Tag: Covid-19

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has berated President Muhammadu Buhari for not announcing the extension of gradual lockdown ease himself. Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF,…

Public health and telecommunication experts have identified various ways the fifth generation of network technology is helping many countries to fight the coronavirus pandemic. The experts, who spoke at the…

US biotech firm Moderna reported promising early results on Monday from the first clinical tests of an experimental vaccine against the novel coronavirus performed on a small number of volunteers.…

Asian shares jumped on Tuesday and oil extended gains on optimism the global economy would recover quickly while the euro hovered near a two-week top. Following  a successful early-stage trial…

The European Union backed the World Health Organisation and multilateral efforts to fight the coronavirus on Tuesday after US President Donald Trump threatened to quit the global agency. “This is…

Nigeria has recorded 216 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in the country to 6,175. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) made this known…

More than 250,000 children in war-torn Libya face the risk of developing vaccine-preventable diseases, UNICEF and WHO said. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organisation (WHO)…

China said it will contribute two billion dollars over the next two years for the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese President, Xi Jinping on Monday announced. The money…

Nigerians from UK  wanting to be brought back into the country must pay an extra N297,600 on their flight tickets to cover their stay in isolation, the foreign affairs ministry…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Friday handed over a property forfeited by former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Allison-Madueke, to the Lagos State government for use as an…