The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has said it has put in place arrangements on passenger facilitation, ahead of the resumption of flights. The General Manager Corporate Affairs of FAAN, Henrietta Yakubu, stated this while speaking at an aviation webinar organized by Women in Aviation (WIA) Nigeria with the theme: “Aviation: The New Norm…
A 4-month-old child who tested positive for Coronavirus in Kaduna state has been discharged after recovering from the disease. The baby was one of the 20 COVID-19 cases that were recorded in the state on May 15. Kaduna State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Amina Mohammed Baloni made the announcement on Saturday, May 30, and also disclosed that the state…
The family of Chief Imam of Kabba, Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Ejibunu, has confirmed he died of coronavirus. Chief Tai Ejibunu, Obatebise of Oweland, in a statement by the family, said the Chief Imam exhibited symptoms of COVID-19 because he eventually tested positive after a referral from the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Lokoja. In the statement…
The country has 25 electricity generation companies (GenCos) which currently produce less than 5,000MW. Speaking at a press conference in Abuja on Friday, the minister said the feat will be achieved through the Siemens AG power deal. In 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari signed a power project deal with Siemens AG, Germany-based firm, to deliver 7,000 megawatts (MW)…
The Enugu State Ministry of Health has announced that five COVID-19 confirmed positive cases in the state have tested negative and consequently discharged from the isolation and treatment centers. The Commissioner for Health in the state, Dr. Obi Emmanuel Ikechukwu, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday. Obi said that one more positive case has…
An Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos ordered that a 22-year-old woman, Oluwafunmilola Adisa, be remanded in the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) psychiatric department for evaluation. The police arraigned Adisa for allegedly drowning her one and half year old daughter. Earlier, Adisa confessed to killing her daughter inside a bucket of water in her…
Professor Akin Abayomi, the Lagos state Commissioner for Health, says the state will begin to see a significant decline in the number of COVID-19 cases in four to six months. Abayomi disclosed this when he spoke at the 2020 Ministerial Press Briefing in commemoration of the One-Year Anniversary of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s assumption of office…
Fire on Wednesday gutted a COVID-19 hospital in Bangladesh, killing five. The fire broke out in a makeshift isolation unit made for (COVID-19) patients in United Hospital Dhaka, Bangladesh. Reuters reports that the fire service director, Zillur Rahman, who confirmed the incident, said the cause of the inferno could not be immediately ascertained. Rahman stated…
Kogi, which has resisted attempts by the Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) to operate in the state, has finally recorded two coronavirus cases. Until Wednesday evening, Kogi and Cross River were the only states claiming to have no COVID-19 cases. It all ended for Kogi on Wednesday. The state has been at daggers drawn…
Nigeria on Wednesday reported 389 new confirmed new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total of confirmed infections in the country to 8,733. NAN reports that the figure is the highest daily cases so far reported since the beginning of the outbreak in the country. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on its official twitter…