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COVID-19 - MTN Orders Staff To Work From Home

COVID-19: MTN Orders Staff To Work From Home

March 23, 2020 6:21 am

As part of the precautionary measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus), MTN Nigeria has directed its team to start working from home from today.

According to a statement released by Mr Funso Aina, the telcos Senior Manager, External Relations, from March 23, workers are expected to perform their duties from home.

Aina said that the telcos operations would continue to run at full scale with essential staff working limited hours on-site.

“We also plan to announce the temporary closure of some of our stores.Those that remain open, will operate reduced hours and maintain strict and social distances

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COVID-19 - FFK Warns About Illuminati, Killer Vaccine

COVID-19: FFK Warns About Illuminati, Killer Vaccine

March 22, 2020 7:46 am
Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has come up with a new Illuminati-related claim about the COVID-19 disease ravaging the entire world.

According to Fani-Kayode, the dreaded virus was created by the Illuminati for the sole purpose of reducing the world’s population.

The term “Illuminati” refers to the Bavarian Illuminati, a secret society.

This secret society, founded by a German professor of law, Adam Weishaupt, operated for only a decade, from 1776 to 1785.

The Illuminati used to be a very real group. And even though the society is

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NUJ Suspends Congresses In States, Chapels Indefinitely

NUJ Suspends Congresses In States, Chapels Indefinitely

March 20, 2020 1:41 pm

Following the move by government and organizations to ensure that Coronavirus which is also known as COVID-19 is contained in Nigeria, the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ has become the latest association to act in that regards.

In a statement issued on Friday, the pen body directed that all congresses across the union’s 37 state councils and chapels should be suspended immediately until further notice.

According to the National Secretary of NUJ, Shuaibu Usman Leman the measure will assist to enforce and maintain social distance towards safeguarding members of the union and the public.

Read Also: Ogun: NUJ Halts Inauguration

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Coronavirus - UN Correspondent Tests Positive

Coronavirus: UN Correspondent, Tal Mekel Tests Positive

March 19, 2020 6:06 am

An accredited journalist covering the United Nations headquarters in New York has tested positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19).

Mr Tal Mekel, Head of the Media Accreditation and Liaison Unit of the organisation, confirmed this in an email to UN correspondents on Wednesday night.

“As you may have heard, an accredited journalist has tested positive for COVID-19. They are already free of symptoms and self-isolating.

“We have been informed that the individual was last at UN Headquarters on Thursday, March 12.

“They attended the spokesperson’s noon briefing and spent time at the Delegates Lounge and in the press area on the

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Covid-19 China’s First Corona Patient - How The Pandemic Started

China’s First Covid-19 Patient: How The Pandemic Started

March 15, 2020 6:22 am

The South China Morning Post said a 55-year-old individual from Hubei province in China may have been the first person to have contracted COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus spreading across the globe.

The patient’s case was logged on Nov. 17, 2019, more than a month earlier than doctors noted cases in Wuhan, China, which is in Hubei province, at the end of December 2019.

At the time, authorities suspected the virus stemmed from something sold at a wet market in the city.

However, it’s now clear that early in what is now a pandemic, some infected people …

Coronavirus-James Bond’s “No Time to Die” Postponed

Coronavirus: James Bond’s “No Time to Die” Postponed

March 5, 2020 5:12 am

No Time to Die, an upcoming James Bond movie release date is now delayed for seven months due to fears of the spread of the COVID-19 flu (coronavirus).

The movie which was supposed to premiere in April 2020 will now open in November this year.

No Time to Die was initially scheduled to premiere in the U.S. on April 10. Now, the film will premiere in the United Kingdom on November 12 and open in the United States on November 25—a more than seven-month delay.

According to a statement by the movie’s producers, they had moved the release of No …

Jet Crashes Into Fence At Lagos Airport

Coronavirus Fears: Demand For Private Jets Soar

March 4, 2020 8:45 am
Average Joes and Janes are digging deep into the family cookie jars to join jet-setters aboard private aircraft … as fears of the COVID-19 bug spread far and wide.
The super-rich aren’t the only ones shelling out big coin to shake free of the sometimes cattle-herding experience called flying commercial. In fact, a bunch of private jet and charter plane brokerage corps told us people are coming in flocks to upgrade and fly private.
Why?
At the very least, traveling like a boss may offer some peace of mind as Coronavirus jitters mount.
Paramount Business Jets is a worldwide brokerage …
Pope Francis Receives COVID-19 Vaccine

Pope Francis’ Test Result Revealed

March 3, 2020 12:43 pm

Catholic Pontiff, Pope Francis, has tested negative for the novel Coronavirus days after rumours of his contact with a COVID-19 patient broke.

This is as reported by an Italian newspaper Il Messaggero on Tuesday.

The clergy had cancelled some of his engagements since last Thursday, a day after appearing to be suffering from a cold during an Ash Wednesday service.

The 83-year-old had a “cough, a bit of a temperature, sore throat, and shivers.”

His doctors stepped in immediately for the appropriate checks.

Speaking during the Ash Wednesday service, Pope told well-wishers: “I wish, again, to express my closeness to

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Virus: APC Blasts PDP About ‘Political Gain’ Accusations

March 2, 2020 3:20 am

Following the report of Nigeria’s first case of coronavirus (COVID-19), the All Progressives Congress, APC, has declared that the Federal Government has the capacity to deal with disease outbreaks within a short time.

Recall that the Nigerian government had last week confirmed the outbreak of Coronavirus in Nigeria.

Against the backdrop of the outbreak, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had urged Nigerians to hold President Muhammadu Buhari responsible for the outbreak of Coronavirus in Nigeria.

Read Also: Ganduje Approves Emergency Hotlines Against Coronavirus

However, the ruling party stated that it’s irresponsible to seek “political gain” from the outbreak of

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Bill Gates

Bill Gates Reveals Ways To Combat Coronavirus

March 1, 2020 9:39 am

Billionaire businessman, Bill Gates has said there is no time to waste and a number of things should be happening immediately to deal with the outbreak of Coronavirus.

In an article titled, “How to respond to COVID-19” on his GatesNotes blog, Gates highlighted solutions for the outbreak of Coronavirus in countries

The virus causes a disease known as COVID-19 and has so far killed almost 2,900 people and infected more than 83,000 others globally since its outbreak in Wuhan, China.

Read Also: Coronavirus: 22 Americans Have Been Infected – Trump

The Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist referred to the outbreak

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Coronavirus: Kaduna Sets Up Emergency Center

February 29, 2020 1:10 pm

The Kaduna State Government has set up an Emergency Operational Centre (EOC), to respond to any outbreak of Novel Coronavirus (COVID -19) in the state.

The state Commissioner of Health, Dr Amina Baloni, in a statement on Saturday in Kaduna, said the development was sequel to the confirmation of the first case of COVID -19 in Lagos on Thursday.

The Federal Ministry of Health had on Thursday announced that the first case of coronavirus was discovered in Lagos.

The committee which would be chaired by the commissioner was set up to respond quickly, in the event of an outbreak …

Covid-19 – Nairobi Ranked 6th Among Africa’s Risk Cities

February 28, 2020 9:05 am

Nairobi is now ranked sixth among African cities whose populations are at high risk of being infected with Covid-19.

This is emerging even as government bureaucrats continue to allow in travellers from 18 high-risk cities in mainland China.

This is according to a spatial analysis by experts in population mapping at the University of Southampton.

The University’s WorldPop team has found that Bangkok in Thailand is currently the city at the highest risk of infection, based on the number of air travellers predicted to arrive there from the worst affected cities in China.

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