Pandemic
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Features
How prepared is Nigeria for next epidemic?
The outbreak and fast spread of diseases in recent decades are pointers to the need for world leaders to increase…
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News
Nigerian women take action as rape, assault cases surge during pandemic
When Kehinde Osakede’s university closed due to COVID-19 last year, the visual arts student returned home to Lagos. A visit…
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Foreign
World leaders call for international pandemic treaty
Countries must work in a highly co-ordinated fashion to be ready for new health crises, Boris Johnson and others say…
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Health
Fauci wins Israel’s Dan David $1m prize for ‘defending science’
The US top infectious diseases expert, Anthony Fauci, has been awarded a prestigious $1m (£717,000) Israeli prize for his commitment…
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Entertainment
Ty: Nigerian-British rapper dies aged 47 after contracting coronavirus
Ty, the acclaimed, Mercury-nominated UK rapper, has died aged 47. The Nigerian-British musician died on Thursday after contracting pneumonia while…
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News
Ganduje meets market leaders over price hike on essential commodities
Worried by the price hikes of essential commodities in the state during Ramadan Fasting and the hardship caused by the…
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Health
COVID-19: Borno finds 2 positive patients earlier at large
A male and female who tested positive to COVID-19 have been found on Monday in Maiduguri after they were declared…
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Health
Two COVID-19 patients on the run in Borno, Commissioner says
Two patients, Abbas Kaka Hassan, a 24 year-old male and Hauwa Mohammed, 42 year-old female, are on the run after…
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Views
Kano City is now the killing fields of Covid-19 pandemic in Africa
I raised alarm in an article I wrote which was published in the Daily Trust Newspaper (page 6) on April…
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Health
Covid-19: Kano records 23 fresh cases as Nigeria’s toll hits 665
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported 38 new cases of COVID-19, 23 of them in Kano State.…
