COVID-19: FG Seeks N’Assembly’s Approval for N500bn Intervention Fund
The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed on Saturday met with the leadership of the National Assembly to intimate it with an Executive proposal to establish a N500 billion COVID-19 Crisis Intervention Fund. Mrs Zainab, with senior officials from her ministry, held the meeting with the President of the Senate, Ahmad […]
5G and COVID-19: The Technology, Conspiracy And Ignorance By Emeka Oparah
One would ordinarily have dismissed the “controversy” around 5G technology and the strange connection with COVID-19 being stridently pursued by some people as ignorant rants occasioned by the morbid fear of the rampaging Coronavirus, but with the prevailing circumstances of fear and tension, I have elected, as one familiar with the workings of the telecommunications […]
Coronavirus Cases Hit 209 In Nigeria, Four Deaths
Twenty-five more confirmed cases of the coronavirus disease have been reported in Nigeria, bringing the total number of confirmed infections to 209 , according to the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC . Twenty-five persons have so far been successfully treated and discharged while four persons have died from the disease.
Singer Dolly Parton Donates $1 Million for Coronavirus Research
Music superstar, Dolly Parton, has donated the sum of $1,000,000 to help fund the ongoing research to find cure for the deadly disease currently ravaging the world. Parton is donating to research currently being conducted at Vanderbilt University Medical Center on a cure for the coronavirus, amid the global pandemic. “My longtime friend Dr. Naji Abumrad, who’s […]
Coronavirus Cases Hit 184 in Nigeria
Ten more confirmed cases of the coronavirus disease have been reported in Nigeria with Lagos accounting for 7 and the FCT 3, bringing the total number of confirmed infections to 184, according to the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC. Twenty persons have so far been successfully treated and discharged while two persons have died […]
‘You are ‘not a medical professor,’ Presidency Lashes at Soyinka
The Presidency has taken a swipe at Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, saying he has nothing much to offer on the lingering effect of the COVID-19 and government’s measures at curtailing it since he “is not a medical professor.” Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, made the assertion […]
Nigeria Records 23 More COVID-19 Cases to Make 174
Nigeria has recorded another 23 fresh cases of the coronavirus disease with Akwa Ibom State reporting five, the first for the oil rich state. According the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, Lagos recorded 9, FCT 7, Kaduna 1 and Bauchi 1. Nigeria now has a total number of 174 confirmed cases. The NCDC had […]
COVID-19: Davido Tests Negative For Second Time
Nigerian singer and CEO DMW, David Adeleke is better known as Davido says has tested negative for the coronavirus for the second time The assurance crooner took to his social media page on Wednesday to announce it. “I did a second test for the covid19 virus again …. once again I’m Negative,” he wrote on […]
Nigeria Records 12 New COVID-19 Cases, Total Rises to 151
Nigeria has recorded 12 new coronavirus infections as the total cases have risen to 151. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) released the new figures in a tweet on Wednesday, in its latest update on the disease. The agency while giving the breakdown of the cases, reported nine in Osun State, two in Edo […]
The Psychology Of COVID-19 By Reuben Abati
Nigeria announced its first COVID-19 case on February 27 – an Italian who came into the country on February 24 and displayed symptoms of the disease while visiting Lafarge Cement Company in Ewekoro, Ogun State. He has been treated and discharged. Since then Nigeria has recorded a total of 111 cases, as at the time […]
