Story from Kenneth AFOR, Lagos Following last week's detection by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) of the COVID-19 Delta variant in Abuja on a traveller, six states in the country have been placed on red alert. The affected states are Lagos, Oyo, Rivers, Kaduna, Kano, Plateau and the nation’s capital, FCT. In a statement issued Sunday morning and signed by the chairman of the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, noted that the nation has, in recent time, continued to witness "worrisome early signs of the third wave of...