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Joshua ‘fit and healthy’ despite Queen, Charles contact
Anthony Joshua remains ‘fit and healthy’ despite coming into contact with Prince Charles only a couple of weeks before the heir to the throne tested positive for coronavirus. The world heavyweight champion is following government guidelines around self-isolation but has shown no symptoms of the deadly disease, which threatens to derail his upcoming fight with
27 in self-isolation after contact with Bauchi gov
Armstrong Bakam, Bauchi No fewer than 27 persons in Bauchi State have been placed on compulsory self-isolation for a minimum of 14 days following contact with Governor Bala Mohammed who tested positive for coronavirus this week. This was disclosed in a circular issued by the Disease Control Unit of the Ministry of Health in the
Weep not for Abba Kyari and Co
Abimbola Adelakun On Tuesday, the news broke that the Chief of Staff to the Nigerian president, Abba Kyari, tested positive for COVID-19. Three of his aides reportedly also tested positive. Same Tuesday, it was announced that the Bauchi State governor, Sen. Bala Mohammed, also tested positive. Then, there is the son of former Vice President,
Health minister’s absence sparks self-isolation rumour
Olufemi Atoyebi, Abuja There were insinuations that the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, had gone into self-isolation on Wednesday after possible contact with the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari. The CoS had tested positive to COVID-19 on Monday. He had travelled to Germany via Egypt on March 7, 2020 and was
Myth busters: Mosquitoes don’t transmit coronavirus – WHO
Kayode Oyero The World Health Organisation has said the novel coronavirus which has infected over 400,000 people and killed over 18,000 lives in 196 countries cannot be transmitted through mosquito bites. In 2018, WHO reported that there were an estimated 228 million cases of malaria worldwide with over 405, 000 deaths. It commented that of
Gunmen kidnap Delta man after eating wife’s jollof rice
Matthew Ochei, Asaba Gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen have reportedly kidnapped a man simply identified as Mr Joseph after allegedly forcing his wife to cook jollof rice for them in Okpanam, Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the hoodlums, who struck at the Graceland Estate in Okpanam during
NNPC spent N218.18bn on ailing refineries in 2019
Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja Nigeria’s refineries under the management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation incurred a total expense of N218.18bn in 2019. The refineries, namely Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company, Port Harcourt Refining Company and Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company, recorded a cumulative loss of N149.23bn last year. Nigeria, Africa’s top oil producer, relies largely
Senator wants ‘returnee’ lawmakers quarantined
Sunday Aborisade, Abuja The Vice-Chairman, Senate Committee on Trade and Investment, Senator Francis Fadahunsi, has said the lawmakers, who returned from overseas, should be traced and quarantined immediately to stop coronavirus spread. Fadahunsi, who spoke to journalists in Abuja, said, “It was not enough for the authorities to assume that the affected lawmakers would use
Coronavirus: Lagos not on lockdown, says commissioner
Oluwatosin Omojuyigbe The Lagos State Government said it had not ordered the lockdown of the state over the spread of coronavirus. The state, in a statement by its Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, noted that some media outlets had reported that the state was on lockdown. Omotoso noted that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu had
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