COVID-19

Napoli and Super Eagles striker, Victor Osimhen, has returned positive for coronavirus, his Italian club confirmed on Friday evening. On arrival from Lagos, the former Lille and Royal Charleroi star was subjected to the compulsory…

The World Health Organisation on Thursday granted emergency validation to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, paving the way for countries worldwide to quickly approve its import and distribution. The decision “makes the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine…

The representative of Kaduna Central in the eighth National Assembly, Senator Shehu Sani, has warned that the COVID19 vaccines, which the Federal Government planned to import with N400 billion, might lose potency and get contaminated before…

The International Criminal Police Organisation, popularly called Interpol, has traced a €500,000 COVID-19 fraud to Nigeria. The organisation made this known in a statement on its website titled, ‘Unmasked: International COVID-19 fraud…

Authorities in all 36 states of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have been asked to reopen all laboratories and scale up the testing for COVID-19. The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on…

Anthony Iwuoma The second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has continued to wreak havoc, as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) reported seven more deaths and 838 new cases on Sunday. The latest figures bring the total number…

 The President of the Nigeria Medical Association, Professor Innocent Utah, has said that Nigerians should not wait till they start seeing dead bodies on the streets before they believe that COVID-19 exists. He said this on …

The Osun State government on Sunday said it would not allow countdown to New Year ceremonies and cross overnights by religious bodies and groups during the New Year eve. But in neighbouring Ogun, the Christian Association of Nigeria…

South Africa is considering reinstating a total ban on liquor sales as the number of Covid-19 infections surge over the summer holiday season, a person familiar with the discussions said. Restrictions on alcohol sales have been…

South Africa’s total coronavirus infections since the first case in March crossed a million on Sunday, its Health Ministry said, just days after a new faster-spreading variant was confirmed to be present in the country.…