There was a mild drama in Ilutitun, an agrarian community in Okitipupa Local Council of Ondo State, as youths in the community drove government officials, who were dispatched by the state to set up isolation centre, out of their town. The Guardian gathered that the state government had mapped out a mega primary school, a…
Residents of Omole Estate, Phase II, Lagos are now in perpetual fear following the death of a patient suspected to have died of Coronavirus. The report said the patient who presents with Coronavirus symptoms was rushed to the Primary Healthcare Centre in the area, and that there was no ambulance from the NCDC and the…
The donations to combat Coronavirus in Nigeria has hit N15bn as confirmed in a statement released by the Director of Corporate Communications at the Central Bank of Nigeria, Isaac Okorafor, on Wednesday, April 1, 2020. The donations which came from individuals, banks and other corporate bodies were paid into an account set up at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)…
…Berates APC For Manipulating Prices, Fleecing Nigerians The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in a statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary Kola Ologbondiyan rejects the April 1 tweaking of fuel price from N125 to N123.5 instead of the appropriate N90 per liter canvassed by Nigerians. Our party describes the reduction of pump price by N1.50k…
Popular Nigeria singer Simisola Ogunleye simply known and addressed as Simi has taken to her official Twitter handle to lament why everything must be begged for in the country. Pointing at how she is currently without electricity in her house, the singer copied president Muhammadu Buhari’s official Twitter handle while venting her anger. She wrote:…
Osun State Government on Thursday confirmed that six more Ivory Coast returnees tested positive for coronavirus. The PUNCH reports that the development brings the total number of cases in the state to 20. Osun State Commissioner for Health, Dr Rafiu Isamotu said that all the 127 returnees had been tested and 18 of them had…
The world is on emergency. A trusted cure for the dreaded Coronavirus is needed fast, to safe lives at a time such as these. Seventy-three NHS workers at the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London have all tested positive for Coronavirus while 318 others have been forced to self-isolate. Ex-WHO director Anthony Costello confirmed the…
— names connected with the pandemic raging in the world at the moment. For the couple based in Raipur, in the state of Chhattisgarh, the two words may evoke fear and devastation to the world, but for them, they symbolise triumph over hardship. The names remind them about all the hardships they overcame amid the…
The Chief Medical Director of University College Hospital, Ibadan, Prof. Jesse Otegbayo, has tested negative for COVID-19 after initially testing positive for the disease. The Public Relations Officer of UCH, Mr Toye Akinrinlola, said this in a statement made available to newsmen on Thursday in Ibadan. “I have the pleasure to announce that the repeat…
Mohammed Atiku, son of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar who tested positive for coronavirus, has said he is optimistic about being discharged soon. Mohammed, who spoke from isolation on Thursday in a video, said though he was traumatized being the first recorded case in Abuja he was fine now. He said, “On the 20th of (March),…