Thousands of women in Jos, the Plateau capital have staged a protest against the government for not fulfilling its promise of distributing palliatives to cushion the effect of the lockdown. The protesting women are alleging that despite being at the venue of the distribution exercise since yesterday, nothing has come their way and no government official appeared at the venue with relief materials for distribution. Reports say the protesting women blocked Zaria road along with...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control had asked Nigerians to endure more and allow the lockdown to be extended. It says it was not yet time to relax the lockdown. This appeal was made through the Director-General of the NCDC, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, during a media briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja on Friday. He explained why the lockdown should not be relaxed as there are efforts to contain the coronavirus...

The Delta Government has granted amnesty to 150 convicts in the custodial centres of the Nigerian Correctional Services across the state as part of the measures to contain the spread of COVID-19. Mr. Timothy Agbaragu, the Public Relations Officer, Delta State High Court, disclosed this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday. According to the amnesty was granted by the Chief Judge (CJ) of the state, Justice Marshal Umukoro....

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says it has recorded 114 new cases of the coronavirus, a development that has taken the number of active cases of the virus to 855, and the total number of infections recorded so far to 1,095 as of late Friday. The centre, which disclosed this in its daily tweet, said the country’s COVID-19 cases exceeded 1,000 because of the 114 new cases recorded in nine states of the federation. According...