The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday recorded 193 new cases of the coronavirus, thus bringing the total number of infections in the country to 5,162. The NCDC also confirmed three new deaths, bringing the total death toll in the country to 167. The agency added that 193 new cases were confirmed in 15 states with six deaths recorded in the country as of May 14. According to NCDC, no new state has reported...

The Nigerian Governors’ Forum held its eight COVID-19 teleconferences yesterday, Thursday, May 14. After the meeting, the group issued a communique which bothers on salient issues concerning the states. The communique was signed by the Chairman of the forum and Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi. According to the communique, the issues raise by the governors bother around the controversial infectious disease bill, the looted fund that was recently returned to Nigeria among others....

The Federal Government says there are no conclusions yet with regard to ‘strange’ deaths in Kano State. The Minister for Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja at the daily briefing of the  Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19. He said that investigations were still ongoing in the matter. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Kano State witnessed yet-to-be-explained deaths in the recent past. No fewer than 150 people were feared...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the  COVID-19 pandemic presents an opportunity for the Nigerian people and government to reset the critical sectors of the economy and social services. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Thursday in Abuja, said the vice president featured, from his office, in a virtual launch of the Nigeria Solidarity Support Fund (NSSF). NSSF is an initiative of the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA), the Global Citizen, and other partners....