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pandemic 'Churches Closed In 1918, Stop Misinterpreting Pandemic'

‘Churches Closed In 1918, Stop Misinterpreting Pandemic’

April 8, 2020 7:14 am

Sam Adeyemi, the senior pastor of the Daystar Christian Centre, has warned leaders to stop giving extreme interpretations to the Coronavirus pandemic ravaging the world.

Adeyemi said this following debates and conspiracy theories about 5G, the anti-Christ and coronavirus.

He debunked Pastor Chris Oyakhilome’s claim of government shutting down churches to install the 5G network.

Oyakhilome in a viral video linked the Coronavirus and the 5G network to antichrist.

But making reference to 1918, Adeyemi said churches, mosques, schools and markets were also shut in Nigeria during the influenza pandemic and it was not anti-Christ.

He urged leaders to use

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Africa: Coronavirus - Beware The Power Grab

Africa: Coronavirus – Beware The Power Grab

April 7, 2020 1:24 pm

The pandemic is a real emergency and the perfect excuse for a power grab. We must monitor abuses and be ready to take back rights we’ve sacrificed.

As COVID-19 continues to spread, the public health interventions required to reduce its impact are wide-ranging and, in many countries, unprecedented. We must accept some restrictions on our freedoms in order to survive. That is the stark reality we face.

There is a long history of citizens being told by their governments to accept limitations on their rights to protect them from harm. Since 9/11, the US government has fuelled a global “War …

Coronavirus The Worst Global Crisis Since WW2 - UN Chief

Coronavirus The Worst Global Crisis Since WW2 – UN Chief

March 31, 2020 6:27 pm

The coronavirus pandemic is the worst global crisis since World War II, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday, expressing concern that it could trigger conflicts around the world.

Guterres said that the scale of the crisis was due to “a disease that represents a threat to everybody in the world and… an economic impact that will bring a recession that probably has no parallel in the recent past.”

“The combination of the two facts and the risk that it contributes to enhanced instability, enhanced unrest, and enhanced conflict are things that make us believe that this is the most challenging …

Race For Vaccine Tests Limits Of Drug Innovation

Race For Vaccine Tests Limits Of Drug Innovation

March 31, 2020 6:26 pm

From medical workers struggling to care for the rising tide of COVID-19 patients to the billions of people told to stay home to slow the pandemic, everyone is waiting for one thing: a vaccine.

There is no known treatment for the new coronavirus that emerged in China late last year and has since proliferated across the planet, infecting more than half a million people and claiming more than 30,000 lives.

In mid-January, researchers from China published the genetic sequence of the virus, firing the starting gun for dozens of research labs across the world in the race to find effective …

Senators We'll Earn Half-Pay Till No Virus - Senators

We’ll Earn Half-Pay Till Coronavirus Ends – Senators

March 31, 2020 1:47 pm

The Senate on Monday pledged that its members would sustain the donation of their half salaries to the Federal Government until the nation is totally free of the pandemic.

NAN had exclusively reported on Monday that the senators agreed to donate half of their March 2020 salaries to the fight against coronavirus in Nigeria.

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The red chamber, while confirming the report in a statement by its acting spokesperson, Senator Godiya Akwashiki, added that the federal lawmakers would continue the gesture beyond March.

Part of the statement read,  “After due consultations …

Why Ventilators Are Very Important In The Covid-19 Fight

Why Ventilators Are Very Important In The Covid-19 Fight

March 29, 2020 12:50 pm

Countries with a large number of cases are struggling to meet the demand for supplies and equipment needed to arm those on the front lines against COVID-19, the highly infectious respiratory disease caused by the virus.

Ventilators – mechanical breathing devices – are crucial in the fight to save patients whose lungs are assailed by the virus.

A ventilator for use during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak is pictured in Santa Cruz, Bolivia March 26, 2020. REUTERS/Rodrigo Urzagasti
A ventilator for use during the coronavirus outbreak in
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Troubled U.S. Announces N2.6bn Aid To Nigeria

Troubled U.S. Announces ₦2.6bn Aid To Nigeria

March 28, 2020 7:28 am

The United States Government has announced a 7 million dollars (about ₦2.6 billion) emergency health and humanitarian aid to Nigeria amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

This is part of a 274 million dollars (₦103 billion) assistance package to no fewer than 63 countries affected by the disease, according to a statement by the Department of States on Friday.

Nigeria’s share, the statement said, will go into funding of “risk communication, water and sanitation activities, infection prevention, and coordination’’.

“This assistance joins more than 5.2 billion dollars (N1.9 trillion) in U.S. health assistance and more than 8.1 billion dollars (N3trillion) in …

Coronavirus - UN Mobilises ₦756m To Aid Nigeria

Coronavirus: UN Mobilises ₦756m To Aid Nigeria

March 25, 2020 6:35 am

The United Nations, on Tuesday, said it has mobilised $2 million (₦756 million) to assist Nigeria’s fight against the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Mr. Edward Kallon, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria made the announcement at a “national conference” in Abuja, according to a report on the United Nations website.

Kallon said the funds would be used to procure essential medical supplies in support of the government’s efforts to contain the virus and care for those infected.

As of Tuesday, there were 44 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and one resultant death in Nigeria, according to the World Health Organisation …

US Orders Shutdown Of Website Over Coronavirus Fraud

US Orders Shutdown Of Website Over Coronavirus Fraud

March 23, 2020 4:11 pm

The US Department of Justice announced Sunday it had shut down a website claiming to sell a coronavirus vaccine, in its first act of federal enforcement against fraud in connection with the pandemic.

Lawsuits had been filed against the site coronavirusmedicalkit.com, which claimed to sell vaccines for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, when in fact there is no such vaccine, the Justice Department said in a statement.

A Texas federal judge on Saturday ordered the site to shut down, according to the statement. Its homepage, however, was still accessible as of Sunday evening.

“Due to the …

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