Tag: Lockdown
Lockdown ‘palliatives’: Who are the beneficiaries?
Tayo Oke
The word, “palliative”, a nice medical terminology for the
care of patients and their families with life-threatening illnesses has been in
vogue of late. It...
FG to disinfect, decontaminate schools nationwide before reopening
As the government eases the lockdown order occasioned by the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, plans are underway to disinfect and decontaminate schools across the...
The verbal autopsies from Kano
Olusegun Adeniyi
If there is any lesson we have learnt from the past five
weeks, it is how difficult it is to enforce a meaningful lockdown...
Confirmed COVID-19 cases exceed 1000 as NCDC warns against relaxing lockdown
The number of COVID-19 positive persons in Nigeria has gone beyond 1000 as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) yesterday announced 114 new...
PDP calls for suspension of ATM, electricity charges
Charges FG to account for COVID-19 donor funds
In view of the ravaging coronavirus pandemic that has taken a
toll on businesses and peoples income,...
FG cannot give free electricity because… TCN
Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has countered the claim that the federal government was providing free electricity to Nigerians saying the government does not...
Hard time for FCT, Lagos, and Ogun residents as FG extends...
Residents of the Federal Capital Territory, Lagos and Ogun states are in for hard times as the federal government on Monday extended the lockdown...
Full text of President Buhari’s speech extending COVID-19 lockdown by 14...
1. Fellow Nigerians
2. In my address on Sunday, 29th March, 2020, I asked the
residents of Lagos and Ogun States as well as the Federal...
COVID-19 and Buhari’s cold-blooded failure
Tunde Odesola
Fleeing from death’s machete blow, 18-year-old Ikemefuna runs
towards Okonkwo for protection, crying, “My father, they have killed me!”
Rather than look away as the...
Lockdown in a feeding bottle economy
Olusegun Adeniyi
As we
practice social distancing, it is important to practice mental distancing as
well. This means staying away from certain categories of people: Quack...
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