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Edo State chapter of the Medical Women’s Association of Nigeria (MWAN) has appealed to the state government to deploy economic palliatives to cushion the effect of the pandemic by providing tax breaks and waivers on other routine bills, as well ...

Management of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) has declared that the two COVID-19 patients receiving treatment in the facility are recovering fast. Head, Rapid Response Team on COVID-19 at UBTH, Dr. Benson Okwara, disclosed this while reacting to ...

The Sir Emeka Offor Foundation (SEOF) has urged Nigerians to cooperate with the Federal and state governments in the fight against the pandemic, which he said, portended disaster to humanity. He gave he advice yesterday in Oraifite, Ekwusigo Council Area ...

Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, has relaxed the lockdown on Friday, April 10, 2020 (today) to enable the people and residents of the state to buy food items for the Easter celebrations. A statement issued by the Commissioner for Information ...

Nigeria, others can screen more people as WHO lists diagnostics for emergency use The G-Science Academies of Science and Medicine from across the globe, including academies of the G-7 countries have advocated greater international cooperation to contain coronavirus. The 15 ...

The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has granted conditional emergency use approval of medical devices for COVID-19 antibody, as well as antigen test kits to manufacturing companies and importers of such devices. It explained that the ...

UNODC unveils GrugHelpNet for needy drug users Oxfam, an international non-governmental organisation, has warned that the economic fallout of the COVID-19 crisis could push 500 million people into poverty globally, unless urgent action was taken to rescue developing countries. In ...

The Resource Centre for Human Rights and Civic Education (CHRICED) has called for on the 774 local governments in Nigeria to be self-reliant, centres of industrial production, and not receivers of unsustainable Federal Government handouts. It would be recalled that ...

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has declared that the disruptions of activities occasioned by the outbreak of coronavirus cannot deprive Christians of the joy and victory over all evil, which the resurrection of Jesus Christ has brought to the ...

Following appeals by various Christian bodies, the Bayelsa State government has relaxed partial lockdown of the state to enable Christian faithful fully participate in the Easter celebrations. Governor Douye Diri announced the decision during an enlarged meeting with members of ...