Mike Odiegwu, Port Harcourt Members of the Rivers State Executive Council have donated their April 2020 salaries to support the state government’s fight against coronavirus. The Commissioner for Information and Communications, Paulinus Nsirim, said the pledge was contained in a statement by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Dr. Tammy Danagogo. The gesture came…
Agency Reporter The Federal Government says it will continue to expand the number of isolation centres and Intensive Care Units (ICU) for Nigerians with severe complications from the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, made this known on Thursday in Abuja, at the Presidential Task Force (PTF) briefing on COVID19…
Google on Thursday said it is pumping $6.5 million into fact-checkers and nonprofits as it ramps up its the battle against coronavirus misinformation. Fact-checking organisations, which often operate on relatively small budgets, are seeing a surge in demand for their work as mistaken or maliciously false information about the pandemic spreads, according to Alexios Mantzarlis…
Moses Emorinken, Abuja The federal government has said that it expects the number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) to rise dramatically while it scales up contact tracing and testing capacity. The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, disclosed this on Wednesday at the Presidential Task Force briefing on COVID-19 in Abuja. According to…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the nation at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow on April 2, 2020. – President Vladimir Putin on April 2, 2020 aid Russians will continue not going to work while receiving pay until the end of the month to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel…
(File) Anthony Joshua speaks during the annual Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey in London on March 09, 2020. Ben STANSALL / POOL / AFP Unified heavyweight champion, Anthony Joshua, says he has lost ‘close friends’ to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The WBA, IBF, WBO, and IBO titles holder revealed this in a video on his…
Mike Odiegwu, Port Harcourt The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) have threatened to commence an industrial action following the decision of the management of the Port Harcourt Refinery Company (PHRC) to sack over 175 causal workers. The workers said nothing would stop them from going on strike in the next 48…
The Benue State Government on Thursday began the fumigation of markets and other public places as part of measures to stem the spread of coronavirus in the state. A member of the Benue State Action Committee on COVID-19, Dr. Edward Amali, who is supervising the fumigation exercise told journalists in an interview that the committee…
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