The Speaker of Ghana’s parliament, Alban Bagbin says the House will suspend sittings for three weeks due to increasing coronavirus cases among lawmakers and staff. The number of Lawmakers who have contracted the virus has risen to 17 while that of staff has gone up to 151. The Speaker said sittings would resume on March 2, adding…
Seven hundred and forty-four Covid-19 patients in Lagos have recovered after going through community-based treatment. However; Lagos State has added eighty-six new cases of the coronavirus in the last twenty-four hours. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control confirmed the latest confirmed cases in an update on its Twitter handle. The NCDC said the new cases in Lagos…
The Federal Government has placed fresh travel restrictions on 100 passengers for flouting its directives on COVID-19. The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 released the passport details of the defaulters in a tweet, announcing they have been restricted from travelling for six months. While noting that the travellers had been notified and barred from travelling out of…
A Covid-19 isolation centre has been opened at the State House Clinic in Abuja. Government also plans to build a Covid-19 testing laboratory at the State House Clinic. The Secretary to Government, and Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19, Boss Mustapha, made this known in Abuja. Mustapha was speaking at the commissioning of the Special…
Ekiti State Governor, KAYODE FAYEMI, has appointed two new members into his cabinet. They are AKIN OYEBODE, who resumes as Commissioner for Finance, and BANJI FILINA, who steps in as Commissioner for Health. OYEBODE and FILANI have both been sworn-in during a brief ceremony in the state capital, Ado-Ekiti. Meanwhile; Governor FAYEMI has been going round the…