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The first high profile case of COVID-19 broke yesterday as former Vice President Atiku Abubakar announced that his son had tested positive for the pandemic. Atiku’s announcement came through his Twitter and Facebook platforms last night, several hours after the federal government had said eight new cases of COVID-19 in Lagos, Oyo and the Federal […]

The world is currently under the siege of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), a deadly disease that the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a pandemic. The number of confirmed cases of infections and deaths has not only left many in panic but has also served as the petri dish to breed various forms of conspiracy […]

A six weeks old baby is one of the five coronavirus index cases, Nigeria’s health minister Osagie Ehanire said on Wednesday. Briefing journalists in Abuja, Ehanire disclosed that the baby along with the mother tested positive for the virus.   With eight cases confirmed in Nigeria in total, the six weeks old baby is the […]

The ever-busy lobby of the National Assembly Complex closed its doors to the public on Friday over the fear of the dreaded Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic just as hundreds of Nigerian students were left stranded in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, following the government’s directive that all schools be closed indefinitely over the Coronavirus. Already, the Sudanese […]

In search of cure for COVID-19, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has approved the production of chloroquine for clinical trials. The Director General of the agency, Mojisola Adeyeye, made the announcement yesterday. According to Adeyeye, NAFDAC was not approving Chloroquine for the treatment of COVlD-19 but for clinical trials […]

Kaduna and Kano states chapters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are at each other’s jugular over the controversial dethronement Lamido Sanusi as Emir of Kano. APC chieftain in Kaduna, Yusuf Ali (Rabagardama) described the Kano chapter of the party as an ungrateful bunch, which chose to drag the Kaduna governor, Nasir El-Rufai, in the […]

Without any fanfare, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has technically devalued the naira exchange rate on the Investors and Exporters’ (I&E) window from the N366.7 to a dollar it closed on Friday, to N380.20 to a dollar. Trading data from Bloomberg terminal showed that there was very low appetite for the CBN open market […]

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday called for calm among Nigerians as the scourge of COVID-19 is gradually spreading in the country, with four new cases discovered in Lagos State, bringing the toll to 12.The president, in his first major intervention since the index case, caused by an Italian, was uncovered on February 27, said the federal […]

One of the daughters of President Muhammadu Buhari (name withheld) who returned from the United Kingdom Thursday is now in self-isolation. Her mother and First Lady, Aisha, who personally disclosed this, said the young lady is not in self-isolation because she is showing symptoms of COVID-19 but rather in compliance with the advice of the […]

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has said the Italian index case of COVID-19 has tested negative and will be discharged after confirmation by a second test. This came after Lagos recorded four new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Nigeria to 12.   Stating this at […]

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned Nigeria and other African countries to prepare for the Worst case scenario as COVID-19 continues to spread across the continent; even as the pandemic has killed over 9,000 people across the globe, according to an AFP tally Thursday based on official sources. A total of 9,020 deaths were […]

The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Thursday reversed the judgment of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) that sacked Ifeanyi Ubah as a Senator. The FCT high court on Thursday, April 11, 2019, removed Ubah as Senator for Anambra South senatorial district.   But a three-man panel of the court, led […]