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Lagos State Chapter of the International Press Centre (IPC) has urged journalists to ensure factual and accurate reporting of the COVID-19 pandemic by verifying the sources, even if they emanate from experts. It also advised journalists to eschew bias and ...

The Federal Government yesterday unveiled a guideline to ensure that standards are maintained at all COVID-19 isolation and treatment centres across the country. It appealed to Nigerians who test positive to comply with the requirement to be admitted at the ...

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has disclosed that it received and documented 105 complaints of human rights violations perpetrated by law enforcement agencies. It also mentioned Sexual Gender-Based Violence (SGBV), saying the report covered March 30 to April 13, ...

Lagos, Borno, Delta states have been excluded from the National Cash Transfer for COVID-19, while the North-West zone gets the biggest share.   The National Cash Transfer Office (NCTO) infographic created on April 11, 2020, and made public by the International ...

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) in Cross River State has lamented that the state has only 33 doctors as it bemoaned lack of equipped isolation centre to fight coronavirus. NMA expressed disappointment over the manner in which the state government ...

No fewer than six patients, who were held on suspicion that they have contracted COVID-19 in Akwa Ibom State, were yesterday cleared and discharged from the Isolation Centre at the Ibom Specialist Hospital, Uyo. Of the number, three of those ...

The Biafra Zionists Federation (BZF) has accused the President Muhammadu Buhari administration of dividing Nigeria along ethnic lines amid the coronavirus disease. Leader of BZF, Benjamin Onwuka, said at a time when countries of the world were united in seeking ...

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has advised the federal, state and local government authorities to create feeding centres urgently in order to cushion the effect of the extension of COVID-19 lockdown. It said this followed its discontent with the handling ...

The Legal Defence and Assistance Project (LEDAP) has charged attorney generals and commissioners of justice to end indiscriminate arrests and detention of citizens, as a measure to curb the spread of coronavirus. In a statement issued by its National Coordinator, Chino ...

FCT to enforce lockdown during distribution of palliatives The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Task Force on COVID-19 has ordered the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) to deploy its newly developed made-in-Nigeria disinfectant safety sprayers to the Asokoro ...