The Lagos State University College of Medicine has shut down its campus in Ikeja after some students and officials tested positive for COVID-19. Head, Centre for Information, Press and Public Relations of the Lagos ...

A former world number one, Andy Murray has tested positive for coronavirus. The 33-year-old Brit had been preparing for the year’s first Grand Slam, the Australian Open. He was due to travel to Australia on one of ...

The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, on Tuesday, said schools in the country will resume on January 18 until the Ministry of Education announces further directive. PTF National Coordinator, Dr Sani Aliyu, stated ...

The National Orientation Agency has warned Nigerians that coronavirus can be contracted more than once. The Federal Government’s agency gave the warning in a series of tweets to enlighten Nigerians on COVID-19. ...

The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has blamed re-opening of schools, businesses and religious centres without compliance with safety measures for increasing number of infections. Chairman of the PTF and ...

A Former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke, has tested positive for Coronavirus in the United Arab Emirate (UAE), where he had gone for medical check-up. He is stranded ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says the country is now reaching a critical level, adding that the hospital capacity will no longer be able to cope with more serious COVID-19 cases. The Director-General of ...

LAGOS State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Thursday, met behind closed doors with the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. At the end of the meeting, the governor ...

Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, on Thursday, says he did not order the closure of churches in the state. Odumosu had in an earlier statement instructed men of the Force to enforce all protocols ...

A nurse in California tested positive for COVID-19 more than a week after receiving Pfizer’s vaccine, an ABC News affiliate reported on Tuesday. A medical expert explained the body needs more time to build up ...

The Lagos State Government, on Wednesday, urged residents of the state to comply with all restriction measures imposed by the authorities to curb the spread of coronavirus amid the second wave of the pandemic. It ...

THE Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) and Living Faith Church Worldwide (a.k.a. Winners Chapel), have backed down on their insistence to hold Crossover services in ...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), an infection caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has taken the world by surprise. One of its most significant properties is its fast-paced ...

Two more doctors have succumbed to the coronavirus in the Federal Capital Territory in the past two weeks, the FCT Administration has disclosed. It explained that a female doctor with the Gwarimpa General hospital, ...

The Lagos State Government has made it mandatory for prospective couples to obtain clearance from the state government to hold weddings with 300 people in attendance. This was contained in a notice by the state ...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, says the people of the state cannot afford yet another total lockdown as Lagos enters the second wave of the novel coronavirus pandemic. The economic capital of Nigeria was ...

Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biotech has secured half a billion dollars in extra funding to produce its Covid-19 vaccine, it said Monday, as the country races to roll out a jab for general use. Beijing has ...

n Ebonyi State High Court on Thursday restrained the members of the newly sworn in State Caretaker Committee of the People Democratic Party (PDP) from parading themselves as such. This followed an ex-party motion ...

There was palpable tension in Enugu State on Monday following the report of a suspected Yellow Fever outbreak in three more local government areas of the state. Enugu State had been battling to contain the outbreak ...

The second wave of coronavirus, aka, COVID-19, is already hitting the world. It’s therefore time Nigeria reviewed the success rate or otherwise of a disease pandemic with a death toll as high as 1.2 million ...