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 […]
A Turkish footballer has been arrested after allegedly confessing that he smothered his five-year-old son to death with a pillow because he ‘didn’t love him and hadn’t ‘since he was born’. Defender Cevher Toktas, 32, who last played as a centre-back for Bursa Y?ld?r?mspor in the Turkish Regional Amateur League, was arrested earlier this month […]
Former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, has faulted the latest review of the 2020 budget by the Federal Government, saying it shows that the regime has lost touch with current global economic realities. Rather than reviewing the budget, Atiku advised the FG to sell eight or nine of the presidential jets and cancel the N27bn earmarked for […]
A 28-year-old Japanese sumo wrestler has died at the age of 28 after contracting Coronavirus, the Japan Sumo Association (JSA) has announced. Shobushi, whose real name is Kiyotaka Suetake, died from multiple organ failure caused by the virus. He is the first in the sport to fall victim to Coronavirus He had been the first […]
The Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, on Thursday, inaugurated a female isolation centre at Daula in the Nasarawa Local Government Area of the state. In a statement released by his Chief Press Secretary Abba Anwar, Ganduje stressed the need for health care workers to be friendly with patients. He said, “We don’t want to hear […]
A new survey has found that people have been breaking lockdown rules to have sex despite the Coronavirus pandemic that has killed close to 300,000 people globally. It shows people can stay at home for so many reasons, but have a hard time adhering to home lockdown rules when it comes to the issue of […]
The Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the construction of the Edo Specialist Hospital and supply of equipment for the hospital has indicted the administration of the former governor Adams Oshiomhole for breach of the state’s Public Procurement Law. Chairman of the Commission, Justice James Oyomire (retd.), who presented the commission’s findings to Governor Godwin Obaseki, […]
This is the moment a Malinois dog was taught to find a piece of fabric infected with the COVID-19 bacteria. The photo was taken during a training session, on Wednesday, May 13, 2020, in Maison-Alfort, on the outskirts of Paris, as France eases lockdown measures taken to curb the spread of the novel Coronavirus. A group of […]