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Professor Wole Soyinka has told the Nigerian Government that the country is not in a “war emergency “. This is coming after the 14-day mandatory lockdown of various state in the country to curb and contain the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic. In a statement signed on Wednesday, Garbage Shehu, a media aide to the president has told Nigerians not …

The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has reported 23 new cases of Coronavirus in the country, bringing the national total to 174. The NCDC, on its twitter handle said of the 23 new cases, nine were from Lagos, seven at the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, five in Akwa Ibom, one in Kaduna and one in Bauchi. “Twenty-three new cases of …

Prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, has predicted a hard time for Nigeria after the Coronavirus disease. In a series of tweets, TB Joshua encouraged Nigerians to keep looking onto God, who alone, according to him, has the solution to the disease ravaging the entire world. He said that believers must take control of …

The Nigerian Center for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed recording 23 new coronavirus cases in Nigeria. Twenty-three new cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Nigeria 9 in Lagos, 7 in the FCT, 5 in Akwa Ibom, 1 in Kaduna and 1 in Bauchi State As at 08:00 pm 1st April there are 174 confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported in …

It was an exciting moment when the Lagos State Executive Council (EXCO) had the first-ever virtual meeting in the state making it the first of its kind in the federation. The meeting that was held on the 30th of March 2020 was in compliance with the directive against gatherings as part of the measures to curb the spread of the …

A Nigerian man who was seen complaining over the poor condition of an isolation center where his daughter with coronavirus is being held has asked them to discharge her so she could go die in his house. In a video that has since been going viral across the internet, the man who identified himself as Mr Olanutu, told reporters during …

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission had made the disclosure in its December 2019 Minor Review of Multi-Year Tariff Order 2015 and Minimum Remittance Order for the Year 2020. The decision to implement the increment has however not been suspended by the NERC despite the lockdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic. A top source at Ikeja Electric revealed that the firm …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday signed the COVID-19 Regulations, 2020, which declared COVID-19 an infectious disease. A statement issued by Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity) in Abuja explained that this is in the exercise of the powers conferred on the president by Sections 2, 3 and 4 of the Quarantine Act (CAP Q2 LFN 2004), …

Arinola of the Department of Immunology, University of Ibadan, said this while speaking to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Ibadan. NAN reports that there had been circulation of messages on the social media that drinking hot water was an effective way to wash the COVID-19 into the stomach and get rid of the deadly virus. Arinola, however, …

Fourteen more new cases of coronavirus have emerged, bringing the country’s total number of infections to 111, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control announced Sunday night. Nine of the new cases are in Lagos, and five in Abuja. Only one death has been recorded in the entire outbreak so far in Nigeria, NCDC said in a tweet at 9:30pm.