COVID-19

The Kano State Government says it has secured $1.1 million grant from European Union and Japan through the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), to ‎cushion the effects of COVID-19 pandemic in the state. Chief Press Secretary to…

Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State has said it cost the state an average of N400,000 to treat a COVID-19 patient. The governor disclosed this while addressing the National Executive Council meeting of the Northern Traditional…

Wole Adedeji, Ilorin A total number of 50,000 (1 litre) and another (200ml) of hand sanitisers have been given to exiting students who began their examinations by the Kwara State Government, on Monday,  across the state. The gesture…

Johnkennedy Uzoma, Owerri A volunteer group, the South East Coronavirus Intervention Network (SECIN), has identified poor awareness campaign as one of the challenges that inhibits  the fight against Coronavirus pandemic in the country…

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, has recovered from COVID-19. Recall that the minister had announced, on July 19, that his fourth COVID-19 test returned positive after he felt a slight irritation in his throat. …

Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has described farming as a ‘veritable’ means to prosperity, urging the people of the state, especially women, to embrace farming. The governor spoke, in Calabar, the state capital, at the flag-off…

Russian President Vladimir Putin says that a Coronavirus vaccine developed in the country has been registered for use and one of his daughters has already been inoculated. Speaking at a government meeting Tuesday, Putin said that the…

Wole Adedeji, Ilori A grant of N100 million was, at the weekend, received by the Kwara State Government from the World Bank to strengthen its management of the COVID-19. The fund was said to have been channeled through the Nigeria…

A former senator and leading figure of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the South West, Buruji Kashamu, is dead. He died today at First Cardiology Consultants hospital in Lagos after a protracted battle with the novel…

Nigeria’s Private Sector-led Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID) yesterday formally announced the flag-off of a nationwide distribution of multi-billion Naira food palliative and other relief items to mitigate the adverse effects of the…