7 Health Workers Test Positive for COVID-19 in Borno, Commissioner Says

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeria7 Health Workers Test Positive for COVID-19 in Borno, Commissioner Says

PilotnewsApril 24, 2020

Dr. Salihu Kwaya-Bura, Secretary, Borno High Powered Response Team on Convid-19, has said that seven health workers tested positive for the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the state. Kwaya-Bura, who is also the Commissioner for Health, made this known on Friday in Maiduguri while giving an update on the COVID-19 in a pandemic in the state. He said that the state recorded 15 cases include two deaths. “145 contacts of the confirmed cases have been traced and...

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COVID-19: Families of Deceased Health Workers to Get Compensation– NAICOM

CoronavirusLabourNigeriaCOVID-19: Families of Deceased Health Workers to Get Compensation– NAICOM

PilotnewsApril 24, 2020

The National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) says the insurance industry will pay an assured sum of N3 million each to families of medical doctors who died on the line of duty while fighting COVID-19. Mr. Sunday Thomas, the Acting Commissioner for Insurance, NAICOM, made the disclosure in Abuja on Friday. The document was presented to the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19. Thomas said that families of nurses and pharmacists who also died in active service would...

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COVID-19: Prospective Drug for Treating COVID-19 Fails to Have Any Effect – Report

CoronavirusWorld NewsCOVID-19: Prospective Drug for Treating COVID-19 Fails to Have Any Effect – Report

PilotnewsApril 24, 2020

Remdesivir, a prospective drug thought for treating COVID-19, had been revealed to not affect the first full trial. There had been a short supply of the drug, globally, due to the excitement it created. It is one of the drug President Donald Trump has claimed to be “promising”. 237 patients underwent a “gold standard” trial, Remdesivir was received by some while others did not, but the drug did not work. The report said the trial...

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UPDATE: COVID-19: Anambra Gov Obiano Assures in a Broadcast on New Pandemic Containment Guidelines

CoronavirusNewsNigeriaUPDATE: COVID-19: Anambra Gov Obiano Assures in a Broadcast on New Pandemic Containment Guidelines

PilotnewsApril 24, 2020

A Special Broadcast on COVID-19 by the Governor of Anambra State, His Excellency, Chief Willie Obiano on Wednesday, April 22, 2020 to Update Ndi Anambra on the Latest Development. Ndi Anambra, I am here to give you an update you on our fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in Anambra State. In my last address to you on Saturdy April 18, 2020, I informed you that the first post-treatment test of the COVID-19 Index Case in...

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ICC Still Planning for T20 World Cup in October

SportsWorld NewsICC Still Planning for T20 World Cup in October

PilotnewsApril 23, 2020

Planning for this year’s men’s Twenty20 World Cup and next year’s women’s 50-over World Cup is going ahead, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Thursday. This is in spite of the fact that cricket remains suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The ICC hosted a Chief Executives’ Committee (CEC) meeting with the CEOs of the 12 full members and three associate representatives. The meeting was to discuss the challenges boards will face in the...

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U.N. Agency Calls for $1 trn Developing World Debt Write-Off

CoronavirusEconomyWorld NewsU.N. Agency Calls for $1 trn Developing World Debt Write-Off

PilotnewsApril 23, 2020

The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said on Thursday that around one trillion dollars of debt owed by developing countries would be cancelled under a proposed global deal. The UN agency said that the plan was to help them overcome the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The world’s developing economies, which were already struggling with a rapidly growing debt burden, must now confront a record global downturn, plummeting prices for their oil and...

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Katsina Police Gun Down 2 Suspected Robbers

Crime & SecurityNigeriaKatsina Police Gun Down 2 Suspected Robbers

PilotnewsApril 23, 2020

The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Katsina State, SP Gambo Isah, said that the Command had killed two robbery suspects during a gun battle. Isah said this while displaying the bodies of the deceased before newsmen in Katsina on Thursday. He stated that the police clamped down on the suspects when it received a distress call at about 2:00 p.m. on Thursday. The PPRO explained that the bandits in their numbers, on motorbikes, armed...

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NCDC Records 108 New COVID-19 Cases as Total Number of Infections Now 981

CoronavirusNewsNigeriaNCDC Records 108 New COVID-19 Cases as Total Number of Infections Now 981

PilotnewsApril 23, 2020

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says it has recorded 108 new cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. In a tweet on Thursday night, the NCDC said that the new cases had taken the total number of infections in the country to 981. The centre said that 78 of the new infections were recorded in Lagos, 14 in FCT, 5 in Ogun, 4 in Gombe, 3 Borno, 2 in Akwa Ibom, and...

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COVID-19 LOCKDOWN: When Life Gives You Lemon, Make Lemonade

ColumnsCoronavirusOpinionCOVID-19 LOCKDOWN: When Life Gives You Lemon, Make Lemonade

PilotnewsApril 23, 2020

Isolation from COVID-19 pandemic calls for resourcefulness: engagement and ways to encourage exercising the mind and body. _____ Many nations, including Nigeria, are on lockdown to contain the spread of Coronavirus. This brings to mind that we had been enjoying the privilege of liberty all along without even knowing it! The powerful is shaken, and the vulnerable weakened even the more. States closed their borders to forestall movement of persons. Except for the medical sector...

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COVID-19: APC Chieftain Distributes 5,000 Bags of Food Items in Zamfara

CoronavirusNewsNigeriaCOVID-19: APC Chieftain Distributes 5,000 Bags of Food Items in Zamfara

PilotnewsApril 23, 2020

The former Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs in Zamfara, Alhaji Bello Dankande, says he has distributed 5,000 bags of assorted grains to vulnerable groups and individuals to cushion the effects of COVID-19 in the state. Speaking at the distribution of the items in Gusau on Thursday, Dankande said the gesture was aimed at reducing the effects of COVID-19 among the vulnerable groups in the state, especially during the Ramadan. “In Bakura Local Government,...

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