in working in America to put in for its work visas at the nearest US Embassy to them. The move is part of strategies the United States was adopting to increase the number of health workers combating the Coronavirus pandemic in the…
The Lagos State government on Friday said that cases of Coronavirus in the city may rise to 39,000 in the coming weeks. Commissioner for Health in the state, Prof Akin Abayomi, made the comment on Friday during a briefing with journalists. He said, “Our mathematical modelling shows that the worst-case scenario is that we may…
Does Nigeria possess the relevant forensic expertise to deduce the size of the explosive that devastated Abule Ado? I am referring here not to the trigger which could jolly well be a match stick, box of matches, a cigarette, a 12.5 or even a 50kg cylinder of LPG. If could also be a 2-ton industrial…
President, Centre for Change, Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin, has called on the Nigerian Government to steer clear of its plan to rearrest human rights activist and journalist, Omoyele Sowore, saying such move would be counter productive. Sowore had raised the alarm over moves by the Nigerian Army to secretly secure an order from the Federal High…
A man named David, who came into Nigeria from Maryland, United States of America, and was suspected of having Coronavirus, has now tested negative for the virus. This was confirmed by a senior staff of the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, Ondo Town, Ondo State, where the man had been kept under observation all the while.…
The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control has announced 14 new cases of Coronavirus in the country. According to the NCDC, 12 were confirmed in Lagos while two were confirmed in the FCT. “14 new cases of #COVID19 have been confirmed in Nigeria: two in FCT, 12 in Lagos “Of the 14, six were detected…