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Foreign minister Onyeama admits there are not enough isolation beds to support a mass evacuation

NIGERIAN health officials have shot holes in an ambitious plan to recall thousands of diasporans back home warning that the country does not have enough isolation centres to accommodate such a huge influx of people who could be coronavirus positive.

 

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Nigerian health officials accused of sending anyone with a fever to isolation centres as Covid-19 patient

GOVERNMENT officials have expressed concern at the way Nigerian health professionals are going about collating data on coronavirus patients claiming that anyone with a fever is now being listed as having the virus.

 

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G20 offers Nigeria and 75 other developing nations debt service relief as Covid-19 devastates their economies

NIGERIA and 75 other countries have been granted debt service relief by the World Bank and China as part of a much-needed global stimulus package required to rejuvenate the world economy following the devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

 

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Ken Saro-Wiwa's son becomes the latest Nigerian victim of coronavirus in the UK

NIGERIA'S diaspora community in the UK has suffered another devastating loss after Menegian Saro-Wiwa the son of the Niger Delta environmental activist Ken became the latest victim to succumb to the dreaded coronavirus.

 

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10 factors that militate against Nigeria combatting the coronavirus should it hit us hard

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) We lack the discipline to practise social distancing. Our inability to form orderly queues can be seen from the way people scramble for food supplies. How do you fight an airborne virus when people are involved in a daily almighty scramble for food at distribution centres?

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Nigeria Centre for Disease Control considers making the wearing of masks compulsory in markets

NIGERIA Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) officials are considering introducing new regulations that would compel everyone who visits markets to wear facemasks as part of a renewed fight against the growing menace of the coronavirus pandemic.

 

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NCDC plans to open 20 more test centres in Lagos as part of renewed fight to combat Covid-19

NIGERIA Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) officials have announced ambitious plans to open 20 test centres in Lagos State as part of an intensified campaign to combat the growing menace of the dreaded coronavirus.

 

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Calabar clergyman arrested for commissioning armed robbers to rob wealthy members of his church

CALABAR clergyman Pastor Richard Daniel  has been arrested by the police after he is suspected of commissioning armed robbers to go and rob a wealthy member of his church a certain Doctor Peter Benson.

 

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One third of British NHS staff and health workers tested have been Covid-19 positive

RECENT tests in British health workers showed that about a third of National Health Service (NHS) staff and key workers who have been tested for coronavirus have returned positive results.

 

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Another Nigerian community leader in the UK succumbs to coronavirus in Manchester

NIGERIA'S diaspora community in the UK has lost among prominent member to the dreaded coronavirus pandemic after the founder and chief executive of Omtel Radio in Manchester Evangelist Michael Olusesan succumbed to the virus.

 

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