Category: COVID-19
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COVID-19: FCT shuts bars, restaurants, parks for five weeks
Following the increasing cases of coronavirus, the Federal Capital Territory Minister, Malam Muhammad Bello, has ordered that all bars, restaurants, leisure gardens, and event centres should be shut for five weeks. He also said that informal and formal festivity events, including weddings, conferences, congresses, office parties, concerts, seminars, sporting activities, and end of year events…
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Delta 2023: The Beckoning Golden Age – Onome Akpodiete
By Onome Akpodiete If dynamic and seamless governance is necessarily the dream and intent of political leaders and if that in turn engineers and drives their political endeavors, then the people have no problem walking up the ladder of good life. The placement of a people on that ladder is a factor of the dreams…
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COVID-19 and the Paris Grand slam thrill – Osayande Ero
By Osayande Ero Welcome to Roland Garros (Paris, France) the final Grand Slam of the COVID-19 hit season. The French Open event which was originally scheduled for May 2020, had to be moved due to the coronavirus pandemic that has taken the world by storm with millions of lives lost. What was usually the second…
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Sad! Japanese fashion designer dies of COVID-19
Japanese fashion designer Kenzo Takada, known as Kenzo, who created his label in Paris in the 1970s, passed on this Sunday, the brand that still carries his name said. Aged 81, Takada died of complications linked to COVID-19 at the American Hospital of Paris in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a residential suburb on the western outskirts of the…
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Crucial supplies contribute to COVID-19 response in Nigeria
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) received the delivery of 115,800 COVID-19 test kits to support the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria. These supplies were funded by IHS Nigeria, the Nigerian subsidiary of IHS Towers. Testing remains the mainstay of the response led by the Presidential Task Force and Nigeria Centre for Disease Control…
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COVID-19: Federal govt issues directive to churches, mosques
Chairman of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, has urged religious leaders to advise their congregations to wear facemask. Mustapha made the statement during Mondays’s PTF media briefing on COVID-19 on Monday in Abuja. Speaking on his displeasure over Nigerians moving about without facemask, Boss Mustapha said that religious leaders and traditional…
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All primary, secondary students get automatic promotions in Ogun as govt announces resumption dates
All students except those in tertiary institutions have been given an automatic promotion to the next class by the Ogun State Government which announced September 21 for the reopening of schools in the state for the first term of 2020/2021 session. The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Kunle Somorin, made the announcement in a…
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Robots to protect doctors working with COVID-19 Patients – Minister
Rwanda uses robots to protect doctors, who treat COVID-19 patients through minimising contact, Health Minister Daniel Ngamije said on Thursday. Ngamije said this at a news conference in Moscow. “We have some health personnel who have been infected with COVID-19. “I think there are less than 10 because we deployed all the Personal Protective Equipment…
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9 lawmakers test positive for COVID-19 – Speaker
Nine members of the Turkish Grand National Assembly, as well as 35 employees of the legislative body, have tested positive for coronavirus, parliamentary speaker Mustafa Sentop said on Thursday. “Nine of our lawmakers have been infected with the coronavirus, four of them are receiving treatment in hospitals. “In addition, the coronavirus was detected in 35…
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Madagascar herb not cure for COVID-19, FG declares
The Federal Government on Thursday declared that the much talked about “Madagascar COVID-19 herb syrup did not show any evidence that it had real curative properties against COVID-19. The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, made the disclosure in Abuja at the 52nd Joint National Briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF), on COVID-19. According…