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Bala Mohammed, Bauchi State Governor has tested positive to the highly contagious coronavirus disease. The Governor’s Senior Special Assistant on Media, Mukhtar Gidado, announced this in a statement on Tuesday. This comes a day after the governor took the test after he had contact with the son of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, was confirmed to have been infected with the virus.

China and United state of America seems to have found cure for the deadly coronavirus, Voiceairmedia has gathered. China's health leadership on Tuesday announced that they have found the Japanese-developed anti-influenza drug to be effective in treating coronavirus patients. Japanese-developed anti-influenza drug, Favipiravir, has been endorsed by China’s health leadership as an anti-viral drug for Coronavirus. This was confirmed by China’s director of the National Center for Biotechnology Development, Zhang Xinmin. According to Zhang Xinmin, the Avigan (Favipiravir) drug was found to be effective in two clinical trials completed in Wuhan and Shenzhen involving 320 patients. During a conference in Beijing on Tuesday, Zhang said the medicine worked for coronavirus-related symptoms including pneumonia and had no obvious side effects. “It has a high degree of safety and is clearly effective in treatment,” Zhang told reporters.Patients who were given the medicine in Shenzhen turned neg

The government of Lagos state has allowed the Italian who was first diagnosed with coronavirus in Nigeria to leave the Yaba Mainland Hospital where he was quarantined and treated. Concise News reports that the Governor of Lagos state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, made this known on his verified Twitter handle late Friday evening. “As the COVID-19 Incident Commander for Lagos State, I am glad to inform you that the index case the Italian gentleman is now negative,” the Lagos governor tweeted. “Through a combined effort of Lagos State, Ogun State and Federal Health Authorities, we were able to limit the transmission of the virus to a single contact. “This involved aggressive contact tracing and containment strategies. However, we now have several new imported cases and we hope we can apply the same contact tracing strategy along with social distancing to slow down the outbreak which may be brewing from these new cases. “The index patient consented to donate one unit of white blood

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced that beginning from Thursday March 19th, the fuel pumps at its retail stations will be adjusted to N125 per litre. NNPC group managing director, Mele Kyary who announced this today, said the adjustment is in compliance with the directive given by Timipre Sylva, the minister of state for petroleum resources. “In compliance with the directives of the honourable minister of state for petroleum resources on PMS pricing, the corporation has reviewed its ex-coastal, ex-depot and NNPC retail pump prices accordingly,” the statement read. “Effective March 19, 2020, NNPC ex-coastal price for PMS has been reviewed downwards from N117.6/litre to N99.44/litre while the ex-depot price is reduced from N133.28/litre to N113.28/litre. “These reductions will, therefore, translate to N125/litre retail pump price.” Kyari said the immediate adjustment will come at a cost to the corporation, however, “NNPC is delighted to effect this massive r

The Federal Ministry of Health has announced 5 new cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria bringing the total number confirmed cases in Nigeria to 8. All 5 cases had a travel history to the UK/USA We urge Nigerians to remain calm as public health response activities are intensified across the country. The National Center for Disease Control have said on their official page that a detailed travel history of each case is being compiled & contact tracing has begun. Our National Emergency Operations Centre is supporting response in the states. The Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Health is conducting risk assessment to initiate other relevant measures. See the tweet below:

Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, says the second confirmed case of Coronavirus in Nigeria has tested negative. Recall that on Monday March 9th, the Minister announced that a Nigerian man who had contact with the Italian man who is the index case of the virus in Nigeria, tested positive. The Nigerian man met with the Italian man in Ewekoro, Ogun state. At a press briefing today, Ehanire said recent tests shows the Nigerian man is now free of the virus. He also announced that all those who had contact with the Italian man, have completed their follow up period and have been certified free to rejoin the society.

The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, has announced a second case of Coronavirus in Ogun state. Ehanire announced this today Monday March 9 at a press conference in Benin City, the Edo State capital. Ehanire briefed reporters at the boardroom of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, where he gave an update on the coronavirus infection in the country. According to him, the second case met with the Italian patient during his visit to Ewekoro in Ogun state in February.

The Centre Manager of the Lagos State Biobank, Dr Bankole Akinwale, has disclosed that the Italian, and only person who tested positive for coronavirus in Nigeria is fast recovering and eating a local meal, “Amala”. Mr Akinwale made the disclosure Tuesday, during a briefing and sensitization of religious leaders on Coronavirus and other communicable diseases, organized by the State Ministry of Home Affairs, at Christ the Light Chapel, Alausa, Ikeja. “With no other confirmed case, the index case is doing well. Our patient is doing well as the viral dose is dropping, and his appetite increasing, from our follow up samples,” he said. Mr Akinwale also stated that they had decontaminate the hotel where the Italian lodged and are still tracing the contacts and following upon them. According to him, the essence was to break and stop the spread of the disease. He also highlighted that the state government has renovated the wards beyond the structures and created about 10, each isolation wards

Reports making rounds online have it that a popular food vendor from Ughelli, Nigeria’s Delta State was burnt into ashes by an angry mob following accusations that she uses water from the mortuary to prepare her food. The woman nicknamed ‘Mama Aroma’ is reported to be notorious in the area for preparing delicious meals that are in high demand. Before her alleged death, the food vendor reportedly sold her Banga rice on a truck in the market where people form long queues to patronise her services. According to local media reports, a mortuary worker who had been seeing her come to the mortuary at night to fetch the water which has been used to bath dead bodies decided to monitor her to ascertain what she uses it for. ‘Mama Aroma’ got into trouble when the said mortuary man followed her to her joint in the market and raised an alarm, prompting the youth to subject her to instant injustice. It is further reported that some residents who had consumed her food pounced on her and beat her u

A Nigerian lady identified as Mitchelle Iannone has taken ot social media to call out Casalinda Hotel in Abuja , for discriminating against her Italian husband due to scare of coronavirus. Following the recent case of coronavirus in Nigeria by an Italian man , Mitchelle took to her Facebook page to reveal that she and her husband had made a reservation to spend 4 nights at Casalinda hotel. However, they later got a message from the hotel management informing them that their reservation had been canceled because her husband is an Italian. Mitchelle who disclosed that she and her husband have not been to Italy in the last 6 months, said they were denied access into the hotel over fear of the couple bringing Coronavirus to the establishment. She wrote: “Last week hubby and I made a hotel reservation for 4 nights at CasaLinda hotel Abuja , through bookings. Everything was paid for and finalized. Only for us to receive a shocking message and call, whilst preparing to go there this afternoon

Man who Drove the Italian Man to Ogun Diagnosed with Coronavirus, Escaped, Demand for N100Million, Threatens to Spread Virus. Recall that the lagos state ministry of health has confirmed its first covid-19 case. The first case if Coronavirus has been reported on the 27th of February as the first of it’s kind in nigeria since the inception in china on January 2020. The patient was said to be an italian citizen to came into Nigeria from Milan on the 25th of February and took kill on the 26th. After all test taken, he was tested positive for COVID-19. The patient is said to be presently clinically stable with no serious symptoms. The Lagos state government is said to be strengthening measures of ensure that any coronavirus case is controlled and contained quickly to avoid an outbreak. THE FOLLOWING PRECAUTIONS SHOULD BE MET TO PROTECT ONESELF AND FAMILY: 1. Always wash your hand regularly and thoroughly with soap and water. You should also always have a hand sanitizer 2. Maintain a health

Nigeria has join the list of countries with cases of Coronavirus as two patients tested positive to the virus quarantine at a private hospital in Lagos. Announcing this at past 12 am via Twitter, the Federal Ministry of Health confirmed the case in Lagos state. According to the info from a reliable source said that, the two patients are a man who just came back to Nigeria from Beijing in China after the Chinese New year celebration and another woman who is said to be frequents to China due for business and shopping purpose. The duo were said to have boarded the same flight on their way back to Nigeria from China. The identity and nationality of the patients are yet to be known but we can now confirm we have a case of Coronavirus in Nigeria. Please, let's stay safe by avoiding crowded places, wash our hands regularly and use noise masks as oft as possible. Nigeria now join Algeria and Egypt on the list of African countries with at least, a case of coronavirus. I pray God help us to

🔴 Urgent  China declares the situation out of control in the fight against the corona virus, and demands the World Health Organization to declare a state of emergency in the country  🔴 Urgent  Saudi Arabia announces the departure of three Saudi aircraft to bring Saudi nationals in the country of China in the coming hours soon  Russia announces the closure of the airspace and the suspension of all its incoming and outgoing flights to China  Corona flu is spreading in many countries of the world and hundreds of cases in hospitals  Flu Prevention

Five members of a church in South Africa who drank rat poison given to them by their pastor have died. Five members of a South African church have reportedly died after their pastor gave them Sowetan Live had reported how   Pastor Light Monkeyi , the founder of  Grace Living Hope Ministries, had mixed a very potent rat poison called Rattex with water and gave to his members to drink, saying that that death has no power over them as long as they drink the mixture which he said was for nourishment and healing.It was gathered that Pastor Monkeyi had told his members that they were not mere mortals and would not die from drinking the lethal dose of rat poison. It has now been reported that five of the members who drank the mixture   have died while 13 others have been hospitalized. The church members were said to have developed severe stomach upsets after drinking the poison that same evening and they were rushed to a hospital where five of them died in the night. Monyeki is said to have d

We all need to get certain things straight. First and foremost, nobody had expected Evangelist Tope to be infallible neither did I think of her as a saint or angel of a sort. Be that as it may, Tope Alabi as much as she is entitled to a private live should equally bear in mind her pedegree in the Christiandom and the larger society as a respected song minister of the word of God. With her calling and status, there are expected standards of public comportment and decorum expected of her. She shouldn't forget too quickly she is a role model to numerous of her admirers and followers. In life when you have attained certain height and status in a society,your appearance in the eyes of the public is something you definitely have to be mindful of. If Tacha or TY had been the ones caught with those shakushaku dance steps, I am pretty sure nobody would have said a thing. We all are well acquainted with their pedegree vis a vis appearance in public events. Why did everyone condemn the dance

BEIJING,(Xinhua) -- Chinese experts, based on the result of clinical trials, have confirmed that Chloroquine Phosphate, an antimalarial drug, has a certain curative effect on the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), a Chinese official said here Monday. The experts have "unanimously" suggested the drug be included in the next version of the treatment guidelines and applied in wider clinical trials as soon as possible, Sun Yanrong, deputy head of the China National Center for Biotechnology Development under the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), said at a press conference. Chloroquine Phosphate, which has been used for more than 70 years, was selected from tens of thousands of existing drugs after multiple rounds of screening, Sun said. According to her, the drug has been under clinical trials in over 10 hospitals in Beijing, as well as in south China's Guangdong Province and central China's Hunan Province, and has shown fairly good efficacy. In the trials, the

Out of 72436 people that contracted this virus, 1868 people died. Thus, the amazing news here is a 21 years old african man contracted it and he survived. The Cameroonian student living in the Chinese city of Jingzhou, contracted the coronavirus he had no intention of leaving China, even if that were possible. "No matter what happens I don't want to take the sickness back to Africa," he said from his university dormitory, where he is now under a 14-day quarantine. He was suffering from a fever, a dry cough, and flu-like symptoms. When he became ill he thought of his time as a child in Cameroon when he contracted malaria. He feared the worse. "When I was going to the hospital for the first time I was thinking about my death and how I thought it was going to happen," he said. For 13 days he remained in isolation in a local Chinese hospital. He was treated with antibiotics and drugs typically used to treat HIV patients. After two weeks of care he began to show sign

Charcoal is one of the most disregarded products at home. We only see the need for it when it is time to set fire for Banku. However, if you really need first aid, charcoal is something you need to have on you all the time. You might not know this but it is one of the most medicinal products you can have at home due to its poison extraction ability. In case you never gave it much attention, this is the time to do so. Here are 13 benefits of charcoal you never thought about. 1. Preventing_Odour*. Does your shoe smell bad? Just get some charcoal & put it in them. Do you have any bad smell in your room? Drop some charcoal where you suspect the smell could be coming from. Does your fridge or freezer smell? Put a piece of charcoal in it. Do you have strong body odour? Just make a powder out of charcoal & use. Charcoal is very good at getting rid of bad smell. Ever wondered why your parents always scooped out the ash from the coal pot to pour in the hen coop or toilet before sweeping

Pangolins Coronavirus is linked to the novel disease found in pangolins! It was 99% identical to the strain found in infected people. The research has found that they are ‘the most likely intermediate host’ of coronavirus, which has spread to 25 countries. Since pangolins emerged at a seafood market in Wuhan, China, in December.It's been a suspect carrier! This latest discovery however, will be of great importance for the prevention and control of the origin of the virus. Investigations are still ongoing. Some scientists broadly agree that coronavirus may have originated in bats and then passed to humans, possibly via another species. However, everyone should avoid this most trafficked animal as well as eating bats link to humans via food markets.

Governor El Rufai of Kaduna State has embarked on urbanization agenda since his first tenure, many old roads are being reconstructed and Rehabilitated. This new road constructed by the governor is currently trending on social media because you will not believe it's a Nigerian road unless you are told. This is a newly constructed way called Sokoto Road in Kaduna and it is easy to mistake it for a European road. Many Nigerians have praised the governor for being a catalyst for change in Kaduna State. See pictures of the road below See people's reactions below After seeing this road some have started drumming support for Governor El Rufai to contest for the presidency 2023. Do you also think Governor El Rufai is qualified to contest for the presidency in 2023? Share your opinion below? Kindly like and share this post. Thanks

After a hot week ban on Commercial motorcycle and tricycle on Lagos road, which is been causing a lots of waves in the heart of Lagosians Lots of things has happen, from the burning of Police patrol vehicle and also the a stray bullet that hit a schoolgirl, there have been a lots of mixed reactions that's the ban will soon be lifted in a shots time period. The Lagos state government has stated days ago that the ban will never be lifted. There are a lot of intelligent people in Nigeria that'll always create something out of nothing, this kind of people needs support from the government or private bodies soo the country can go to higher places After the ban on Lagos roads this man converted his tricycle to a four wheels drive What we don't know if this Four-cycle will still be arrested on the road , let's hear your view in the comment box THANKS

At a conoil fueling station at Apapa on Thursday 6th February 2020, a monster python was killed. The python was hiding inside the lubricant warehouse and when it was sighted the attendant s raised the alarm They poured fuel on the snake and it then became weak before men attacked and killed it……..Soup is ready for some people here. It was discovered in the warehouse that it had layed 48 eggs which were also destroyed. The locals said that the python was the female that the male would come looking for it….. well how true that is I don’t know.

The highest level of court in China, Supreme People’s Court, is expected to give an approval on Friday for the mass killing of coronavirus patients in China as sure means of controlling the spread of the deadly virus. The State tells the court that China is on the verge of losing its health workers to Coronavirus as at least 20 health workers contract the virus daily. The State argues that coronavirus patients admitted at hospitals only have their deaths delayed and infect many others while receiving care at the hospital. China has been under criticism for human rights violations and organizations have questioned China’s approach in dealing with the Coronavirus outbreak and it is believed the country has already killed many of its coronavirus patients. The State mentioned in a document to the court that the country may lose its entire citizens if the few affected patients do not sacrifice their lives to save health workers and a billion others as there is no hope in sight in the fight

The truth is that the prior thing girls need is money, it's after money that you begin to talk of other things. But when they have been lured by your money, and they get to find out that some qualities are still missing, then still they will not be comfortable. They may even forget that you have money. That's when they will start loving a poor guy that has the qualities that they cherish most. Let me tell you, no one can understand women fully because their lives are dynamic 😢. A reliable book on how to understand women is not real, and may never be published. But even at this, you can still understand their lives to an extent if you are a guru. So below are the things girls would expect from you but will never tell you: 1 . touch her waist and pull her close 2 . talk to her about your day 3.  share secrets with her 4.  give her your clothes 5 . kiss her slowly 6 . hug her tight 7.  Hold her 8.  laugh with her 9 . Invite her out 10.  Text her randomly in the day Remember I hav

Herpetologist Siouxsie Gillett and snake obsessed partner Simon Paul Keys keep over 80 slithery creatures in a double locked room - including snakes which have enough venom to kill an elephant. Siouxsie and Simon spend their days rescuing and rehoming unwanted creatures in their home which they have opened up to the public. Herpetologist Siouxsie applies her make up with the helping hand of a tarantula Calling it the Secret Sanctuary, they hope to educate people and change their attitudes and phobias towards these misunderstood animals. Siouxsie said: “We have several venomous snakes here at the moment including three Western Diamondback Rattlesnakes, and we also have a Malayan Viper. “The Malayan Viper is our most venomous snake here and this species actually kills quite a lot of people".