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Sixty patients have been discharged from Lagos State isolation facilities following their full recovery from coronavirus infection, the Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday. The patients tested negative to COVID-19 twice and have been discharged to reunite with the society. The discharged patients comprises 40 males and 20 females. This brings the total recoveries in Lagos to 321. “60 more …

The Senate has called for the decentralisation of the Nigeria Police Force into 13 zonal commands, each with “operational and budgetary powers.” The lawmakers also urged state assemblies to make necessary laws to legalise community policing to be established at the local government level while state governors should fund the community policing from grants appropriated to each local government. These were part …

Fear has gripped residents of different parts of Abia State following the interception on Tuesday of a group of Almajiris loaded in cattle truck on their Way to Abia. It was gathered that Abia State Homeland Security agents led by the Commissioner for Homeland Security, Prince Dan Okoli intercepted the Almajiris hidden in cattle trucks at Enugu-Abia border, along the …

The Jigawa State Government on Tuesday announced that coronavirus is rapidly infecting its people at the community level, thus endangering the lives of many. It also said some of the deaths it has witnessed in recent days are inexplicable. “The 32 new cases in Jigawa are not from returned Almajiris. These are community transmissions from the cases recorded. Numbers will …

Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire told the House of Representatives on Tuesday, that the government of President Muhammadu Buhari, is open to the possibility of using local herbs to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, but insisted that the Nigeria Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development must first certify any such remedy. The Minister who made the disclosure when the Presidential …

President Muhammadu Buhari has extolled the virtues of late former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, who also served as Governor of Katsina State for eight years, saluting his honest and sincere service to the country. The President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday, said Mr Buhari made his feelings known as …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said the state would be sustained by a robust agriculture-based economy in the aftermath of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, with its ongoing investments to spur agribusiness, agro-processing and other agro-allied sectors in the state. The governor disclosed this during the inspection of ongoing construction work at the Edo State College of Agriculture, Iguoriakhi …

Senators representing Edo State at the National Assembly have donated two trailer loads of food items to support the Governor Godwin Obaseki-led government’s response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the state. The senators are Matthew Urhoghide, representing Edo South Senatorial District under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP); Clifford Ordia, representing Edo Central under the PDP and …

Edo State Government has said that it never released any photograph of the fleeing COVID-19 patient, a nursing mother, who is wanted for treatment in the state. In a statement, Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Communication Strategy, Mr. Crusoe Osagie, said this in reaction to a video on social media by someone claiming to have been falsely …

Following the gradual ease of the lockdown announced by President Muhammadu Buhari in Ogun State, residents of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital on Monday, refused to observe social distancing and wearing of face masks order by the state government as they went about their normal business activities. Visit by our correspondent to banks, markets, motor parks, revealed that many residents …