Stakeholders at the Journalists International Forum For Migration (JIFORM) an online summit held on Saturday April 4, 2020 has called on the African leaders to initiate financial assistance to fight the enemy of the world now, called COVID 19 on ...

A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), under the aegis of Ben Akak Foundation, has donated medical items, including sanitisers and N1 million, to the Cross River State Government in support of the fight against Coronavirus. The organisation also donated sanitisers, hand-gloves and ...

As SEMA begins distribution of foodstuff to councils Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri has signed Executive Order on COVID-19. Acting Chief Press Secretary, Daniel Alabrah, said the Executive Order entitled ‘Bayelsa State Infectious Disease (Emergency Prevention) Regulation 2020’ was based ...

Allegation that some security agencies were receiving bribes and allowing vehicles in and out of Rivers State through its various boundaries with other states has been criticised by the state government. The state, which recorded a case of the coronavirus ...

The Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) has donated medical items, including personal protective equipment (PPE), to the Edo government to check the spread of the ailment in the state. Worth millions of naira, the goods were handed over to the ...

President of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), Dr. Aliyu Sokomba has confirmed that a medical professional treating COVID-19 patients at the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital (ISTH) in Edo State had contracted the disease. In a live programme monitored ...

Concerned residents of Cross River State have called on the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to investigate the reported stay of 26 oilrig workers at Tinapa Hotel, Calabar for an alleged self-quarantine. Top sources close to the hospitality said ...

Deputy Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Toby Okechukwu, has canvassed expansion of testing centres for coronavirus across the country. In a statement, he described the 2,000 COVID-19 tests so far carried out in Nigeria as insufficient for the ...

In readiness for the 14-day lockdown, eventual outbreak and the need to sensitise the grassroots on precautionary measures against Coronavirus, the Ihiagwa Community in Owerri West Council Area of Imo State has floated a food bank for indigent persons during ...

To effectively combat incidences of COVID-19, the Enugu State government has unveiled four isolation and treatment centres, disclosing that it was planning to open other such facilities across the state. Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi stated yesterday after an assessment of the ...