Given the toll the health crisis is taking on communities across the country and the world at large, CACOVID has redoubled its efforts to ensure that older adults particularly those who lack sustained access to healthy food and adequate nutrition, stay fed and healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic. In celebration of Nigeria’s 60th independence anniversary,…

Ihama Debunks Claim He Diverted Palliative  The private sector-led Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID) has petitioned the Edo State government over alleged misappropriation of its food palliatives worth over N465 million by a member of House Representatives from the state, Dr. Omoriege Ogbeide Ihama, who represents Oredo Federal Constituency, Benin, Edo state.   CACOVID, a coalition…

Plans distribution to 107,564 households The Lagos State government said it would soon begin distribution of 107,546 food palliative packs worth N1.4 billion handed over to it by the Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID) to Lagosians, especially the vulnerable and under privileged in the state. The food items were received on behalf of the state government…

Gov. Simon Lalong of Plateau said the State Government had spent about N366.5 million to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in the state.

The crippling effect of the coronavirus has been felt not only in Nigeria alone but the world over, as the coronavirus razed through economies destroying the lives and livelihoods of individuals. No doubt, society’s poorest and most vulnerable people have been hit the hardest as the lockdown rendered them helpless with little or no means…

Cliché or not; nothing ventured, nothing gained, is as true as it was yesterday, as it is today, and will be tomorrow, which was the chance or risk that Hebert Onyewumbu Wigwe took when as a teenager he started fiddling with numbers. Little did he know then that he was paving the way to his…

The Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID), a private sector-led initiative against the Coronavirus pandemic, has urged Nigerians to comply with COVID-19 precautionary...

Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State on Monday said that his administration had given palliatives to over 200,000 households since the outbreak of the Coronavirus in the state.

There was no resumption of schools in Enugu State yesterday, as some students who had gone to their schools in anticipation of the reopening, were sent back home on the orders of the state government.

Experts are concerned that monies and materials donated by individuals and companies, to the Federal and State Governments, towards effective containment of Coronavirus disease

The private sector-led Coalition against COVID-19 (CACOVID) has donated N1.4 billion worth of medical supplies and additional 26,400 test kits sufficient to set up six fully functional COVID-19 medical laboratories in the fight against the pandemic. Presenting the test kits and medical equipment at the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Lagos office, the MD/ CEO,…

Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), Ahmed Idris yesterday declared that Ministries, Department Agencies (MDAs) that fail to publish reports of their COVID-19 activities as provided in the framework...