coronavirus in nigeria

Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has rejected the invitation of Chinese doctors into the country in the guise of offering assistance. It would be recalled that on April 4, Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire said 18…

Polaris Bank has said charges would be waived for loan defaulters for three months. The bank said the waiver would be effective from March 1, 2020. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) empowers deposit money banks to charge 1% penalty for…

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed eight new cases of Coronavirus in the country. According to a tweet from the centre on Sunday evening, there are 5 cases reported in Lagos, 2 in the FCT and 1 in Kaduna State. NCDC…

Health care workers at the Infectious Disease Hospital in Lagos Commissioner for health in Lagos state, Akin Abayomi, has confirmed the death of a Coronavirus patient, it emerged on Sunday.  According to a tweet from the commissioner,…

Bodies are moved to a refrigerator truck serving as a temporary morgue outside of Wyckoff Hospital in the Borough of Brooklyn on April 4, 2020 in New York. - New York state's coronavirus toll rose at a devastating pace to 3,565 deaths…

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded five new Coronavirus cases, 3 in Bauchi, 2 in the FCT. NCDC made this known in a tweet on its official Twitter page on Saturday night, stating; Five new cases of #COVID19 have been…

The missing coronavirus patient, who escaped from Osun State Isolation Centre in Ejigbo has been apprehended and returned to the centre, The PUNCH reports. MDB earlier reported that Osun state government announced in an official…

Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said monetary contributions to the account set up under the Private Sector Coalition Against COVID-19 have hit N19.48bn. A statement issued on…

Nigeria has on Friday night recorded twenty new cases of Coronavirus, as total cases in the country increases to 210.  This was reported in a tweet by Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), stating that 11 cases were confirmed in…

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Borno Zonal Office, has threatened to sanction filling stations exploiting the coronavirus situation to hoard or hike the prices of products in the state. The DPR Zonal Operation Controller,…

Google has said it will publish location data from its users around the world from Friday to allow governments to gauge the effectiveness of social distancing measures put in place to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The reports on users’…

Six new cases of Coronavirus have been reported in Osun State, Nigeria. This was reported by Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in a tweet on Friday morning. According to NCDC, there are now 190 confirmed cases of Coronavirus…

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed ten new cases in Nigeria, 7 in Lagos and 3 in the FCT.  This announcement was made by NCDC via its official Twitter page on Thursday night. According to the tweet, Nigeria’s…

Positive blood test result for the new rapidly spreading Coronavirus, originating in Wuhan, China Four Nigerian students in the United Kingdom have tested positive for Coronavirus. The students are beneficiaries of the 2019 Niger Delta…

Ondo state Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu Ondo State has closed its borders neighbouring Ekiti, Edo, Osun, Kogi and Ogun states over the COVID-19 pandemic. The closure takes effective from 6.00pm on Thursday, April 2. According to the state…