Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has said residents of the state who work in Lagos State are not permitted to move out or into the state as the lockdown eases next week. This was contained in the latest guidelines by the state government over the Federal Government-ordered partial lockdown in the state. Announcing via Facebook on Saturday…
Three COVID-19 related deaths have been recorded in Kano state. The state Ministry of Health disclosed this via its Twitter handle this morning, Saturday, May 2nd. The Ministry also confirmed 92 new cases of COVID-19 in the state, bringing the total of COVID-19 cases in the state to 311.
Secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha has disclosed that 3,000 primary healthcare workers have been deployed to Kano state to help in the fight against Coronavirus. The SGF disclosed this at the presidential task force briefing on Friday, May 1, and he said the workers were put together by the United Nations through the World…
The Lagos state government has announced new transportation guidelines in light of the gradual easing of the lockdown which will commence on the 4th of May, 2020. As the partial ease of the lockdown by the Federal Government in Lagos, Ogun, and Abuja commences on Monday, May 4th, the Commissioner for Transportation, Dr. Frederic Oladeinde,…
Bundesliga side, FC Cologne, has announced that three members of their staff have tested positive for COVID-19. The club confirmed on Friday that playing staff, as well as coaches and backroom staff, were tested on Thursday at training, but three results came back positive. The trio, who are all symptom-free, will enter a 14-day quarantine period, the club…
Oyo State recorded six new confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), out of 238 cases recorded on Friday by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), bringing the number of cases recorded to 29. According to the NCDC, this is as of Friday night. Gov. Sheyi Makinde, on in his tweeter handle, said “we have started…
The Enugu State Government has announced another confirmed case of coronavirus, bringing the number of cases in the state to four. The Commissioner for Health, Prof. Ikechukwu Obi made the disclosure in a statement on Saturday in Enugu. Obi said that the new case was a 39- year-old who used to live and work in…
Gotel Communications, a company owned by former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, on Friday, confirmed that it sacked some of its workers. There had been reports that the company sacked about 46 of its employees on Workers’ Day. It was reported that the company, in a letter by its General Manager, Mohammed El Yakubu, had sacked the…
The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has approved a hazard allowance ranging from N90,000 to N300,000 for health workers on the frontline of the state government’s efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Obaseki disclosed this at a parley with labour union leaders in the state as part of activities that marked the International Labour…
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control on Friday said it was concerned about claims in the social media that the agency had approved drugs and vaccines for COVID-19, describing the claim as misleading. The Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, said in a statement that although research was ongoing to find…