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The Rivers State Government has demolished two hotels in the state allegedly for violating the lockdown order in the state. Governor Nyesom Wike personally supervised the demolition of the structures in company with some government officials on Sunday. The affected hotels are Prodest Hotel in Alode and Etemeteh Hotel in Onne – both in Eleme […]

Benin on Saturday was conducting mass coronavirus testing of teachers ahead of the reopening of schools as part of a plan to loosen measures against the pandemic. The West African nation of 11 million is set to end six weeks of travel restrictions to key cities and allow some students back to classrooms from Monday. […]

The Senate has said that it is already planning a comprehensive legislative intervention that will ensure that workers in the private sector do not suffer job losses as a result of the outbreak of COVID-19 in the country. The upper chamber, however, promised to unfold its agenda after a robust engagement with the Minister of […]

Nigerians spent N4.598 trillion on food consumed outside the home, the National Bureau of Statistics has revealed. This is the highest share of expenditure on food and on general food and non-food expenditure in the country for the year 2019. Most of the nation’s expenditure came in from Lagos, Oyo, Delta, Rivers, and Kano states […]

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Akin Abayomi, said on Friday that many people who tested positive for coronavirus were running away from being taken to isolation centres for treatment. Mr Abayomi said this was one of the reasons the state still has unoccupied beds at the isolation centres despite recording more cases than its […]

An Ado Ekiti Magistrate Court has imposed a fine of forty thousand naira on one Vincent Ikechukwu for failure to use a face mask which has become mandatory in the state since the wake of COVID 19 Pandemic. The offender who is the first to face such penalty will also engage in community labour for […]

The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, has said the protocol of self-isolation of returning travellers into the country did not prove successful. Ehanire, while fielding questions at the daily Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 briefing on Thursday, stated that the protocol had been reviewed and quarantine was adopted instead. He said, “The policy we […]

The US embassy in Nigeria says another $319m (N121bn) looted by Sani Abacha, former military dictator, is in the United Kingdom and France. This comes three days after Nigeria repatriated $311 million Abacha Loot from the US and the Bailiwick of Jersey. In a statement on Wednesday, the US embassy revealed that there is a separate $167 […]

The Federal Government has extended the ban placed on flights in the country as part of efforts to curtail the spread of coronavirus for another four weeks. The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Mr Boss Mustapha, disclosed this at the daily briefing of the task force on Wednesday. Mustapha, who is also […]

Confirmed cases of coronavirus have increased to 2,950 in Nigeria. This is after 148 new infections were recorded in the country on Tuesday. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control made this known on its website. The NCDC noted that five patients died or coronavirus-related complications in the last 24 hours. A breakdown of data obtained […]

Nigeria health minister Osagie Ehanire on Tuesday said Nigeria has started using remdesivir, an anti-retroviral drug, in managing COVID-19 patients. “We have been using that (remdesivir); we have tried that in Lagos too,” Ehanire said while addressing members of the House of Representatives. “So, we have tried the antiretroviral drug to see what effect it […]

The federal government has advised medical facilities in the country to stop rejecting patients, especially emergency cases. Osagie Ehanire, Minister of Health, said this on Monday in Abuja, at the Presidential Taskforce (PTF) briefing on COVID-19 in the country. Mr Ehanire, however, noted that it is unethical not to attend to persons in distress, adding […]

The Federal Government says if there is an explosion of cases of coronavirus infections, it will be left with no choice but to ask all Nigerians to go back to their homes. Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Chikwe Ihekweazu, said this in Abuja yesterday at a briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19. […]

United States President, Donald Trump has predicted that 100,000 Americans may die from the deadly Coronavirus. Already, over 67,000 Americans are dead from the virus, with over a million infected. Trump had predicted in April that 60,000 Americans might die from the virus, but that has been eclipse with more Americans dying from the pandemic. […]

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has reported that four out of every 10 Nigerians are poor. The executive summary of the 2019 Poverty and Inequality in Nigeria released on Monday by the NBS showed that 40.1 percent of Nigeria’s total population was classified as poor. This translates to over 82.9 million Nigerians who are […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has directed banks not to lay off staff amidst the coronavirus pandemic. Although speculations about the impending sack of workers in the banking sector have been on since the outbreak of the coronavirus, Access Bank Plc will was the first to announce its plan to downsize, or in the alternative slash […]

Chikwe Ihekweazu, the director-general of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), says Nigeria and the rest of the world would not return to normalcy until next year — at the very least. Speaking at the 24th edition of The Platform, hosted by Poju Oyemade’s Covenant Nation, the NCDC boss said the short term pains are […]

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it has not approved any drug or vaccine for the treatment of COVID-19. The Director General of the agency, Mojisola Adeyeye, said in a statement on Saturday that NAFDAC had not granted approval for any vaccine for the treatment and cure of COVID-19. “To put the […]