Wife of the Kwara Governor, Mrs Olufolake AbdulRazaq, has said that her office and Ajike Peoples Support Centre were poised to eliminate malaria in the state, even as they fight to end COVID-19.
AbdulRazaq stated this in a statement signed by her Chief Press Secretary, Mr Adeyinka Adeniyi, in Ilorin...
One of the four suspects arraigned for killing Mrs Funke Olakunrin, daughter of Pa Fasoranti, has tested positive for COVID-19.
The four suspects were arraigned last Friday and remanded to a Correctional facility in Owo.
Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, who confirmed this in a tweet on Sunday morning, said the...
Lagos State Health Commissioner, Prof Akin Abayomi, says the youth population in the state gives it an edge in the fight against the pandemic.
He said young people do better with the virus and the government would undertake a study on the genetics of this segment of its population.
The commissioner,...
The global death toll in the novel coronavirus pandemic soared past the grim 200,000 milestone on Sunday, as the World Health Organization warned against “immunity passports” for recovered patients, seen as a possible tool for countries preparing to re-open their economies.
The WHO opposes such “passports” because recovery from the...
Oyo State governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, disclosed on Saturday, that no fewer than 120,000 households and groups will benefit from the palliatives being planned by the state.
Governor Makinde, who addressed newsmen at the end of a meeting of the state’s Covid-19 Task Force, said that 90,000 households identified as...
Lagos State Commissioner for Wealth Creation and Employment, Mrs. Yetunde Arobieke on Friday disclosed that over 8,000 beneficiaries of the Conditional Cash Transfer of the Federal Government would soon emerge from the State.
She made this disclosure while speaking at a 4-day training session organised for some officials of selected...
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II, on Saturday, donated two locally-fabricated modular fumigators and drones to the Oyo State government to assist the state in its effort to contain the spread of the novel Coronavirus.
Oba Ogunwusi, who was received at the Government House, Agodi, Ibadan,...
The Lagos State Government, in collaboration with Microsoft Office, through ATB Techsoft Solutions, has concluded plans to train 18,000 of its teachers on "Digital Literacy” from Monday, April 27, 2020, as part of activities designed to fully engage staff of the State Post-Primary Teaching Service during the COVID-19 lockdown...
The State Secretariat will be reopened on Monday April 27th 2020. Only civil servants at level 13 and above with separate offices will resume.
The following guidelines are in place to prevent and control the spread of COVID-19 within the secretariat:
• There will be new security measures in place including...
The State Government of Osun says it has conducted fresh 167 Coronavirus tests, out of which 12 returned positive.
The State Commissioner for Health, Dr Rafiu Isamotu who disclosed this in a statement on Saturday, revealed that the 12 new cases were recorded in Osogbo, Ife, Ede, Ikire and Ejigbo.
Isamotu...
