TY Danjuma Sets Up Task Force for COVID-19 Victim Support Fund
The Chairman of the Victims Support Fund, General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma, popularly known as TY Danjuma, (rtd) has inaugurated the Victim Support Fund (VSF) Task Force on COVID-19. The Task Force was mandated to provide palliative measures to Internally Displaced…
Protesting Enugu Nurses Get Enough Protective Materials
The management of Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) Teaching Hospital, Parklane, Enugu has reacted to the peaceful demonstration by the nurses demanding for sufficient protective materials, disclosing that the State Multi-sectoral Rapid Response Team including the Nigeria…
Covid-19: Gombe Sets to Establish Testing Centre
…Tasforce receives cash donations, sanitization items By James Ezema Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya has approved the establishment of covid-19 testing centre in Gombe. The Chairman of the Taskforce on Covid-19, Professor Idris Mohammed who disclosed this at a press briefing…
Hardship: Northern Elders Forum Concerned over COVID-19 Lockdown
Worried by absence of adequate palliative care by government at the federal and state levels to cushion the effects of the COVID-19 lockdown and the attendant pains the measure has caused poorer citizens in the country, the Northern Elders Forum…
Coronavirus Lockdown: How Woman Jumped into Osun River over Hunger
A woman has been rescued after she jumped into the Osun River in Osun State in a bid to commit suicide over hunger occasioned by total lockdown of the state due to coronavirus pandemic. Osun State currently has 14 cases…
BREAKING: Nigeria Records 174 Coronavirus Cases
Nigerian authorities have released new figures of the country’s coronavirus cases, which have risen to 174 after the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Wednesday confirmed twenty three (23) new cases of COVID-19 in the country. The NCDC in…
COVID-19: Dave Omokaro Foundation, GERAN Hail FG Palliative Initiative
…Express Concern over Poor Nigerians Not Capture on Current Databases The Federal government is moving with speed to implement the recently announced social investment palliative for poor Nigerians, to cushion the socio-economic pressure of the lockdown to combat the spread…
BREAKING: Govt Shuts Down Ogbete Main Market Enugu
By Chris Ugwuja, Nsukka The Ogbete Main Market Enugu has been shut down by the Enugu State Government. This was the fallout of a visit by the combined team of State Government officials led by Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi and heads…
#COVID19Update: Number of Recorded Coronavirus Cases in Nigeria Hits 139
Nigeria on Tuesday night confirmed four new cases of #COVID19, Â with 3 of the cases reported in the FCT and 1 in Lagos as at 08:00 pm 31st March 2020, The Street Reporters Newspaper reports. The new cases increased the…
Is Virus That Causes #COVID19 Airborne? NCDC Answers
On the possibility that the virus that causes COVID-19 is airborne, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in continuation of its response to the challenges of public health emergencies and to enhance Nigeria’s preparedness and response to epidemics through…
Sierra Leone Confirms First Coronavirus Case
Sierra Leone has recorded its first case of the new coronavirus, the government said on Tuesday, making it the latest African country to register an infection. In a televised press conference, President Julius Maada Bio said that a 37-year-old man…
