Mudashiru Obasa, Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly has stated that the lockdown order issued by President Buhari in the state has not been efficient in curbing the spread of the COVID-19 The Speaker who called for the domestication of the lockdown order in tweets he shared, averred that if the lockdown must continue, it is…
This is sad! Popular rapper, Fred The Godson has succumbed to the deadly coronavirus. The 35-year-old American rapper, Fred the Godson, has died two weeks after he revealed that he was suffering from COVID-19, two weeks ago. He first revealed he was in the hospital and placed on a ventilator on April 6, with his…
The Senator corresponding Lagos East Senatorial District, Sikiru Adebayo Osinowo, has urged Muslims to seize the spiritual advantage of the Ramadan period to pray for the country to overcome the nemesis of the Coronavirus pandemic. According to him, Ramadan is a period of spiritual reawakening and rebirth. “even so, while we revel in the euphoria…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said there will be no resolution of its ongoing strike until after the COVID-19 crisis in the country. It explained that such a decision must be taken by its National Executive Council. The union noted that it had told the government that it would negotiate and consider the…
Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have appointed President Muhammadu Buhari as the champion that will coordinate the COVID-19 response in the sub-region. The sub-regional heads held a virtual summit on Thursday. Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, announced the appointment on Twitter. ECOWAS leaders at an extraordinary summit held by video conference…
The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, says about 40 health workers have tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. Dr Ehanire disclosed this on Thursday during the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja, the nation’s capital. He, therefore, appealed to medical workers in the frontline of the COVID-19 fight…
Emmanuel Agbale, Edo State’s Commissioner for Science and Technology who was kidnapped last week has regained his freedom. Publicity Secretary of Benin branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Douglas Ogbankwa confirmed the development. He told The Nation; “Barr. Emmanuel Agbale has been released. I spoke with his wife, Mrs. Paula Agbale, who confirmed her husband’s release…
Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State says the state recorded its first COVID-19 death on Wednesday. Makinde made the death public on his Twitter handle at about 11:30 pm on Wednesday. He said that the deceased died at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, before his COVID-19 test result came out positive. “The COVID-19 confirmation…
The Nigeria Labour Congress has called on the Federal Government not to extend the lockdown order on COVID-19, warning that doing so might cause social unrest in the affected states and the Federal Capital Territory. In a letter addressed to the chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 and dater April 14, 2020, which…
The novel coronavirus has claimed the life of a 29-year-old Health worker in Ekiti State. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Mojisola Yaya-Kolade, who disclosed this at a press conference this afternoon, said the deceased who was pregnant, died on Wednesday, April 22, around 6:58 am at the Intensive Care Unit of Federal Teaching Hospital,…