Ogun Launches COVID-19 Mobile Laboratory For Testing
Ogun State has launched Africa’s very first COVID-19 mobile laboratory. The lab which has the capacity to carry out up to 400 tests a day...
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LAWMA Successfully Test Runs Mobile App That Allows Residents Receive Incentives
The Lagos State Waste Management Agency, LAWMA, has successfully test run its Mobile application, a technology designed to drive the incentive part of the Blue...
Lagos partners Microsoft to train teachers on digital literacy
For meaningful engagement of Staff of the Post-Primary Teaching Service in “Digital Literacy training” during the coronavirus lockdown, the Lagos State Government, in collaboration with...
Sanwo-Olu unveils 70-bed Eti-Osa Isolation Centre
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu (middle), cutting the tape to unveil the 80-Bed Isolation Centre, with Ten Intensive Care Unit facility, Four Ventilators for...
LASG launches ‘EKO TELEMED’ for remote non-COVID-19 medical consultations
The Lagos state government has launched ‘EKO TELEMED’ for residents, as part of concerted efforts aimed at protecting citizens and reducing their risk of contracting...
Lagos records zero case of COVID-19 in 24 hours
Akin Abayomi, Lagos commissioner of health, says the state did not record any case of COVID-19 in 24 hours. In a Twitter post on Tuesday,...
FRSC begins production, distribution of customised face masks to staff
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), has begun the production and distribution of customised face masks for its personnel across the country. The Corps Public...
Nigeria now a fertile ground for Start Ups to thrive, says NITDA Boss
Nigeria is a fertile ground that Start-ups could explore to thrive and provide solutions that could solve mirage of problems bedeviling the nation. Director General,...
Super Eagles’ 2018 Attire Nominated Among World All-time Iconic Football Shirts
Super Eagles’ 2018 Attire Nominated Among World All-Time Iconic Football Shirts Nigeria’s home shirt at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia has been nominated...
Use of data in fight against covid-19 will be in line with appropriate regulations – Patanmi
The attention of Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, FNCS, FBCS, FIIM, Honourable Minister of the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy (FMoCDE), has been...
Chidi Nwaogu wins Swiss govt’s entrepreneurship prize
A Nigerian entrepreneur, Chidi Nwaogu, has won the Migration Entrepreneurship prize organised by the Human Security Division (HSD) of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign...
Nigeria’s 54gene secures $15m Series A funding round to scale operations
Nigeria-based African genomics research, services, and development startup 54gene has closed a Series A round of US$15 million to allow it to scale operations. Launched...
Lagos launches ‘Food Kitchen’ to feed 100,000 youths daily
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Tuesday announced a programme, tagged: “Food Kitchen” aimed at feeding 100,000 youths daily to cushion the effect of Coronavirus...
5 Nigerian Youths Develop Online Diagnostic And Tracking Kits To Fight COVID-19
A group of Nigerian Youths, involving Folarin Alabi who is the team lead, David Adeyemi (global award-winning innovator), Lanre Adetoro (outstanding student with ground breaking...
New ultra-modern isolation center at Stella Obasanjo Hospital ready to receive cases
The Edo State Government has disclosed that the Stella Obasanjo Hospital that has been re-moulded as an infectious diseases centre in response to the coronavirus...
Akwa Ibom Syringe Factory begins production of face masks
Akwa Ibom-state owned Jubilee Syringe Manufacturing Company, is set to begin mass production of face masks to curb the spread of Coronavirus in the country....
Lagos suspends Loan Repayment For MSMEs, Tech Start-Ups.
As part of its efforts to reduce the financial burden on 11,000 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and technology start-ups in the state, which...
Discos, FG agree On 2 months free electricity for Nigerians
The Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) on Wednesday said they have aligned with the federal government to provide a two-month rebate of free electricity to their...
Two Nigerian Engineers hailed after fixing faulty Ventilators for free
Two Nigerian engineers who hail from Jos have been lauded on and off social media as heroes for the work they did as part of...
Onu to unveil first Nigerian-made ventilator today
The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure has produced the first made in Nigeria ventilators. The development is aimed at combating the COVID-19 disease...
COVID-19: Team produces prototype ventilator
Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention. The Covid-19 pandemic is not all gloom and doom. In the midst of the tears, fears and...
Buhari orders recruitment of 774,000 Nigerians
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the engagement of 774, 000 Nigerians for Special Public Works programme in the country to cushion the effect of COVID-19...
7 Nigerian startups selected for COVID-19 Innovation Challenge
Seven Nigerian startups have been selected to take part in the COVID-19 Innovation Challenge, aimed at developing solutions to mitigate the rapid spread of the...
Applications open for 10th Orange Prize for Social Entrepreneurship
Applications are now open for the tenth Orange Prize for Social Entrepreneurship in Africa and the Middle East, which recognises technological projects with a positive...
Nigeria’s response to coronavirus remarkable – UN chief.
The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has commended Nigeria’s response to the coronavirus pandemic in the country. Guterres, who spoke at a virtual news briefing...
Nigeria’s Coronavirus donations hit N15bn
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Wednesday said that monetary contributions to its relief fund under the auspices of Private Sector Coalition Against COVID-19...
Nigerian scientists develop online predictive model for COVID-19
Device foresees rise in number of infections from 131 to 161Nigerian scientists from the Osun State University Osogbo (UNIOSUN) have developed an online forecast model...
LASG confirms release of five more coronavirus patients from Isolation centre.
..As patients narrate experience ..Call for life insurance for health workers at isolation centres ..As Lagos receives N1Bn UBA donation to fight COVID-19 The Lagos...
Odion Ighalo wins Man Utd Goal Of The Month
Odion Ighalo has won Manchester United’s March Goal-of-the-Month award for his effort against LASK in the Europa League. Ighalo’s shot to open the scoring against...
Homefort Energy Wins $5,000 Kingdom Hackathon prize
Nigerian-based clean energy startup, Homefort Energy, has won $5,000 grant funding after emerging the overall winner of the Kingdom Hackathon competition prize of the Redeemed...