In the middle of March 2020, information on the use of chloroquine in curing the coronavirus disease went viral, mostly spurred by the contribution of the...
This is a piece around and about what I have seen about Corona Virus in Nigeria, from a sociological perspective, and not a report of any...
The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has warned people of the South East region of impending hunger in the land...
The All Progressives Congress (APC), has responded to suggestions made by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on measures to be taken by the administration of President...
Two children have been confirmed positive for the COVID-19 virus in Enugu, the state Ministry of Health confirmed on Saturday night. The two children are part...
Oyo State, governor, Seyi Makinde, has said schools in the state may resume on July 15, despite a warning from the Presidential Task Force on Coronavirus...
The Emir of Rano, Dr Tafida Abubakar Ila ll, is said to be in critical condition and has been rushed to a hospital over yet to...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has countered claims made by the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump that the novel coronavirus which has...
To curb the spread of the coronavirus, the federal government announced Friday that about 12,000 contacts were being traced for sample and testing. The Director General...
Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) is giving humanity its toughest challenge since 1918 – when influenza killed more people than during World War I. Since its outbreak late...
Any objective analysis of a long-winded essay, “COVID-19: Can Africa Afford Lockdowns?”, by Chukwuma Soludo, would wonder if the renowned economist is suddenly cast with a...
The Kano State government has moved to publish the pictures of the two remaining patients who went into hiding after testing positive to COVID-19. This was...
Paris St-Germain have been awarded the Ligue 1 title after it was announced the season would not resume because of the coronavirus pandemic. The champions were...
A herbal solution to fight the COVID-19 pandemic which has spread across countries of the world is at an advanced stage, with traditional medicine practitioners, so...
The Edo State Government said on Wednesday that it has intensified efforts at tracing 502 suspected cases in 228 communities in the state for the COVID-19...
Nigeria’s oil and gas exports are envisaged to plunge by a minimum of $26.5 billion as oil prices take a bashing from the coronavirus pandemic, the...
More than 300 coronavirus cases have been detected in three of Morocco’s 73 prison facilities, Moroccan Prison Service disclosed on Tuesday. The discoveries were made after...
The senator who represented Kaduna Central at the 8th Senate, Shehu Sani, on Wednesday, described Nigeria as a “debtor and a beggar nation.” The former senator...
Britain’s National Health Service and Medical Practitioners in the United States, Spain and Italy say they may have detected a possible link between the novel coronavirus...
The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has described the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a bull in a China shop. The group also said that the opposition...
The leagues in France are very unlikely to conclude the rest of the 2019-2020 season after the government of France banned all sporting events until September....
The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, said on Tuesday members of the Chinese medical team currently in Nigeria to assist in the ongoing efforts to...
Authorities of the Scandinavian Airline (SAS) have revealed plans to lay off close to 5,000 full-time employees due to the limited demand for air travels as...
The Bank of Industry (BOI) has offered a three-month moratorium for all the loans it granted to borrowers to enable them deal with the impact of...
The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva on Monday said she expected the Fund to have granted Nigeria with considerable emergency financing...
The Petroleum Products Price Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) has said Nigerians should be ready to pay high or low prices for petrol considering the price liberalisation scheme...
A Nigerian man has criticised ‘African Queen’ crooner, 2face Idibia, for donating the sum of N10 million to the Federal Government of Nigeria in its ongoing...
A national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and and his wife Senator Remi Tinubu have both tested negative for covid-19. A...
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has charged the Federal Government to immediately intervene in the mass deaths going on in Kano State. In a statement issued...
President Muhammadu Buhari will today (Monday) address Nigerians by 8pm over the covid-19 lockdown order. Many Nigerians had been apprehensive as debates had raged over whether...
Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State has ordered senior civil servants and political appointees in the state to forfeit 50 percent of their salaries to fund...
The Kaduna State government has confirmed that it has recorded five new cases of the deadly COVID-19 disease in the state on Sunday. In a statement...
The Kano State government on Monday said two more people had died from covid-19 in the state, bring the total number of deaths from the virus...
Management of the hospital where the first coronavirus infected patient died says it will shut down for two weeks, a statement revealed. The management of Lafia...
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has implored Britons to patiently adhere to the restrictive measures aimed at containing further spread of the coronavirus in his first...
South Korea’s Unification Minister Kim Yeon-chul, who oversees engagement with the North, has urged caution over the rumored death of headstrong leader Kim Jong Un. After...
The Borno High Powered Committee on Coronavirus (COVID-19) has urged residents of Maiduguri to be on the alert after two positive patients went into hiding in...
The Zamfara State government led by Governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle has confirmed two new cases of COVID-19 in the state. Governor Matawalle in a series of...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned against countries issuing “immunity passports” as there is ‘no evidence’ that recovered coronavirus patients are protected from reinfection. WHO...
The death of Abba Kyari, the former Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, has elicited a great deal of controversy, but the posterity demands that...
If there is any programme of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration that has enjoyed the most attention, spiced with unfair criticisms – hinged mostly on beer...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has collected N1.4 trillion ($3.9 billion) from banks in the country with excess cash holdings as part of strategies to...
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), like every other member association of the world football governing body FIFA, is set to receive the sum of $500,000 (about...
The General Overseer of The Lord’s Chosen Charismatic Revival Movement, Pastor Lazarus Muoka, has lashed out at world leaders for putting in place stringent measures in...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has set up a 10-member committee to fashion out ways courts could sit amid measures to contain Covid-19 spread. Lockdown and...
The President of the United States of America, Donald Trump has urged nationals to go out and enjoy the sun after studies revealed that the impact...
The first human trial of the novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccine has begun in Europe. Two volunteers were injected in Oxford out of more than 800 people...
He told us he would be back at his desk soon. I believed it. But now, it would never happen. Not tomorrow, not next week, not...
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Muhammad Musa Bello, on Thursday, vowed to invoke all relevant laws to force wealthy Nigerians who have tested positive...
A coronavirus infected patient at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo State has died. Governor Seyi Makinde made this announcement in a series of tweets on...