Coronavirus: Forty-eight New Cases—Tally now 541
As at 10:40pm Saturday 18th April, 2020, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced forty-eight new confirmed cases of the Coronavirus in Nigeria with 23 cases in Lagos, 12 cases in the Federal Capital Territory, 10 cases in Kano, 2 cases in…
INFERNO: CAC HEADQUARTERS ON FIRE
A week after the Treasury House of the Accountant General of the Federation went up in flames, the headquarters of the Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC located in Maitama, Abuja has also been gutted by fire. The inferno is reported to have gulfed the…
Protest in Delta State Over Lockdown Extension
Sapele Oghenek a news outlet on facebook reported that about an hour ago, residents of Sapele, Delta State took to the streets to protest against the extension of the lockdown by two weeks ordered by the Governor of Delta State, His Excellency, Dr…
CORONAVIRUS: TWENTY NEW CASES—TALLY NOW 343
As at 9:30pm Monday, 13th April, 2020, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced twenty new confirmed cases of the Coronavirus in Nigeria with thirteen cases in Lagos, two cases in Edo, two cases in Kano, two cases in Ogun and a case in…
Coronavirus: Five New Cases—Tally 323
As at 9:30pm Sunday, 12th April, 2020, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced five new confirmed cases of the Coronavirus in Nigeria with two cases in Lagos, two cases in Kwara and a case in Katsina As at the time of this report, the…
UNREST: ROBBERIES IN OGUN, LAGOS AND OYO
There has been an uproar on social media about the organized gang robberies perpetuated by the one million boys in some areas in Ogun, Lagos and Oyo. Residents live in fear as these criminals who are barely in their twenties, armed with cutlasses and…
Coronavirus: 13 New Cases—Tally Rises to 318
As at 9:30pm Saturday, 11th April, 2020, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced thirteen new confirmed cases of the Coronavirus in Nigeria with eleven cases in Lagos, a case in Kano and a case in Delta. As at the time of this report, the…
PROGRESS: ANOTHER CORONAVIRUS PATIENT DISCHARGED
The executive governor of Lagos State, His Excellency Babajide Sanwo-Olu, took to his twitter account to announce the discharge of a female patient who has fully recovered from the Coronavirus virus at the isolation centre in Yaba, Lagos State. This…
CORONAVIRUS: 6 NEW CASES, 2 DISCHARGED —TALLY NOW 238
As at 9:30pm Monday, 6th April, 2020, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) reported six new confirmed cases of the Coronavirus in Nigeria with two cases in Kwara, two in the Edo, a case in Rivers and a case in the Federal Capital Territory As at…
COVID-19 AS BLESSING IN DISGUISE
By Anthony Olubunmi Okogie The outbreak of COVID-19 has been a dangerous yet revelatory moment in Nigeria. It is dangerous because this deadly pandemic has infected over a million and killed thousands of citizens of our planet. No one seems to know when…