Chairman of the defunct Sosoliso Airline, Chief Victor Ikwuemesi, died today in London, United Kingdom few days after he was diagnosed with the deadly COVID-19. According to a family source, Ikwuemesi was admitted to a London hospital after a brief illness – he later tested positive for COVID-19. He was in Intensive Care Unit (ICU)…
The contracts of two payment service providers (PSP) has been terminated by the federal government, for failing to meet up with the agreement for conditional cash transfer (CCT) to poor households in four states. Minister of humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development, Sadiya Farouq who confirmed the termination of the contract with Data Mining…
[20:41, 4/14/2020] Deji Allen: The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has berated the Buhari Presidency for throwing tantrums at Nigerians for complaining about President Muhammadu Buhari’s failure to provide palliatives to cushion the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic in our country. The party said rather than listening to Nigerians, shed its corruption and take urgent steps…
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, said a total of 119 people with COVID-19 symptoms have been identified in the state. Abayomi at a briefing on Tuesday said a total of 118,000 households have been reached in the active case search for possible COVID-19 cases in communities. He said community search was…
A 56-year-old Nigerian man has died of COVID19-related complications in Lagos. The state Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi, disclosed this on Twitter on Tuesday, April 14. According to the Commissioner, the deceased recently returned to the country from the US. ”13 new cases of #COVID19 infection confirmed. The total number of confirmed cases in…
The novel coronavirus has killed more than 120,000 people worldwide, nearly 70 percent of them in Europe, according to a tally compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT Tuesday from official sources. A total of 120,013 deaths have now been recorded since the epidemic first emerged in China in December, 81,474 of them in Europe. The…
About 116 former coronavirus patients have tested positive for the second time. They tested negative when discharged from hospitals, according to the Korea Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC). They then tested positive days later. The strange development is now under investigation by the KCDC and the World Health Organisation. Several theories have been…
A few hours after President Muhammadu Buhari extended the lockdown on three Nigerian cities in a bid to check the spread of coronavirus, the country on Monday night confirmed 20 fresh cases of the disease. The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) disclosed on its Twitter handle that 13 new infections were recorded in Lagos,…
A Nigerian man has written to love doctor, Joro Olumofin over the current situation he’s facing with his girlfriend as they isolate together following lockdown order by the government. It looks like this gentleman’s woes is far from over as it has been declared by Head of States, President Muhammadu Buhari that there would be…
The Northern States Governors’ Forum on Monday met to discuss the impact of coronavirus in the region. The meeting, which was conducted via teleconference and chaired by the forum’s Chairman, Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State, shared experiences on measures adopted by individual states to deal with the disease. A statement by Lalong’s Director of…