April 17, 2020

Giving Birth During The Coronavirus Pandemic

Giving Birth During The Coronavirus Pandemic

April 17, 2020 2:30 pm

If only every time we were updated on the daily death toll from coronavirus, we could also be told the number of babies being born – wouldn’t that make this ghastly situation a little more hopeful?

This is what I thought last week as I sat on my own, in isolation, on the postnatal ward after giving birth to my second baby.

I went from weeks of pent-up anxiety about what COVID-19 could do to my pregnancy and unborn baby, to a sudden state of bliss and gratitude. A new life, in the middle of all this darkness, brought

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US FDA Announces New Kit For COVID-19 Home Test

US FDA Announces New Kit For COVID-19 Home Test

April 17, 2020 2:29 pm
The US Food and Drug Administration, on Friday said that people might soon be able to perform their own test swabs for COVID-19 at home with a newly designed Q-tip-style swab.

CNN reports that the FDA said it had worked with US Cotton to design the swabs, which are shorter than the swabs used by technicians, doctors or nurses to collect samples to test people for COVID-19 infection.

According to the FDA, the new swab is shorter and can collect a sample from the front of the nose.

Read Also: World’s Biggest Trial Of Coronavirus Drugs Begins In UK

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Prophet Give As You've Gotten – Billionaire Prophet To Pastors

Give As You’ve Gotten – Billionaire Prophet To Pastors

April 17, 2020 2:25 pm

The General Overseer of Christ Mercyland Deliverance Ministry Inc, Prophet Jeremiah Omoto Fufeyin has called on wealthy pastors across the continent of Africa, especially in Nigeria to assuage the plight of the masses by giving their wealth to the poor.

He called on the clerics to give their wealth as part of attempts to reduce the impacts of COVID-19 on the poor in the society.

Fufeyin, who offered a total donation of about N800 million following the Federal Government’s extension of lockdown, had last week donated about N300 million to the Federal Government, members of his church and poor Nigerians.…

Gov. Wike Goes Ballistic On Federal Govt, Oil Companies

Gov. Wike Goes Ballistic On Federal Govt, Oil Companies

April 17, 2020 1:02 pm

Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, has accused the federal government of attempting to infect and kill residents of the state with COVID-19.

Addressing a press conference in Port Harcourt, the state capital, on Friday, Wike alleged that federal authorities are working to compromise the health protection system of the state and make it vulnerable to coronavirus.

Read Also: Wike Makes U-turn, Cancels Easter Services In Rivers

The governor said his administration has established the right legal framework to assist in fighting against the spread of the disease.

“Some people want the escalation of the virus in Rivers State. People were

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Dickson Etuhu Banned From Football Over Match-Fixing

Dickson Etuhu Banned From Football Over Match-Fixing

April 17, 2020 8:39 am

Nigeria’s ex-international, Dickson Etuhu has been banned from football in Sweden for five years over match-fixing.

Etuhu, who had played Manchester City, Preston, Sunderland and Fulham, was banned after being found guilty.

In November the Nigeria international was found guilty of attempting to fix a match between IFK Gothenburg and AIK in 2017. Etuhu was fined and ordered to serve a period of probation but avoided a prison sentence, with his lawyers still planning to take his case to Sweden’s supreme court.

However, the Swedish Football Association has now taken action to ban the 37-year-old Etuhu and the former IFK …

Badirat Ajoke Alaafin’s Wife And Sex Affair With KWAM 1

Badirat Ajoke Alaafin’s Wife And Sex Affair With KWAM 1

April 17, 2020 8:38 am

Olori Badirat Ajoke, wife of the Alaafin, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, has reacted to the rumours of an extra-marital affair with Fuji musician, Wasiu Ayinde Marshal.

In a phone conversation, Badirat Ajoke emphatically denied the story.

Read Also: Throne To Thorn: How Nigeria’s Kings Lost Their Power

And she swore by all the Yoruba gods and the orishas of the Alaafin’s palace.

She asked the gods to punish her if she ever had any affair with Wasiu.

Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III

Wasiu Ayinde aka KWAM1

She said the rumour mongers, which include Instablog and Chirp Television, had published …

Brazil Health Minister Sacked Over Stay-At-Home Measure

Brazil Health Minister Sacked Over Stay-At-Home Measure

April 17, 2020 8:38 am

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has sacked his health minister after clashing with him over how to fight the new coronavirus.

Few global leaders have done more than Bolsonaro to downplay the global pandemic, which has killed nearly 2,000 Brazilians.

He has called the virus “a little flu” and criticized state governors for imposing the shutdowns supported by health experts and the popular outgoing minister, Luiz Henrique Mandetta.

In televised remarks met with pot-banging protests in major cities, Bolsonaro said Mandetta did not fully appreciate the need to protect Brazilian jobs and called again for a resumption of economic activity.

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World’s Biggest Trial Of Coronavirus Drugs Begins In UK

World’s Biggest Trial Of Coronavirus Drugs Begins In UK

April 17, 2020 8:36 am
The world’s biggest trial of drugs to treat Coronavirus patients has begun in the United Kingdom at unprecedented speed, and hopes to have some answers within weeks.

According to The Guardian, the Recovery trial has recruited more than 5,000 patients in 165 NHS hospitals around the UK in a month, ahead of similar trials in the US and Europe, which have a few hundred.

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“This is by far the largest trial in the world,” said Peter Horby, professor of emerging infectious diseases and global health at Oxford University, who is leading it.…

Stallion Group Donates Rice, Fish As Palliatives

Stallion Group Donates Rice, Fish As Palliatives

April 17, 2020 8:35 am

Stallion Motors in Nigeria has braced up for the coronavirus pandemic as they have donated tons of free rice and fish to the COVID-19 hospitals in Lagos State with the Stallion Group Team.

The selfless people working in the frontline have risked their lives to ensure that aid reaches where it is required the most. 77 State hospitals in Nigeria are already registered as a part of this programme.

The group apart from pledging free rice and fish for three months to all COVID–19 hospitals has deployed staff buses to ferry health care workers to hospitals dedicated to coronavirus treatment …

Leeds United Great, Norman Hunter Dies Of Coronavirus

Leeds United Great, Norman Hunter Dies Of Coronavirus

April 17, 2020 8:34 am
Norman Hunter, Leeds United great has died of Coronavirus at the 76.

Leeds United, in a statement on its website said they are devastated to learn of the passing of club icon Norman Hunter at the age of 76.

“Norman was taken to hospital last week after being diagnosed with COVID-19 and despite continuing to battle and the best efforts of NHS staff, he sadly lost his fight earlier this morning,” the club said.

Born on Friday 29th October 1943 in Eighton Banks, County Durham, Hunter left school at the age of 15 to become an electrical fitter.

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Don’t Marry Men Without Jobs - Pastor Adeboye

Don’t Marry Men Without Jobs – Pastor Adeboye

April 17, 2020 8:33 am
General Overseer, Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye has warned women not to marry men who have no jobs.

Read Also: Adeboye: If You Serve God, Coronavirus Won’t Get You

Adeboye, who spoke on relationship, said “I want to talk to you like a father to his children about marriage, listen to me very carefully my beloveth daughters, don’t marry a man who has no job.

“Before God gave Adam Eve, He gave him a job, He said this is the garden, keep it. So those who come to you and say “sister, thus sayeth the Lord you

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Coronavirus - Mitigating Africa’s Imminent Food Crisis

Coronavirus: Mitigating Africa’s Imminent Food Crisis

April 17, 2020 7:50 am

We are facing great uncertainty on the African continent. The global spread of COVID-19 and the rising number of coronavirus cases in Africa are fueling anxiety about negative economic growth, failing healthcare and collapsing food systems. We are already grappling with a locust outbreak in the Horn of Africa, drought and flood extremes due to climate change and increasing food importation costs of more than $47 billion in 2019. The convergence of all these sets the stage for an imminent food crisis – unless measures are taken to mitigate the impact of the pandemic.

Read Also: ‘Come Clean’: US Presses

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