Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, on Friday, for the second time, ordered the extension of the lockdown by one week. He said the relaxation on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, would remain. Abiodun announced the extension while addressing journalists at the Governor’s Office, Oke Mosan, Abeokuta, Ogun State. He said, “You, the entire people of Ogun…
A newborn baby who was just 6 weeks old has reportedly died from the rampaging coronavirus. A six-week-old baby has died of coronavirus in England, the NHS has confirmed. A further 332 deaths in hospitals in England were recorded today, among them the newborn baby. NHS England said the infant died in hospital on May…
The Lagos State Government has said it will commence chloroquine clinical trial for the treatment of the novel coronavirus disease within the next week or thereabouts. This is the sequel to the approval by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control that chloroquine could be used for the clinical trial treatment of…
Veteran Nigerian musician, Eedris Abdulkareem has opened up on how Charley boy and Festus Keyamo betrayed him over money. He revealed they betrayed him because of money over the American rapper, 50Cent’s saga he had, years ago He made this known in a live Instagram session with Samklef. According to him, Charley Boy made plans…
16 of the almajiri students recently repatriated from Kano have tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Jigawa. The governors in northern states recently agreed to ban the almajiri system as part of efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19. A system is a form of education that requires young children to be sent…
The Federal Government says coronavirus isolation and treatment centers in the country are running out of bed spaces. Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, revealed this on Friday during a briefing by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja. While delivering his address, Mustapha said efforts were being intensified to monitor…
The co-chairman of Kano State Task Force on COVID-19, Abdulrazak Habib, has recounted his experience as a patient of the novel coronavirus. Habib, a professor, who works in the Department of Medicine at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital and the Bayero University Kano, was discharged on Thursday, upon treatment and recovery from the infection. The…
The Edo State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Patrick Okundia, has said the state is making steady progress in the management of coronavirus (COVID-19), noting that all active cases of COVID-19 are being managed at different isolations centers across the state and are responding well to treatment. Speaking to journalists in Benin City, Okundia said Edo…
The Lagos State Ministry for Health has denied reports making the rounds that the commissioner for health, Prof. Akin Abayomi has tested positive for COVID-19. In a statement from the ministry signed by its Public Affairs Officers, Tubosun Ogunbanwo, it described the report as fake news, urging the public to disregard it. “We hereby urge…
A new study suggests that men who have recovered from Coronavirus should be advised to abstain from sex in order to avoid passing the virus on via their semen. Patients in China who donated samples several days after their virus symptoms had faded were found to show evidence of Covid-19, Telegraph.co.uk reports. The findings have…