The Cross River Government has insisted that it has no COVID-19 case, saying that it has nothing to gain by hiding cases of infections in the state. Gov. Ben Ayade made this disclosure while briefing with journalists and members of the state COVID-19 Response Team at the Government House, Calabar on Thursday. “If you have the virus and pretend not to have it, you will only have mass deaths in your state,” he said. He...

ENUGU –– For the past week, the number of laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 has increased almost on a daily basis. As of Thursday 2nd July 2020, 66 new laboratory-confirmed cases were recorded bringing the total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Enugu State to 327; 192 are still on treatment, 126 discharged. Three more persons lost their lives to this dreadful virus bringing the total number of fatalities in the state to 9. A...

The Commissioner for Health, Ondo State, Dr. Wahab Adegbenro, is dead. It was learned that the commissioner had been sick for some days before his passing away this morning. According to VanguardNgr, reports from government quarters say the commissioner dies of COVID-19. Adegbenro who was 65-year old before his death was born on 5th June 1955 at Ilara-mokin in Ifedore Local Government Area of Ondo State. He was a member of the Nigeria Medical Association...

The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) says 172 Nigerian evacuated from Uganda and Kenya arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja at about 10:20 am local time on Wednesday. The commission disclosed this in a statement by Mr Gabriel Odu of its Media, Public Relations, and Protocol Unit. He said that the evacuees arrived via @flyairpeace Flight B777-200 from Nairobi, the Kenyan capital. According to him, some of the evacuees disembarked at the airport...