The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) says it is yet to release a post COVID-19 travel guidelines for air travellers. Mrs. Henrietta Yakubu, the General Manager, Corporate Affairs, FAAN, said this known in a statement issued in Lagos on Saturday. She said: “Our attention has been drawn to a statement released by a certain Tayo Olu to the effect that the federal government, through FAAN has released a post-COVID-19 travel guideline for air travellers....
ENUGU – Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, Enugu State council members on Saturday rejected palliatives donated by the State Government to help cushion the effect of lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic. The bone of contention was the announcement by the Commissioner for Information Chidi Aroh that the palliative is shared amongst the alleged factions in the union. Aroh insisted the palliative be shared among NUJ members including the faction led by the suspended National Vice...
In a bid to further tackle the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, a team of researchers in the University of Lagos (Unilag) has produced an Ambuvalent ventilator. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the project, known as Unilag /LASRIC Ambuvalent, was sponsored by the Lagos State Science Research and Innovation Council (LASRIC). The team carried out a ‘demonstration of concept’ of the project to the institution’s management on Friday. The Team Lead, AbdulHakeem Amuda, an...
President Muhammadu Buhari has received the Madagascan native formulation against the COVID-19 pandemic, saying he will listen to science before allowing traditional or any new medicines to be administered on Nigerians. Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, in a statement in Abuja on Saturday, said the president made this known at an audience with the visiting President Umaro Sissoco Embalo of Guinea Bissau. The presidential aide revealed that Guinea-Bissau’s...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, says the Federal Government has set up palliatives to assist Micro Small and Medium Enterprises(MSMEs) survive the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. The vice president said that the palliatives reflected the President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s determination to support MSMEs and the priority the Federal Government placed on small businesses. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement, said the vice president performed the virtual launch of palliatives for MSMEs by the...
The Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID), a private sector initiative meant to fight the Coronavirus pandemic, has donated a 100-bed isolation centre and medical equipment to Anambra Government. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that CACOVID renovated and equipped one of the state’s Protective Care Centre located at Umueri General Hospital in Oyi Local Government Area and donated the same to the state government on Saturday. A representative of CACOVID and the Regional Manager of...
The Nigerian Veterinary Medical Association (NVMA) on Saturday said its President, Prof. Bello Mohammed Agaie, had died in Sokoto of complications from Coronavirus (COVID-19). Prof. Bala Muhammad, the FCT branch Chairman of the association (NVMA), announced this in a statement in Abuja. Muhammad said Agaie died on May 12, in Sokoto due to complications from COVID-19. According to him, Agaie works assiduously to raise support with mobilisation of over 1,000 volunteers for response against COVID-19...
Archbishop Samson Benjamin, the General Overseer for Resurrection Praise Ministry for Africa Worldwide, on Saturday said the proposed Disease Control Bill would negate the rights of Nigerians. Benjamin told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that he was totally opposed to the Bill which seeks to promulgate the vaccine. “I am also absolutely against the vaccine that wants to be introduced into Africa from abroad. I do not believe it is best for...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Friday recorded 288 new cases of COVID-19 in the country, bringing the total number of infections in Nigeria to 5445. The NCDC also said that three new patients have been confirmed dead to the virus in the country, bringing the total number of deaths to 171. According to the agency, the 288 new cases are confirmed in 15 states. The 15 states and their breakdowns are: Lagos...
For now, there is palpable tension and anxiety in Adamawa State Emirate Council as a titleholder in the emirate, Ma’ajin Adamawa, Rufai Ahmad Duwa died from suspected COVID-19 infection. Duwa died in the early hours of Friday after he grappled with an ailment many said has semblance with COVID-19 infection. He was interred at the Muslim cemetery in Damare, Yola South at about 5:00 pm on Friday. Multiple sources from Federal Medical Center (FMC), Yola...
