Tag: CoronaVirus
Sergio Ramos tests positive for COVID-19
Real Madrid captain, Sergio Ramos has tested positive for coronavirus but has already been ruled out of the Champions League quarter-final second leg at...
WAEC reschedules 2021 WASSCE for August/September
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has announced the date to conduct the 2021 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for school candidates.
This...
Nigeria records no new COVID-19 deaths for six days in a...
For the sixth day in a row, no death has been recorded in Nigeria according to the data from the Nigeria Centre for Disease...
UK reassures public of AstraZeneca vaccine safety
Britain moved Thursday to reassure the public over the safety of its coronavirus vaccine campaign, after deciding to offer alternatives to an AstraZeneca jab...
Britain says AstraZeneca vaccine should not be given to under-30s
Britain should not give Oxford/AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine to under 30s where possible, Britain’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) said on Wednesday, due...
MTN increases staff salaries by 17%
Nigeria’s largest mobile operator, MTN, increased the salaries of its staff in 2020 by about N4.5 billion according to findings by Nairametrics Research.
The telecom...
FG recieves 100,000 doses of Covishield vaccines from India
The Federal Government on Tuesday formally received the 100,000 doses of the Covishield COVID-19 vaccine promised by the Government of India.
The Covishield vaccine, which...
COVID-19: Saudi to allow only ‘vaccinated’ pilgrims into Mecca
Saudi authorities said Monday only people immunised against Covid-19 will be allowed to perform the year-round Umrah pilgrimage from the start of Ramadan, the...
Afenifere cancels monthly meeting over Odumakin’s death
Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, the Afenifere, has postponed its monthly meeting scheduled for Tuesday in Akure, Ondo state capital, to honour its late Publicity Secretary,...
How Yinka Odumakin died -Wife
Wife of late Afenifere spokesman, Comrade Yinka Odumakin, has said he died just when his condition was improving.
Dr. Josephine Okei-Odumakin who confirmed her husband’s...