Category: News
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Hungry residents demand food in protest, 20 arrested in Philippines
Residents of a slum area in the Philippine capital on Wednesday staged a protest to demand relief goods amid a month-long coronavirus lockdown that has left many of them without work. The protest forced the police to break the picket up and arrest 20 of the protesters. The residents of the district of San Roque…
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COVID-19: NEDC donates disinfectants to Borno IDPs camps
North East Development Commission (NEDC), on Wednesday donated essential disinfectant products worth millions of Naira to various Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in Maiduguri to combat the outbreak of Coronavirus (COVIDID-19). Mr Mohammed Alkali, NEDC Managing Director, said this during a one-day COVID-19 sensitisation campaign at Bakkassi, Stadium and Muna IDPs camps in Maiduguri. Alkali…
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COVID-19: Don’t dismiss Ooni’s herbal cure claim, expert urges Nigerians
A clinical herbalist, Mrs Christiana Olapade-Ojo, says Nigerians should not be quick to dismiss the claims made by the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, on using natural herbs to fight COVID-19. Olapade-Ojo, the Managing Director of Natural Resources Laboratories (NARL), spoke to our correspondent on Wednesday in Ibadan. Our correspondent reports that the monarch…
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Australia toilet paper shortage results in sewage clot, plumbing cost
Australia’s obsession with toilet paper hoarding due to the coronavirus pandemic has led to a new problem for wastewater authorities after it was revealed that there has been an increase in blockages because people resorted to alternatives. There has been a shortage of toilet paper across Australia largely due to panic-buying and hoarding. It has even led to fights…
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COVID-19: Social Communicator tasks states on mitigation measures
A Lagos-based Social Communicator, Mr Nathaniel Okoro, says the ability of each state to use what it has to mitigate the problem of coronavirus, will effectively help the nation at this trying times. Okoro made the assertion in an interview with our correspondent in Lagos on Wednesday. ALSO READ:COVID-19: Kwara announces immediate closure of its…
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COVID-19: Kwara announces immediate closure of its borders ·
By Steve Oni, Ilorin Kwara State Government has announced the immediate closure of its local and external borders amid ramped up efforts to block entries of vehicles from outside and prevent the outbreak of COVID-19 in the state. The government however said the border closure excludes all categories of movement sanctioned in the broadcast of…
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COVID-19: LG fumigates markets, public places in Lagos
Agbado/Oke-Odo Local Council Development Area LCDA in Lagos State has commenced total fumigation of all markets and public places to sanitise and prevent the spread of Coronavirus in the area. Dr Augustine Arogundade, the LCDA Chairman in a statement on Tuesday, said that health centres and market places would not be left out in the…
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Lockdown: Kaduna residents complain of hunger, demand food
Some residents of Kaduna have expressed reservation over the stay-at-home order imposed on the state government, and alleged that starvation was setting in. A cross section of the residents, who spoke to our correspondent in separate interviews, said they could no longer go out in search of daily bread due to the lockdown. They also called…
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Thailand’s gov’t warns against April Fool’s coronavirus jokes
Thailand’s government issued a warning Tuesday that April Fool’s Day jokes about the novel coronavirus are punishable by a law which carries a sentence of up to five years in prison. The government’s Public Relations Department posted an infographic on its Twitter account on Tuesday saying “it’s against the law to fake having Covid-19 this April Fools’ Day.”…
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COVID-19: Ekiti’s index case recovers, discharged
Ekiti State government, on Tuesday, announced that the only Coronavirus index case recorded in the state had recovered. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Mojisola Yaya-Kolade, while briefing newsmen in Ado-Ekiti, said that the index case, who had been in isolation, was discharged after he had fully recovered. ALSO READ:COVID-19: Lawmaker sets up fund, donates…