Following a review of the implication of COVlD-19 on healthcare delivery in the country, the federal government has approved a Special Hazard and Inducement Allowance of 50 per cent of consolidated basic salary for all health workers in all Federal ...

The Federal Government has blamed the rising cases of community transmission of coronavirus disease in the country on non-compliance with lockdown directives, medical advice, unauthorised treatment of patients in private homes and unaccredited facilities. Speaking at the Presidential Task Force ...

Civil society organisations and other critical stakeholders have deplored the absence of a coronavirus test centre in Delta State amid the pervasiveness of the deadly disease nationwide. In a statement after the launch of their situation room to monitor and ...

The Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) and Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) have deplored the existence of only one coronavirus test centre in the entire South-South geopolitical zone that had no fewer than 50 confirmed cases of the dreaded disease. PÀNDEF, ...

Journalists in Abia State have received some food items as palliatives to cushion the effect of Coronavirus pandemic from an older colleague, Mr. James Umeh, an indigene of the state under the platform of his Unubiko Foundation. The items, which ...

A group, Association of Ebonyi State Indigenes in The Diaspora (AESID) has berated Ebonyi State Governor Dave Umahi for clamping down on journalists in the state. In a statement by its Chairman, Ambassador Pascal Oluchukwu, the group charged leadership of ...

Edo State Government has declared that said the rise in the number of confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in the state in the past few days is the result of improved testing capacity aimed at preventing, treating and controlling the virus. ...

Civil Society Organisations and other critical stakeholders have deplored the absence of a coronavirus test centre in Delta State amid the pervasiveness of the deadly disease nationwide. In a statement after the launch of their situation room to monitor and ...

The youth wing of Ohanaeze-Ndigbo led by Arthur Obiora has mulled the possibility of setting up a security network code-named Operation Ogbunigwe to safeguard the Igbo from Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen attacks. Obiora, who spoke in Awka, Anambra State, pointed out ...

Almost four months after taking over as Governor of Imo State, Hope Odidika Uzodimma has disclosed that he met an empty treasury and without handover note from former Governor Emeka Ihedioha when he (Uzodinma) assumed office on January 15, 2020. ...