Covid-19: Give us test kits and money, Cross River Govt begs FG
The Cross River State Government has appealed to the Federal Government to assist it with funds and test kits in containing the Coronavirus spread. Dr Betta Edu, the State Commissioner…
NCDC announces end of emergency phase of 2020 Lassa Fever outbreak in the country
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has declared the emergency phase of the 2020 Lassa fever outbreak over. This is following successive decline in cases below the emergency…
NCDC targets testing 2m Nigerians in 3 months
Director-General NCDC, Chikwe Iheweazu The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has set a target to test two million people in three months. This was announced by the DG of…
NCDC begins process to enable it test approximately 960 samples in 8 hours
The Nigeria Centre for Disease control, NCDC, says it has begun the use of the COBAS system at the NCDC National Reference Laboratory, for #COVID19 testing. The NCDC disclosed…
COVID-19: We desperately need extraction kits to prevent shutting down of our testing labsÂ
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has explained why it tweeted: ’Nigeria desperately looking for extraction kits’. Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, Director-General of NCDC, said on Monday that he made…
COVID-19: Nigeria currently has 1042 active cases as it records 64 new infections
As at April 27, 2020 there are 1042 active COVID-19 cases in the country of the 1337 confirmed cases. This was disclosed by the NCDC in a series of…
Protect us: Ebonyi residents cry to Umahi as state records first Covid-19 case
Ebonyi residents have urged the state government to take urgent and decisive action to curb spread of the dreaded Coronavirus as the state recorded its first case of the virus….
COVID-19 now in 32 States and the FCT as 4 States record index cases
Four States have recorded index cases of coronavirus, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC,raising the number of states that have confirmed at least one case of COVID-19…
Reps to resume plenary April 28
Mr Patrick Giwa, the Clerk,  House of Representatives, said on Sunday in Abuja, that the House would resume plenary on Tuesday, April 28, at 10.a.m. Giwa in a statement said…
COVID-19: SERAP urges govs to use security votes, life pensions to fund healthcare
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged governors of the 36 states of the federation to channel their security votes and life pensions of ex-governors to the fight…