Health

The city of Miami in the US has reportedly gone six weeks without a murder, the very first time that has happened since 1957. According to the Miami Herald, Miami, once dubbed as America’s ‘murder capital,’ did not report a homicide from February 17 to April 12 and the Miami police say there has been…

Two patients – Abbas Kaka Hassan (a 24-year-old male) and Hauwa Mohammed (42-year-old female) are on the run after testing positive to COVID-19 at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital in Borno State. The male is of Layin Tanki in Gwange 11 while the woman lives in Shuwari ward. While briefing journalists, the Commissioner of…

The Akwa Ibom State epidemiologist, Aniekeme Uwah, has been sacked by the state government under controversial circumstances. An epidemiologist is a medical professional whose focus is mainly on the study and containment of disease outbreak, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, within a population. Mr. Uwah, a former chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Akwa Ibom State…

The Osun State Government on Sunday said two persons infected with Coronavirus have died. Governor Adegboyega Oyetola disclosed this to journalists in Osogbo, the state capital. He said: “We are sad to announce the death of two confirmed cases; one in Ede and the other in Ile-Ife.” More details later.

A professor of mass communication at the Bayero University, Kano, Balarabe Maikaba, died on Sunday. He died in Kano but details of his death were sketchy as of the time of filing this report. According to a family source, funeral prayer will be held for the deceased at 4 pm at his family house, near…

The inter-state lockdown decision taken by the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) is a “done deal”. A Chief Press Secretary to a state governor confirmed this to Daily Post on Sunday. He explained that the chief executives made their position known to enable the federal government to put in place necessary arrangements for compliance. “The governors’…

A Nigerian lady has called on the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control to arrest her mum for attending a wedding. According to the lady who is based in Abuja, her mother had gone to Maraba, Nassarawa state to attend a wedding against everyone’s advice, thereby putting herself and everyone in danger of contracting the deadly…

Another batch of 13 Nigerian returnees from Togo, on Sunday, arrived at the Seme border post in Lagos State. NAN reports that the 13 returnees arrived at the border post in a Toyota Coaster bus with Togolese registration number, TG 5923 A. It was learned that the Nigerian returnees were those who decided to return…

The United States recorded 2,494 more coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, according to figures reported Saturday night by Johns Hopkins University. The country now has an overall death toll of 53,511, with 936,293 confirmed infections, according to a tally by the Baltimore-based university at 8:30 pm (0030 GMT Sunday). The United States is…