Saturday, 2 May 2020

NigerianEye: “BREAKING: Nigeria records 238 new Coronavirus cases, total now 2,170” plus 29 more

NigerianEye: “BREAKING: Nigeria records 238 new Coronavirus cases, total now 2,170” plus 29 more

BREAKING: Nigeria records 238 new Coronavirus cases, total now 2,170

Posted: 01 May 2020 03:33 PM PDT

Nigeria has recorded 238 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 2,170. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control announced this via its Twitter handle on...

Kano breaks Lagos’ record of new Coronavirus infections in one day

Posted: 01 May 2020 08:10 PM PDT

Kano State has broken the record set by Lagos, as it racked up 92 new cases of Coronavirus in a single day. Lagos previously owned that record, with 87 Coronavirus infections recorded on Wednesday,...

Lagos Coronavirus cases now over 1000

Posted: 01 May 2020 08:06 PM PDT

Coronavirus infections in Lagos have reached 1,006 after the state recorded 30 new cases on Friday. It appears the state has passed its peak as it recorded a drop in infections in the last two...

Nigeria to prosecute people without face masks in public

Posted: 01 May 2020 07:57 PM PDT

The Federal Government has released new guidelines towards the containment of COVID-19 from May 4, 2020. The guidelines, signed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha,...

Relaxing lockdown will expose more Nigerians to COVID-19 — Nigerian doctors warn

Posted: 01 May 2020 08:21 PM PDT

The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) on Friday spoke against the decision of the Federal Government to relax the stay-at-home order. The umbrella body of Nigerian doctors described the move as...

AIT boss, Chief Raymond Dokpesi and nine family members test positive for coronavirus

Posted: 01 May 2020 08:21 PM PDT

Founder of Daar Communications Plc, owners of Raypower FM and Africa International Television (AIT), Chief Raymond Dokpesi, has tested positive for COVID-19. His daughter-in-law and three...

ASUU rejects BVN as condition for salary payment

Posted: 01 May 2020 07:54 PM PDT

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, on Friday, described as an act of illegality the request by the Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, that lecturers who had yet to receive...

US Coronavirus deaths near 65,000

Posted: 01 May 2020 07:49 PM PDT

The coronavirus death toll in the United States climbed by 1,883 in the past 24 hours, a tally by Johns Hopkins University showed Friday, bringing the total number of fatalities to nearly...

We are currently tracing 12,000 COVID-19 contacts - NCDC DG

Posted: 01 May 2020 08:20 PM PDT

The Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, on Friday said about 12,000 contacts were being traced across the country for COVID-19 sample and...

Oyo governor slashes salaries of political appointees by 50%

Posted: 01 May 2020 03:57 PM PDT

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has slashed the salaries of senior political appointees by 50 percent. Makinde disclosed this on Friday during the Workers' Day celebration held at the Labour...

North Korean leader rumored to be dead suddenly reappears

Posted: 01 May 2020 03:54 PM PDT

North Korean leader, Kim Jong-Un, has resurfaced after weeks of speculations about his health and whereabouts. The Korean news agency said Kim appeared in public for the first time today, since he...

South Africa eases COVID-19 lockdown

Posted: 01 May 2020 03:45 PM PDT

South Africa began to gradually ease its strict coronavirus lockdown on Friday, allowing some industries to reopen after five weeks of restrictions that plunged its struggling economy deeper into...

Drug discovered for emergency treatment for COVID-19

Posted: 01 May 2020 03:21 PM PDT

The experimental drug remdesivir has been authorized by US regulators for emergency use against COVID-19, President Donald Trump announced Friday. It comes after the antiviral made by Gilead...

Russian Prime Minister tests positive for coronavirus

Posted: 01 May 2020 11:31 AM PDT

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has announced that he had contracted the coronavirus and requested that his first deputy be appointed as acting prime minister Mishustin made the...

BREAKING: Fire guts popular filling station in Lagos [VIDEO]

Posted: 01 May 2020 11:15 AM PDT

There is a fire outbreak currently ongoing at Oando Filling Station in Obalende, Lagos opposite the BRT station. The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained as at the time of filing this...

Uzodinma releases 36 prisoners in Imo

Posted: 01 May 2020 11:14 AM PDT

Gov. Hope Uzodinma of Imo has released 36 prisoners as part of efforts to decongest the prison following the threat of COVID-19 pandemic. The governor also directed the Acting Chief Judge of the...

May Day: Buhari sends message to Nigerian workers (FULL TEXT)

Posted: 01 May 2020 11:13 AM PDT

President Muhammadu Buhari has assured that no employer would retrench workers without going through due process. Buhari said his government will ensure that no employer would retrench or lay off...

Sanwo-Olu doubles life insurance for front line health workers in Lagos

Posted: 01 May 2020 10:24 AM PDT

Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the Lagos State governor, has said his administration has doubled the life and health insurance for all front line health workers to cushion the hazard they face during the...

Edo Govt accuses Oshiomhole of ‘spitting on the graves’ of those who died from COVID-19

Posted: 01 May 2020 09:57 AM PDT

The government of Edo state has accused Adams Oshimhole, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), of holding a political gathering in Benin, the state capital, amid the COVID-19...

COVID-19: Lagos asks govt offices to reopen on Monday

Posted: 01 May 2020 09:57 AM PDT

The Lagos state government has directed government offices and establishments to re-open on Monday. In a statement on Friday, Hakeem Muri-Okunola, the state head of service, said Babajide Sanwo-Olu,...

Buhari reacts to death of another prominent Kano indegene, Halima Shittu

Posted: 01 May 2020 09:57 AM PDT

President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to the death of another prominent personality in Kano State. Prominent Islamic scholar, Malama Halima Shittu Abdulsalm, wife of an equally famous scholar and...

Premier League re-states commitment to finish season

Posted: 01 May 2020 09:34 AM PDT

Premier League clubs on Friday reconfirmed their commitment to finish the 2019/20 season subject to coronavirus restrictions being lifted in Britain despite fears expressed by players. The English...

COVID-19: Sanwo-Olu inaugurates 118-bed isolation centre in Lagos

Posted: 01 May 2020 09:21 AM PDT

As the coronavirus cases in Lagos State near 1000, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Friday, opens a new 118-bed Isolation Center in the Gbagada area of the state. It was earlier reported that the...

I had nothing when my father died- Kunle Afolayan

Posted: 01 May 2020 09:16 AM PDT

Award-winning actor and filmmaker, Kunle Afolayan has averred that he had nothing when his father, Adeyemi Afolayan passed on. Adeyemi Afolayan a.k.a Ade Love was a Nigerian actor, director and...

COVID-19: Players are scared to resume – Aguero

Posted: 01 May 2020 09:07 AM PDT

Players are "scared" about the prospect of returning to action amid the coronavirus pandemic, says Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero. The Premier League is hoping to resume the season on 8 June,...

2023: Northerners will frustrate Yoruba Presidential ambition – Nnamdi Kanu

Posted: 01 May 2020 08:54 AM PDT

Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has warned that the North will not allow Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, actualize his presidential...

COVID-19: Oshiomhole warns governors on salary cut

Posted: 01 May 2020 09:21 AM PDT

Adams Oshiomhole, the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has warned State Governors against cutting salaries of workers as a result of COVID-19 pandemic. There have been...

102 COVID-19 potential vaccines available – WHO

Posted: 01 May 2020 08:51 AM PDT

The World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed that there are 102 potential COVID-19 vaccines being developed around the world. WHO, in a document posted on the organization's website on Thursday,...

Ex-Speaker, Ghali Na’Abba debunks his rumoured death (VIDEO)

Posted: 01 May 2020 08:51 AM PDT

Former Speaker of the House of Representative, Ghali Umar Na' Abba, has insisted that he's alive. Na'Abba personally debunked rumours making the rounds that he was dead. Reports had emerged on Friday...

I have never had a s3xual relationship with Orezi- Yvonne Jegede

Posted: 01 May 2020 07:58 AM PDT

Nollywood actress, Yvonne Jegede has debunked claims that she is dating popular singer, Orezi. The actress made this known while answering questions from fans during an Instagram live chat with a...
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