COVID-19: NCDC Announces New Six Cases, Total Cases In Nigeria Now 238
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced six new more cases in Nigeria with 2 in Kwara, 2 in Edo, 1 in Rivers and 1 in the FCT., bringing the total number of confirmed infections to 238. This was confirmed in a tweet on Monday night. As at 09:30 pm 6th […]
COVID-19 Adds Urgency To Trans Fat Elimination
Today, on World Health Day, as we celebrate nurses and other health professionals for keeping us healthy, let’s remember: Now more than ever, we must play our part, too, and do all within our power to keep critical healthcare workers safe. The best way to do so is by staying healthy ourselves. Health workers here […]
COVID-19 Spreads to Kwara As NCDC Records 2 Cases
Kwara State is the next state to announce the confirmation of two Coronavirus cases, adding to the swelling number of the deadly virus in the country. The confirmation was given on Monday, 6 April, 2020 by the Kwara State Technical Committee on COVID-19. According to a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, […]
Naira Marley now in Police Net
Lewd lyrics Singer, Naira Marley, is currently in the custody of the police, according to the Lagos Command spokesman, Bala Elkana. Elkana in a statement credited to him did not however state whether Marley surrendered himself or was caught after a manhunt was launched for him on Sunday for violating government’s ban on mass gathering […]
Court Sentences Funke Akindele, Husband
Nollywood actor, Funke Akindele-Bello and her husband, Abdul-Rasheed Bello (JJC), have been sentenced to 14-day community service for contravening the lockdown order in Lagos State. In a verdict by the Magistrate, they are also to pay a fine of N100, 000. The couple violated the Lagos State Infectious Disease(Emergency Prevention) Regulation 2020, an offence which […]
Funke Akindele Cuffed, Dettol Disowns Her
Manufacturer of Dettol products, Reckitt Benckiser, has distanced self from ace actress, Funke Akindele, who was arrested for violating government’s order on public gathering. Akindele is the model in a television advertisement involving Reckitt Benckiser and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, one of the agencies in the frontline of the battle against coronavirus. […]
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 […]
