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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 …

Fifteen-member medical team from China and some medical equipment, as well as supplies to strengthen efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, were on Wednesday received by the Federal Government of Nigeria, despite The medical team arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, alongside the medical equipment and supplies, according to The Nation. The China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) is …

The Edo State Government has commenced fumigation of major markets across the state in line with the directive for the markets be shut down and fumigated. Sellers of food and other vital commodities have been relocated to designated primary and secondary schools in close proximity to the shut markets. As at 11am on Wednesday, April 8, 2020, major markets within …