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Africans in southern China’s largest city say they have become targets of suspicion and subjected to forced evictions, arbitrary quarantines and mass coronavirus testing as the country steps up its fight against imported infections. China says it has largely curbed its COVID-19 outbreak but a recent cluster of cases linked to the Nigerian community in Guangzhou sparked the alleged discrimination …

 WHO, SGF, NMA, caution against suspending restriction There are strong indications that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), may extend the lockdown order in Lagos, Ogun and the Federal Capital Territory. This came after the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, spoke at Friday’s edition of the committee’s daily …

Google and Apple unveiled a joint initiative Friday to develop a coronavirus smartphone “contact tracing” tool that could potentially alert people when they have crossed paths with an infected person. The move brings together the largest mobile operating systems in an effort to use smartphone location technology to track and potentially contain the global COVID-19 outbreak. The move would allow …

…’We’ll rather die here than return home‘ …as requests for evacuation rise to 2,000 With only a few deaths from coronavirus cases in Nigeria, the country ranks among the nations with the lowest causality figures in the world. But despite the appreciable management of the pandemic in the country, many Nigerians based in badly hit European and American countries have …

Nigeria’s President, Retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari has expressed very serious concerns about the problems that may be associated with the lockdown, occasioned by the global outbreak of the coronavirus, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said on Friday. Osinbajo spoke during an encounter with Journalists from The Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), following his meeting with President Bihari in the Aso Rock …

By Jethro lbileke Contrary to recent reports in a Nigerian daily newspaper, the management of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) has said there is no panic in the Hospital over patients receiving care for ailment suspected to be coronavirus in its isolation center. The head of Rapid Response Team on Covid-19 disease of the Hospital, Dr. Benson Okwara, …

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has announced that the total number of confirmed Lassa fever cases has increased to 963 in 2020. It said 12 new cases were recorded between March 30 and April 5, 2020. The NCDC said this in its 2020 Week 14 report made available on its website on Thursday. It also said 188 deaths have …

The Federal Government on Thursday granted amnesty to no fewer than 2,600 inmates as part of measures to decongest prison facilities in the country amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, disclosed this at a conference at the headquarters of the Nigerian Correctional Service in Abuja. He said at least 70 inmates, who are serving various terms …

Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed has fully recovered from coronavirus. It would be recalled the governor earlier tested positive for coronavirus following contact with the son of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar VANGUARD

Power distribution companies on Wednesday announced that they were in support of the proposal by the National Assembly and the Federal Executive arm of government that Nigerians should get two months of free electricity. Speaking through their umbrella body, the Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors, the Discos stated that modalities for the free power would be worked on and made …