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A reputable crowd-funding platform, Giving.ng, has announced a fundraising campaign to support health workers who are on the front-line of the coronavirus pandemic. Companies and individuals have offered support in various forms as a means of showing their support towards the fight against coronavirus such as cash donation, material support as well as the provision of infrastructure but none is speaking to the need of the health workers. This initiative seeks to do just that. Tagged Health Workers Fund, this initiative is sourcing from the public a sum of One Billion Naira (N1, 000, 000, 000). The fund will be…

Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra on Saturday announced the total lockdown of the state following the positive confirmation of a suspected Coronavirus Disease patient in the state. Obiano said on Saturday in Awka that contact tracing for the patient whose status was confirmed by Nigeria Centre for Diseased Control (NCDC) on Friday night had begun. The governor expressed regret that in spite of all the proactive measures put in place to prevent the outbreak of COVID-19 in the state, an index case was established by the NCDC on April 10. Obiano, who announced that the total lockdown would commence on…

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday announced the approval of a 745-million-dollar loan to help Tunisia cope with the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. “The COVID-19 pandemic has hit Tunisia hard. “The pandemic will worsen Tunisia’s already elevated macroeconomic imbalances and will also create urgent fiscal and balance of payment needs,” Mitsuhiro Furusawa, the IMF deputy managing director said in a statement. According to the IMF, the North African country’s economy is expected to contract by 4.3 per cent in 2020, in what is speculated t be the worst recession since the country’s independence in 1956. This is…

Gov. Nasir El Rufai of Kaduna State has congratulated the Christian community on the completion of Lent, with its attendant disciplines of fasting, prayers, and charity. In his Easter message signed by Mr Muyiwa Adekeye, the Special Adviser on Media and Communications on Saturday, El Rufai congratulated the Christian community on the special occasion of Easter. The governor pointed out that the enduring message of Easter, which is victory over darkness, “is poignant amidst the uniquely difficult circumstances in which Easter is being celebrated this year.” The governor said that the uniquely difficult circumstances the COVID-19 pandemic has created also…

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, on Saturday, announced the death of another COVID-19 patient, making it the fourth COVID-19 related deaths recorded in the state. Abayomi, through his verified Twitter account, said that the patient died of COVID-19 related complications in a private hospital in Lagos. He, however, did not disclose further information about the patient’s sex, age or nationality. Giving an update of cases in the state, Abayomi said that there were 166 confirmed cases, 111 of the cases were active, 46 had been discharged, two evacuated, while four had died. Abayomi disclosed further that…

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai has relocated to the North East to oversee and direct the overall operation in the theatre and other army operations across the country. The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sagir Musa, disclosed this in a statement on Friday. He said that Buratai disclosed this while addressing the troops of Special Super Camp Ngamdu in Kaga Local Government Area of Borno on Thursday. According to him, the COAS had been on operational tour to troops’ locations in the North East Theatre of Operation since April 4. “During the tour, he was at…

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai has relocated to the North East to oversee and direct the overall operation in the theatre and other army operations across the country. The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sagir Musa, disclosed this in a statement on Friday. He said that Buratai disclosed this while addressing the troops of Special Super Camp Ngamdu in Kaga Local Government Area of Borno on Thursday. According to him, the COAS had been on operational tour to troops’ locations in the North East Theatre of Operation since April 4. “During the tour, he was at…

National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Uche Secondus has urged Nigerians to use the Easter period to pray for Nigeria to emerge from COVID-19 pandemic stronger. Secondus, in a message signed by his Media Aide, Mr Ike Abonyi in Abuja said that the situation in the world today and in Nigeria entailed that all citizens ought to intensify supplications to God. He said the fact that Christendom was celebrating Easter in their homes and not in their Churches against their desires challenged them to give new strength and energy to prayers. “If Jesus Christ’s coming to the earth…

As part of measures to cushion the effects of the lockdown due to the ravaging Coronavirus pandemic, the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo- Agege, has commenced the immediate disbursement of cash to some low-income persons across the eight Local Government Areas that make up Delta Central Senatorial District. The eight local government areas in the senatorial district include Ethiope East, Ethiope West, Okpe, Sapele, Ughelli North, Ughelli South, Udu and Uvwie. The exercise which commenced in Kokori Inland in Ethiope East LGA today witnessed the handing over of the cash palliative to individuals in their homes without…

President Muhammadu Buhari has wholeheartedly thanked all Nigerians for their patience, resolve and strong determination to defeat the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak. In a statement, Senior Presidential Media Aide, Garba Shehu, quoted the President as saying: “We realize that today, there will be sons and daughters unable to visit their parents, and elders that are isolated from young ones. And there will be those who live day-to-day, eating as they earn, who face real and present suffering. “No elected government could ask more of the citizens of the country that elected them than today we ask of you. But we…