EHIME ALEX, Lagos The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Thursday reported 35 new cases of the coronavirus, with total confirmed cases now put at 442 in the country. According to NCDC on its verified Twitter handle, of the 35 new cases, Lagos recorded the highest figure with 19,...
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With the extension for another two weeks of the sit at home order by President Muhammadu Buhari, arising from COVID-19 pandemic, there is no doubt that many more people will be suffering terribly, as a result. We know that many other people in the country are already feeling the...
By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), says it collected the sum of N1,203,310,372,900.34 as revenue in the first quarter of 2020, which is N156 billion higher than its corresponding Q1, 2019 collection of N1,046,889,787,060.27. The final performance result in revenue collection for Q1, 2020 ...
EDDY OCHIGBO, Kaduna In a bid to cushion the effect of COVID-19 lockdown on the needy, a Kaduna-based non-governmental organization, Gadnite Foundation, in collaboration with Resilient Aid and Dialogue Initiative (RADI), supported by Bridge that Gap, during week shared food items worthy thousands of Naira to widows and the...
More than two-thirds of over 4,500 Africans reached by GeoPoll across 12 nations have reported they are self-quarantining to prevent the risks and spread of coronavirus. Yet, as Africans retreat into their homes, they are worried about food and their economies to almost as great a degree as they...
Fear of job loss has grips private school teachers in Kaduna State as school owners may not cope with payment of salaries due to the COVID-19 lockdown. Some teachers, who spoke to the newsmen on Thursday in Kaduna, said if the lockdown persisted, private school owners might be forced...
China’s foreign ministry said on Thursday the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said there is no evidence that the coronavirus that has infected more than two million people globally was made in a laboratory. Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian made the remark in response to a question about accusations the...
The oil marketers, under the umbrella of Major Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN), on Thursday called for full price liberalization of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), commonly known as petrol, instead of price modulation. Its Chairman, Mr. Tunji Oyebanji, who made the call in a statement on Thursday in Lagos,...
German environmental activists are calling on the federal government to move faster with legislation protecting insects from extinction and banning the pesticide glyphosate. “Bees and glyphosate have made it into the coalition agreement, but we still have no insect protection law and not even a ban on pesticide use...
Edo Government will start arresting commercial drivers that violate the directive of the government on the number of passengers to be carried to curtail the spread of the Coronavirus disease in the state. Mr. Mukhtar Osagie, the Coordinator of the state Public Works Volunteer Scheme (PUWOV), disclosed this in...
Nigerian veteran Comedian, Atunyota Akpobome popularly known as “Alibaba”, has decried the spread of the ravaging COVID-19 in the country. Akpobome, who to his Instagram on Thursday, urged the Lagos State Government to take the implementation of the lockdown order more seriously. Alarmed by the constant spread of the...
Russia reported 3,448 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus on Thursday, up from 3,388 the day earlier. The overall number of cases reached 27,938. Thirty-four people died in the last 24 hours, which took the national coronavirus death toll to 232, the Russian coronavirus crisis response center said....
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Afghanistan has reached 840 as of Thursday morning, with 56 new cases reported within the last 24 hours, a public health official said. “A total of 56 COVID-19 new cases were detected in Afghanistan within the last 24 hours. Thirty-seven new cases...
Below is a well-reasoned position on the economic stimulus proposed by the All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, as a means to revamping the nation’s economy and cushioning the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on Nigerians. ECONOMIC POLICY CORONAVIRUS ECONOMIC STIMULUS PROGRAM POLICY BACKGROUND The coronavirus has...
Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has appointed Mr. Nzekwe Manfred as the new Commissioner for Youths and Sports to replace Mr. Vitus Okechi. Okechi has been redeployed as the new Commissioner for Housing. The Public Relations Officer of the state Ministry of Youths and Sports, Mr. Dan Onwuegbuna,...
The Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has established a COVID-19 testing laboratory at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH) to enhance effective surveillance, detection and response to the pandemic in the North East region. The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the hospital, Prof. Ahmed Ahidjo, confirmed this on...