Day: March 23, 2020

*Atuku was former Vice to former President Olusegun Obasanjo Former Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has announced that his son who recently came back from the United Kingdom has tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19). The politician made his known through his verified Twitter handle at the weekend where he tweeted, “My son has tested positive for coronavirus.” According to him, his son has accordingly been moved to the Gwagwalada Specialist Teaching Hospital in Abuja for treatment. Atiku…

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Maybe the government will take the matter a little more seriously now that the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed the first Coronavirus (COVID-19) death in the country. Only at the weekend, the Lagos State government officials were celebrating the fact that the index case, the Italian man who imported the disease into Nigeria has tested negative. The NCDC via its Twitter handle, @NCDCgov, earlier today (Monday March 23, 2020) tweeted, “The first #COVID19 death in Nigeria has been recorded. The case was a 67-year-old male who returned home…

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