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From SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maidiguri To prevent the spread of Coronavirus with potential for wild-fire effect at internally displaced persons (IDP) camps, Borno state Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum has convened a multi-stakeholder meeting in Maiduguri to adopted a response plan. The meeting, which held on Thursday, in Maiduguri, was...

EDDY OCHIGBO, Kaduna  As part of its measures to protect residents from the spread of the Coronavirus disease, the Kaduna state government has suspended religious services and all large gatherings of 50 persons until further notice.  NATIONAL ACCORD gathered that although no case of Covid-19 has been reported in...

EHIME ALEX, Lagos  The State Governors, under the auspices of the National Economic Council (NEC), have set up a Special Committee to coordinate Federal and State governments’ responses at dealing ceaselessly with the fallout and curbing the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic. According to a statement by Laolu Akande,...

Water is life. Thales, a philosopher of antiquity, had posited that “water” is the source of all things. Out of water, he said, came everything in the world. Thales maintained that the earth itself rests on water and that everything in the world has moisture. Aristotle suggested that Thales...

EHIME ALEX, Lagos  In a trailblazing move, Zenith General Insurance Company Limited, commonly known as Zenith Insurance, has partnered Telecommunications giant, MTN Nigeria, to provide the first ever known mobile insurance service in Nigeria. A statement by Ayoola Kusimo, Corporate Communications, Zenith Bank Plc, said that using the USSD...

A man in Kibundani area, Kwale County  of Kenya on Tuesday, March 17, died after he was assaulted by a group of youth at night. The man, George Kotini Hezron, is said to have been suspected of suffering from coronavirus by the residents, who decided to take the law...

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has stepped down as a Boeing board member over the aviation giant’s pursuit of government support in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the company disclosed on Thursday. “I cannot support a move to lean on the federal government for a...

The Oyo State government, on Thursday, allayed the fears of residents of the state on the Coronavirus pandemic, declaring that there is no confirmed case of the disease in the state yet. The state’s Commissioner for Health, Dr Bashir Bello, has made the disclosure at a press conference held at...

A family of five has been isolated  at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Keffi in Nasarawa State with symptoms suspected to be  Coronavirus (COVID-19). Dr Adamu Yahaya, Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the hospital disclosed this to newsmen on Thursday in Keffi Local Government Area of the State. The...

Former Governor of Ekiti, Chief Segun Oni has clarified that his defection to the Peoples Democratic Party,(PDP) was not motivated by desperate quest to be governor in 2022. Oni said he decided to return to his former party owing to alleged discrimination against his supporters by All Progressive Congress...

EHIME ALEX, Lagos  Ogun State Government has extended ban on high-density gatherings to included both public and private schools, as well as religious centres and activities in the State to help contain global spread of the coronavirus. According to release signed by the Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the...

By TOM CHIAHEMEN (Abuja) and SADIQ ABUBAKAR (Maiduguri) – As cases of the rampaging Coronavirus grew to over 222,000 with a death toll of 87,000 from 176 countries or territories, Nigerian Senators took to their heels after hurriedly suspended plenary on Thursday, firmly shutting the doors of the red...

L-R shows: Sen. Amah Micheal Nnachi, Member, Senate Committee on Capital Market; Sen. Kashim Shettima, Member, Senate Committee on Capital Market; Ms. Mary Uduk. Acting Director General, Securities and Exchange Commission; Mr. Oscar N. Onyema, OON, Chief Executive Officer, The Nigerian Stock Exchange; H.E. Sen. Ibikunle Amosun, CON, Chairman,...

The United States has approved the anti-malarial drug, chloroquine, for use as a treatment against the new coronavirus. U.S. President Donald Trump, while addressing reporters on Thursday, said, “We’re going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately, and that’s where the FDA (Food and Drug Administration)...

By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Federal Government will ensure that permanent peace and stability returned to the troubled Northeast. He has therefore charged the armed forces to make clinical finishing of the remnants of Boko Haram insurgents. Speaking Thursday at the inauguration of...

By GRACE AUDU, Abuja  Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, has extended an invitation to private sector organisations to consider investing in the building of world class international conference centers and five star hotels in the nation’s capital. Malam Bello, who made the appeal...

The Senate on Thursday announced the suspension of all public hearings with effect from March 24, over the COVID-19 pandemic. President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, who made the announcement shortly after a closed door session that lasted for over one hour, also said the Senate suspended admission of...

South African Tourism Minister, Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane, had announced on Monday that Africa’s Travel Indaba has been postponed. The event was scheduled to take place from May 12 to 14, 2020. Speaking at a media briefing on Monday, Kubayi-Ngubane said: “After careful consideration, we have taken the difficult decision to postpone...

A massive coronavirus prayer session with tens of thousands of devotees sparked an outcry in Bangladesh Wednesday as the South Asian nation reported its first death from the global pandemic. Local police chief Tota Miah said some 10,000 Muslims gathered in an open field in Raipur town in southern...

By THEOPHILUS ABBAH The verb ‘convert’ and its noun form ‘conversion’ belong to the semantic field of Christian evangelism. They throw up the imagery of Apostle Paul’s perilous missionary journeys from the East to Europe and Asia on high-sea, with records of near-shipwrecks. The word reminds Christians of a...