News Analysis: Is Jumia sinking as founders quit?
By Henry Cranfield On April 2, 2020, Rocket Internet announced that they have sold their holding in Jumia. Without stating their reasons for pulling out of Jumia, analysts and keen…
Covid-19 protective equipment supplies from China fail UK safety checks
Delivering life-saving protective gear to frontline health staff has become ‘hand to mouth’, an NHS leader has revealed. The Government is airlifting in crates from China on a daily basis…
Boko Haram: Chad makes a U-turn; pledges to keep fighting jihadists
Chad’s government said on Sunday that its army would continue to participate in regional taskforces targeting jihadist groups, as well as the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali, following President Idriss…
OPEC+ nations to cut output by 9.7m barrels; oil prices to rebound in May
Ministers of the OPEC+ countries agreed in a video conference on Sunday to boost oil prices by cutting production by 9.7 million barrels a day for May and June, Mexico’s…
Covid-19 Nigeria: 10 dead, 85 discharged, active cases now 323
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has treated 228 active cases of COVID-19 and discharged 85 of them as the total number of the cases in the country rises…
COVID-19: Sanwo-Olu celebrates Easter with health workers in live video, describes all them as “heroes and heroines”
Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on video streaming while celebrating Easter with the medical workers at the Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH), Yaba and the Onikan Isolation Centre, Lagos Island….
Clinical trials on coronavirus vaccine shows promising results – NCDC
Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, DG NCDC The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said that while there is no known vaccine for the Novel Coronavirus disease some trials have shown…
A united front is critical to winning the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic – IBB
Former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd) Former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida (retired) has called for strong collaboration between the Federal and state governments to fight coronavirus (COVID-19) in…
Lagos discharges 5 COVID-19 patients
The Lagos State Government has announced the recovery and discharge of five more COVID-19 patients, having tested negative twice to the virus. This was disclosed by Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu on…
Congo records second Ebola death in days – WHO
Democratic Republic of Congo recorded a second Ebola death in days following more than seven weeks without a new case, the World Health Organization said on Sunday. Congo had been…