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JUST IN: 24 quarantined occupants of Fancy Hotel released

…With no symptoms of COVID-19 after 16 days The quarantine on 24 persons in Fancy Hotel, Umuguma in Owerri West council area of Imo state has been lifted. Crimefacts.news had exclusively reported that the 24 persons comprising hotel guests and workers were locked down by security agents around 1:00am last Saturday for observation and test […]

Osun Govt: Only one person missing from our COVID-19 Isolation Centre

Osun State reacted to reports that six patients who tested positive to the coronavirus have escaped from the State’s Isolation Centre. The Osun State government maintains that only one person is unaccounted for in the COVID-19 Isolation facility of the state. In a statement signed by Mrs. Funke Egbemode, the State Commissioner for Information and […]

COVID-19: INEC deploys 100 Pick-up vans for contact-tracing, as NCC suspends DND policy

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released 100 Pick-up vans to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to be deployed for contact tracing, surveillance, laboratory work, infection prevention and control in six states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in the first instance. In a statement on Friday by the National Commissioner […]

COVID-19: Nigeria tracking 6700 contacts

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says it is tracing no fewer than 6,700 contacts in Nigeria over the novel Coronavirus pandemic outbreak in the country. Director-General of NCDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, made the disclosure at the Presidential Taskforce briefing on COVID-19 in the country, on Friday in Abuja. “Nigeria has been tracing a total […]

COVID-19: Good news from Fancy Hotel as Govt, Hoteliers send food to quarantined occupants

…Quarantine to be lifted soon Government officials from the Ministry of Health finally delivered food materials Thursday morning to the beleaguered occupants of Fancy Hotel, Umuguma who were put in quarantine since last Saturday. Crimefacts.news had exclusively reported that the 24 quarantined hotel occupants were starving as the last time government brought food for them […]

The Coming Harvest of Lies

.By ‘Dele Farotimi When you grow up around the old, or perhaps I should say that if you are blessed enough to have “Iya Olu” as your mother’s mother, who had raised seven of her own children, and several from other women’s wombs, and who in her dotage, pours the essence of Yoruba culture into […]

COVID-19: Diary of a lockdown

.By Azu Ishiekwene When I left Abuja at short notice nine days ago, the city was already emptying out. The single biggest factory and business centre there – the National Assembly – was on the verge of closure. Before the closure was announced, though, things were already slowing down but there was still just enough […]

Gen Adeniyi removed for wailing over Boko Haram? Is Nigeria allergic to truth?

.By Fredrick Nwabufo Subterfuge. Propaganda. Lies. All have a date with truth. The truth is inexorable; it will always extinguish lies and propaganda. Nigeria’s ‘’successes’’ in the war against Boko Haram have been largely propaganda. Since 2015, when the Buhari administration declared the insurgents a conquered group, the combat campaign has been oxygenated by lies […]