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Madagascar, a South African country, branded as the group of least developed countries by the United Nations and a member of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and African Union (AU), on April 21 launched a herbal medicine believed to cure and prevent coronavirus pandemic. The coronavirus disease appeared first in 2019 in Wuhan city in China. The disease was, first identified in Wuhan and Hubei, both in China early December 2019. The original cause still unknown, it remains a puzzle and an enigma for the world scientific community. Though World Health Organsiation there is no cure for COVID-19, Malagasy…

By Akanimo Sampson Like the State of Missouri in US, a coalition of Nigerian lawyers is bracing for a $200 billion legal battle with China over the killer COVID-19 pandemic. The goal is to ensure that China takes full responsibility for its alleged negligence that is causing Nigerians untold hardship and pains as the virus continues to spread in the country. The lawyers are filing a class-action suit against the Chinese government. This is coming as confirmed positive COVID-19 cases in Nigeria zoomed to 1273 with 91 new cases recorded as at 11.50 p.m on Sunday. In the meantime, for…

ADDRESS BY H.E. MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE CUMULATIVE LOCKDOWN ORDER OF LAGOS AND OGUN STATES AS WELL AS THE FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY ON COVID- 19 PANDEMIC AT THE STATE HOUSE, ABUJA, MONDAY, 27th APRIL, 2020 1. Fellow Nigerians 2. I will start by commending you all for the resilience and patriotism that you have shown in our collective fight against the biggest health challenge of our generation. 3. As of yesterday, 26th April 2020, some 3 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been recorded globally with about 900,000 recoveries. Unfortunately, some 200,000 people…

By Akanimo Sampson The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has welcomed the Call to Action by garment industry to work with governments to tackle the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The industry’s employer, worker organisations, leading brands and retailers have expressed willingness to work with governments and financial institutions to tackle the devastating economic disruption and threat to livelihoods caused by the corona virus pandemic. The call to action is bringing together key stakeholders in the industry in the wake of unprecedented social and economic disruption that has resulted in the closure of factories and retail stores, illness, and widespread loss of…

“I was, at first, scared but I got inspired to brace up for COVID-19,” Ememobong Gabriel Udofa, a pharmacist discharged after testing negative to coronavirus, stated this on Sunday. Udofa, one of the three coronavirus patients discharged from Ibom Specialty Hospital, Uyo, after their status had been confirmed negative by Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. Otobong Asuquo and Ekaete Udoafah, medical doctors, were the two others. Before now, three other COVID-19 patients had been discharged after testing negative, remaining six at the isolation centre. Udofa said “The treatment here had been topnotch. There is a difference between how I came…

Nigeria, Sunday, recorded 91 new cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing the country’s total infections to 1,273, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). By this, Akwa Ibom State has 12 confirmed cases of COVID-19, though six have been discharged. The NCDC, in a tweet via its official handle, said “On the 26th of April 2020, 91 new confirmed cases and five new deaths were recorded in Nigeria. “The 91 new cases are reported from sixteen states- Lagos (43), Sokoto (8), Taraba (6), Gombe (5), Ondo (3), FCT (3), Edo (3), Oyo (3), Rivers (3), Bauchi (3), Osun…

By Akanimo Sampson Worried by the crushing effect of the coronavirus crisis, a top UN functionary is busy appealing to the conscience of the developed world to rise in aid of poor countries. He has also pointed out that 1.1 billion people living in the least Developed Countries (LDCs) will be facing an eventual domestic pandemic except for the developed world urgently rise in their aid. Director of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development’s (UNCTAD) Division for Africa and Least Developed Countries, Paul Akiwumi, who disclosed this, says the COVID-19 crisis has rapidly thrown the world into uncharted…

By Akanimo Sampson There are some emerging worrisome indicators that the global recession triggered by COVID-19 might become a depression. Experts at the International Labour Organisation (ILO) are already saying, ‘’we face the real prospect that a global recession becomes a depression.’’ Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and their employees broadly regarded as an essential part of the social and economic fabric of daily life worldwide, is now under threat from the unprecedented effects of the rampaging coronavirus. ILO says in this situation, controlling the pandemic, maintaining workers’ incomes and minimising the long-term costs of collapsing businesses are essential. “Much…

By: Reuben Abati People tend to be alarmed when the Nigerian Presidency takes certain decisions. They don’t think the decision makes sense. Sometimes, they wonder if something has not gone wrong with the thinking process at that highest level of the country. I have heard people insist that there is some form of witchcraft at work in the country’s seat of government. I am ordinarily not a superstitious person, but working in the Villa, I eventually became convinced that there must be something supernatural about power and closeness to it. I’ll start with a personal testimony. I was given an…

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says the country has recorded 87 new coronavirus cases while the number of fatalities has reached 35. In its verified Twitter handle late Saturday night, NCDC tweets “On the 25th of April 2020, 87 new confirmed cases and one new death were recorded in Nigeria “One new state (Imo) has reported a confirmed case in the last 24 hours. “Till date, 1,182 cases have been confirmed, 222 cases have been discharged and thirty-five deaths have been recorded in 28 states and the Federal Capital Territory. The 87 new cases are reported from nine…