Covid-19 variant
5 Jan 2022
As the world grapples with the highly mutated Omicron variant of COVID-19, a new Coronavirus variant called IHU has emerged in France. Scientists identified the new strain, B.1.640.2, at the institute IHU Méditerranée Infection in Marseille.
31 Dec 2021
Vice Chancellor of the faith-based University, Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, Kwara State, Prof. Noah Yusuf, has urged the relevant authorities to brace up for the likely challenges that the new variant of COVID-19, Omicron...
10 Dec 2021
Economic experts on Friday in Lagos advised the Federal Government to avoid another round of lockdown of the economy due to the new Omicron COVID-19 variant.
28 Nov 2021
While PCR tests can detect infection with Omicron, studies are looking to whether the Covid-19 variant of concern has any impact on other test types, the WHO said Sunday.
26 Nov 2021
South Africa on Friday slammed as "rushed" Britain's travel ban from six southern African countries, following the discovery of a new Covid-19 variant with a large number of mutations.
11 Jul 2021
Ekiti State Government, yesterday, alerted its indigenes and residents to Nigeria Centre for Disease Control’s (NCDC) confirmation of the new COVID-19 variant in Nigeria.
18 Feb 2021
A variant of coronavirus acclaimed to have been initially detected in Nigeria contains a number of mutations that are disturbing, a report shows. The report by researchers at the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom said the variant has been detected through genome sequencing. The report said the variant was first identified in Nigeria…
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Former leader of Afenifere, pa Reuben Fasoranti, has advised President Bola Tinubu to select a competent team of men and women with impeccable character, noting that there will be no excuse for failure. Fasoranti stated this on Tuesday in a congratulatory message to President Tinubu. He warned Tinubu not to leave any room for failure…
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Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke has threatened to close fuel stations hoarding petrol. Adeleke said in a statement by his spokesperson Olawale Rasheed on Tuesday said inhumane treatment of people will not be tolerated. “Any fuel station found guilty of hoarding fuel to create artificial scarcity shall be sealed off and operators prosecuted for crime…
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The Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, on Tuesday assured Nigerians that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administrations means well for the country with better years ahead under their administration. Shettima on his first day of resumption arrived the Vice President's wing of the State House in Abuja on Tuesday at 12.39pm. The president was welcome by…
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A Moscow court on Tuesday refused to release a theatre director and a playwright detained over their award-winning play about Russian women recruited online to marry radical Islamists in Syria. Director Yevgeniya Berkovich and author Svetlana Petriychuk are accused of "justifying terrorism" and face up to seven years in prison over their play "Finist, the…
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The Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Tuesday kicked off his second term in office with an impromptu tour of the State Ministries, Departments and Agencies at the Alausa Secretariat, Ikeja. Sanwo-Olu's media aide Jubril Aremu Gawat posted videos of the re-elected governor on his first official duty on his second term. "Accompanied by the…