Health
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PTF to Nigerians: Kogi is a very dangerous place, don’t go there
Why is that so?
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Use common sense when enforcing COVID-19 rules, IGP Adamu begs police officers
Police officers must ensure individuals, groups and businesses within the country follow COVID-19 guidelines, inspector-general Mohammed Adamu has ordered.
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Police start arresting Nigerians without masks — report
Security agencies have been instructed to start enforcing President Muhammadu Buhari's executive order on COVID-19, reports say.
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Ivermectin: Lagos turns to ‘promising’ drug in fight against coronavirus
Lagos governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu says the state has added Ivermectin to its arsenal against the coronavirus.
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Wear your mask or get another lockdown, Buhari warns Nigerians
The Muhammadu Buhari administration says it is worried about reported non-compliance with the president's fresh executive order on mask mandates and social gathering.
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COVID-19: Buhari government to jail disobedient Nigerians for 6 months
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed a new law prescribing six-month jail term for persons convicted for disobeying any COVID-19 guideline.
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United Kingdom bans 30 countries, spares Nigeria
Nigeria has been exempted from a list of 30 countries that have been banned from entering the United Kingdom over rising COVID-19 cases.
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Greg Ibeh: Nigerian billionaire pledges $1 million to COVID-19 research
Nigerian billionaire academic, entrepreneur and inventor Prof. Greg Ibeh has pledged $1 million to the global fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
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Economy may crash if Yahaya Bello admits COVID-19 is real — Kogi Speaker
Speaker of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Mathew Kolawole, says Governor Yahaya Bello’s insistence that COVID-19 was a ruse was to ensure that the virus did not set the state’s economy backward.
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Governors blast Yahaya Bello for attacking vaccines
Bello had also questioned lockdown policies, school closures and other "copy and paste" strategies the government is using to fight the pandemic, which according to him, does not exist.