Day: May 8, 2020

Exclusive! “We are stranded at Lagos Airport” -UK returnees cry out

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Nigerians that relocated into the country at about 1:43pm have been abandoned at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, alleging that they are stranded. According to one of the passengers that spoke exclusively to Top News Magazines, she accused the officials of the Nigerian airport of neglect, and the disease control unit NCDC, a failure as all passengers were scattered around the tarmac with no one to attend to them. “We came in with a British Airways flight at exactly 1:43 pm and till now 4:48pm(over 3hours), we are…

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COVID-19: We’re under pressure to announce nonexistent case – Kogi Commissioner

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Dr Saka Haruna, the Kogi State Commissioner for Health, has said the state is under pressure to declare that it has COVID-19 cases where there is none. The commissioner made the claims in a statement on Thursday. He, however, said the state would not succumb to the pressure. The statement followed a report, which claimed that four persons suspected to be COVID-19 patients had died at the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja in the last one week. He said that as the state commissioner for health, a member of the Governing…

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Covid-19: Shutting churches doesn’t affect true worship –Pastor Poju

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Pastor ‘Poju Oyemade, the Senior Pastor of the Covenant Christian Centre, Lagos, has said shutting church buildings does not affect the true worship of God. According to Oyemade, Christians do not need to gather in a physical building to serve God, adding that in Biblical days, people received divine healing in public places. The host of popular annual event, The Platform, stated this on his Instagram page. The decision of government not to open religious places of worship due to the COVID-19 pandemic had been criticised by some prominent pastors,…

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190,000 Africans may die from coronavirus in 2020 – WHO

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The World Health Organisation has warned that up to 190,000 people in Africa could die of coronavirus in the first year of the pandemic if containment measures fail. The UN health agency cited a new study by its regional office in Brazzaville which found that between 83,000 and 190,000 could die and 29 to 44 million be infected during the period. The research is based on prediction modelling and covers 47 countries with a total population of one billion, the WHO said in a statement. Experts have consistently warned that…

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