These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will make your Thursday morning, May 21, 2020 1. Court to hear Kalu’s quest for freedom June 2 The...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) took the latest decision of marking down the ex-depot price of petrol in a bid to keep it competitive after...
Governor Nyesom Wike-led government of Rivers State has suspended the total lockdown in Obio/Akpor and Port Harcourt Local Government Areas (LGAs) for six days. He said...
The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu has advised Nigerians to be wary of fraudsters using COVID-19 pandemic to defraud...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has revealed those behind the alleged plot to remove Governor Nysome Wike and foist emergency rule in Rivers State. Governor Wike...
The Benue State COVID-19 index case, Susan Idoko Okpe, has been discharged. Okpe, who spent 58 days in the isolation centre, was discharged on Wednesday. The...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Wednesday night confirmed 284 new COVID-19 cases in the country. The centre said in its daily update on the...
Lagos State government Wednesday confirmed the discharge of 17 more COVID-19 patients from the state’s isolation facilities. The state’s Ministry of Health, which disclosed this known...
Governors of the 19 northern states in Nigeria said on Wednesday they would continue with the repatriation of the Quranic Education pupils (Almajiris) to their home...
The leadership of Health Care Providers Association of Nigeria (HCPAN) Wednesday directed its members to stay at home until there was a uniform directive on movement...
“Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.” – Frantz Fanon “On April 29, 1945, Italians found the executed...
Oil marketers in Nigeria now have the liberty of importing petroleum products alongside the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) as the liberalisation policy of the downstream...
A Civil Society Organization, the Niger Delta Movement for Peace and Justice (NDMPJ) Wednesday urged the National Assembly to withhold the 2020 Budget of the Niger...
The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped the entire world – the future of everything and the world of work, but perhaps the most visible effect of this...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, claimed on Wednesday that oil workers returning from rigs accounted for 60 percent of COVID-19 cases in the state. Wike, who...
The Senate ad hoc committee probing the alleged misappropriation of N40 billion belonging to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has demanded a written explanation from...
Cross River Governor, Ben Ayade, Wednesday lifted the ban on religious gatherings in the state. The governor, who disclosed this in a statement issued by his...
The Nigerian bourse further gained Wednesday as the prices of a couple of heavyweight bank and industrial stocks strengthened. Buy pressure on Dangote Cement, BUA Cement,...
Nigeria’s Esther Oyema has been handed a four-year ban by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) after she committed an anti-doping rule violation. The former Paralympic champion...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Wednesday the country imported 20.89 billion litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as petrol, in 2019....
The Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), Ahmed Idris, said on Wednesday all the health workers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) would be paid their...
Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, restrained the House of Representatives from inviting the Spokesman of the Coalition of United Political...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the sack of the Registrar/Chief Executive of the National Examinations Council (NECO), Prof. Charles Uwakwe. The President also approved the retrenchment...
Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, has banned movement of cattle in the state capital, Abakaliki and its environs with immediate effect. Umahi, who announced this during...
The management of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, said on Wednesday the National Universities Commission (NUC) had given full accreditation to all the academic programmes...
Justice Anwuli Chikere of the Federal High Court, Abuja, Wednesday fixed May 29 for hearing of a substantive suit filed by 31 deregistered political parties against...
The United Nations Middle East envoy, Nickolay Mladenov Wednesday warned Israel against continued threats to occupy parts of the West Bank as such plans were breeching...
Two new studies conducted on monkeys have proven that the animals are less likely to be reinfected by COVID-19. The studies further validate the assumption that...
The Federal High Court, Lagos, Wednesday fixed June 2 for the hearing of an application filed by a former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu...
Delta State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Mordi Ononye, on Wednesday, confirmed the sixth COVID-19 death in the state. Ononye, who disclosed this in a statement in...
A South Korean topflight club, FC Seoul have been fined after they were accused of filling up empty seats at the stadium with sex dolls during...
The Gombe State government said on Wednesday at least 91 COVID-19 patients had been discharged from the state’s isolation centres after they recovered fully from the...
Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp has likened his squad’s return to training on Wednesday to a kid’s first day at school. The Reds at their Melwood training...
Six staff of iSON Xperiences, a firm in Oyo State, have once more tested positive for COVID-19. Earlier, 57 members of the staff of the firm...
The Governor Bala Mohammed led government of Bauchi State has suspended both partial and total lockdown in the state over COVID-19. A statement on Wednesday by...
The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday, presided over the second virtual Federal Executive Council FEC meeting in Abuja, the nation’s capital, days after engaging...
Scores have been forced out of their homes in Michigan’s Midland County on Tuesday after two dams collapsed from heavy rainfall, causing extreme floodings. Speaking in...
In a bid to curb the spread of Covid-19 pandemic, management of the Cambridge University has announced its decision to move all “face-to-face lectures” online for...
A Singaporean Judge has sentenced a man to death for drug trafficking via Zoom video call, making it the third known case of capital punishment remotely...
The Lagos State branch of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA has directed doctors in the state to embark on an indefinite sit-at-home order to protest persistent...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said “some few elements” on social media were employing desperate antics of blackmail, and smear campaigns against it and...
A member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) representing Jere Federal Constituency of Borno State, Engr. Satomi Ahmad, has engaged the services of 300 medical personnel...
The governor of Zamfara State, Bello Mohammed Matawalle has launched the largest zero-contact testing centre for COVID-19 in Nigeria. This was contained in a statement on...
Eastern India and neighboring Bangladesh saw the worst cyclone to hit the country in over a decade on Wednesday as predicted earlier last week. Officials in...
These 5 latest stories from the tech space will keep you updated with trends today. 1. Facebook launches e-commerce Shop across apps Social networking site, Facebook,...
The Bauchi State government has decried the refusal of two positive COVID-19 patients to move into the state’s isolation center. The government said what was more...
The headquarters of the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) in Abuja has been gutted by fire. The cause of the fire, which broke in the Federal Government...
Different Igbo groups have cried out against the alleged influx of Almajiris into the South East amid the Federal Government ban on intra-state travel. Nigerian government,...
Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama has announced that no fewer than 292 evacuees stranded in Saudi Arabia due to the COVID-19 pandemic have been evacuated...
The Australian government has announced details of a three-phased reopening plan to unwind the lockdown and revive the country’s ailing economy amidst a diplomatic rift with...
