BEVERLY HILLS, April 01, (THEWILL) - Nigeria’s Rio 2016 Paralympic gold medalist, Ndidi Nwosu, has died after battle with illness not related to COVID-19.
Ndidi’s death was confirmed by a former President of the Nigeria Powerlifting Federation (NPPF), Queen Uboh-Idris.
According...
The captain of the U.S. aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, in a blunt letter, has called on Navy leadership for stronger measures to save the lives of his sailors and stop the spread of the coronavirus aboard the huge ship.
The...
BEVERLY HILLS, April 01, (THEWILL) - The former President of the Republic of Congo, Jacques Joaquim Yhombi-Opango, has died in Paris from complications related to coronavirus. He was 81 years old.
His family said he had been ill before contracting...
BEVERLY HILLS, March 31, (THEWILL) - The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has declared that there will be no increase in electricity tariff for end-use customers until July.
NERC had in a December 2019 Minor Review of Multi-Year Tariff Order...
BEVERLY HILLS, March 31, (THEWILL) - Nigeria has recorded four new cases of the COVID-19 Pandemic increasing the number to 135 in 12 states.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) the cases through its Twitter handle on Tuesday.
Of the...
BEVERLY HILLS, March 31, (THEWILL) - As part of plans to effectively lock down the Lagos metropolis, the police have blocked the inbound and outbound sections of the Lagos-Ibadan express way.
This move is in tandem with the order by...
If "Covikk one nine (1.9)" as pronounced by President Buhari in his (COVID-19) broadcast does not rouse us all to the ever present dangers we are in as a nation, I wonder what else would? And if it turns...
Human coronaviruses, first characterized in the 1960s, are responsible for a substantial proportion of upper respiratory tract infections. Since 2003, at least 7 new human coronaviruses have been identified, including the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) coronavirus, which caused...
BEVERLY HILLS, March 30, (THEWILL) - The central bank has temporarily suspended cheque clearing in the Nigerian banking system as President Muhammadu Buhari ordered lockdown takes effect midnight Monday in a bid to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
The...
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has released guidelines for operations of N100 billion credit support for the healthcare sector following the outbreak of COVID-19 in the country. In a circular signed by Kevin Amugo, Director Financial Policy Regulation...