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Sadiya Farouk, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Fisaster Management and Social Development says the ministry has commenced cash transfer to poorest households in the country to cushion effect of the coronavirus pandemic. The minister said this during a press briefing by the presidential task force on the disease in Abuja, on Monday. Nigeria has recorded 111 coronavirus cases spread across 10 ... Read More »

Furtherance to the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari’s for lockdown in Lagos, Ogun and FCT due to the effects of Covid-19 and effort been made to mitigate the spread of the pandemic. The Executives of Mile 12 International Market, the largest perishable Foodstuffs in Lagos, Nigeria had concluded plans to avail Lagosians with MOBILE MARKET. The mobile market will visit ... Read More »

A member of the House of Representatives, Akin Alabi, has assured residents that he will join forces to ensure that the scourge of Coronavirus pandemic code-named COVID-19 is grounded within Nigeria. The lawmaker, representing Egbeda/Ona Ara federal constituency in Oyo, made this remark in sympathy message to the announcement of Oyo state’s governor Seyi Makinde testing positive on Monday evening. ... Read More »

Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, on Monday, said the lockdown of the state has been shifted to Friday. Abiodun said the state government made a request to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to shift the lockdown which was supposed to take place on Monday night to *Friday, April 3, 2020,* and has been granted. He said the ... Read More »

…commends Makinde on handling of disease President Muhammadu Buhari has been called upon to retrace his steps and include Oyo State and other states with confirmed cases of Covid-19 in whatever measures being taken by the Federal Government to curtail the spread of the Coronavirus in the country. A three-term member of the House of Representatives, Dr. Ajibola Muraina, who ... Read More »

All working journalists and other media staff in Lagos and Ogun states as well as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have been advised to use their valid Identity Cards to access their places of work and assignment venues during the 14-day lockdown directed by the President in the two states and the FCT. In a statement issued in Abuja on ... Read More »

The Federal Government on Monday confirmed the second death from coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, made the confirmation during a press briefing in Abuja, the Nigerian capital The minister did not disclose the identity of the victim and where the death took place, only evening that the “fatality was recorded over the weekend in ... Read More »

  …commends the State Government for proactively taken measures to combat the spread of the deadly virus. The Inter-party Advisory Council (IPAC), which is the Statutory Conglomeration of all the Registered Political Parties, the Ekiti State Chapter, on Monday commended the Ekiti State government for proactively taken measures to combat the spread of Coronavirus in the state, such as declaration ... Read More »

Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has tested positive for coronavirus. Read More »

Lagos State Government on Monday discharged five coronavirus patients at Infectious Disease Centre, Yaba Mainland Hospital. This brings to eight the total number of discharged patients from the centre. The patients, who had been quarantined at the isolation centre for weeks, looked stable and unruffled. Although, the discharged patients preferred annonimity, they expressed joy and satisfaction over the treatment they ... Read More »