The Chief Medical Director, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Prof. Jesse Otegbayo, has said that he tested positive for coronavirus.
The CMD made this known in a statement on Sunday morning.
The CMD’s positive status was among the four new cases recorded in Oyo State and announced by the Nigeria Centre for...
The Comptroller-General of Nigeria Immigration Service, Mohammed Babandede, has tested positive for Coronavirus (COVID-19).
“I tested positive for COVID-19,” said Mr Babandede in a message sent in the early hours of Sunday. “I have been in self-isolation since my return from the UK on Sunday on Sunday 22nd of this...
The Ogun State Government has announced the closure of its borders with its neighbouring states and the Republic of Benin to stem further spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
The announcement was contained in a statement issued by Kunle Somorin, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Dapo Abiodun in Abeokuta on...
Lagos State Government has taken delivery of a 110-bed isolation facility on the Lagos Island, where confirmed cases of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the State can be managed and treated. The facility was conceived and built in collaboration with the management of Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank).
Managing Director of...
Nigerian health minister, Osagie Ehanire, has provided insight into why he, alongside other officials, visited President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
Mr Ehanire met with Mr Buhari on Saturday, alongside Chikwe Ihekweazu, director-general of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), over the outbreak of the coronavirus...
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has raised the alarm over an alleged plot by the Federal Government to rearrest the publisher of Sahara Reporters, Mr Omoyele Sowore.
In a petition to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, the Lagos lawyer said the new plot to arrest Sowore...
The 75 monarchs appointed and promoted by a former governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun, have dragged the current governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, to court over their demotion.
The monarchs described the reversal of their upgrading, appointments and promotions by Abiodun as a nullity and of no effect, whatsoever.
The monarchs,...
The Osun State Government has announced the total lockdown of the State on Tuesday following the confirmation of the second case of the deadly Coronavirus.
The Government reaffirmed the commitment to shut down all the land boundaries effective from midnight, Sunday, March 29, 2020.
The Governor of the State, Mr. Adegboyega...
All arrangements have been concluded by the former Minister of Youths Development and Sports in Nigeria and the APC National Publicity Secretary who was also a governorship aspirant in Kwara state on the platform of PDP, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, popularly known as Omoluabi, today, to commence the distribution of...
The Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, announced on Saturday that he tested positive for coronavirus.
El-Rufai, who disclosed this in a video on Twitter, said he had embarked on self-isolation as required by the case management guidelines of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control for anyone not showing symptoms.
He...
