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Nigerians got a soothing message from their President on Thursday. “Stay calm and not panic”, President Muhammadu Buhari told Nigerians, assuring that his administration was managing the outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The President’s message was contained in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu. In […]

The United Nations has ranked Nigeria as the 39th unhappiest nation in its 2020 World Happiness Report. The report, which ranked 153 countries, was released on Friday, March 20 – UN’s annual International Day of Happiness. It ranked Finland as the world’s happiest nation for the third year running. In the report, Nigeria was ranked […]

The Italian who imported coronavirus into Nigeria has been discharged from the Infectious Disease Hospital in Yaba, Lagos. The patient, who tested positive for the disease on February 28, left the hospital on Friday evening. He was discharged from the Isolation centre in Yaba after testing negative. Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu confirmed the development on […]

The Presidency has berated the senators who called on the President Muhammadu Buhari to address Nigerians in a television broadcast. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said in a statement that such calls were nothing but cheap politics. The Presidency further stated that this was the time for […]

The federal government has shut down three international airports in the country to curb the spread of coronavirus. Musa Nuhu, director-general of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. The three airports shut are; Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano; Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu; and the Port Harcourt International […]

The Federal Ministry of Education has ordered the immediate closure of tertiary institutions, secondary and primary schools nationwide over the outbreak of the Coronavirus in the country and as part of measures to contain the spread. The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Mr Sonny Echono, confirmed this to Punch in Abuja on Thursday. […]

The Minister of State for Transportation, Senator Gbemisola Saraki, has called on the Federal Government to give a certain percentage of its contracts to women as a way of empowering them. Saraki said this was not only pertinent but the right thing to do as women did not only pay taxes but were professionals in […]

The Federal Government has directed the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to reduce the pump price of petrol from N145 to N125. This, the government said, was to reflect the current crash in the global price of crude oil. The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), approved the price reduction after the Minister of State, Petroleum […]

The Lagos State Government has banned all religious gathering of over 50 people within the state. The decision was arrived at on Wednesday after a meeting of the Lagos State Government with religious bodies in the state, because of the increasing number of coronavirus cases in the country. The religious bodies include the Christian Association […]

The Lagos State Commissioner of Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, has advised those on the British Airways flight that arrived in Lagos on March 13 to stay at home or isolate themselves for 14 days. The Commissioner made the announcement on Tuesday through his Twitter handle following the confirmation of another case of Coronavirus in Lagos. […]

The World Health Organization recommended Tuesday that people suffering COVID-19 symptoms avoid taking ibuprofen, after French officials warned that anti-inflammatory drugs could worsen effects of the virus. The warning by French Health Minister Olivier Veran followed a recent study in The Lancet medical journal that hypothesised that an enzyme boosted by anti-inflammatory drugs such as […]

The Federal Government has banned all government officials, including public and civil servants, from travelling abroad. The Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 announced the decision after a closed-door meeting in Abuja on Tuesday. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation and Chairman of the committee, Boss Mustapha, while briefing journalists, said the ban took […]

As of 4 p.m in Geneva on Monday, the World Health Organization has recorded 168,019 coronavirus cases and 6,610 deaths globally. A separate tally from the Johns Hopkins University, which is tracking cases reported by the WHO and additional sources, puts the number of cases at over 181,500 with at least 7,100 deaths. Nearly 79,000 […]

Three days after his wife contracted Coronavirus, Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, ordered the closure of all borders to foreign nationals, except U.S. citizens, advising people to stay at home to stop spread of the virus. Disclosing this on Monday, Trudeau said, “We will be denying entry into Canada to people who are not Canadian […]

An herbalist, Simon Odo, popularly called Onu Uwa, has explained the reason behind his decision to marry 58 women, saying most men die untimely due to pressure from bad wives. Odo, who is also known as King of Satan, spoke on Monday in an interview with journalists on why he married his 58th wife recently. He […]

The suspected case of Coronavirus reported in Enugu State is negative. This is according to the state government who said that the result from the test carried out at the Irua Specialist Hospital confirmed the status. In a short statement by the permanent secretary,  in the State’s Ministry of Health, Dr Ifeanyi Agujiobi, the result […]

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Sunday recommended that no gatherings with 50 people or more take place for the next eight weeks to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. The agency said these gatherings include conferences, festivals, parades, concerts, sporting events, weddings and other types of assemblies. “Large events and mass […]