US President, Donald Trump, has fulfiled his promise to provide Nigeria with 200 ventilators.
Trump in a telephone chat with President Buhari in April, promised to provide Nigeria with the ventilators.
The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, received the ventilators on behalf of the Federal government on Tuesday August 11.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed that the novel Coronavirus is proving exceptionally difficult to stop, as the number of cases approaches 20 million with over 700,000 deaths as at today Monday, August 10.
Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization’s Health Emergencies Programme, speaking during...
Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo underwent Covid-19 test over the weekend at his residence in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
The former president has received many guests of late, hence the test.
His media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi said the test came back negative.
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There was mild drama at the Oyo State isolation centre Saturday, August 8, when a recovered COVID-19 patient refused to go home with her father, choosing instead to go with a soldier she met at the isolation centre.
About 20 people were discharged from the Infectious Disease Centre in Olodo,...
Kenyan communication executive, Doreen Moracha has shared a brief insight on her experience of living with HIV for 28 years.
In a birthday post she shared, Doreen who disclosed that she has been living with the disease since was born, said she was officially diagnosed with the disease on her...
Senator Kashamu Buruji has died. Buruji died yesterday August 8 after a battle with the novel Coronavirus. He was 62-years-old
His former colleague, Senator Ben Murray-Bruce announced his passing on Twitter this evening.
''I have just lost my good friend of forever to #COVID19. Until his death, Sen. Buruji Kashamu and I...
Police officers in the Apapa Area Command of Lagos State intercepted a 40-foot container filled with drugs suspected to be Tramadol and Codeine.
The container was intercepted on water and taken to a bonded terminal in Apapa, Channels TV reports.
A team of officers from Customs and the National Drug Law Enforcement...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Friday July 31, announced that 462 new cases of Coronavirus were confirmed across the country.
A breakdown of the new cases across states is as follows; FCT-93, Lagos-78, Plateau-64, Kaduna-54, Oyo-47, Ondo-32, Adamawa-23, Bauchi-19, Rivers-9, Ogun-9, Delta-9, Edo-7 , Kano-6, Enugu-6, Nasarawa-5, Osun-1.
There...
The entire population of a Spanish village with about 200 residents has been put into quarantine today after a 12-year-old girl tested positive for Coronavirus.
Fernando Resino Carrillo, the mayor of Sotillo de las Palomas explained the decision, saying the vast majority of the 200 residents fall into the risk...
Rahmat Abdullahi, the Council Secretary of Abuja Municipal Area Council revealed that she contracted Covid-19 "in the course of service" and she infected her daughter.
She explained that it was a period of "indescribable pain and trauma".
Thankfully, both mother and daughter are better now and have returned home.
She wrote: "I contracted...
China recorded 57 local Covid-19 cases on Sunday, the highest number the country has seen since it brought the coronavirus largely under control in March, according to figures released by the National Health Commission on Monday.
Out of the new locally transmitted cases, 41 were found in the far western...
Patients who are billed to undergo surgical procedures at the Federal Government-owned Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, are being mandated to equip their surgeons before they can be scheduled for their surgeries.
The patients are required to buy disposable goggles, face masks, disposable gowns, polypropylene mesh and Home Medical Equipment...
Italy has banned travellers from 13 countries over the COVID-19 pandemic, stopping nations it views as high risk Coronavirus countries from entering the country.
The full list comprises Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Kuwait, North Macedonia, Moldova, Oman, Panama and Peru.
The ban affects anyone who has...
The Chilean Police are now training dogs to detect people that may be infected with Coronavirus by sniffing their sweat.
Three golden retrievers and a labrador who are between the ages of four and five, are part of the program said to be a joint effort of the Chile’s national police, the...
Russian has announced it has completed the human trials of a new Coronavirus vaccine, adding that test patients used for the trials will be discharged soon and the vaccine could be available by August.
Russia sponsored and permitted clinical trials of two potential Coronavirus vaccines. The first one was developed...
Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Sunday announced the discharge of 56 more COVID-19 patients from its facilities.
The patients including 12 females and 44 males, as well as nine foreign nationals, were discharged from the isolation facilities to reunite with the society.
The patients, 25 from Gbagada; 5 from Agidingbi; 8...
The World Health Organisation has warned that the Coronavirus pandemic is "accelerating and getting worse" as lockdown measures are being relaxed in several countries in the world.
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the WHO, said the Covid-19 pandemic has still not reached its peak as he warned that coronavirus...
A 35-year-old Brazilian man who went into long-term remission after being treated for less than a year with an intensified multi-drug cocktail of AIDS medicines, has raised hope of a potential breakthrough on Tuesday July 7.
The man who tested positive for HIV in 2012, was treated with a base of antiretroviral...
Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, has announced live on television that he has tested positive for Coronavirus but feels 'perfectly well' and has only mild symptoms.
'I'm well, normal. I even want to take a walk around here, but I can't due to medical recommendations,' Bolsonaro told a group of journalists on Tuesday,...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported 575 new cases of COVID19 in Nigeria on July 6, 2020.
Below are the 575 new COVID19 cases as recorded by NCDC across twenty states:
Lagos-123FCT-100Delta-58Edo-52Ogun-42Katsina-24Bayelsa-23Rivers-22Borno-19Plateau-18Ondo-18Oyo-17Kwara-15Osun-13Enugu-9Nasarawa-7Abia-6Cross River-5Kaduna-3Ekiti-1
Source: Ministry of Health website, Nigeria
Wife to Peter Okoye, Lola, has shared her experience with coronavirus.
Lola Okoye in a video shared on her Instagram page on Wednesday said she went through so much pain while battling with COVID-19.
Recall that her husband, Peter of the defunct Psquare had few days ago revealed that his entire...
Nigeria records 15,839 new positive cases, 317 deaths in 30 days Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has disclosed that 80 more coronavirus (COVID-19) patients have recovered and cleared to reunite with their families and the society after testing negative to the virus.
In a statement, the governor said...
The European Union has approved the use of remdesivir to treat severe cases of Coronavirus.
The announcement was made on Friday July 3, days after the US effectively stockpiled the world’s entire supply of the antiviral medication. Its approval came after two major US studies showed that remdesivir can reduce the duration of hospital stay for COVID-19...
Jason Njoku, the co-founder and CEO of iROKOtv took to Twitter to serve an update about his mother who survived Coronavirus earlier this year.
According British-Nigerian entrepreneur, his mother is still struggling to recover after surviving Coronavirus and leaving the hospital on March 21.
He tweeted;
My mum survived Covid19 leaving the hospital 21March. 15wks later...
561 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded in Nigeria on Tuesday, June 30.
According to the Nigeria Center for Disease Control NCDC, Lagos recorded 200 new cases, Edo -119, Kaduna-52, FCT-52, Niger-32, Ogun-19, Ondo-16 ,Imo-14, Plateau-11, Abia-8, Oyo-8, Bayelsa-7, Katsina-6, Kano-5, Bauchi-3, Osun-3, Kebbi-3, Borno-2, Jigawa-1.
Nigeria has now recorded 25,694...
Nigerian Author/Sales and marketing expert, Ife Durosinmi Etti, has shared her story of how she survived the dreaded viral disease, COVID-19.
In a post she shared on her Instagram page, Ife recounted how she started feeling sick and went to the hospital on June 1st. There she did a test and afterwards...
People over the age of 80 are considered to be among the most vulnerable if they catch the virus. An aged man of over a 100 years old has been reported to have recovered from Coronavirus in Ethiopia Aba Tilahun Woldemichael’s family says he is 114, which would make...
Following the increasing number of people infected with the COVID-19 disease in Plateau State and the continued flagrant disregard for safety protocols, the State government has threatened to return the State to the period of total lockdown to curb the rate of community infection in the State.
The State...
The Federal Government on Monday pointed out a major threat to the fight against Coronavirus in Nigeria.
Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, lamented that the inability of Nigerians to take responsibility in limiting the spread of COVID-19 posed a threat to the fight against the...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has declared that no state in the country is COVID-19 free.
This was announced by NCDC’s Director-General, Chikwe Ihekweazu, while speaking at the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 on Monday.
Ihekweazu noted that a state can only talk about being Coronavirus free, when...
All businesses, corporations and enterprises had planned a robust policy for 2020, to start a new decade with bracing policies and decisions to scale up the business operations, increase sales and revenue; and shore up the profit base.
But there comes the bombshell, the Coronavirus (COVID-19), an epidemic detected on November...
The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 says it is not safe to reopen schools, television viewing centres and other areas of public interest.
PTF Chairman and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, disclosed this on Monday in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
According to him, some governors were...
About five million Nigerians are diabetic and another nine million have prediabetes, a pharmacist, Oluseyi Adenowo, said on Saturday in Awka.
Mr Adenowo, also a diabetes advocate, made the disclosure in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria to commemorate the ‘Diabetes Awareness Week 2020’.
The Diabetes Awareness week...
When coronavirus (COVID-19), struck as an epidemic on December 31, 2019, it was a previously-unknown virus and mainly limited to China. It began to spread and became a global pandemic when countries, across the world started recording cases. Nigeria confirmed its first case of coronavirus disease on February 27th 2020 and...
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Thursday, charged the ECOWAS Commission to come up with an economic recovery plan to help member-states to recover from the economic devastation caused by the COVID-19.
Buhari also lamented that COVID-19 had yet to reach its peak in West Africa and warned...
Malnutrition is the cause of death of over 45% of children under the age of five, and this challenge is not just restricted to the poorest families.
Six months have passed, the journey is finally over! You have managed to exclusively breastfeed your baby as recommended by all the health...
Covid19 in Nigeria: 409 new cases, total 13,873, 382 deaths
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has released the update of Covid in Nigeria, saying that 409 new cases were recorded on Wednesday, making a total 13,873 cases with 382 deaths.
See below the 409 new COVID19 cases confirmed by NCDC according...
Anambra State has recorded nine COVID-19 deaths, while 53 persons have tested positive for the virus.
The State governor, Willie Obiano, who disclosed this on Wednesday during a broadcast, said that the data was pulled out of the 230 results released so far from the 302 persons tested.
Governor Obiano also...
