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Covid-19: How to be security conscious

By Ele Ifah Sunday June 10, 2020 163 0

The year, 2020, has come with unexpected hardship in Nigeria. As a result of Covid-19, many businesses have been shut down, many workers have lost their jobs, even artisans are finding it difficult to put  meals on their table. Government’s palliatives are on the pages of newspapers or in the air waves.  No adequate provision […]Continue Reading

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My Covid-19 experience, by a journalist

By Ele Ifah Sunday June 4, 2020 235 0

A journalist, Kabir Anwar, is the index case of Covid-19 in Yola, Adamawa State, where he works. In this short interview, Anwar tells his story from how he was infected to when he tested negative.   What ailment were you treating before you tested positive to Covid-19? Cough, fever, body weakness, I also had shortness […]Continue Reading

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Why did COVID-19 hit Kano State below the belt?

By Ele Ifah Sunday June 3, 2020 158 0

Kano budgeted N1,805.88 per head in 2020 health projection When Kano state recorded its first confirmed case of COVID-19 on April 10, 2020, many people knew that there were going to be issues in respect to the level of preparedness of the state government to adequately manage the emerging cases of the virus. The irony, […]Continue Reading

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Covid-19 Today

By Theophilus Abbah April 22, 2020 166 0

Here is an update on Covid-19 in Nigeria     Latest Report InfogramContinue Reading

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10 Takeaway from Buhari’s second speech on Covid-19

By Theophilus Abbah April 14, 2020 175 0

 92% of all identified contacts with Covid-19 positive persons has been identified. Testing capacity doubled – 1,500 tests could be conducted daily 7,000 health care workers trained in ‘infection prevention and control’ Health care workers across all the treatment centers have been provided with the personal protective equipment NCDC team deployed in 19 out of […]Continue Reading

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[My Covid-19 Diary] Day 6: Fuel price jerked up as more than 500 Africans die

By Theophilus Abbah April 8, 2020 218 Post a comment

By Theophilus Abbah As I started my car engine this evening to ride out of boredom into the locked down world, I noticed that my fuel had drained. The red sign on the gauge jeered at him as if to say it would certainly draw some cash from my drained pocket. Even if I had […]Continue Reading

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[My Covid-19 Diary]: Day 5 – Coronavirus infects the flesh and heart of media

By Theophilus Abbah April 7, 2020 193 3

Like Israelites who lost appetite for Manna and panted for flesh in the desert, I began to thirst and hunger after news in the print format. My hankering for news online dwindled and faded as the borders among social media platforms blurred on my handheld device and laptop. I craved for my newspaper with varieties […]Continue Reading

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[My Covid-19 Diary] Day 4: Fighting a deadly disease with ill-motivated forces

By Theophilus Abbah April 4, 2020 143 0

Tea. Yam. Eba. Beans. Bread. Food, food, food. Eat. Eat. Eat. I’ve begun to feel guilty, like I felt as a boy, and being fed by my mother. I tell this story to my children to discourage them from yielding to the snare of gluttony. On many occasions, my mother would whip me with her […]Continue Reading

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Covid-19: Today’s Report

By Theophilus Abbah April 3, 2020 156 0

The charts below show the current state of Covid-19 in Nigeria. Death is still low, but there are concerns about its spread in the South-West, especially. There are fewer cases in the North. But this does not give a clear idea of the situation there, because fewer tests have been conducted in that part of […]Continue Reading

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[My Covid-19 Diary] Day 3 – Breakfast without bread in a blackout

By Theophilus Abbah April 3, 2020 162 0

By Theophilus Abbah Blanket blackout, darkness, sweats and fatigue ruled and ruined the night before Tuesday, March 31, when life would grind to a halt and the curse, we, Abuja residents, feared most would be unleashed to drench and drown us. Blackout, because electricity supply had become so unreliable that both government and the governed […]Continue Reading

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[Covid-19: My Lockdown Diary] Day 2: It’s like the end of the world has come

By Theophilus Abbah April 1, 2020 225 0

By Theophilus Abbah Though I announced, on Day 1, that, for me, the lockdown for coronavirus started on Sunday, March 29, Nigeria’s strict social distancing, a preventive measure, officially took effect from Monday, March 30. It would be intensified on Tuesday, March 31 – for two weeks. I’m no clairvoyant, but I was still curious […]Continue Reading

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[Covid-19: My lockdown diary] Day 1: A ghostly spectacle after unusual Sunday worship

By Theophilus Abbah March 31, 2020 172 0

By Theophilus Abbah President Muhammadu Buhari’s much-delayed and anxiously-awaited authoritative speech on Covid-19, delivered on Sunday, March 29, locked down Abuja, Lagos and Ogun from Monday, March 30. That’s for millions who wake up at sunrise and retire to bed at sunset in these cities. But as for me and the multitude to whom the […]Continue Reading