Tag: Covid-19

Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC) Prof. Abubakar Rasheed on Tuesday announced that 32 federal, state and private universities are conducting different stages of research to tackle direct and collateral…

The management of Bristow Helicopters Limited has terminated the appointment of about 100 pilots working with the company. The company in a statement issued on Tuesday said the effect of…

Kwara State Deputy Governor Kayode Alabi and his wife Abieyuwa have contracted coronavirus. This was made known in a statement by the state’s Technical Committee on COVID-19 spokesperson, Rafiu Ajakaye,…

Air Peace has sacked over 70 pilots across its fleet types amid coronavirus pandemic negative effect. The airline said it had to take the “painful but rightful” decision in the…

The Federal Government has evacuated 289 more Nigerians stranded in the United States due to coronavirus-related border closure. An Ethiopian Airlines plane conveying the evacuees took off from New Jersey…

By our correspondents The National Association of Resident Doctors has given the Federal Government three weeks to address its demands or its members would resume their suspended strike on Monday,…

Citing fears of a possible spread of COVID-19 among inmates, Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, has asked the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to take Big Brother Naija (BBN) off the…

Moses Godonu   Lagos state Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi has said that COVID-19 cases are likely to peak in the month of August. He made the disclosure at…

Five countries have been identified as responsible for over 80 per cent of the COVID-19 cases in West Africa, the West African Health Organisation (WAHO) said. Addressing Members of ECOWAS…

US President Donald Trump has urged Americans to wear masks, warning that the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States may “get worse before it gets better.“ In what seems to be…