The Imo State Government has announced the reopening of schools on Monday. The state government had said schools would reopen only when the body conducting COVID-19 test in the 27 councils had completed its assignment. The Federal Government shut down schools in the country in March because of the outbreak of the pandemic. In a
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US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he and his wife Melania had tested positive for COVID-19 and were in quarantine, after Hope Hicks, one of his closest advisers, tested positive for the disease. In a Tweet, Trump said he and Melania would “get through this together”. Hicks travels regularly with the president on Air
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The Federal Government of Nigeria on Tuesday raised fears about a possible surge in the number of Covid-19 cases in the country, unless there would be a scale-up surveillance and review of its response plan to integrate new ways to deal with the virus. It, however, said the number of active cases had continued to
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Nollywood actress, Iyabo Ojo has accused officials of one of the international airports in Nigeria of extorting the sum of N51,950 from her for a COVID-19 test which they never conducted. The thespian took to her Instagram page on Monday to make the claim stating that she returned to the country from Turkey on Monday
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The Rivers state Government has placed N 100 m fine for violators of COVID – 19 burials protocols in the state . According to the state Commissioner for Health, Prof . Princewill Chike , on Saturday , the monetary sanction followed the state ’s executive council decision. Chike added that Local Government Council Chairmen across
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US President Donald Trump told the UN General Assembly on Tuesday that China must be held accountable by the world for its actions over the Covid – 19 pandemic .In a recorded message played to the annual meeting of the UN, Trump accused Beijing of allowing the coronavirus to “leave China and infect the world
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The European Centre for Electoral Support (ECES), on Saturday said voters in Ologbosere primary school, ward 4 with 40 units and other polling units they visited were not observing the COVID-19 guidelines as stipulated in the INEC policy. Mr Wilson Manji, the deputy project coordinator, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), that although the
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As the nation prepares for the reopening of schools, the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, has mandated schools to carry out weekly risk assessments while states and local governments are to conduct monthly and quarterly risk assessments. Mrs Elsie Ilori, Head, Department of Surveillance and Epidemiology, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, announced this on
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The President of the United States of America, Donald Trump has contradicted Robert Redfield, the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) over the timing of any Covid-19 vaccine. While Redfield told a US Senate committee a vaccine was unlikely to be ready until mid to late 2021, Trump said it
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Almost six months after students were forced to vacate schools because of the outbreak of coranavirus pandemic, public and private schools in Anambra State have resumed academic session with strict COVID-19 safety checks as mandated by the state government and healthcare providers. The phased resumption which excludes crèche and nursery pupils is a follow-up to
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The Senate has called on stakeholders in the country not to kill the Nation’s economy with the adopted European style of fighting the Coronavirus, COVID -19 pandemic. The Senate raised the alarm yesterday against the backdrop of the imported idea of fighting COVID -19. Speaking during an interactive session between the Senate Committees on Aviation
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KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation (KNCV) has tested at least 300 Imo State residents for tuberculosis and COVID- 19. The programme being backed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Imo State Government is expected to last for two months. The testing, which will be carried out in the 27 local government areas
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The Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, has announced September 21 date for reopening of primary and secondary schools in the state, ending months of school closure occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic. Mr Fayemi who disclosed this in a state-wide broadcast on Sunday evening also directed that tertiary institutions in the state be opened to students
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The Lagos State University (LASU), has announced that its first year students will resume classes by January 11, 2021. The reopening dates of the university released on Friday said until then, their classes will be online. The institution said that students in terminal classes (400, 500 and 600-Levels) will resume on Monday, September 14, 2020
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Two suspects of Nigerian origin have been arrested for alledgedly duping a Dutch firm of about €14.7 million in a COVID-19-related scam, announced the Nigerian police on Sunday. Akinpelu Hassan Abass (41) and Babatunde Adesanya (50), were apprehended for cloning the corporate website of ILBN Holdings BV, Holland, to defraud one Freiherr Fredrick Von Hahn,
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