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Reps donate two months salaries to fight against COVID-19

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      The House of Representatives has resolved to donate two months’ salaries of its entire membership to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria, the Speaker, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila announced on Tuesday. The two-month salary donation, t,...he Speaker said, will be independent of the contributions by individual lawmakers to alleviate the hardship that their constituents face at this time of national emergency. The Speaker assured that starting from March salary, the lawmakers’ donation will be transferred directly to the National Relief Fund account for the fight against COVID-19. In a video message to Nigerians as part of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Gbajabiamila said: “We have in the House of Representatives jointly committed to contributing one hundred per cent (100%)

JUST IN: More confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria as total rise to 139

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    The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC on Tuesday evening announced that four more new cases of COVID-19 have been recorded in Nigeria. In a tweet on its verified handle, the centre said “Four new cases of #COVID19 have been reported in Nigeria; 3 in the FCT and 1 in Lagos As at 08:00 pm 31st March there are 139 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. Nine have been discharged with two deaths” As at 08:00 pm 31st March, there are 139 confirmed cases 9 discharged 2 deaths. For a breakdown of cases by states in real time Currently; Lagos- 82 FCT- 28 Oyo- 8 Osun- 5 Ogun- 4 Kaduna- 3 Enugu- 2 Edo- 2 Bauchi- 2 Ekoti- 1 Rivers-1 Benue- 1

COVID-19: FG has elaborate plans to cushion harsh realities – SGF

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      The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic has enumerated federal government’s plan for the welfare of Nigerians as the fight against the pandemic commenced in earnest. Secretary to the Government of the Federation, who is also the Chairman of the task force, Mr Boss Mustapha, during the body’s daily media briefing on Tuesday in Abuja, faulted claims that President Muhammadu Buhari did not take the welfare of the citizenry into consideration when ordering restriction of movements and activities in Lagos and Ogun States, as well as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja last Sunday. Boss, who observed that the COVID-19 pandemic was not just an attack on the health of Nigerians, but also an attack on the national

US chartered flight lands at Lagos Airport

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      Despite the temporary closure of Nigeria international airports, a chartered flight from the United States of America, USA, Monday landed at the Muritala Muhummed International Airport, Lagos with 35 persons aboard. The passengers aboard the flight are Americans working with the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC. The chartered flight is one of the “essential flights” granted permission by the Federal Government, through the Ministry of Aviation, to land during the suspension of all commercial and private jets movements in the country due to the Corona virus pandemic. “The letter seeking permission to embark on the flight and land at any of the Nigerian major airports was sent to the Ministry of Aviation for approval and communicated in a letter to the

“I AM NOT COVID-19 POSITIVE, HELP ME NIGERIANS”–A WOMAN WHO WAS FORCEFULLY KEPT IN THE HOSPITAL AS AN INDEX CASE IN BENUE CRIES OUT

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A British Woman Susan Idoko- Okpe(Nee: Lawani), who Benue state government described as an Index Case for Covid-19 Cries Out for Help in Abandonment... Read her story below: "I would like the whole world to please, appeal to whoever is concerned to move me out of here, am not trying to gain cheap publicity as been trendy for days on social media, I have kept my cool, but am now sick with swollen gums, being stooling throughout the night, no nurses or medical attention, my crime is that am a British who came into Nigeria particularly Benue State felt feverish took myself for check up because I have travelled longer than usual. After examinations I was told by the doctor my temperature was

Breaking: Inmates In Kaduna Prison Attempt Jailbreak Over Coronavirus, One Feared dead

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Inmates in Kaduna Prison have attempted a jailbreak after riot broke out over the Coronavirus pandemic in the country. The inmates, who fear that they could contract the deadly virus going by the poor ventilation and lack of protective items in the facility, mobilised in large numbers on Tuesday morning in an attempt to break free from the correctional centre. Security personnel fired several gunshots around the facility to scare the inmates and bring the situation under control. One person is currently feared to have been killed during the chaos while several prison officials, who sustained injuries have been rushed to a teaching hospital in city for urgent medical attention. An official of the facility, who spoke with SaharaReporters on Tuesday, said several sections

T.B. Joshua Shutdown Church After Failed COVID-19 Prophesy

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The controversial Nigerian televangelist whose full name is Temitope Balogun Joshua claimed early this month that heavy rains would wash away the pandemic by this Friday and that there would be no trace of the deadly virus. He specifically mentioned 27th of March as the day the coronavirus would disappear. “By the end of this month, whether we like it or not, no matter the medicine they might have produced to cure whatever, it will go the way it came,” T.B. Joshua declared, adding, “If it is not medicine that brought this to the world, medicine cannot take it out. It will go the way it came. This month 27th, it will be over.” Many scholars now believe that TB Joshua wanted

Photos: Lagos and Abuja streets deserted as lockdown begins

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The 14 day total lockdown order issued by President Buhari on Sunday March 29, was effected in Lagos and Abuja from 11pm on Monday March 30.  While Ogun state government postponed the lockdown directive till Friday April 3, the police have blocked the inbound and outbound sections of the Lagos-Ibadan express way.  The total lockdown order was also adhered to in Abuja as some streets have already been deserted.  It is expected that health officials will identify, trace and isolate all individuals that have come into contact with confirmed cases within the 14 day total lockdown in the two states and the FCT.  Here are some photos taken in Lagos

Coronavirus: We’ve started immediate cash transfer to poorest households– FG

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Minister of humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development, Sadiya Farouq, the Federal government has begun cash transfer to the poorest households in the country to cushion the economic impact of the Coronavirus pandemic. Farouk announced this at a press conference in Abuja. She said her ministry has commenced advance payment of conditional cash transfer to the poorest households in the country. She however did not disclose the amount of cash that is being transfered to the poor.  “In Mr. President’s speech, paragraph 54, he directed that the conditional cash transfer should be given in advance of two months. This we have also done. We have directed immediate cash transfer to the poorest and most vulnerable households in the country.“Because of this COVID-19, the

COVID-19: Cut data price now, Nigerians tell MTN, GLO, Airtel, 9mobile

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Many Nigerians have taken to the social media Monday morning to call for downward review of data prices by telecommunication service providers in the country. The hashtag (#CutDataPrrices) is one of those trending on twitter right now.

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