EHIME ALEX, Lagos President Muhamamdu Buhari has extended the lockdown imposed on Lagos, Ogun and the FCT Abuja by one week. According to the President in a nationwide broadcast on Monday, a phased and gradual easing of the lockdown measures will commence from May 4. With the reports of strange...
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Belgian clubs on Monday postponed a vote on confirming the cancellation of the rest of the season until next week, keeping open the door for a possible resumption. Following a decision taken at the beginning of the month, the 24 clubs of the Pro League had been scheduled to...
The number of people who have died from coronavirus infection in France rose by 437 to 23,293 on Monday, the Health Ministry said in a statement. The 1.9 per cent increase is the highest in four days but well below the more than four per cent rate seen 10...
UEFA has released 236.5 million euros (256 million dollars) to its 55 associations who are grappling with the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Europe’s soccer governing body said on Monday. UEFA said each association would receive 4.3 million euros from a fund earmarked for targeted areas of development...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says on Monday that the Kaduna State Government is fully pursuing the start free, stay free and be AIDS free agenda. Dr Idris Baba, Health Specialist, UNICEF Kaduna Field Office, stated this in Kaduna, while reacting to ongoing efforts to integrate HIV services...
The Directorate of State Service (DSS) in Edo has denies invading the residence or arresting anyone associated with Chief Taiwo Akerele, former Chief of Staff (CoS) to Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo. Mr Sheikh Waziri, DSS Director in Edo, said in Benin on Monday, that no operative of the...
The National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC) says it plans to launch a campaign to create awareness on how wearing face mask in public will help to contain COVID-19 spread. NCAC Director-General, Mr Olusegun Runsewe, who disclosed this in a statement to newsmen on Monday in Abuja, said...
An Environmentalist, Mr Furoebi Akene, has alleged that the dead fishes littering Niger Delta coastline were caused by the discharge of toxic chemicals from Shell’s operations at Forcados Oil Export terminal. Akene, who is the Chairman, Board of Trustees, Centre for Environmental Preservation and Development (CEPAD), said this in...
As the country continues with its fight against the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Nigerian Army Drugs Manufacturing Company (NADMACO) Ltd, has lent support to the cause by manufacturing a hygiene product, NADMAHTIZER, a hand sanitiser. The Managing Director of NADMACO, Col. Laban Buba, told the News Agency of Nigeria...
Dr. Osagie Ehanire, the Minister of Health, on Sunday said President Mohammadu Buhari would determine when to lift the lockdown occasioned by the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the country. Ehanire said this on SundayPolitical on Channels Television in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that on April...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Oyo State have commended Gov. Seyi Makinde for ensuring prompt payment of workers’ salaries and pensioners’ entitlements. The commendation was contained in a statement jointly issued in Ibadan by the state’s NLC Chairman, Mr Bayo Titilola-Sodo, and...
Sudan on Sunday announced 24 new infections with COVID-19, bringing the total number of the confirmed cases in the country to 237. The death toll reached 21, said Sudan’s Health Ministry in a statement. The ministry also announced one recovery, bring the total number of recoveries to 20. It...
Egypt confirmed on Sunday 215 new cases and 10 deaths of COVID-19, raising the total number of cases registered in the country to 4,534, including 317 deaths, said the Egyptian Health Ministry. Meanwhile, 62 COVID-19 patients were completely cured, increasing the tally of recoveries to 1,176, the ministry’s spokesman...
The U.S. state of New York will restart its economy after the peak of the coronavirus outbreak in a multi-phase manner, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Sunday. The strategy is to first reopen the construction and manufacturing sectors, and the second phase will be evaluating businesses on a case-by-case...
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte gave the go-ahead on Sunday for professional sports teams to start training again in May following the novel coronavirus outbreak. Conte however did not set a date for football’s top-flight Serie A championship to resume. The prime minister, announcing measures to ease the lockdown...
Balls and pitches will need to be sterilised frequently when Spanish football returns, a leading doctor in the sport has said. Rafa Ramos, who is president of the association of Spanish football club doctors, said this was necessary to minimise the chances of players getting infected by the novel...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Sunday confirmed 91 new cases of COVID-19 outbreak in the country, bringing the total number of infections in Nigeria to 1,273. The NCDC also said five new patients have been confirmed dead as a result of the virus in the country,...