Nigeria’s health minister, Osagie Ehinare, on April 23, said more than 40 health workers had tested positive for coronavirus. The figure represented roughly 4.6 per cent of the country’s then 873 confirmed cases. The minister, who stated this during the…
For the third time, Sokoto State has imposed a ban on interstate travels to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. The state, which had no confirmed case of coronavirus as at March 27 when the movement on restriction was…
The village of Sabo Hausawa is located Kuje. It is a 50-minute ride on a motorcycle from the popular Kuje tipper garage in the Federal Capital Territory. The journey is strenuous due to the unpaved, bumpy, semi graded hilly roads…
Small businesses are at the receiving end of the ravaging coronavirus scourge as over 40 million livelihoods are confronted with tough choices in their quest for survival, reports Gbenga Ogundare In a worst-case scenario, Lagos has estimated 39,000 citizens catching…
Favour Madu with her baby.Thirty-six-year-old Favour Madu, a breastfeeding mother, resides at Akukwa Street in Mile One Diobu, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Before the COVID-19 lockdown, her husband, an artisan at Ikoku Spare Market, usually provided the family’s needs with proceeds from his daily struggle.…
Three heavily loaded motorcycles had left a trail of dust on their way as they sped along the vast expanse of land that adjoins the Nigeria/Niger boundary in Illela town of Sokoto, North-West, Nigeria. “These are people who use illegal…
The federal government has tested less than one per cent of the over 200 million population of Nigerians for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) since testing began in February 2020 for the pandemic, analysis of test reports shows. The Nigeria Centre…
As the federal and some state governments enforce a lockdown, restricting movement to control the spread of the new coronavirus (also called COVID-19) pandemic, scores of law enforcement agents manning checkpoints may be at risk as they work without personal…
COVID-19 is expected to trigger roughly 195 million job losses in the second half of 2020 as predicted by the International Labour Organisation (ILO). This report raises concerns about government’s plan in the face of rising job cuts and the…
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