The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FTCA), has designated the Asokoro District Hospital as a quarantine facility to prevent the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. The facility was designed for isolation of persons who had contacts with those infected with Coronavirus disease. To this end, the hospital on Saturday began to suspend its Out Patient Department (OPD) […]
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Ogun State Government says it will only open markets every two days during the lockdown. He made this known while addressing newsmen on Friday night at his residence in Iperu Remo, Ogun. The governor also declared that all markets in the state would only open between 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesday as the […]
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Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, has allayed the fears of residents over a confirmed COVID-19 case in the state and has enjoined them to abide by the laid down precautionary measures. The state government announced a confirmed case of the virus on Friday. Akeredolu spoke in Akure on Saturday in a live broadcast at […]
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Osun State Government says it has found the missing COVID-19 patient who reportedly absconded from the Isolation Centre in Ejigbo in the early hours of Saturday. Mrs Funke Egbemode, the State’s Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, who disclosed this in a statement on Saturday in Osogbo, said the unnamed female patient had been returned […]
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The global death toll in the coronavirus crisis soared past 60,000 on Saturday as calls grew for citizens to wear face masks to halt the pandemic’s devastating spread. New York state, the worst affected in the US, saw a record 630 deaths in a single day. Britain too reported a new daily high in fatalities, […]
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Nigeria has not approved any 5G – the fifth generation of wireless communications technologies – license. Minister for Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Pantami, made the clarification on Saturday in the wake of growing rumours that 5G is responsible for coronavirus. He said in a statement that: “The National Frequency Management Council (NFMC), of […]
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Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN,on Saturday, announced the appointment of a seven-man committee of eminent professionals of the state origin to, amongst others, raise and manage resources in cash, or in kind from individuals; group of individuals to be used to complement the efforts of the state government on the coronavirus in the state. […]
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Ondo State has recorded its first case of the deadly coronavirus. The state Governor, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu, disclosed this on his Twitter handle on Friday. The victim is one of those already in the isolation centre in the state. He said, “We have just received confirmation of our first positive COVID-19 case this evening. The infected person […]
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While many had given up hope about President Muhammadu Buhari addressing Nigerians as other world leaders are doing daily on the COVID-19 pandemic to reassure their citizens, his outing would turn out what many have described as just an address. For many, it merely fulfilled all righteousness about speech making, which they say is lacking […]
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A Nigerian professor of Pharmacognosy from the University of Nigeria Nsukka, Maurice Iwu, has said a “drug” for the treatment of coronavirus would be ready “very soon”. Iwu, a former chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission and the Chairman of the Imo State Task force on COVID-19, said a version of the drug was already […]
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