The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has condemned as “racist” the comments by two French doctors who suggested a vaccine for the coronavirus could be tested in Africa. “Africa can’t and won’t be a testing ground for any vaccine,” said Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The …

  Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr. Niyi Adebayo yesterday said the federal government is currently engaging indigenous car manufacturers to tweak their operations and commence the manufacturing of made-in-Nigeria ventilators to boost the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. He also said the government is working with the Standards …

  The military in Mali says more than 20 soldiers have been killed by suspected jihadists in the northern region of Gao. People in the area said militants drove around their villages in cars and on motorbikes before attacking the army base at dawn on Monday. They said the insurgents …

  Confirmed coronavirus cases in Nigeria have increased to 238. This was after the country recorded six new cases on Monday. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control announced this via its Twitter handle. Of the six new cases, the NCDC said two were recorded in Kwara State, two in Edo, …

  The United States has so far evacuated 38,296 citizens from Nigeria, Ghana, Benin Republic, and 75 other countries on account of the coronavirus pandemic. The citizens were airlifted in 330 flights coordinated by the US Department of State. The emergency evacuation commenced on January 29, 2020, according to the …

  The Niger State Government has relaxed the curfew imposed as part of measures to curb the spread of coronavirus disease in the state. The new curfew takes effect from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. beginning from April 5 as against the earlier order of 10 a.m. to 12 midnight. …

  Senegalese President Macky Sall has extended for 30 days the state of emergency introduced throughout the country in response to the new coronavirus, the state media reported. The state of emergency first announced by the head of state on 23 March is accompanied by a curfew from 8 p.m. …

  Global auditing firm McKinsey & Company’s is estimating that Africa would lose up to $200 billion in 2020 due to the current coronavirus pandemic. A paper put together by experts at the auditing firm said the pandemic will led to a cut of 3 to 8 percentage points to …

Nigeria plans to create a 500 billion naira ($1.39 billion) coronavirus fund to strengthen its healthcare infrastructure to tackle the virus, the government said on Saturday. Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed, House of Representatives speaker Femi Gbajabiamila and Senate President Ahmad Lawan agreed in a meeting that the crisis intervention fund …

  The police in Delta State have accused the 28-year-old man reportedly killed by a soldier in the Warri area of the state of disobeying the directives of the Nigerian Army. Joseph Pessu was said to have been shot at Ugbuwangue community in Warri South Local Government Area (LGA) of …

  A Spanish family including 11 children have been placed in strict isolation in their Valladolid home in northwest Spain after contracting COVID-19. Doctors have warned that the viral load of the family is so high that they must keep indoors for two weeks lest they cause a mass spread. …

  As cases of the Coronavirus pandemic continues to rise in Nigeria and other parts of the world, a development economist and governance expert, Dr Chiwuike Uba, has warned that the situation will continue to deteriorate if government does not apply stringent measures to tackle the pandemic head on. In …

  A total of 24 people who were earlier confirmed to be infected with Coronavirus have so far been treated and discharged discharged from the Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH) in Yaba Lagos after testing negative twice, the state Commissioner for Health said yesterday. Prof. Akin Abayomi, who disclosed this at …

  Alkali Musa, is 78, years old. He is no doubt the oldest man among the 680, repentant terrorists undergoing rehabilitation and de-radicalization at the Operation Safe Corridor rehabilitation camp at Malam Sidi, in Gombe state. He is a retired civil servant. During his years of service, he worked as …

  Former Republic of Congo president Jacques Joaquim Yhombi Opango died in France on Monday of the new coronavirus (Covid-19), his family told AFP. He was 81. Yhombi Opango, who led Congo-Brazzaville from 1977 until he was toppled in 1979, died at a Paris hospital, his son Jean-Jacques said. Yhombi …

  The Northern Regional Minister, Salifu Sa-eed has disclosed that, Ghana’s attempt to repatriate the ten (10) foreigners who were apprehended, quarantined and later tested positive for the COVID 19 in Tamale has proved futile. According to him, Ghana’s engagement with the Guinean authorities was unsuccessful as they registered their …

  Florida officials have arrested the pastor of a megachurch after detectives say he held two Sunday services with hundreds of people and violated a safer-at-home order in place to limit the spread of the coronavirus. According to jail records, Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne turned himself in to authorities Monday afternoon …

Factory activity in China unexpectedly expanded in March from a collapse the month before, but analysts caution that a durable near-term recovery is far from assured as the global coronavirus crisis knocks foreign demand and threatens a steep economic slump. China’s official Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) rose to 52 in …

  The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has ordered the mass production of emergency stockpiles Chloroquine for possible clinical trial treatment of coronavirus (COVID-19) patients. Chloroquine was reported to have demonstrated marked efficacy and acceptable safety in treating COVID-19 associated pneumonia in multi-centre clinical trials …

President Muhammadu Buhari has imposed a curfew on Lagos and Ogun states as well as on the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja. He announced the curfew during a nationwide broadcast at 7pm today, Sunday, Mach 29, 2020. The curfew is for two weeks, effective from 11pm tomorrow, Monday, March 30, …

  A 32 year old Man, suspected to be a Cultist has confessed to the police that he kills his victims very Quickly. Ahmed Kabiru, from Kano State who confessed to being the chief butcher of the ‘Aiye Confraternity’ in Lagos said he dispatches his victims very quickly during operations. …

  North Korea on Sunday fired two suspected ballistic missiles into the sea, South Korea and Japan said, continuing a streak of weapons launches that suggests leader Kim Jong Un is trying to strengthen domestic support amid worries about a possible coronavirus outbreak in the country. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs …

  Wall Street stocks tumbled on Friday, ending a massive three-day surge after doubts about the fate of the U.S. economy resurfaced and the number of coronavirus cases in the country climbed. U.S. stocks deepened their losses late in the session, even after the House of Representatives approved a $2.2 …

The African region is witnessing a rapid rise in the number of reported confirmed COVID-19 cases, with a 25% daily increase over the past five days. Today, 39 countries reported a total of 216 cases in the past 24 hours, this a significant increase from a month ago, when one …

  A Lagos based trader, Kenneth Ugwu has murdered his son for desecrating the land by killing and cutting his mother’s head for ritual purpose at Iheaka community in Igbo-eze South Local Government Area of Enugu State National Light reports that Kenneth’s father, Mr. Cyril Ugwu murdered his son for …

  With immediate effect and consistent with national laws of the creditor countries, the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is calling on all official bilateral creditors to suspend debt payments from International Development Association (IDA) countries that request forbearance. This follows a joint statement to …

  The third person to die of Covid-19 complications in the Democratic Republic of Congo is a respected human rights lawyer and an aide of President Félix Tshisekedi. Jean-Joseph Mukendi Wa Mulumba was the acting head of President Tshisekedi’s legal advisory council. He is likely to have contracted the respiratory …

  Former members of the Prophetic, Healing and Deliverance (PHD) ministries in Cape Town have accused the church of scamming them out of money they invested in housing and other projects. Founded in 2012 by Walter Magaya, PHD is one of the controversial prosperity gospel churches in southern Africa that …

  Mali has confirmed its first cases of Coronavirus – two of its nationals who returned from France on 12 and 16 March. The patients are a 49-year-old woman from the capital Bamako and a 62-year-old man living in the western city of Kayes, the government said in a statement. …

  As Coronavirus spreads to six states in Nigeria, with fear that the infection could get worse, highly-placed health workers have said that the nation does not have up to 500 ventilators across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. Findings by our correspondents show that hospitals may experience …