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By Joseph Akanbi Osun State Government has denied rumours making the rounds that it has discharged the last COVID-19 patient in the State. The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Rafiu Isamotu, made this known in a telephone conversation with our correspondent. When asking about the veracity of the rumours, Isamotu simply…

Members from the same family cannot receive money from the Conditional Cash Transfer scheme currently ongoing in many states, the Federal Government clarified on Tuesday. It also stated that a total of 279 trucks of grains had been deployed to the frontline states that were put on lockdown by the…

The Nigerian government has postponed the Senior School Certificate Examination organised by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and the National Examinations Council (NECO) for the year amid coronavirus outbreak. Emeka Nwajubu, Minister of state for education announced this during a press briefing monitored on Channels Tv. “WAEC and NECO…

The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Monday said the bodies of persons, who died of coronavirus, were not infectious. The National Coordinator of the task force, Dr Sani Aliyu, stated this at a media briefing of the PTF in Abuja. At the briefing, Aliyu and the Secretary to the…

As Muslims begin Ramadan fasting this week, the Sultan of Sokoto and President-General of Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has declared that, there will be no Ramadan lecture sessions and congregation prayers in Mosques. The Sultan told Nigerian Muslims that, this year’s Ramadan is one with…

UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin said Monday that leagues across Europe were ready to return to action behind closed doors in a bid to limit the damage caused by coronavirus. Football leagues have been suspended since mid-March due to the pandemic which has claimed more than 100,000 lives throughout the continent….

The National Deputy President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Bishop Francis Wale Oke,has enjoined the Federal and State governments in the country, to explore the window of opportunity offered by the coronavirus pandemic to develop the nation’s health sector and other decaying infrastructures. Besides, Wale Oke is of…

By Joseph Akanbi The Speaker of the State of Osun House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Timothy Owoeye, has condemned police brutality on a woman in Iwo for allegedly flouting the lockdown order of the State. Owoeye who was reacting to the viral video in a telephone conversation with our correspondent,…

By Editor The Vice Chancellor, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Prof Eyitope Ogunbodede, has disclosed that the university is researching into natural cure for the deadly coronavirus. Ogunbodede, a professor of Preventive and Community Dentistry, disclosed this in an interview with Punch Newspaper’s FEMI MAKINDE. Excerpts below; Is there hope of…

By Editor The Inspector General of Police, M.A Adamu has ordered the arrest of policemen involved in the viral video of a woman who was flogged in Iwo for allegedly violating the lockdown order. The IG’s order was contained in a statement issued by DCP Frank Mba, the Force Public…