UgamatvCOVID-19: PTF incompetent, dissolve it now, PDP tells Buhari
The Peoples Democratic Party has called on the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to dissolve the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 over alleged incompetence. In a…
South Africa police arrest thousands over facemasks
South African police have arrested more than 7,000 people caught without face masks in public since the end of December, the government said on Wednesday. Officials made face coverings mandatory…
Varsity reopening: NANS to set up COVID-19 task force
The National Association of Nigerian Students has urged the Federal Government and members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities to resume academic activities at the nation’s public universities. The…
COVID-19: South Africa shuts land borders
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday extended recently imposed coronavirus restrictions and placed curbs on land border traffic, as the country grapples with an unprecedented surge in cases fuelled…
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- January 12, 2021
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Senate probes ministry over N4.6bn Ebola fund query
The Senate Public Account Committee has sustained the damming verdict of the Auditor General for the Federation on the management of the N4.6bn fund meant to tackle the Ebola scourge…
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- January 12, 2021
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Why most Nigerians don’t believe COVID-19 is real
I have observed with great consternation, even surprise, and I’m sure you too have, that most Nigerians do not believe COVID-19 is real in spite of very compelling evidence including…
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- January 12, 2021
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Hospitals won’t be able to handle serious COVID-19 cases soon — NCDC
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says the country is now reaching a critical level, adding that the hospital capacity will no longer be able to cope with more serious…
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- January 10, 2021
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Twins conceived naturally can have two biological fathers — Experts
Medical experts say that it is possible for twins conceived naturally to have two different biological fathers. The phenomenon, they say, is known as heteropaternalsuperfecundation — a phenomenon that occurs…
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- January 10, 2021
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Crisis: Major COVID-19 hospital faces oxygen, bed space shortages
The COVID-19 pandemic seems to be taking a dangerous turn in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja going by a shortage of oxygen and bed spaces for critical cases. It was…
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- January 8, 2021
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Buhari, Osinbajo, SGF to take COVID-19 vaccine on live telecast
The Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Faisal Shuaib, has said the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.); Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo; the Secretary to the Government of the…
