covid-19

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the extension of the second phase of the eased lockdown for another four weeks. This extension is the third for the second phase of lockdown currently observed across the country. Read Also:…

Ogun state government has mandated all returning students in boarding houses to undergo malaria and COVID-19 tests ahead of  nationwide schools resumption on Monday, August 3. The Special Adviser to Governor Dapo Abiodun on Primary and…

US-based Cameroonian doctor, Dr. Stella Immanuel who declared hydroxychloroquine as a ‘cure’ for coronavirus, was reportedly sued in 2019 after an alleged malpractice that led to the death of a patient. Read Also: US-Based Cameroonian…

Federal Government has said it is considering reopening schools after lifting interstate travel ban imposed to control the spread of COVID-19. Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba stated this during the briefing by the…

Lagos State Government on Thursday, disclosed that it has spent about N800 million in conducting 16,000 COVID-19 tests in the state. The Commissioner for Health, Professor. Akin Abayomi stated this while briefing on COVID-19 weekly…

In a bid to further contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Kano state government has announced a one-week extension of the lockdown earlier imposed by President Buhari.  The President had on April 27 imposed a two-week…

The Rivers State government has announced the temporary lift of the total lockdown on Obio/Akpor and Port Harcourt Local Government Areas of the state. The lockdown relaxation, according to the state governor, Nyesom Wike, will last…

Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun state has again extended the lockdown order in the state by one week. The governor, announced this on Friday while addressing journalists at his office in Oke Mosan, Abeokuta. It would be recalled that on…

Jigawa state has been thrown into mourning following the record of over 100 mysterious deaths in ten days. According to the Special Assistant to the Local Council Chairman on Media, Sani Kakabori, who confirmed the deaths, an average…

Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) has announced that anyone found moving about without a face mask will be prosecuted. This is contained in a five-page document signed by the PTF Chairman and Secretary to the Government of the…

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has declared an end to the emergency phase of the Lassa fever outbreak in the country. In a statement on Tuesday, the agency said it made declaration following “successive decline” in cases…

Stranded Nigerians in the United Kingdom have expressed frustration over the delay in their evacuation by the Federal Government, Daily Trust reports. According to them, the government does not have the constitutional power of…

Governors of the 36 States in Nigeria have on Wednesday unanimously agreed to the implementation of an inter-state lockdown in the country over the next two weeks to mitigate the spread of the pandemic COVID-19 virus from State to State.…

Kaduna state Governor, Nasir el-Rufai Kaduna state Task Force on COVID-19 has expressed concern that there could 57,000 new cases in the state if there is no effective enforcement and implementation of the lockdown order. This concern…

Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture. The Presidential Task Force (PTF) for the Control of Coronavirus (COVID-19), has said it has successfully traced over 8,932 people of interest and is still monitoring 220…