Wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari, says her daughter, who recently returned from the United Kingdom, is also in self-isolation. Mrs Buhari tweeted the developments through her personal handle, @aishambuhari. According to her, she acted based on the advice of the Minister of Health and the Presidential Task Force on Covid -19. She wrote, “Good afternoon Nigerians, earlier today ...

DRASTIC measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) in the country were rolled out on Wednesday. Churches and mosques were advised to lockdown as schools are shut in Lagos and the nine states in the Northwest. Ogun and Kwara states also announced measures to curtail gathering of a large number of people and to close schools. Nigeria’s list of ...

The Presidential Advisory Council on Tuesday warned about dire economic consequences for Nigeria if the raging coronavirus infection was not contained as quickly as possible. The council, which is chaired by Prof Doyin Salami, met with the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), at the State House, Abuja. It said one of the immediate consequences, as shown in the crash ...

The Ministry of Health in Lagos State has confirmed its first case of the novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), incidentally the first in Nigeria and in West Africa since the outbreak in China in January 2020. This was contained in a statement released Friday morning by the state Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi. It is the second confirmed case in ...

shutterstock. Chikwe Ihekweazu, UCL The number of reported cases and deaths of coronavirus is doubling every couple of days, and patients have now been reported from many Asian countries, as well as the Middle East, Europe, Australia and the US. The Conversation Africa asked Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu for a run down on what preparations have been put in place in ...

At least nine people have died from a new coronavirus in China following an outbreak in the city of Wuhan and more than 470 cases have been reported globally, most in China. Global health authorities fear the transmission rate will accelerate as hundreds of millions of Chinese travel at home and abroad during the week-long Lunar New Year holiday. KNOWN ...