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A’Ibom to provide relief materials, food items in villages Management of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) has disclosed that mass production of liquid soap and hand sanitisers for members of staff has commenced at the facility. Chief Medical ...

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 ...

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has released 46,000 metric tons of rice in 158 trailers and other relief items worth N3.2b to be shared to Nigerians during lockdown. Comptroller General of Customs, Hameed Ali, who disclosed this in a release ...

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 ...

Conservator General of the National Park Service (NPS), Dr. Ibrahim Goni, has urged Nigerians to have behavioural change towards wildlife to curb some avoidable diseases like COVID-19 in the country. Goni, who stated this while interacting with journalists in Abuja, ...

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has predicted that global trade would fall between 13 per cent and 32 per cent this year, as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupts normal economic activities and life around the world. It declared yesterday that the ...

Telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria, has announced a commitment of over N1.9b towards the fight against COVID-19 in Nigeria. Providing a breakdown of the amount, Airtel said N200m would go for provision of an Isolation Centre or any required Medical ...

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has charged the Federal Government to waive two-month electricity bill for Nigerians as part of measures to cushion the effects of the coronavirus endemic on the citizenry. He also canvassed an all-inclusive ...

No fewer than four Nigerians have been detained by soldiers in Cotonou, Republic of Benin after 14 days of COVID-19 quarantine for refusing to pay N900,000 each for accommodation. The Nigerians, who arrived from different parts of Europe and America, ...

The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has announced the creation of COVID-19 Response Facility to assist member-states fight the epidemic. Nigeria alone is seeking $1 billion to contain the spread of the pandemic that had infested some 250 people and ...