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Africa surpasses half a million COVID-19 cases, WHO says

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday, July 8, 2020 said Africa recorded more than half a million COVID-19 infections, with many countries experiencing...

Group initiates street campaign, radio community engagement to curb Covid-19 spread

Following evolving evidence on the transmission of coronavirus (COVID-19), numbers crossed grim thresholds in June 2020, with cases passing 10 million globally and deaths...

Prominent people diagnosed with COVID-19

One of the patriarchs of jazz, Libya’s rebel prime minister and the Chinese doctor reprimanded for issuing an early warning about the novel coronavirus...

Trade in fake COVID-19 products booming amid demand surge, says UNODC

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has warned that illegal trade in fake or faulty COVID-19-related products is booming amid a...

Espinosa urges ministers to unlock Paris Agreement’s full potential

Against the backdrop of the Coronavirus pandemic, the 4th session of the Ministerial on Climate Action (MoCA) took place on Tuesday, July 7, 2020 with...

COVID-19: Groups train women, PWDs, youths on facemask, hand sanitiser production

Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) in partnership with Climate and Sustainable Development Network (CSDevNet) and SDGs Thursday through the VSO – Nigeria National Youth Engagement...

Lagos conducts over 42,000 COVID-19 tests as 177 die

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, on Sunday, July 5, 2020 said that the state tested a total of 42,348 samples...

WHO discontinues trial of hydroxychloroquine treatment for COVID-19 patients

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it has discontinued the use of hydroxychloroquine and lopinavir/ritonavir in its global trial for treatment of COVID-19 as...

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BATN Foundation commissions solar-powered borehole tó end 30-year water crisis in Kano community

 “For 30 years, we fetched water from far places, paying N100naira for a jerrican of water that wasn’t even...
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BATN Foundation, SwagCo flag off Maize Micro-Enterprise Project to empower Ekiti farmers

In a landmark move to boost food security and rural livelihoods, the British American Tobacco Nigeria Foundation (BATNF) in...

NBSAP: A welcome step toward food sovereignty, biosafety

Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) commends the Federal Government for endorsing the revised National Biodiversity Strategy and Action...

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