10 doctors who work with Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) have reportedly tested positive for Coronavirus, after treating patients who came to the hospital with symptoms of Coronavirus. Chairman of the hospital’s branch of Association of Resident Doctors, Abubakar Nagoma confirmed this on Monday May 4. He told Premium Times that the affected health professionals […]
A plane conveying medical supplies for use in the fight against the coronavirus crashed in Somalia on Monday, killing all the six people on board. The Somali Transport Minister, Mohamed told Reuters news agency that the six people include the pilot, copilot, flight engineer and a trainee pilot, as well as two people working for the airline. Five bodies were recovered […]
The Director, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, John Nkengasong, has said the collapse of global cooperation and failure of international solidarity have shoved Africa out of the global coronavirus diagnostics market. He decried the ‘low testing rate’ for COVID-19 in Africa, warning that no country could securely eliminate COVID-19 – or its devastating […]
An Assistant Commissioner of Police, ACP Atiku Nagodi has died in Kano State. Bluebloodz.com gathered that Nagodi, 54, who was the squadron commander, 9 police mobile force, Kano, died on Monday, May 4, after a protracted illness at his residence. Kano Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa confirmed Nagodi’s death and further revealed […]
The global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic topped a quarter of a million on Tuesday, with the US government predicting a further surge in fatalities as an international vaccine drive garnered $8 billion in pledges. The dire forecast from the United States came as much of the Western world emerged from weeks of lockdown, […]
The Peoples Democratic Party of Nigeria has asked Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, to come clean on the N5.8bn National Emergency Management Agency scandal for which he allegedly has questions to answer. The PDP also demanded that the Presidency under the leadership of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), should immediately prosecute the sacked Director […]
A Nigerian tailor, Afeez Ayodele, has been arrested by men of the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly stabbing his co-worker, identified simply as Obiora, to death on the United Estate, in the Sangotedo area of Ajah. According to reports obtained by bluebloodz.com, the company, where Ayodele and Obiora were working, was awarded a contract […]
The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, on Thursday, appealed to Nigerians to donate their buildings as isolation centres. Ehanire made the appeal at the press briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja. He said as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control aimed to test two million people in the next three […]
The Italian Authorities said on Thursday it would re-open two of its shuttered airports next week, Ciampino in Rome and Peretola in Florence. The two airports will reopen on May 4 for passenger flights, the transport ministry said in a brief statement. Ciampino is Rome’s secondary airport and is mostly used by low-cost carriers, while […]
The Coronavirus pandemic is likely going to last till 2022 until 60% to 70% of the population has been infected, a team of longstanding pandemic experts predicted in a new report. The experts said because of its ability to spread from people who don’t appear to be ill, the virus may be harder to control […]