VANGUARD NEWSPAPER The Lagos State government, yesterday, confirmed that five additional patients, who have recovered from coronavirus, COVID-19, have been discharged, from Infectious Disease Centre, Yaba Mainland Hospital. Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Gbenga Omotosho, when contacted through his…
THIS DAY The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, and the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, yesterday said they had obtained exemptions from President Muhammadu Buhari to allow very skeletal operations…
THIS DAY Abuja — The Director-General of Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Mr. Qu Dongyu, has said the restrictions of movement and basic aversion behaviour by workers amid the outbreak and spread of the COVID-19 pandemic may impede farming activities…
ADDRESS BY H.E. MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE COVID- 19 PANDEMIC SUNDAY 29TH MARCH, 2020 1. Fellow Nigerians, 2. From the first signs that Coronavirus, or COVID-19 was turning into an epidemic and was…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa THESE are times people are burdened. When many, with the future appearing bleak due to partial or full lockdowns, need help to get by. This is when religious leaders should be praying for all, or at…
By Owei Lakemfa Imagine you are in a cruise ship with 681 others and then discover that some of them have contacted a highly infectious virus that has neither cure nor vaccine. Even, if there were a cure, it was not within…
THE NATION The Controller-General of Nigeria Immigration Service Muhammad Babandede, on Sunday tested positive for coronavirus. Immigration spokesman Sunday James said Babandede went into self-isolation when he returned from the UK. James said: “He has adhered to the Nigeria Centre…
PREMIUM TIMES Few minutes after President Buuhari addressed Nigerians, the Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) announced Fourteen new cases of Coronavirus in Nigeria.Nine cases confirmed in Lagos with five in the Federal Capital Territory. NCDC on its twitter handle…
THE NATION ONLINE Protesting youths in Kusada town in Katsina State have burnt down a Police station as well as seven cars, two motorcycles and a generator all parked in front of the station. Investigation by The Nation revealed that…
PREMIUM TIMES A Nigerian man who returned to the country from London has allegedly assaulted some health workers who insisted he must observe self-isolation as a precautionary measure against the novel coronavirus. The man had not yet been tested to confirm…