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…
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…
WHO rejected it, saying the syrup was locally made. If this was done by a white country, they would have endorsed it. Maybe it’s high time African leaders come together & create “Africa Health Organisation, AHO”. What’s wrong with WHO? Same WHO that misled the world that #COVID19 can’t be transmitted from human to human….
An Ilorin Magistrate’s Court on Thursday sentenced four persons to 14 days self-isolation for attempting to escape with one Kazeem Oladayo, a COVID-19 patient, at Sobi Isolation Centre in Ilorin. The Chief Magistrate, Mr Bio Solihu, also ordered the convicts to pay N20,000 fine each in addition to the isolation sentence. Solihu also ordered the…
CNN anchor, Anderson Cooper has shared a picture showing him feeding his son whom he welcomed via surrogacy. Taking to Instagram, Cooper stated that his sexual orientation never made him ever think having a child would be possible. He wrote: “I want to share with you some joyful news. On Monday, I became a father….
Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has asked the federal government to relax the curfew imposed in Kano state following reports of mysterious deaths in the state. Ganduje made the appeal while inaugurating a panel of experts led by the president of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria Musa Borodo, to support the state task force technical committee. The…
Tony Allen who is the former drummer, composer, and songwriter of Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, has passed on. Allen died in Paris, France, on Thursday, April 30. He was born in Lagos in 1940 and was regarded as one of the founders of Afrobeat. Fela once stated that “Without Tony Allen, there would be…
The Professor Ango Abdullahi-led Northern Elders Forum on Thursday accused states of allegedly playing politics with the coronavirus that is currently ravaging the world. The NEF noted in particular that the states were playing politics with the numbers of suspects tested for COVID-19 in order to attract more funds from both the Federal Government and…
Due to severe hunger for days, Ms Kitsao was forced to boil stones in the name of cooking to make her hungry children think a meal is being prepared as she has nothing to feed them on. She said that initially, the children would be tricked and go to sleep on empty stomachs but they…