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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control reported that a total of 219 primary and secondary contacts of the index case had been identified and were being actively monitored. [6] On 9 March, the President Muhammadu Buhari established a Presidential Task Force for the control of the virus in the country. [7] [8]
The COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first confirmed case in Nigeria was announced on 27 February 2020, when an Italian national in Lagos tested positive for the virus.
Several schools in Nigeria have shut down, following the directives of the federal government at Abuja. This led the Management of one of the most populated schools in Nigeria, the Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Owerri to declare an emergency holidays a precaution against COVID-19, stating that the emergency holiday will last for 30 days. The ...
NAIROBI (Reuters) -Another new variant of the novel coronavirus seems to have emerged in Nigeria, the head of Africa's disease control body said on Thursday, cautioning more investigation was needed.
People chant as they hold newspapers with headlines of newly elected Nigeria’s President, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, on the street in Lagos, Nigeria, Wednesday, March 1, 2023 ...
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has signed into law a $2.8 billion supplementary budget that includes funding for new bulletproof cars for himself and his wife, despite widespread ...
The inauguration of Bola Tinubu as the 16th president of Nigeria, and 5th president in the fourth republic took place on Monday, 29 May 2023, marking the start of the four-year term of Bola Tinubu as president and Kashim Shettima as vice president.
It is hard," said Nduka Omeje, a trader in Apo resettlement in Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja. Labor unions struggled to get the government to raise the minimum wage for civil servants from a ...