Month: March 2020

COVID-19: Air Peace Flight Carrying 35 Americans Did Not Land At Calabar Airport―Ita,Special Adviser

  …Says Ayade’s Administration  Cannot Compromise The Safety Of Its Citizens   The Cross River State Government has stated that Air Peace flight carrying 35 Americans or any other flight did not land at the Margaret Ekpo International Airport on…

Nigeria COVID -19 Record Rises To 131, As NCDC Announces 20 New Cases

  The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 20 new cases of COVID-19 . The 20 new cases brings to 131 the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country “On the 30th of March 2020, Twenty…

COVID-19: United States Chartered Flight Lands At Lagos Airport, Evacuates 35 Americans

      A chartered flight from the United States of America, USA today landed at the international wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos with 35 persons aboard. The passengers in question on the flight are Americans working…

Breaking News: Seyi Makinde, Tests Positive For COVID-19

  Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde has tested positive for Coronavirus. He disclosed this via his Twitter handle; @seyiamakinde “I just received my COVID-19 confirmation test result. It is POSITIVE. I am asymptomatic and will continue to self-isolate. “I have…

COVID-19 : Air Peace Evacuates 274 Israelis To Tell-Aviv

    Nigeria’s biggest carrier, Air Peace evacuated about 274 Israelis from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos and the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja to Israel’s major city, Tel-Aviv. The flight, which airlifted 65 passengers from Lagos and…

Full Text Of President Buhari’s Address

  ADDRESS BY H.E. MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE COVID- 19 PANDEMIC SUNDAY 29TH MARCH, 2020 1. Fellow Nigerians, 2.From the first signs that Coronavirus, or COVID-19 was turning into an epidemic and was…

COVID -19: Buhari  Declares Total Lockdown In Lagos, Abuja, Ogun

  …To Begin 11 Pm On Monday, March 30 As part of efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19, President Muhammadu Buhari has declared curfew in Lagos, Abuja and Ogun State. The President, who made the declaration few minutes ago…

Buhari  Makes Nationwide Broadcast  At 7pm Today

  President Muhammadu Buhari has finally made up his mind to make a nationwide broadcast at 7 pm to Nigerians, after several fruitless efforts to make him address the country failed. This was made known in a statement by his…

NIS Boss, UCH Chief Medical Director Test Positive For COVID-19

  The Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, (NIS), Muhammad Babandede and  Chief Medical Director, University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan, Prof. Jesse Otegbayo, have both tested positive for Coronavirus also known as COVID-19. Babandede tested positive few days after…

Nigeria’s COVID -19 Record Rises To 89, As NCDC Announces 8 New Cases

    The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced eight new cases of confirmed COVID-19. According to NCDC Nigeria now has 89 confirmed cases of COVID – 19. NCDC, who made this in a tweet, stated that seven…