The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has treated 228 active cases of COVID-19 and discharged 85 of them as the total number of cases in the country rises to 323. The NCDC, through its verified Twitter account, said on Sunday that it recorded five new cases of coronavirus in the country – two in Lagos, two in Kwara and one in Kastina State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that there are now...
Residents of Toungo Local Government area of Adamawa state, northeast Nigeria has no course to smile as the contract for the electrification of the town reached nearly completion stage, state officials confirm. Toungo carved out of Ganye LGA in 1996 is the only Local Government Area (LGA) headquarters in Nigeria without electricity. Speaking on the project, the state commissioner for Rural Infrastructure and Community Development Abdullahi Prambe said that‘’ the project awarded by this present...
So, the Finance Minister rallied a crowd of reporters and declared we had been fleeced by fire…that seven hundred billion Naira went up in smoke because a dingy little office complex where an accountant practiced his iniquities and decadent morality was scorched. How could we contain ourselves and sleep till dawn, while our golden flute in damp and dew lay forsaken and forlorn? Classic? Well it is. Vintage? Of course, it is. The words belong...
While the health system play down the potency of traditional medicine in treating COVID-19, individuals share unortodox remedies, their knowledge, and lived-in experience. Ooni of Ife, Oba, Dr. Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi revealed a treatment, “herbs including neem, bitter leaf and African pepper” Seyi Makinde, the Governor of Oyo state, said he boosted his immunity with Vitamin C, carrots and black seed oil mixed with honey. Dr. Johnson Idowu, traditional medicine practitioner says there are indigenous...
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President Muhammadu Buhari says the restriction of movement in several states will remain as long as experts find it necessary. Buhari had ordered a 14-day lockdown in Lagos, Ogun and the federal capital territory to contain the spread of coronavirus. The secretary to the government of the federation, Boss Mustapha, has on Friday hinted that the government may extend the lockdown in Lagos, Abuja and Ogun state to prevent the spread of coronavirus pandemic in...
(Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. and Google unveiled a rare partnership to add technology to their smartphone platforms that will alert users if they have come into contact with a person with Covid-19. People must opt in to the system, but it has the potential to monitor about a third of the world’s population. The technology, known as contact-tracing, is designed to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus by telling users they should quarantine or...
President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigerians must stay at home, listen and follow public announcements on how best to curb the spread of Coronavirus. Buhari who said this in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Saturday. The president said that the nation could not expect others to come to its rescue. He said the appeal had become imperative in view of the fact that the...
As Nigeria’s government plans to extend lockdown order slammed in the wake of coronavirus pandemic, the National Poultry Association of Nigeria (NPAN) has called on the Federal and state governments not to restrict the movement of food items, medication, poultry, and poultry feeds in a bid to contain the spread of the deadly virus. The Association observed that there was a need to change the current approach, as the approach is causing more panicking that...
Pastor Olayinka Emmanuel of Christ Glory Church, Ilorin, has advised Christians to be obedient and celebrate Easter indoor, in compliance with the government’s sit at home order. Emmanuel gave the advice in Ilorin on Saturday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). “With the situation at hand, we must learn to celebrate it indoors without going out merrying. Make it colourful with the members of your family. “We are celebrating the resurrection...
