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•Fayemi: There is nothing as good as having the ability to manufacture our own vaccines locally •US records 4000 deaths in one day Deji Elumoye in Abuja Nigerian state governors want the federal government to expedite actions on local production of COVID-19 vaccine instead of relying on foreign pharmaceutical firms. The governors are also not comfortable with the lack of clarity on when the vaccines will arrive Nigeria, and told President Muhammadu Buhari to accelerate the delivery. The Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum, Kayode Fayemi, disclosed this yesterday after a meeting ...

• Virus more vicious than ever, LUTH warns • We’re running out of resources, Bode cries out • All patients now oxygen-dependent As the second wave of COVID-19 takes foothold on Africa through its newly mutated form, the Federal Government has been warned of the need to address the shortage of oxygen in public hospitals. x Chief Medical Director (CMD) of Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, Prof. Chris Bode, in an emergency press conference yesterday, warned of dire consequences, as “the mutated form is deadlier and more easily t...

Zara Holland admits she was 'foolish' as she escapes with a £4,500 fine for breaching Barbados' Covid laws for trying to flee island with boyfriend Elliott Love when he tested positive for the virus - despite facing a year in jail The star was given Bajun $12,000 (£4,417) fine for breaking Barbados Covid laws The Love Island star avoided jail despite earlier being told she faced up to a year  She tried to flee isle with partner Elliott Love after he tested positive for the virus The couple were arrested at the airport as they tried to catch a flight to the UK

By Luminous Jannamike  The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, on Wednesday, said it had not abandoned corps members who tested positive for COVID-19 in Jigawa state as reported by some news outlet. It also said the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), the State government, and the Jigawa Secretariat of the Scheme have been in constant touch with the affected corps members on their welfare and medicare. An online news website,, had on Tuesday quoted some of the corps members as saying that they were kept in isolation at the Rasheed Shekoni Specialist Hospital in Dutse, the state capita...

Share Following reports of alleged abandon of corps members in isolation centre, the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has denied the claims. It said the 2020 Batch “A” Corps members deployed to Jigawa State, had returned to the Orientation Camp to conclude their programme earlier truncated in March this year, due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The scheme said the Corps members, however, tested positive to the dreaded virus upon being tested at the camp. This was contained in a statement issued by the NYSC spokesperson, Mrs Adenike Adeyemi. It said the Jigawa Corps members who tested posi...