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Byline: Nike Adebowale-Tambe 'If the bill is not assented to, the 10th Assembly will follow up and ensure its success' The Chairman, Senate Committee on Health, Ibrahim Oloriegbe, has said [...]

Byline: Ibukun Oguntola The (https://www.placng.org/lawsofnigeria/laws/Q2.pdf) Quarantine Act of 1926 is an important piece of legislation that establishes a legal framework for preventing and controlling infectious diseases in Nigeria. The Act [...]

Justice Akintayo Aluko of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, has struck out a suit by popular actress, Funke Akindale alias Jenifa, her husband Abdul Rasheed Bello, and 236 [...]

Byline: Iqbal Ahmed Khan The government is currently mulling draft regulations under the Quarantine Act that would make it mandatory for health and education workers to show either a vaccination [...]

The executive order signed by President Muhammadu Buhari has left civil servants in the country with no choice than to observe COVID-19 protocol fervently. Buhari had in January signed the [...]

Byline: Queenesther Iroanusi The new Bill seeks to help Nigeria deal with any impending outbreak of infectious and contagious diseases in the future. The National Health Emergency Bill has scaled [...]

Byline: Olawale Ajimotokan President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the COVID-19 Disease Health Protection 2021, a regulation which makes the use of face mask mandatory. The Chairman of the Presidential Task [...]

The Nigeria Governor's Forum (NGF) Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) yesterday kicked against the Infectious Disease Control Bill for which the National Assembly held a public [...]

Byline: Zeenat Hansrod During Mauritius' Covid-19 lockdown, the government passed tough quarantine legislation that has given the police extensive powers. Officials say the law is necessary to protect the population [...]

Byline: Touria Prayag This week, Weekly speaks to Tim Taylor, chairman of Scott & Co Ltd, for his views on the new Covid and Quarantine Acts from a private sector [...]

Byline: Femi Falana The Governors are apprehensive, Youths are warming up for a confrontation, some Nigerians, including former lawmakers, are in court; all in a strenuous effort to stop the [...]

Byline: Deji Elumoye, Udora Orizu Deji Elumoye and Udora Orizu write that the infectious diseases bill before the National Assembly has generated heated debate among various stakeholders who questioned its [...]

Byline: Queenesther Iroanusi The National Health Emergency Bill, 2020, does not make vaccination compulsory. The sponsor of the bill, Chukwuka Utazi, disclosed this to journalists after plenary on Tuesday. He, [...]

Byline: Balarabe Alkassim And Abdullateef Salau Following the uproar trailing the amendment of the Quarantine Act at the House of Representatives, the Senate will on Tuesday consider its own version [...]

Byline: Queenesther Iroanusi A bill that seeks to replace the Quarantine Act with a Control of Infectious Disease Act quickly passed first and second reading at the House of Representatives [...]

Byline: Inibehe Effiong Since the charge against the defendants was brought under a regulation that has not been approved by the House of Assembly as required by law, the entire [...]

Byline: Victor Ogunje Ado-Ekiti -- Twelve persons who violated the provisions of Ekiti State Coronavirus (Prevention of Infection) Regulations,2020 made pursuant to Section 8 of the Quarantine Act, Cap 2, [...]

Byline: Henry Ojelu and Dania Onozure One thing most Nigerians are united on this period is how to curb the spread of the rampaging coronavirus pandemic in the country. While [...]

The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has signed the Quarantine Regulations made pursuant to Section 8 of the Quarantine Act, the Public Health Law and other legislations, as the [...]

Byline: Omololu Ogunmade President Muhammadu Buhari Monday night in Abuja signed the Covid-19 Regulations 2020 in accordance with Sections 2, 3 and 4 of the Quarantine Act (CAP Q2 LFN [...]

Byline: Davidson Iriekpen Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN) has requested the federal government to invoke the Quarantine Act, which provides for and regulates the imposition of quarantine and [...]

Byline: John Shiklam The Kaduna state government has imposed curfew throughout the state, following the non-compliance to measures adopted to stop the spread of COVID-19. The deputy governor of the [...]

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaduna_State) Kaduna State Government has announced curfew throughout the state, following the non-compliance to certain measures that were earlier put in place to stop the spread of (https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public) Coronavirus (COVID-19). [...]

Byline: Press Release The Kaduna State Government on Thursday announced additional measures to contain the novel Coronavirus ravaging the world. In a broadcast Thursday, Deputy Governor Hadiza Balarabe announced a [...]

Apr 19, 2013 (Office of Senator Bukola Saraki/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- On Wednesday- the 17th of April 2013, the Senate took a motion on the Urgent Sensitization […]