Popular philanthropist and businessman, Sir Kensington Adebutu, has given the whopping sum of N300 million to the Lagos State government to help it fight coronavirus in the state. The state currently has the highest number of coronavirus cases in the country with 68 and the state government has put in place measures to fight the…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has given the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and the federal ministry of health a week to publish the weekly details of funds and other resources deployed so far in the fight against the spread of coronavirus in Nigeria. In two separate Freedom of Information requests sent to the…
Former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has made a cash donation of N200 million to the state and NCDC towards the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, TVC reports. Tinubu made the donation during the occasion of his 68th birthday. Asiwaju commended residents of Lagos for complying with the directives of the State…
A plane believed to be conveying coronavirus medical supplies has crashed during takeoff. The aircraft, bound for Haneda, Japan, crashed at Manila International Airport in the Philippines, killing all the eight people on board, on Sunday. It had reportedly been chartered by the government and was carrying emergency supplies to the country as it battles…
President Paul Kagame ordered door to door free distribution of food to Rwandans and people living in Rwanda as well as other concessions like free energy (electricity). Starting Saturday, officials were moving from house by house to conduct equal distribution under Kagame’s direct supervision to avoid favoritism. THE Rwandan Government has on Saturday, March 28,…
Heavy tears and sadness greeted Students of Western Michigan University as one of them, a 25-year-old Nigerian Chemical Engineering student, Bassey Offiong, died of COVID-19 on Saturday in Detroit. He was expected to graduate in a few weeks. According to his sister, Asari, the deceased told her he was turned down several times for the…
Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, has contracted COVID-19, the novel coronavirus. El-rufai announced his status via a video he uploaded on his social media handles on Saturday. His result makes him the second governor to test positive for the virus in Nigeria, after Bala Mohammed, his Bauchi counterpart. Details later…
The last executive session of the Senate before sitting was suspended for two weeks was with a drama over COVID-19. About 35 Senators who recently came back from London after a seminar on Petroleum Industry Governance Bill were isolated by their colleagues at the session because they refused to subject themselves to Coronavirus test. All…
Two nurses and a doctor have been confirmed to have tested positive for Coronavirus at a hospital in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. The health workers, who are staff of a government hospital in Abuja, were part of medical personnel that attended to an infected person brought into the hospital. A senior medical worker at the hospital…
As the Coronavirus epidemic continues fo spread, Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi has disclosed that the state’s cases might increase to 39,000 in the coming weeks if stringent measures are not put in place to stop the spread of the disease. Speaking at a press conference on Friday, March 27, Abayomi stated…