Students with disabilities are said to be receiving inadequate learning support during the COVID-19 lockdown due to lack of inclusive learning environment. Students with special needs, parents, teachers and interest groups are also reportedly left out in the COVID-19 lockdown…
Nigerians have condemned the cuts in budgetary allocations to critical sectors in the federal government’s revised 2020 budget proposal. The ministries of health, education, science and technology and agriculture are among the worst hit by capital expenditure reductions. Read more:…
The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Nigeria hit the 10,000 mark on Sunday, May 31, 2020, three months after the country recorded its first confirmed COVID-19 case, and keep increasing by the day, with experts calling for more…
Since the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) a pandemic, more and more journalists around the world have been pulled in to report on the frontlines of the global crisis. The origins and spread of the virus, the…
By Theophilus Abbah, PhD Today, Covid-19, as they say, is the elephant in the (news)room – it is perceived from diverse angles, and hundreds of hands are in the pot, cooking the antidote to it. Without a cure (a recurring…
Patients suffering from different ailments across the country have confessed that self -medication in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic has worsened their conditions. Many Nigerians have resorted to self-medication for different ailments and for purported protection against COVID-19 instead…
By Theophilus Abbah Journalists in Nigeria are doing a commendable job, making meaning out of the torrents of statistics that pour from laboratories certified by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) into our newsrooms. The newsrooms are drenched in…
Nigerians on coronavirus infection watch list now have to wait for a week or more to get their results, Daily Trust investigation has shown. Many people who are anxious to know their status have to endure days of uncertainty and…
Government and economic activities resume on Monday amid fear of a spike as the federal government eases the lockdown imposed on the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Lagos and Ogun states that lasted five weeks to stem the spread of coronavirus.…
Disease kills 280,000 Nigerians in 4 years There are only eight teaching hospitals in Nigeria that have radiotherapy machines for tackling cancer which has become a menace across the 36 states of the federation, Daily Trust reports. The hospitals are:…
