The Enugu State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Anthony Ugochukwu, is dead, The Nation is reporting. The newspaper said the death of the renowned surgeon on Friday night at a leading private hospital, Memphys Hospital, Enugu, was confirmed by his Oji River Constituency representative in the Enugu State House of Assembly, …

By Felix Onajite First Bank of Nigeria Limited has saluted medical professionals tackling the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria and the world, THE WITNESS reports. The Bank in series of tweets on its Twitter page on Friday, acknowledged the role medical experts are playing to fight the virus. Some of the messages read: “No capes, just heroes. …

Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has said that Abba Kyari, Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, who last week tested positive for the Coronavirus disease, is recuperating, seems well and happy. Kyari, in a statement on Sunday, said he would be in Lagos on Monday for “further tests and observations”. …

A staff member of the health authorities of the southern federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg demonstrates on a negative sample the test for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, in a laboratory in Stuttgart, southern Germany, on March 2, 2020. – The death toll from the new coronavirus epidemic surpassed 3,000 on Monday, March …

Twelve new cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Nigeria, says the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. Nine were recorded in Osun State, two in Edo State and one in Ekiti State. “As at 12:30 pm 1st April there are 151 confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported in Nigeria,” said NCDC. …

An 11-year-old girl has become Indonesia’s youngest person to die after contracting the coronavirus, officials said Wednesday, as the country’s death toll from COVID-19 nearly tripled from a week ago. The girl, who was also suffering from dengue fever, was admitted to hospital on Madura Island off the coast of …

Noimot Salako-Oyedele LAGOS – Ogun State government has called on well to do individ­uals in the country as well as corporate organisations to support the government in its efforts at combating the prevalence coronavirus pandemic, as government alone cannot provide the wherewithal to tackle the disease. Noimot Salako-Oyedele, the state Deputy …

Russia confirmed on Wednesday 440 new cases of the novel coronavirus in 24 hours, bringing the total to 2,777. The country has reported a total of 24 COVID-19-related deaths so far, with seven additional fatalities since yesterday, emergency officials said in a statement. “To date, 2,777 cases of coronavirus infection …

Gboyega Oyetola Banks and major markets were shut in Osun on Wednesday following a total state lockdown ordered by Gov. Gboyega Oyetola, in a bid to minimise the spread of coronavirus in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the governor had, in a statewide broadcast on …

Sen. Opeyemi Bamidele, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, has donated N10 million toward fighting the coronavirus in Ekiti. This is coming barely 24 hours after Gov. Kayode Fayemi announced an eight-man Support Account Committee  to tackle the pandemic in the state Bamidele, who represents …