coronavirus in nigeria

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has in the wee hours of Wednesday reported 195 new Coronavirus cases. The centre made this known on its official Twitter page, stating that 80 of the new cases were reported in Lagos, 38 in …

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 64 new Coronavirus cases in the country. This was announced by the centre in its daily COVID-19 report via a series of tweets on Monday night. According to the NCDC’s report,…

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved for a phased and gradual easing of the lockdown measures in the FCT, Lagos and Ogun states. The President who said this during a televised broadcast on Monday night stated that this new measure…

A 40-year-old Coronavirus patient has been delivered of a baby girl on Monday at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH). The hospital broke the news in a tweet on Monday afternoon, saying the mother and child are well and…

Mohammed Atiku-Abubakar, son of Nigeria’s former vice-president, Atiku Abubakar has recovered from Coronavirus 40 days after testing positive. He made this known to Premium Times on Monday afternoon saying; I just received my second…

Kano State Covid-19 response team has said it will rely on ‘verbal autopsy’ to probe the cause of death of the hundreds of people that have mysteriously died in the state in the last one week. The Coordinator, Technical Response…

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has on Monday morning reported 91 new Coronavirus cases. The centre made this known on its official Twitter page stating that 43 of the new cases were reported in Lagos, 8-Sokoto, 6-Taraba,…

House of Representatives has decided to resume plenary on Tuesday, after a five weeks break due to Coronavirus. The leadership of the House decided to resume in order to consider the review of the 2020 budget as requested by the…

Another batch of 13 Nigerian returnees from Togo Republic have arrived at Seme Border Post in Lagos State in the early hours of Sunday, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The agency reports that the 13 returnees arrived the…

Chief Press Secretary to a State Governor in Nigeria has said the inter-state lockdown decision taken by the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) is to be effected by President Buhari on Monday.  The governor’s aide made this known to Daily…

Nigeria has on Saturday night recorded 87 new Coronavirus cases. Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in its daily COVID-19 report announced this in a series of tweets, stating that; 87 new cases of #COVID19 have been reported;…

Six Coronavirus patients receiving treatment in Kaduna state have been discharged on Saturday. Amina Mohammed-Baloni, Commissioner for Health in the state, confirmed the development in a statement, posted on Kaduna state’s official…

Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has accused Nigerian elites of infecting and exposing medical doctors to the dreadful Coronavirus. In a statement jointly signed by its President, Dr. Francis Faduyile and Secretary General, Dr.…