HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REQUEST THE WHEREABOUTS OF THE CHINESE DOCTORS. At the planery session of the House of Representatives for Tuesday, 19th May, 2020, Rep. Dachung Bagos, Member Representing Jos South/ Jos East Federal Constituency moved a motion on the need to know the whereabouts of the Chinese doctors whoContinue Reading
The official death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic is inching ever closer to the 200 mark. On Monday, May 18, 2020, nine new deaths were reported across Nigeria, thereby taking the death toll to 191; just nine shy of 200. Furthermore, the total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria has risen to 6175.Continue Reading
The Federal Government, on Monday, said the recent order of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on gradual ease of lockdown will remain in force for another two weeks. The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, disclosed this at the daily briefing of the taskContinue Reading
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday, May 18, revealed that not even technology, power, and resources can solve the problem of the COVID-19 pandemic. Buhari cited the examples of countries around the world blessed with these attributes who continue to record high casualty figures. The president spoke during a virtual meeting with the Nigeria Governors ForumContinue Reading
At least 83 tons of grains and fertilizer were Saturday shared to poor villagers in Plateau’s Mangu-Bokkos Federal Constituency. Sponsored by Nigerian House of Reps member, Solomon Maren, the items aim to ease socioeconomic stress caused by coronavirus. “This is to mitigate difficulties in procuring farm inputs as fertilizer, sequelContinue Reading
A SPECIAL PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT The attention of the Plateau State Government has been drawn to the flagrant disregard to government orders with regards to Corona Virus (COVID-19). Notable is the Presidential order which imposed a curfew on the country lasting between 8.00 p.m. to 6.00 a.m each day! It isContinue Reading
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reviewed its testing strategy for COVID-19 regarding the management of confirmed cases. It was gathered that the new guideline requires patients to be discharged after testing negative once for the disease, unlike it is usually the case. This was contained in a statementContinue Reading
Worried by the continuous violation of the closure of all boundary routes into Plateau State which has been identified as a major source of importing COVID-19 into the State, Governor Simon Bako Lalong on Monday 11th May 2020 visited some boundary entry points to assess the situation. Governor Lalong wasContinue Reading
Madagascar has reportedly sent its COVID-19 herbal remedy to Nigeria and other African countries. The herbal medicine known as COVID Organics (COV) is reported to be effective against coronavirus. Nigeria’s consignment has been sent to Equatorial Guinea from where it will be airlifted to Abuja. For ease of transportation, AfricanContinue Reading
The serving overseer of The Citadel Global Community Church, formerly known as Latter Rain Assembly, Tunde Bakare has donated three church buildings to the Lagos and Ogun state governments as isolation centres. This was contained in a video broadcast shared on Sunday, May 10; with Tunde Bakare imploring other churches to do the same; ratherContinue Reading