Authorities registered approximately 295,000 fresh infections and some 2,020 deaths in the last 24 hours, according to Health Ministry data. Both were highest-ever single-day tallies.
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The NCDC made this known on its verified website on Sunday.
The Sector Commander in the state, Kudirat Ibrahim, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Osogbo.
The NCDC made this known via its verified website on Wednesday.
This was disclosed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.
This was contained in a statement by the company on Friday, Quorum Aviation.
The boys, aged 11 to 16, had been sheltering from a storm in a makeshift structure in Arua city, northwest of the capital Kampala, on Thursday, police spokeswoman Josephine Angucia told dpa.
The NCDC made this known on its official Twitter handle on Friday.
The assurance came on the heels of an attack on Ukuru village in Mariga Local Government Area of the State, which left many dead.
The National Hospital, Abuja on Saturday said 10 coronavirus patients have so far died at its isolation centre.
The hospital’s Spokesperson, Dr. Tayo Hastrup, announced the figure when a non-profit organisation, District Grand Lodge of Nigeria, came to donate face masks and hand sanitisers to the hospital.
He said over 80 patients, who earlier tested for COVID-19, had fully recovered, while 10 others, with serious underlining illness, had died of the virus.
Receiving the donation on behalf of the hospital management, Hastrup thanked the organisation for the gesture.
He said the items would be given to the front line health workers at the isolation centre of the hospital.
According to him, the COVID-19 isolation centre of the hospital is functioning well.
He explained that the hospital has a centre where patients with suspected cases of COVID-19 are kept, after which “we send for the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control to come and take their (patients’) samples.
“And when it is confirmed that they are positive, we take them to our isolation centre.”
A representative of the Grand Lodge, Dayo Pearce, said the donation was borne out of the organisation’s principle of love.
Pearce said the basic tenets of its gospel remained love, relief and truth, adding that such gesture had been replicated nationwide.
He stated that the non-profit organisation believed in the fatherhood of God and brotherhood of men, irrespective of race, tribe and religion.
Alhaji Abdullahi Maje, Chairman of Suleja Local Government Area, who confirmed the incident in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria in Minna on Saturday, said the downpour began at about 9:30pm when residents of Unguwar Gwari were asleep.
The highly reputable news channel said although police authorities are yet to confirm the incident, the Chairman of Zango Kataf Local Government, Elias Manza, told it that suspected Fulani militias carried out the attack.
The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, in a statement on Wednesday said two soldiers died, while four were wounded in the encounter.
The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, in a statement on Sunday said the sustained onslaught by the troops also resulted in surrendering of a number of insurgents during the month.
The Service, however, said it saved 71 lives and property worth N120 million in 51 fire incidents recorded in June in the state.
The General Manager, Lagos State Waterways Authority, Oluwadamilola Emmanuel, confirmed that the accident happened at Owode/Ibeshe near Ikorodu at about 8pm on Friday.
Ethiopian singer Hachalu Hundessa was shot and killed in the capital Addis Ababa on Monday, with his supporters blaming security forces and “a political motive” for the crime.
This followed two electrocution incidences that occurred in Ojo area of Lagos.
The NCDC made the disclosure in its COVID-19 Situation Report for June 10.
NERC made the disclosure in its Fourth Quarter 2019 Report, obtained from its website by the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja.