The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded an immediate investigation into the disturbing mass death in Kano state, urging a Presidential visit to the state, where no fewer than 640 citizens had reportedly died under mysterious circumstances in the last one week.
The party’s call is predicated on conflicting reports...
Kwara State Government has received 1,800 bags of 50kg bags of rice and 700 pieces of 25litres of vegetable oil as its share of the Federal Government’s palliatives, a statement said on Sunday.
Receiving the palliatives on behalf of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, Secretary to the Government of Kwara State Prof...
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has disclosed plans by the government to distribute about three million face masks to vulnerable residents, adding that it has identified an Isolation Centre in Alimosho area of the state.
Sanwo-Olu, who stated this during the daily briefing on COVID-19 in the state on...
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,...
