Akwa Ibom State Police Command said on Thursday it had intercepted a Dangote Truck conveying 32 Hausa and Fulani men, including the driver, at the boundary between the state and Abia State The command, in a statement by its Public Relations Officer, Nnudam Fredrick, said they were intercepted on Wednesday about 11.45 am. He said, […]
Madagascar has announced the first death of a patient suffering from novel coronavirus, nearly two months after it was first detected in the country. The 57-year-old hospital worked died on Saturday and had underlying diabetes and high blood pressure before he was infected, an official from the anti-coronavirus task team said. “It is with great […]
It is so easy to forget just how quickly viruses can spread when they’re invisible. For this reason, NHK, Japan’s national broadcasting corporation, has shared a video showing how germs can be transmitted to a room full of people when there’s only one person who’s infected. The experiment aims to simulate a space at a […]
The COVID-19 pandemic is not only affecting people, but it’s also branching out to nature. Even though the more immediate danger of the virus is absolutely terrifying, we should not turn a blind eye to the ripple effect it’s causing. In Northern Thailand, hundreds of elephants were left displaced after tourism in the country came […]
Since sports have been put on hold, one BBC broadcaster who covers it has been spending extra time with his two Labradors, Olive and Mabel. So, Andrew Cotter used this opportunity to sit down with them and have a difficult conversation, delivering the Labs’ annual performance report. It wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows, though. Sofas […]
An ousted US health official warned Congress on Thursday that President Donald Trump’s administration has no “master plan” to fight the coronavirus pandemic and is unprepared to distribute enough vaccines to immunize millions of Americans. Rick Bright told a House panel that without clear planning and improved coordinated response, “2020 could be the darkest winter” […]
Russia on Thursday launched a probe into the Financial Times and the New York Times after the newspapers said local authorities could be vastly under-reporting deaths from the coronavirus in the country. State communications watchdog Roskomnadzor said it was studying the reports to establish whether they violated the country’s law against disinformation. When contacted ,the […]
The management of the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, has raised the alarm that its mortuary is filled to capacity and can no longer contain more corpses. The development followed the COVID-19 lockdown imposed since March on the state by Governor Douye Diri which banned burials, weddings and other social gatherings in the state. […]
The Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has thrown its weight behind the leadership of the National Assembly’s decision to investigate alleged financial improprieties in the Niger Delta Development Commission. PANDEF in a statement on Thursday in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, by its chairman, Air Commodore Idongesit Nkanga (retd.), said the allegation against the interim management […]
The COVID-19 pandemic is taking its toll on all health services in the country as the Federal Government says outpatient visits to hospitals nationwide have reduced by half. The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, who stated this on Thursday at the press briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, said that latest statistics […]