The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has dismissed a report that its Interim Management Committee (IMC) led by Prof. Keme Ponder, squandered N200bn on fake contracts in the past two months. Describing the report as classical fake news, NDDC Director, Corporate Affairs, Charles Odili, said the commission did not pay such money for genuine contracts…
Kano State recorded 118 coronavirus cases in two days, The PUNCH reports. According to data obtained from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, the state recorded 38 cases on Wednesday and 80 on Thursday. The NCDC also said the state had recorded a total of Kano 219 cases with three deaths. The increase in cases came three…
The founder of DAAR Communications, High Chief Raymond Dokpesi, his daughter-in-law, and six members of his family have tested positive for coronavirus. This came three days after his son and Chairman of the board of the company, Raymond Dokpesi Jnr, also tested positive for the virus. According to ait.live, a test conducted by the Nigeria Centre…
The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, on Thursday, appealed to Nigerians to donate their buildings as isolation centres. Ehanire made the appeal at the press briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja. He said as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control aimed to test two million people in the next three…
A young man identified as Tega was brutally hacked to death by cultists in Sapele, Delta State on Thursday. The supremacy battle started when a cult leader demanded cash from a rival cult member in what they referred to as ‘protection money. And when the rival cult member refused to pay, he was badly bruised…
One Coronavirus patient has been discharged from the Isolation center in Abia state after recovering from the disease. The male patient was discharged after testing negative twice in tests carried out after treatment. In a press statement signed by Dr. Azubuike K. Onyebuchi who is the medical director of Federal Medical Center, Umuahia (where the Coronavirus…
Coronavirus has claimed the lives an immigrant Nicaraguan family who had been living in the US for over three decades. The killer bug killed a son, mom, and dad within 16 days, leaving behind a daughter who is recovering at the family’s Miami home after she beat the killer disease. According to the New York Post, Mario…
The Lagos State Government, on Friday, announced the death of a coronavirus patient. This is as an additional 26 coronavirus patients undergoing treatment at the Lagos State isolation centers were discharged, The PUNCHreports. The new recoveries were made known by the Lagos COVID-19 Incident Commander, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Friday. He said, “Today, 26 more COVID19Lagos…
An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court on Thursday convicted 20 violators of the stay-at-home order aimed at containing the spread of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the Kwara State Government imposed a total lockdown order on residents as a way of preventing the spread of the pandemic that has killed…
A 25-year-old man has died of coronavirus-related complications in Lagos State. The state’s Commissioner for Health made this known via his Twitter handle on Thursday. He said, “87 new #COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Lagos on April 29, 2020. The total number of confirmed cases in Lagos is now 947. “The good news is that 49 additional…