Two Borno State patients who were reported to be missing after testing positive to COVID-19 have been found, Channels TV reports. On Sunday, the Borno State government had announced that two patients – Abbas Kaka Hassan (a 24-year-old male) and Hauwa Mohammed (42-year-old female) are on the run after testing positive to COVID-19 at the University of…
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The Minister of State for Health, Senator Adeleke Mamora has confirmed that commencement of payment of the Upgraded Hazard allowance for Front-line Health workers. Disclosing this at the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja, Mamora said the new incentive including the insurance scheme was a fall- out of an MoU signed between the…
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President Muhammadu Buhari, in nationwide broadcast on Monday, has extended the lockdown in Lagos, Ogun and the federal capital territory (FCT) by one week. The president who explained that he consulted widely before taking the decision commended Nigerians for the level of endurance shown throughout the four weeks that the lockdown has lasted. He also…
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According to Daily Post, some Lagos youths on Monday commenced violent protests over the COVID-19 lockdown in the Eleko community of Ibeju Lekki local government area. The protesters were said to have engaged in a faceoff with security agents in the area in which at least five police officers were injured, Premium Times reports. It was gathered…
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President Muhammadu Buhari is set to address Nigerians on Monday, April 27, 2020 at 8pm, according to a statement by Mr Femi Adesina, special adviser to the president on media and publicity. The media aide in his communique urged all television, radio and other electronic media stations to hook up to the network services of the Nigerian Television…
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According to SunNews Online, a mobile court in Abuja has sentenced two Pastors and three Imams to one-month imprisonment or an option of N5000 fine in addition to a supervised community service for one day for violating the lockdown order. They were convicted for holding services in their religious establishments despite the lockdown order in the…
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The new Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero, has confirmed that the mass deaths reported in the state are not due to COVID-19 as many reports have speculated. According to Channels TV, a statement from the 58th Emir on Sunday noted that he was informed by the State’s Ministry of Health that the ‘mysterious’ deaths which had reportedly…
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Nigeria’s leading foods & infrastructure conglomerate, BUA Group, through its founder Alhaji Abdul Samad Rabiu has announced additional N3.3 billion grant to Kano, Lagos states and the presidential task force on COVID-19 towards fighting against the raging pandemic, The donation from the BUA Foundation is in addition to BUA’s earlier contributions to the private sector-led CACOVID coalition…
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Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has made the wearing of masks compulsory to fight against the coronavirus, according to his latest Twitter update on Sunday. “Dear Lagosians, even as we observe the lockdown, we are kicking off #MaskUpLagos; the COMPULSORY wearing of face masks in Lagos Face masks help to protect us from droplets and…
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91 new cases of COVID-19 has been confirmed in Nigeria bringing the total number of cases to 1,273, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). This was disclosed on the agency’s Twitter handle on Sunday night who noted that 43 of the new infections were recorded in Lagos, eight in Sokoto, six in Taraba,…
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