Inter-state travels worsening transmission, says PTF Sokoto, Ebonyi, Abia, others: We are ready to battle it States yet to have coronavirus pandemic cases should brace UP for it, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has warned. The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 also on Thursday said community transmission of the virus is now prevalent, […]
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Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State, Thursday night ordered a total lockdown of Dutsin-ma Local Government Area with effective7: 00am on Friday, April 17, 2020. The Governor also directed the closure of all major weekly markets across the state and all weekly congregational prayers including the annual Ramadan Tafsir and all other public gathering […]
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Major roads and streets in the ancient city of Kano were deserted on Friday morning, following the lockdown announced by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje as part of efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the state. Our reporter, who went around, observed the compliance level by the people was encouraging. Security was tightened as combined […]
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U.S. President Donald Trump has said border control and travel restrictions would be top priority as the country prepares to reopen its economy after a costly coronavirus shutdown. He said during his daily news briefing on COVID-19 at the White House on Thursday where he announced a three-phased plan for the reopening process. “As we […]
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Republican U.S. lawmakers echoed President Donald Trump’s criticism of the World Health Organization on Thursday, with some suggesting he withhold aid until the U.N. agency’s director general resigns while others called for an international investigation of its handling of the coronavirus. Seventeen of Trump’s fellow Republicans on the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee wrote […]
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The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, has said the planned evacuation of Nigerians from foreign countries will be staggered as the number of interested persons is high. The government had concluded plans to bring back Nigerians from the United States, United Kingdom, China, United Arab Emirates and other countries on account of the coronavirus […]
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A man is tested in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the coronavirus first emerged AFP / Hector RETAMAL The Chinese city where the coronavirus first emerged raised its death toll by 50 percent on Friday, revealing the ground zero of the global pandemic had been much worse hit than Beijing had previously reported. The revision […]
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Ekiti State Government has publicly shamed two convicted sex offenders in its renewed onslaught against rape and other sexual offences to serve as deterrence to others. It pasted the photographs of the two convicted sex offenders, Basiru Adeyanju and Abiodun Olusola, in public places in the state and as well on various online platforms for […]
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Africans in Guangzhou have complained that they have been forced from their accommodation Ade* was given until midnight to vacate his apartment. Five months earlier, the Nigerian student had moved to Guangzhou, southern China, to study computing at Guangdong university. He had just paid his university fees for the new semester when his landlord informed […]
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As Covid-19 continues to spread across the US, President Donald Trump has given governors guidance on reopening state economies in the coming months. The guidelines for “Opening up America Again” outline three phases for states to gradually ease their lockdowns. Trump promised governors they would be handling the process themselves, with help from the federal […]
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