The minister of education has revealed when schools will reopen amid coronavirus in Nigeria. TruetellsNigeria reports that the Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, has denied reports that the Federal Government would reopen schools in the next fourteen days but, however, said schools in Nigeria will re-open soon. The Minister who spoke yesterday at…
Jean Codo, a Republic of Benin businessman who was standing trial for an alleged €29m fraud, has died in Kirikiri prison, Lagos. Codo, who owns Transport and Port Management System Limited, slumped and died in the prison on Thursday morning May 21. The cause of death has not yet been disclosed. Codo…
The Zamfara Government has disputed claims made by the Nigeria Center for Disease Control that ten new COVID-19 cases were recorded in the state on Monday May 19. The NCDC in its release on new cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria, stated that Zamfara had 10 new cases. However, in an interview with NAN,…
South Sudan’s Vice President, Riek Machar and his wife Angelina Teny who serves as defence minister have tested positive for Coronavirus. This was confirmed in a statement released on Monday May 18 by his office. It was further revealed that “a number of his office staff and bodyguards” had also tested positive for COVID-19. Machar who…
UK govt sanctions Christ Embassy for deceptive Coronavirus preaching A Christian television channel founded by a Lagos-based megachurch pastor has been sanctioned by Ofcom for airing “potentially harmful statements” about the Covid-19 pandemic, including a baseless conspiracy that the virus is linked to the rollout of 5G phone network. Programmes aired in early April on…
Pastor David Ibiyeomi, the senior pastor of Salvation Ministries, in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, has said there is no Coronavirus in Nigeria. He said malaria kills more people, yet no one closed the border because of malaria. He referenced DAAR Communications founder, Raymond Dokpesi who said he was given Malaria drugs when he was…
Madagascar on Sunday reported the first death of a patient suffering from novel coronavirus nearly two months after it was first detected in the country, official statistics showed. The Indian ocean island which has reported 304 cases has hit the headlines over a home-grown herbal concoction that President Andry Rajoelina claims can cure people infected…
Presidential aide, Lauretta Onochie, explains why President Buhari doesn’t wear face mask TruetellsNigeria reports that Lauretta Onochie, an aide to President Muhammadu Buhari, revealed why her principal doesn’t wear a face mask as recommended by health authorities. The Nigerian Center for Disease Control, NCDC, and the Ministry of Health have both advised the public to…
Rwanda’s most-wanted genocide suspect has been arrested in France. Felicien Kabuga, 84, who was living under a false identity in a flat in Asnieres-Sur-Seine, near Paris, had been pursued by international justice for 25 years, the French Justice Ministry said in a statement on Saturday morning. French gendarmes arrested him at 0530 GMT…
Nigeria has recorded 193 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections to 5162. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control confirmed the new figures in a tweet late Thursday. According to the NCDC, 58 of the new cases were in Lagos, 46 were recorded in Kano, 35in Jigawa and 12 in Yobe state….
