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Condemnation on Sunday greeted the demolition of two hotels by the Rivers State government in Port Harcourt for allegedly flouting the lockdown rules.                                      One of the demolished hotels Activisist, lawyers and opinion leaders in the state faulted the action, which Governor Nyesom Wike personally supervised as “unfair.” Wike had vowed to pull down hotels found to be rendering services and buildings whose shops opened for business during the lockdown. The Prodest Hotel Alode in Eleme and Edemeteh Hotel in Onne were reported to have contravened the order. They were pulled down. The government also declared wanted Princewill Osaroejiji, owner of Etemeteh Hotel and placed N5million bounty on his head, available for whoever could supply information on his whereabouts. Osaroejijin is the youth leader of  Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ...

NAFDAC, others to carry out analysis before testing Governors seek volunteer health workers to battle virus The Republic of Madagascar has offered its herbal drug – COVID Organics (COV) – to Nigeria and other African countries. President Rajolena Inpecting The Covid Organic Plant The drug is for prevention and cure of Coronavirus. Nigeria’s consignment has been sent to Equatorial Guinea from where it will be airlifted to Abuja. For ease of transportation, African countries were divided into zones leading to the freighting of Nigeria’s consignments to Equatorial Guinea. Nigeria’s COVID-19 positive tally moved to 4,399 last night with 248 new cases announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). Lagos recorded 81 cases, followed by Jigawa State 35 and Borno 26 cases to top the chart. Kano recorded 26 cases, followed by Bauchi with 20 cases. There is pressure on the Federal Government by different medical and scientific organizations to all...

A DISPATCH driver with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in Nasarawa State has tested positive with COVID-19. This brings the number of confirmed cases in the state to 12 with one death. Governor Abdullahi Sule announced this yesterday during an expanded security meeting at the Government House in Lafia, the state capital. He said the driver, who lived at Ado in Karu Local Government Area of the state and worked in Abuja, had been the one conveying samples of suspected cases to the testing collection centres. The governor said government’s response team was tracking the 74 contacts of the House of Assembly member who died from Coronavirus pandemic. The Nation gathered that Suleiman Adamu, the lawmaker who represented Nasarawa Central, on Thursday, April 30, 2020, died of COVID-19. Governor Sule said the 74 contacts being tracked were those who had contact with the deceased in Nasarawa Local Government Area alone. “The contacts included the immediate famil...

A dramatic deterioration in US-China relations in recent days has convinced current and former government advisers on both sides that bilateral ties have plummeted to their lowest point in decades.                                      Trump and Ji Ping Over the past week, the Trump administration has threatened to scrap an initial trade deal and increase tariffs on China, backed tough new export controls for Chinese firms buying American tech products, and continued to push theories claiming the coronavirus originated in a laboratory in the city of Wuhan. The White House is also “turbocharging” an initiative among “friendly nations” to push manufacturing supply chains out of China, according to Reuters. And a leaked report from the US Department of Homeland Security accused Beijing of covering up the severity of the virus so it could hoard medical supplies at the start of the year. ...

Minister of Health Dr. Osagie Ehanire said on Tuesday that the government has not ruled out the possibility of using local herbs to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. But he insisted that the Nigerian Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development must first certify their efficacy. The Minister, who spoke when members of the Presidential Task Force on Covid 19 briefed members of the House of Representatives, reiterated that it was wrong for hospitals to turn back patients as a result of fear of COVID-19.                                      Osagie Enahire, Minister For Health He said the government was not ruling out the possibility of using local herbs for the treatment of covid 19, adding that what the government was saying is that those who claim to have found cure should subject it to test by the Nigeria Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development. He said local her...