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Some 160 Nigerians have arrived Abuja from the United States of America after indicating interest to return to the country following the outbreak of coronavirus in the world. The evacuated Nigerians, who touched down at the Nnamdi…

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…

Forty-nine new cases of Coronavirus have been reported in Nigeria - 23 in Lagos, 12 in FCT, 10 in Kano, 2 in Ogun and one each in Oyo and Ekiti.  Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced this in a tweet on Saturday night.…

Kaduna State Deputy Governor, Hadiza Balarabe. Kaduna State government has converted the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation camp located along the Abuja- Kaduna highway into a quarantine centre. The state deputy governor,…

David Adeleke popularly known as Davido has revealed that he has once again tested negative to Coronavirus after carrying out a second test. Davido revealed his new health status on Twitter, saying that; I did a second test for the…

Wuhan, the centre of the coronavirus outbreak in China, has begun to loosen its two-month lockdown on citizens as more countries issued new restrictions to contain the pandemic. On March 23, small groups of residents in the central…

China has on March 19 recorded zero new or suspected cases of Coronavirus in Wuhan and Hubei provinces three months after the first case was detected in December 2019.  The National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China…

BARCELONA, SPAIN - OCTOBER 20: Mascots wearing Unite Against Racism shirts pose with Barcelona players prior to the start of the UEFA Champions League group D match between Barcelona and FC Copenhagen at the Camp Nou stadium on October…

Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has said four children of the same family and their teacher who arrived in the country from the United States have been…

The Director-general of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Chikwe Ihekweazu, has been on self-isolation for possible infection of the deadly coronavirus after his return from China. The NCDC said this in a statement issued…

Doctor Bowale Abimbola, the Chief Medical Doctor at the Mainland General Hospital in Yaba, Lagos where Nigeria's first coronavirus patient is being treated has given the reason why he doesn’t wear mask around him. Over the weekend,…

Lagos and Ogun state governments have identified at least 100 persons who had contact with the index case of Coronavirus disease in the country. This is coming the placement of first coronavirus patient in Nigeria in a quarantine…

Hong Kong’s agriculture, fisheries and conservation department has confirmed that a dog had tested positive to the deadly coronavirus disease. In a statement on February 28, a spokesperson of the department stated that dogs, cats and…

Chairman of Nigeria Governors' Forum and Governor of Ekiti, Dr Kayode Fayemi. Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has advised citizens to quarantine themselves if they observe symptoms of the virus. The forum said this on February 28…

Africa is free of coronavirus as the first suspected case in Egypt has tested negative for the deadly virus, Covid-19.  The World Health Organization (WHO) who made the announcement on February 19 said the foreigner previously confirmed…