Nigerian Twitter is divided on how to approach the advice from the Ooni of Ife on how to get through the Coronavirus pandemic. The traditional ruler had announced, in a video on his social media platforms, that the cure for Coronavirus is a group of super herbs that have been used by the indigenous Yoruba... Read More

Coronavirus, COVID-19, NCDC, Ooni of Ife, pandemic

March 31, 2020

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COVID19: It’s Day 1 of the first ever #Lockdown and here are our burning concerns

Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos, is among 3 cities in the country currently on total lockdown. The measure which has become necessary in the weeks following the identification of the index case of Coronavirus in the country on 27th February, as the cases rose up to 131 as at March 30, 2020. In that timeframe, the... Read More

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Coronavirus, COVID-19, Wuhan

March 27, 2020

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#PresidentCovik: ‘Unknown soldier,’ Imam of Peace wages war on Buhari(sts) and it is not ending anytime soon

The statement will read: “It has become obvious that some Nigerians are aiding one Imam of Peace who has taken it upon himself to mislead a rather peaceful citizenry. It is unacceptable that someone who does not understand the affairs of a nation will start a campaign against the president of that nation and its... Read More

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#WhereIsBuhari, Abba Kyari, Bashir Ahmad, chief of staff, Coronavirus, Imam of Peace

March 27, 2020

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It’s 27th! TB Joshua’s prophecy is set to come to pass

It’s finally the 27th, same day for the prophesied end of the ‘horrific, sleep-snatching’ COVID-19 pandemic. The Twitter-verse is waiting, building memes off it and (maybe) coming to terms with the occasional inconsistencies of prophecies and Nigerian pastors. The prophecy which came from the Founder of the Synagogue Church Of All Nations (SCOAN), Temitope Balogun... Read More

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March 26, 2020

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COVID-19: Cases may be rising but Lagos is offering us wholesale hope amidst this scourge

To panic is human, yet what is even more so is to hope. Hope is the intoxicating chemical that successfully floated many human societies into surviving this long, and with it, we will survive anything – the Coronavirus included. This explains why days after the discharge of the index patient who is an Italian, the... Read More

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March 25, 2020

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Will #LetsFightCovid19 change the ‘only me’ mindset of the average Nigerian?

If you considered the adverse reactions of Nigerians in the South to the killings in Northern Nigeria as well as the lackadaisical attitude of many Nigerians towards problems that don’t directly affect them, then you will understand why these prejudiced senses need urgent cleansing – with spiritual, moral and biological sanitisers. You can’t argue that... Read More

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#LetsFightCovid19, Coronavirus, COVID-19

March 24, 2020

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Does Aliko Dangote have Coronavirus?

For the past few hours, this question and many more have troubled the minds of Nigerians across the streets of Twitter as they diligently investigate and await a definite answer. Only a few days ago, it was reported that Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, lost 240 billion naira after the Stock Exchange suffered huge losses... Read More

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March 23, 2020

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Here’s what #LockdownNow holds for all of us

The latest COVID-19 updates will scare you more than you can’t panic. As much as not everyone acknowledges the existence of a Supreme Being – or has lost faith, everyone prays for this to pass. As at today, Monday, March 23, 2020, Nigeria has confirmed thirty-six (36) cases. Two cases have been discharged, and with... Read More

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#LockdownNow, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 in Nigeria

March 23, 2020

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Chilling voice note out-competes Covid-19 in virality

With a live update of the day to day count of recorded cases of Coronavirus in Nigeria that keeps steadily rising, it is beginning to appear that the growing panic in the country is more than justified. As if the rising official number – now at 35 with 1 recorded death – is not bad... Read More

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COVID-19, NCDC

March 23, 2020

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The rich also cry – A few lessons from #Atiku and the COVID-19 Outbreak in Nigeria

In a recent tweet by Atiku Abubakar, a former Vice President of Nigeria and Presidential candidate in the 2019 presidential elections, he disclosed that his son has tested positive to Coronavirus and is currently receiving treatment at the Gwagwalada Specialist Teaching Hospital in Abuja. Following this tweet, pandemonium increased across the country and it would... Read More

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Atiku, atiku abubakar, COVID-19, Gwagwalada Specialist Teaching Hospital

March 20, 2020

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Here’s what’s up with the Covenant University conversation on Twitter

At the rate the university has been at the top of the trend for all the wrong reasons in recent years, one would hope that for it to get on top of the trend in these times of panic over the Coronavirus pandemic, it would be for something huge, say a cure discovery. Far from... Read More

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March 20, 2020

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We Are All Hoping Chloroquine Is A Possible Cure For Covid-19

The feeling of dread keeps rising. The internet is breaking down. Life, as we know it is nearing a destabilizing breakdown and Covid-19 still looms over our heads at every passing hour. You might have read that slightly fictionalized illustration of how Covid-19 spreads in the New York Mag or watched videos of affected persons... Read More

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March 19, 2020

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The #StayAtHomeChallenge is just another ‘joke’ to Nigerians

As the number of Covid-19 cases rises daily, one is left to wonder if the coronavirus is going to stay longer than the human nervous system can take. Anxiety is probably the most common mental illness these past few weeks, and with a robust media – who will glorify bad news over good news – we are not... Read More

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COVID-19, COVID-19 in Nigeria

March 18, 2020

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Here’s everything you need to know about latest cases of Coronavirus in Nigeria

Panic is rising over Coronavirus in Nigeria’s mega city of Lagos, as official figures for recorded cases of the virus rise to 8 in a recent update. BREAKING: FG places travel ban on China, Italy, US, UK, nine othershttps://t.co/SVUSCCcWTk#FightCOVID19 #CoronaVirusNigeria pic.twitter.com/5gHJ5ILH6a — Punch Newspapers (@MobilePunch) March 18, 2020 The new update coming in this morning... Read More

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March 18, 2020

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What we know about Dangote’s place in Nigeria’s new cases of Covid-19

Just when Nigerians had begun to gain some confidence in the government’s control of the CoronaVirus epidemic in Nigeria, our bubbles were needled by the article released by David Hundeyin yesterday the 17th of March 2020. Published first on his Medium page, before getting deleted and republished on NewsWireNG, the base of the article reveals... Read More

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Coronavirus, global epidemic

March 16, 2020

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Abule Ado explosion, everything you need to know

First, it was the explosion. No one in Lagos, where the explosion happened, knew exactly what had gone off so loudly around 9 am on Sunday, March 15, and while a lot of us were alarmed by it, some of us, particularly Lagos Islanders, didn’t hear anything. This makes sense because the explosion happened around... Read More

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