A driver with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Nasarawa. The state Governor Abdullahi Sule made the disclosure on Tuesday in Lafia during an expanded state security meeting. Sule said that the driver transported test samples to the NCDC in Abuja and got infected in the […]
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has warned that the crowded scenes on Monday could result in more persons contracting coronavirus and lead to another lockdown. “Initial reports are not too pleasing across the country,” Director-General of the NCDC, Chikwe Ihekweazu, said on the lockdown compliance at the Presidential Task Force briefing on COVID-19 on […]
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike yesterday announced a 24-hour total lockdown and a dusk-dawn curfew on Port Harcourt and Obio/Akpor Local Government Areas as part of the state government’s measures to check the spread of coronavirus. In a broadcast, Governor Wike said: “Consequently, we have decided on the extreme measure of placing the entire […]
senateConcerned Nigerians yesterday intensified pressure on the House of Representatives even as it appeared poised to pass the controversial Control of Infectious Diseases Bill 2020 today. They raised posers as to why the proposed legislation is coming as Nigeria battles the coronavirus pandemic. They wondered why the country is exploring the prospect of forcing parents […]