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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WHO Alerts on Cyber-Attacks, Calls for Vigilance

CoronavirusNational SecurityWorld NewsWHO Alerts on Cyber-Attacks, Calls for Vigilance

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)April 23, 2020

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it has seen a dramatic increase in the number of cyber attacks directed at its staff members and email scams targeting at the public since the start of COVID-19 pandemic. WHO, in a statement on Thursday said that this week, 450 active WHO email addresses and passwords were leaked online along with thousands belonging to others working on the novel Coronavirus response. “The leaked credentials did not put WHO...

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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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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: Security Officers Intercepts and Turn Back Over 30 Vehicles with Passengers on Board

CoronavirusNigeriaTravelCOVID-19: Security Officers Intercepts and Turn Back Over 30 Vehicles with Passengers on Board

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)April 23, 2020

The Nigeria Army at Nsukka checkpoint has intercepted over 30 vehicles loaded with passengers intending to pass through the state’s borders. They disclosed that the passengers who were mostly Northerners hid with bags of food items, which are allowed into the state as essential commodities. One of the intercepted passengers, Peter when interviewed said he was coming into the state from Benue State. He disclosed that they trekked from the state land boundary from Amalla...

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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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COVID-19: NGO Tasks FG, States on Community Transmission

CoronavirusUnited StatesCOVID-19: NGO Tasks FG, States on Community Transmission

PilotnewsApril 23, 2020

Save the Children International (SCI), an NGO, has called on the Federal and State Governments to take necessary measures to halt community transmission of Coronavirus (COVID-19). Mr. Isah Ibrahim, its Nutrition Advocacy Advisor, Kaduna State Field Office, made the appeal in a statement on Thursday in Kaduna. According to him, community transmission of COVID-19 can have an unimaginable impact on children. ”More preventive actions need to be taken to ensure the protection and well-being of...

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Oyo Records First COVID-19 Death

CoronavirusNigeriaOyo Records First COVID-19 Death

PilotnewsApril 23, 2020

Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State says the state recorded its first COVID-19 death on Wednesday. Makinde made the death public on his Twitter handle at about 11:30 pm on Wednesday. He said that the deceased died at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan before his COVID-19 test result came out positive. “The COVID-19 confirmation test for one suspected case came back positive. “The patient died at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, before his result...

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Australia PM Backs Global Inquiry into Virus Origins and China

CoronavirusWorld NewsAustralia PM Backs Global Inquiry into Virus Origins and China

PilotnewsApril 23, 2020

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Tuesday threw his weight behind calls for an international inquiry into China’s initial response to the coronavirus and its origins. “I think such an inquiry is important and we can respectfully have a difference of view from that that has been put by China,” Morrison told reporters in Canberra on Tuesday. In his comments Morrison backed his foreign minister, Marise Payne, who on Sunday called for an independent inquiry,...

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