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National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has enjoined the Federal Government to ensure food security and enthrone a robust economy for an effective COVID-19 fight. In a statement, the former governor of Lagos State ...
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Northern govs seek coordinated response to COVID-19, Gombe to establish testing lab
Governors of the 19 northern states under the auspices of the Northern States Governors’ Forum (NSGF) rose from their meeting with a call for more test centres and a coordinated response system to the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. Chaired ...
Read More »Five tests positive, one dies of coronavirus in Katsina State
Of the 71 suspects tested for the novel coronavirus in Katsina State, five returned positive, while one died in Daura Council. Chairman of the Katsina State Special Taskforce Committee on Sensitisation on COVID-19, Abdulkarim Sirika, made this known yesterday while ...
Read More »Cleric decries mass hunger, suffering despite huge donations from good-spirited Nigerians
General Overseer of the Zionwealth Church, Chris Omoshola, has decried the increasing hunger in the country and government’s inability to address the plight of Nigerians despite the lockdown due to outbreak of COVID-19. Blaming the situation on President Muhammadu Buhari, ...
Read More »TB vaccine doesn’t contain coronavirus, WHO clarifies, airlifts medical supplies for Africa
Contrary to reports that the conventional vaccine for tuberculosis (TB) offers protection against the novel coronavirus, the World Health Organisation (WHO) dismissed the claim. The apex United Nations health body said there was no evidence that the Bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccine ...
Read More »I’ve COVID-19 cure, just provide five victims, don tells FG
A Kaduna-based scientist, Professor Ayodele Israel Adeleye, has insisted that he had found a solution to the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, urging the Federal Government to produce five victims for free treatment to further prove his claim. The former lecturer with ...
Read More »COVID-19 patients recovering fast in our facility, UBTH declares
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 ...
Read More »AfDB to defer private sector debts on COVID-19 recession fears, says continent may need over $154b support
To cushion the impact of global recession, Africa Development Bank (AfDB) will defer private sector debt repayment for organisations in need of emergency liquidity facility through its $10 billion COVID-19 response facility. President of the AfDB, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, who ...
Read More »Catholic bishops donate 435 hospitals, clinics, Lawan urges fairness in distribution of packages
The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has donated 435 hospitals and clinics to the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 to combat the coronavirus pandemic. While receiving the CBCN’s delegation, Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and ...
Read More »MDCAN, CDD seek priority for health sector, sustained screening, isolation of cases
The Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) has lamented that the coronavirus has humbled some of the best organised and well – funded health systems globally, from Italy, Spain and Greece to the United Kingdom (UK) and the ...
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