A professor of mass communication at the Bayero University, Kano, Balarabe Maikaba, has reportedly died on Sunday. He was said to have died in Kano but details of his death were sketchy as of the time of filing this report. The PUNCH reports that scores of people, including elites and prominent sons of the state, have been lost to a yet-to-be ...

The United States recorded 2,494 more coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, according to figures reported Saturday night by Johns Hopkins University. The country now has an overall death toll of 53,511, with 936,293 confirmed infections, according to a tally by the Baltimore-based university at 8:30 pm (0030 GMT Sunday). The United States is by far the hardest-hit country ...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent Freedom of Information (FoI) requests to the 36 state governors urging them to “urgently provide information on spending details on COVID-19 in your state, and to immediately redirect public funds budgeted for security votes and life pensions for former governors from the state to invest in and improve public healthcare facilities and ...

Some private hospitals, which shut down operations after some of their staff members became exposed to coronavirus patients, have given details of how carriers of the deadly virus came to their facilities. Findings by SUNDAY PUNCH revealed that the affected hospitals had suspended operations to decontaminate their facilities and adhere to other guidelines stipulated by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control for ...

Ahead of the imminent review of the lockdown imposed on the Federal Capital Territory, Lagos and Ogun states by President Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigerian Medical Association has advised the Federal Government to again extend the lockdown, which ends on Monday (tomorrow). This, the association said, would help to contain the rapid spread of the coronavirus disease. It added that with ...

Kano State has continued to witness a rise in unusual deaths as over 12 persons were confirmed dead on Saturday. The deceased include professors, a newspaper editor, and other professionals. They were buried at different cemeteries within and outside the metropolis. Within the past eight days of lockdown in the state, no fewer than 20 persons have died from undisclosed ...

…use of face masks now compulsory in public places in Lagos Lagos State Governor Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Saturday said the state’s mortuaries are getting filled and congested, urging owners of corpses in the state morgues to pick them for burial in line with the protocol established in the management of COVID-19 in the country. The governor who is the Chief Incident ...

Nigeria on Saturday recorded 87 new cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing the country’s total infections to 1,182 , according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). According to the NCDC in a tweet via its official handle, 33 of the new infections were recorded in Lagos, 18 in Borno, 12 in Osun, nine in Katsina, four each in ...

Ebonyi Transparency and Accountability Network (E-TAN), a forum of professionals of Ebonyi State origin resident in Nigeria and in Diaspora, has condemned the harassment of journalists working in the state by the state government. In a statement signed by its President, Ikechukwu Okogwu, the group said it had keenly “followed incidents as reported on Nigerian mainstream media with respect to ...

An unidentified woman has reportedly died while observing  a two-month dry fast in Okirighwre area of Sapele Local Government, Delta State. The woman, said to be 60 years old, alongside her husband, a son and a friend were said to have locked themselves in the house and began the fast for unknown reasons. In a video available on the YouTube ...