Tag: COVID-19 in Nigeria

‘How Nigeria’s ex-Deputy Senate President, Ibrahim Mantu, died of COVID-19’

Dawood Rabiu

  “He fell ill about nine days ago and was receiving treatment at home but he was rushed to the hospital when there was no sign of improvement.”   Reported details have emerged on how a former Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, Dr. Ibrahim Mantu, died. Platforms Africa reports that the former representative of Plateau Central Senatorial District, died in the wee hours of Tuesday after nine days of isolation in a private hopsital at the Nigeria’s administrative capital – Abuja. A report by Abuja-based Daily Trust newspaper, however,…

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74 Foreign passengers abscond from Nigeria’s quarantine centres

Dawood Rabiu

  ECOWAS Heads of State and Government had fixed the cost of COVID-19 testing, whether PCR or otherwise, at $50 at all Points of Entry with effect from May 17, 2021.   The Nigerian Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 has said some returning foreign passengers have absconded from the country’s isolation centres, which is a violation of the mandatory quarantine requirement under the advisory earlier issued by Nigeria. Though the Chairman of the PSC on COVID-19 and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, who confirmed this during…

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COVID-19 3rd Wave: Nigeria Slams Fresh Curfew, Restriction Nationwide

Precious Ibekwe

  Curfew is now from midnight to 4am until further notice as mass gathering of more than 50 per cent outlawed   The Nigerian Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 (PSC) has slammed fresh curfew and restrictions nationwide as fear of the thitd wave of the dreaded infection heightened. The government reintroduced fresh restrictions on mass gatherings, insisting that it must henceforth be fifty percent capacity. It explained in a statement obtained by Platforms Africa that the measure followed the number of cases and fatalities currently being recoded in Turkey, India…

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BREAKING: COVID-19 Vaccines Land in Nigeria + PHOTOS

Dawood Rabiu

  How first tranche of 3.94 million doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine was shipped into Nigeria   The Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccines have arrived Nigeria. The vaccines arrived around noon on Tuesday, via an Emirates Aitlines. The Platforms Africa has earlier reported that Nigeria was expecting four million doses of COVID-19 vaccine. COVAX shipped 3.94 million doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine, manufactured by the Serum Institute of India, arrived from Mumbai to Abuja around 11.30 am. “Nigeria has just received the first batch of Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID—19 vaccine,” presidential aide Bashir Ahmad tweeted. According…

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Nigeria declares Kogi, State heads by COVID-19 denier, as High risk Area

Dawood Rabiu

  Governor of Kogi, a transit point and confluence state, Yahaya Bello, who did not only deny the existence of COVID-19 but also warned his citizens against being vaccinated, is being tipped by followers to vie as next President of Nigeria   The Nigeria’s Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 has declared one of the 36 states in the country, Kogi, a high-risk state for refusing to acknowledge the existence of the disease. The PTF also said that the Kogi government had failed to report testing, lacked isolation centers and therefore…

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Nigeria suffers five fresh COVID-19 Deaths, 1,074 Cases in 24 hours

Dawood Rabiu

  Nigeria opened 2021 on a high COVID-19 count, as for the third consecutive day, more than 1,000 new positive samples and five deaths were recorded on Friday. The new cases, which were confirmed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), were recorded in 14 states and the federal capital territory in the country’s COVID-19 update for January 1, 2021. Lagos alone had more than half the total number of infections recorded on Friday with 642 new positive samples. After Lagos was Kaduna with 92 new cases, followed by…

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COVID-19 deaths in Nigeria hit 1,231, cases now 79,789

Wonuola Olujobi

  Nigeria has recorded four fatalities with a total of 999 new cases of the deadly COVID-19, making the total of infected cases rise to 79,789, the number of deaths to hit 1,231. This was announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in its daily update on Tuesday night. According to the centre, the tests of 999 suspected cases came back positive. While 396 patients were discharged, 4 new fatalities were recorded. The NCDC added that the discharges included 254 community recoveries in Lagos State managed in line…

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Confusion as Nigeria announces highest COVID-19 figures in 9 days

Precious Ibekwe

  . Lagos Tops With 142 Infections As NCDC Confirms 236 New Cases The COVID-19 infection figures in Nigeria have started rising again as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) latest data showed 236 new coronavirus infections, highest in nine days. The figures, which have started to cause confusion and raise questions about whether the second wave of the infection has begun, are from 13 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The agency confirmed the new positive samples in its update for November 18, 2020. Wednesday’s figure is…

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COVID-19: Foreign airliners get nod to airlift 25, 200 passengers into Nigeria per week

Precious Ibekwe

  The Nigerian Government has increased seats on the flights of international airlines flying into the country to 25, 200 passengers per week. The Nigeria’s airspace, it would be recalled, was shutdown after an Italian, the index case of COVID-19, was airlifted into the country seven months ago. The increase in number of passengers now allowed into Nigeria represents a 200 passengers per aircraft operating into the two designated airports, Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos and the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. Captain Musa Nuhu, the Director-General of the Nigerian…

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Nigeria’s COVID-19 Curve Flattening, Government declares

Micheal Olatunji

The Nigeria’s Presidential Task Force on the control of coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) in the country has said that the nation was flattening the curve of the disease considering the consistent drop in number of reported cases in the country. This came as the body appealed to the striking Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) to shelve its strike as the country would not afford the consequences particularly at the face of the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic. The PTF also urged the electorates billed to perform their civil responsibilities of voting at the…

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