The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) on Saturday night confirmed 87 new cases of the Coronavirus. According to a tweet from the NCDC, Lagos State recorded 33 cases, Borno State had 18 cases, Osun State recorded 12 cases and Katsina State had nine cases. Others are four cases in Kano and Ekiti State, three in Edo and Bauchi State ... Read More »
The Lagos State Government has given go-ahead to families, who have corpses in mortuaries but have not been able to bury them in the last two months because of the restriction occasioned by the outbreak of coronavirus to do so within the next two weeks. It said the permission was because mortuaries are getting congested and government may be compelled ... Read More »
Ebonyi State Governor Dave Umahi came under fire on Wednesday for imposing life bans on two journalists from covering the government and making veiled threats to correspondents in the state. The governor said he could no longer guarantee their safety. The governor announced the “banning for life” of The Sun and Vanguard correspondents Chijioke Agwu and Peter Okutu. Umahi barred ... Read More »
Kano State Government says it has evacuated 524 Almajiri children to neighbouring Jigawa, their state of origin. Malam Muhammad Sanusi-Kiru, the state’s Commissioner for Education who is also the Chairman of the evacuation committee said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Kano. He said that the evacuation of the children was to ... Read More »
President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that his administration will deploy more than 70,000 extra troops to help enforce a lockdown intended to stop the spread of coronavirus. South Africa has had 3,465 confirmed coronavirus cases – second only to Egypt in Africa – and 58 deaths. The country has some of the most stringent coronavirus lockdown restrictions in the world. ... Read More »
Governors of the 36 States of the Federation on Wednesday “unanimously” agreed to the implementation of an inter-State lockdown for two weeks to contain the spread of COVID-19. 25 States have recorded cases of coronavirus with 782 confirmed cases as at 11:25 pm on April 21 with 25 deaths. The Governors, operating under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum ... Read More »
Nigeria has recorded 91 new cases of COVID-19, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced. NCDC, on its verified twitter handle on Wednesday evening, said 74 of the new cases are in Lagos, five in Katsina, four in Ogun, two in Delta, two in Edo, one in Kwara, one in Oyo, one in FCT, one in Adamawa. With ... Read More »
…..15 states commence online teaching The Federal Government has announced the indefinite postponement of this year’s West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination and the National Examinations Council because of the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic. The Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, said this at the daily Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 briefing in Abuja on Tuesday. Both examinations were ... Read More »
]…59 cases recorded in Lagos One hundred and seventeen new cases of Coronavirus have been recorded in Nigeria. According to a tweet from the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, (NCDC) on Tuesday night, 59 cases were recorded in Lagos, 29 cases were discovered in the FCT, 14 cases were found out in Kano State and six cases were recorded in ... Read More »
The Director General of the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu has announced President Muhammadu Buhari will make some difficult decisions on COVID-19 containment next week. He said: ”President Buharit will on Wednesday have a tele conference with the Governors and there will be some difficult decisions to be made on how to restart the economy, especially ... Read More »
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