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The Federal Government has alerted Nigerians to the existence of an Android-based malicious and fraudulent coronavirus ransomware application, which claims to provide updates on the virus and infections near the user. In a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the ransomware blocks access to users’ personal data and accounts and threatens deletion, unless users pay One Hundred US Dollars ($100) in Bitcoin within 48 hours. He said the ransomware app, detected on the website www.coronavirusapp.site, prompts users to download an Android App purportedly for coronavirus map tracking and heat map…

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it has temporarily suspended all activities requiring physical contacts in all its offices and centres nationwide. This is contained in a statement by the board’s Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede and made available to newsmen on Tuesday in Lagos. According to the statement, the development is in line with the professional advice of government on safety of all persons in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic around the globe. “All candidates and members of the general public should hereby note that the board has temporarily suspended all its activities that will be requiring physical…

The Spokesman for the House of Representatives, Rep. Benjamin Kalu (APC-Abia) on Tuesday said no member of the House has so far been infected by Covid-19 virus. Kalu, who made this known while addressing newsmen, described media reports claiming that 15 members were infected as “fake news” The Rep said that the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) could not confirm that any member was infected. Kalu said that until an authentic source such as NCDC confirmed such stories, members of the public should ignore and treat such as mere rumours. Coronavirus: 3 staff working under Abba Kyari test positive…

Three staff of the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari have tested positive to coronavirus (COVID-19). A presidential source confirmed the development. Meanwhile, all the aides at the Vice President’s wing with the exception of his media aide did not turn up for work. Coronavirus: Sanwo-Olu orders closure of all markets, stores in Lagos A source said the VP reported late to work on Monday afternoon unlike him. Most of his aides had face masks and hand gloves on when they came to work on Monday. Meanwhile, the villa is on a gradual lockdown as none essential staff…

Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has ordered the closure of all markets and stores in the state except markets that sell food, water, medicines, medical equipment and other essential life-saving items from Thursday, March 26, 2020. READ ALSO: Bauchi Gov. Bala Mohammed tests positive for Coronavirus He said the closure would last for seven days at the first instance. He disclosed this on Tuesday after the State Security Meeting held at the Marina House in Lagos.

Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State has tested positive of the deadly coronavirus. Mr Muktar Gidado, the governor’s Senior Special Assistant (SSA), Media, revealed this in a statement issued to newsmen on Tuesday. “This is to inform the general public that the result of the six initial tests carried out by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Gov. Bala Mohammed, his family and aides that accompanied him to Lagos is out. “Of the six initial tests carried out, one sample was confirmed positive of coronavirus. “The positive result happened to be that of Gov. Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed, the…

Dr. Mrs. Seinye O. B. Lulu-Briggs, widow of founder of Moni Pulo Limited, High Chief Olu Benson Lulu-Briggs, on Tuesday alleged that her stepson, Dumo, desperately procured a ruling claiming a Ghanaian magistrate ruled that her late husband died in Nigeria and not Ghana. The widow who made the remarks in a statement signed and released to journalists by her spokesperson, Oraye St. Franklyn, said the entire ruling of the said Coroner appears to be the mirrored wordings of Dumo’s sworn applicant affidavit and the same narrative singularly rehashed by him in the media The statement reads: “The attention of…

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed two new cases of coronavirus taking the total number of cases to 42 in the country. According to the NCDC, the two new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed on Tuesday. One is in Lagos State and the other one in Ogun. “One case is a returning traveler. The second case is contact of a previously confirmed case,” the NCDC said. The disease control centre noted that, “As at 1pm on March 24, there are 42 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria, two discharged and one death.”

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has tested negative for the COVID-19 virus (Coronavirus), following a test for the disease that was carried out yesterday on the president by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), THISDAY can report. The NCDC has informed the president on the outcome his negative result this morning in Abuja. According to presidential sources, the test for the president was necessitated after his Chief of Staff, Mr. Abba Kyari tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday. Kyari had travelled to Germany on Saturday, March 7th to meet with officials of Siemens in Munich on the Nigerian electricity expansion programme. He…

Carmakers are answering calls from governments to help make more ventilators and face masks to help out during the coronavirus pandemic. On Monday Fiat began converting one of its car plants in China to start making about one million masks a month. The carmaker wants to start production in the coming weeks, wrote its chief executive Mike Manley in an email. Other major automakers are looking at ways they can shift manufacturing towards ventilators. General Motors, Ford and Tesla in the US have all pledged their support to offer resources to make more ventilators, along with Japanese carmaker Nissan and…