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 […]
The Nigerian Army has in a swift response to the calls made by Nigerians particularly the Coalition of United Political Parties(CUPP), arrested the soldiers who threatened to rape women in Warri, Delta state. The opposition coalition had in press statement by its spokesman Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, called on the military to take action and nip […]
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 […]
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 […]
…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 […]
.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 […]
.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 […]
.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 […]
The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has condemned the approach adopted by the Federal Government for the disbursement of monetary palliatives to supposed vulnerable Nigerians. The opposition coalition maintains that the physical handing out of cash to Nigerians is comical and a prelude to a major scam. In a press statement signed by the […]
The Federal Government has announced that all markets in states where a lockdown was imposed (Lagos, FCT and Ogun) will be allowed to open between 10:00 am and 2:00 pm daily. The National Co-ordinator of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Aliyu Sani, said this on Wednesday during a briefing by members of the task […]
