Nigeria Update

Covid-19: Lagos spends N720m on 16,000 tests

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, says it costs the state…

Covid-19: Nigerians abusing chloroquine

The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 and Secretary to the Government…

Go on strike, lose your jobs, El-Rufai warns doctors, other health workers

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has warned medical doctors and other health workers…

Schools will reopen soon, says Education Minister

The Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, has said that the Federal Government…

COVID-19: Oyo records 28 new cases

According to the latest figures released by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)…

COVID-19: Firm donates 10 ventilators, PPE to Kano

A  consumer finance company, Zedvance Ltd. on Thursday, donated 10 ventilators and Personal Protective…

Delta: Mobile testing centre increased Covid-19 detection, treatment – Official

Chief Press Secretary (CPS), Mr Olise Ifeajika,  to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta, said…

Covid-19: Lagos records four deaths, 199 new cases, total now 2970

Lagos State has recorded four additional coronavirus fatalities. The state Health Commissioner, Prof Akin…

10 members of one family contract Covid-19 in Kaduna

The Kaduna State Government has confirmed that 18 new cases of coronavirus disease have…

Woman, 75, dies of coronavirus in Ekiti

Ekiti State has lost a 75-year-old female coronavirus patient. This is the second COVID-19…

JUST IN:Nigeria Records 339 New COVID-19 Cases, total now 7106

Nigeria has recorded 339 new cases of COVID-19, bringing to 7,016 the total number…

COVID-19: 40 Kano doctors, health workers discharged

Forty out of the fifty doctors and health workers in Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital…

Borno approves Eid congregational prayers, asks residents above 60 years to stay at home

The Borno state government has approved congregational meetings for the Eid El Fitr Prayers…

Covid-19: ‘We are running out of bed spaces’, Lagos state to admit only severe cases at isolation centres

Lagos state commissioner for health, Prof. Akin Abayomi has said that they would henceforth…

Covid-19: Oyetola commissions 160-bed isolation centre (photos)

In an effort to curb the Coronavirus pandemic, the Governor of Osun State, Gboyega…