Confusion as NCDC, Kano present conflicting COVID-19 results

Confusion and fear held sway yesterday in Kano as the government and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) presented conflicting figures on the coronavirus disease cases in the state. At 10:25 a.m. on Wednesday, the Ministry of Health announced nine confirmed cases through its official twitter handle. Later at about 11:55 p.m., the state […]

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Republicans urge Trump to withhold funds unless WHO chief quits

Congressional Republicans on Thursday urged President Donald Trump to condition US funding for the World Health Organization on the resignation of its chief over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Seventeen Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee said they had “lost faith” in Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’s WHO leadership, even as they stressed the organization […]

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Governors shut entry points to Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ondo, Ekiti

South West Governors at their virtual meeting on Thursday 16th April shut all entry points to their states in the bid to check further spread of COVID-18 in the region. They also made compulsory the wearing of nose masks for everybody coming out of their homes in the region effective from Friday 24th April, 2020. […]

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Akeredolu, other South west governors meet online, strategise on COVID-19 fight

The chairman of the Southwest Governors’ Forum and Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, hosted his colleagues in the Southwest region in a virtual meeting. The Southwest Governors deliberated on the experiences of Covid-19 in their respective states and the fight to stop the spread among the people. Details later…

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Business mogul, Jimoh Ibrahim donates N40 million to Ondo anti-virus fund

As part of his contribution towards the ongoing fight against Covid-19 in Ondo State, business mogul and politician, Dr. Jimoh Ibrahim (CFR), on Thursday donated N40 million to the state Government. This was contained in a statement by the Special Assistant to the Governor (New Media), Mr Olabode Richard Olatunde. Ibrahim, who presented the cheque […]

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What does the Bible say about human-to-human transmission, or contagious diseases like COVID-19?

By Tope Akinnola I learnt the other day, as reported by NBC News, of Bishop Gerald Glenn of The New Deliverance Evangelistic Church in Virginia, who died of coronavirus infection the day before Easter, and whose wife became seriously ill too of COVID-19. He was said to have held a crowded service previously on March […]

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WHO gives six conditions for ending COVID-19 lockdown

Countries that want to lift coronavirus restrictions must meet a row of conditions to prevent another surge of infections, Director-General of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Thursday. In his weekly address to Geneva-based diplomats, Tedros said that easing social and economic curbs “must be done extremely carefully.” “If done too quickly, […]

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Don’t treat, admit COVID-19 patients, Osun warns private hospitals

Osun State Government has warned private hospitals in the state against admitting or treating suspected or confirmed Coronavirus patients. The State’s Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, Mrs Funke Egbemode, made this known in a statement on Thursday, in Osogbo. She said non-adherence to the directive would attract prosecution by the state government. Egbemode said […]

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