Six members of staff of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) have tested poistive to COVID19. This was disclosed via a post on the official twitter handle of the Commission on Monday afternoon. The post reads “six of 33 staff members in the Office of the Executive Director (Projects), Dr. Cairo #Ojougboh, have tested positive to Covid-19. However, Dr Ojougboh …

GOVERNMENT VOTED N10M PER PATIENT AND WE HAVEN’T BEEN GIVEN ANYTHING, THEY ALLEGE COVID-19 patients at the Kwadon Isolation Centre, Yamaltu Deba Local Government Area of Gombe State, on Tuesday blocked the popular Gombe/ Biu Road protesting against negligence, inadequate food and medical attention in the isolation centre. The patients were said to have left the isolation center and are …

A company owned by former Vice-President and Peoples Democratic Party Presidential candidate; Atiku Abubakar, on Friday, confirmed that it sacked some of its workers due to “restructuring process in the companies under our Group.” The company, Gotel Communications had reportedly sacked about 46 of its employees on Workers’ Day. It was reported that the company, in a letter by its …

President Muhuammadu Buhari has directed the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) to release 150 truck loads of rice seized from smugglers for immediate distribution across the country as part of the Federal Government’s palliative measures to cushion the effect of the #COVID19 Pandemic. Thus was made known on Monday by Bashir Ahmad who is Personal Assistant on New Media to President …

A truck conveying dynamites exploded the city of Akure in the early hours of Saturday causing extensive damage to property and leaving many injured. The blast which appeared to have its epicenter as the Akure-Owo Road, occurred just after midnight, leaving a wide crater on the road. The sound of the explosion was heard as far as Ondo town, and …

Another Nigerian has reportedly died from the dreaded Coronavirus, this time in London, England. A twitter user; Ayishat Akanbi had taken to the social media site to say that her cousin passed on this morning from the dreaded Coronavirus. My cousin who is a doctor and in her early 30s died of Coronavirus this morning for anyone irresponsible enough to …

Nigeria’s Minister for Health, Dr. Osagie Enahire has announced a second confirmed case of #COVID19 in Nigeria. This was stated in a release on Monday morning by the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). The statement said that this second case is a contact of the index case, in Ogun state. The new case has been in isolation and was …

The Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health has confirmed a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) case in Lagos State, Nigeria. The case, which was confirmed on the 27th of February 2020, is the first case to be reported in Nigeria since the beginning of the outbreak in China in January 2020. The case is an Italian citizen who works in Nigeria and returned …

STATE GOVT CALLS FOR CALM Lagos has recorded a case of the Lassa Hemorrhagic fever which has been reported to be raging in over 19 States in the country. Commissioner for Health Prof, Akin Abayomi who disclosed this today confirmed that the patient is currently in isolation at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH). Abayomi while noting that the situation …

Ikeja Electric Plc has announced that electricity tariffs will increase by 50% commencing from April 1. In a report by Punch Newspapers, the distribution company disclosed this in a letter to Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission dated February 12, 2020 on its performance and improvement plan and application for extraordinary tariff review of the Multi-Year Tariff Order 2015. It said, “In …