COVID-19

The Federal Government has said another lockdown was not its plans in a bid to ward off the spread of Delta variant of COVID-19, except as a last resort. It cited the extreme effects of lockdowns on the economy and everyday life.…

Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief at African Newspapers Nigeria Plc, the publishers of the Tribune titles, Mr. Edward Dickson, has said that the country’s traditional media houses already had ‘COVID-18’ before the advent of COVID-19.…

The Chief of Staff to Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Ephraim Inyang, has said that the pandemic has distorted so many plans of the state, saying that there were so many things that would been completed but for the…

UNICEF, and the World Health Organisation (WHO) has expressed concern over the activities of baby food producers who allegedly use COVID-19 as a cover to discourage exclusive breastfeeding to increase patronage of their products. Both…

The Federal Government has confirmed 32 cases of Delta Variant of COVID-19, bringing the country officially into the third wave of the pandemic. Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chike Ihekweazu,…

…Gov: ‘Moderna Vaccine comes in days, Astrazeneca supplements too’ The rise in the number of Coronavirus (COVID-19)-related fatalities recorded in the last one week presents a worrying trend of the third wave of the pandemic in Lagos…

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has said the administrative and financial autonomy being enjoyed by Local Government Areas (LGAs) and Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) in the State for almost two decades is not granted for…

Paramount Ruler of Ijebuland and Awujale of Ijebu, Oba (Dr.) Sikiru Kayode Adetona, has approved the cancellation of the 2021 edition of the annual Ojude Oba Festival of Ijebu Ode, eastern part of Ogun State. In a Press statement issued…

The United Nations migration agency on International Organisation for Migration (UN-IOM) has put the total number of displaced persons in North East Nigeria at about 12 million even as it said 4.4 million people are at the risk of food…

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed a case with the highly transmissible COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) Delta variant, also known as lineage B.1.617.2. Head of Communications of the NCDC, Dr. Yahya Disu, who announced the…