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A Lagos State Magistrates’ Court in Ogba has found Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele, and her husband, AbdulRasheed Bello, guilty of violating a ban on all types of gatherings in the state put in place by the government in order to curb the spread of Coronavirus.  The magistrate, Mrs Aje Afunwa, also ordered that they should be placed in self-isolation and submit the names and phone numbers of all persons, who attended the birthday party. 

ADDRESS BY H.E. MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE COVID- 19 PANDEMIC SUNDAY 29TH MARCH, 2020 1. Fellow Nigerians, Sign-up For Daily News Update 2. From the first signs that Coronavirus, or COVID-19 was turning into an epidemic and was officially declared a world-wide emergency, the Federal Government started planning preventive, containment and curative measures in the event the disease hits Nigeria. 3. The whole instruments of government are now mobilized to confront what has now become both a health emergency and an economic crisis. 4. Nigeria, unfortunately, confirmed its first case on 27th February 2020. Since then, we have seen the number of confirmed cases rises slowly. 5. By the morning of March 29th, 2020, the total confirmed cases within Nigeria had risen to ninety-seven. 6. Regrettably, we also had our first fatality, a former employee of PPMC, who died on 23rd March 2020. Our thoughts and prayers ar...

Coronaviruses are a family of viruses that can cause illnesses such as the common cold, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). In 2019, a new coronavirus was identified as the cause of a disease outbreak that originated in China. The virus is now known as the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The disease it causes is called coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Nigeria is categorise under developing country with poor public health care system. Our public hospitals sometimes don’t even have enough beds to accommodate those seeking medical attention on a regular day. So, with the outbreak of the Coronavirus, this may bring about a bigger issue than many realize. Public hospitals don’t have much staff and in countless amounts of them, only have one doctor on call who has to attend to hundreds of patients a day. And also the government are not making provision for it. Nigeria are so desperate to the extent th...

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the Public Affairs Unit of the State Ministry of Transportation (MOT) had on Friday announced the closing down of the Marine Bridge, partially between 8.00p.m and 8.00a.m daily from March 28 to Aug. 15 for repair. The statement said that the closure would allow the construction works by the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing to replace the worn-out Elastomeric Bearing, and Expand the Metallic joints on the bridge. It said that the repair works, meant to take duration of 20 weeks, would be done in two phases of 10 weeks each to ease traffic movements. Announcing suspension of the bridge closure on Saturday in a statement, Dr Frederic Oladeinde, the State Commissioner for Transportation, said that the repair work would be suspended until further notice Oladeinde said that the decision was based on the focus of the state to tackle the Coronavirus pandemic. According to him, the suspension has also become imperative be...

Nigerian Presidency on Saturday refuted a report that President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the distribution of N30,000 each to every Nigerian with Bank Verification Number (BVN). Media reports claimed that presidential spokesman Femi Adesina disclosed the approval to their correspondent. “The President announced the relief package to be given out N30,000 to every Nigerian who has a verified BVN account to ease pressure posed by the order to lockdown economic activities,” the reports said quoting Adesina.

Explosion rocked Akure Overnight, destroyed houses including possibility Church building, Ogbese, filling station and divided the road leading to Owo into 2 along the church axis. See photos below... We pray this bad occurrence never happens again, Amen ❤

Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has alleged that Abba Kyari has “scampered” to Cuba for Coronavirus treatment. Kanu wondered why former Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu and former spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisah Metuh are in jail while Kyari, who, according to him, has looted the budgetary allocation to the Aso Rock Clinic since 2015. There is a developing story that President Muhammadu Buhari and his Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari had secretly left the shores of Nigeria seeking treatment for Coronavirus, otherwise called COVID-19 abroad. The rumour is getting stronger and spreading like the dreaded virus itself as Nigerians are now asking for the whereabouts of their President on social media platforms. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed on Thursday debunked the rumours that Buhari has also contracted the dreaded virus. Also the President’s aide, Bashir Ahmad, also said that the rumour of Buhari be...