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…As NCDC Confirms New 389 COVID19 cases The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in its daily COVID19 cases updates on Saturday, June 6, 2020, confirmed 389 new cases of Coronavirus and 9 (nine) COVID-19 deaths in Nigeria. According to the NCDC, no new state has reported a case in the last 24 hours. The Street Reporters Newspaper reports that ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on the 4th of June 2020, said 350 new confirmed cases and 8 deaths were recorded in Nigeria and no new state has reported a case in the last 24 hours. The Street Reporters Newspaper reports that till date, 11516 cases have been confirmed, 3535 cases have been discharged and 323 deaths have ...

Delta Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has congratulated Professor Innocent Ujah on his election as President of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA). Ujah, a professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, was the immediate past Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR), Yaba, Lagos. Ujah was elected at the association’s Annual General Conference and Delegates Meeting held online on Saturday. He ...

…INEC to Test-run, Fine-tune its Anti-COVID-19 Modified Processes at Bye-elections The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is set to proceed with the governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states. Chairman of the commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, who spoke on Saturday during its first virtual meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs), observed that like every other national institution in Nigeria, the ...

May 29, 2020, marks the end of the first year of the second four-year term of the Muhammadu Buhari administration, and the fifth year of the government in office. Between May 29, 2015, when it was inaugurated for the first term, and now, the Buhari administration has made salutary impact in almost all the facets of Nigerian life. The government ...

…Demands the Senate President, Speaker Step Aside for Probe Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to institute a thorough investigation of circumstances surrounding the introduction of the Infectious Diseases Bill otherwise known as Forced Vaccination Bill over new fingers pointing at Bill Gates, strengthening the argument of those accusing the National Assembly of receiving ...

Gombe state has discharged another set of Almajiri children from the Amada quarantine camp having tested negative to coronavirus after completing their two weeks quarantine period in the state. The forty-four children discharged today were part of the batch of sixty four children at the transit camp, with the remaining twenty children awaiting their test results later today. Gombe state ...

…Assures Adequate Security The Inspector-General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu, has congratulated Nigerians as the Muslim Ummah in the country celebrate this year’s Eid-el-Fitr. In a statement signed by the Police Spokesman, DCP FRANK MBA, the IGP noted that “the successful conclusion of the Ramadan, a period of self-denial geared towards attaining wholesomeness, reinforces his belief that with the citizens’ ...

The Director General of the World Health Organisation, Dr Tedros Ghebreysus, has declared the coronavirus outbreak is “time for humility”, echoing the 2020 prophecy of Nigerian cleric TB Joshua. On Monday 18th May 2020, Ghebreyesus, whilst addressing world leaders who had gathered for the first virtual session of the World Health Assembly amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, announced, “If this virus ...

After several setbacks to assume the office, Arc. Waziri Bulama has finally taken his oath of office as the new acting National Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The swearing ceremony which just took place at the party national secretariat on Monday, conducted by the party’s national chairman Adams Oshiomhole, had two governors of Borno and Gombe in ...

The Int’l Society for Civil Liberties & Rule of Law (Intersociety) has, in a letter accused the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) of not taking charge. It noted that the country’s citizens and the international watchers would want to be expertly told what caused certain infections and deaths classified as “strange” since the centre’s mandate goes beyond the current ...