General Sani Abacha ruled Nigeria from 1993 until his death in 1998. Following the June 12 presidential poll won by the late Lagos-based billionaire business mogul,...
Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Thursday confirmed the discharge of 48 more COVID-19 patients from the state’s isolation facilities. Sanwo-Olu, who disclosed this on his Twitter...
A new study conducted in China has found Sars-CoV-2 RNA (Covid-19) in the semen of young coronavirus patients, JAMA Network Open, an American medical journal has...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested a 22-year-old woman in Nasarawa State for allegedly stabbing her husband to death over phone conversation...
The market maintained the current uptrend on Thursday as bargain-hunting efforts lifted equities further. Gains in bellwethers such as Nestle, Dangote Cement and Nigerian Breweries largely...
The Plateau State government Thursday discharged the state’s index COVID-19 case from one of its isolation centres at the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH). The patient...
President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday approved the reappointment of Marilyn Amobi as the Managing Director of the Nigeria Bulk Electricity Trading Company (NBET) Plc. The Special Adviser...
The Lagos State government Thursday confirmed two more COVID-19 deaths in the state, adding that the number of confirmed cases in the state had increased to...
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has pledged to support the mothers of late ex-internationals, Rashidi Yekini and Samuel Okwaraji, with a monthly stipend of N30,000 each....
The Nigerian Consulate in New York said Thursday the first batch of 270 Nigerians stranded in the United States would be evacuated home Saturday. At least...
As part of efforts to check the spread of COVID-19, the Lagos State Government has asked operators of restaurants and eateries in the state to ensure...
The United States of America has revealed that there is a separate $319m (N121bn) General Sani Abacha loot in the United Kingdom and France, barely a...
President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday held a telephone conversation with the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imra Khan. According to a statement issued by Femi Adesina, the Special...
The kidnapped radio presenter working with Radio Nigeria, Pacesetter FM, Umuahia, Abia State, Miss Chinenye Iwuoha, has been released by her abductors. It would be recalled...
The Federal Government of Nigeria through the Ministry of Health has given the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) the go ahead...
Thirty inmates of the Correctional Service Centre, Afokang have been released by the Ag. Chief Judge of Cross River, Justice Maurice Eneji, as part of measures...
The Governor or Rivers State, Nyesom Wike on Thursday arrested some very important persons who were moving around with their police escorts, despite the COVID-19 lockdown...
Ekiti State is targeting to test more than 100,000 for Coronavirus before June, 2020. This was revealed by the Senior Special Assistant to Governor Kayode Fayemi...
The ECOWAS Commission has debunked reports that its health institution, West Africa Health Organisation has endorsed the COVID-19 cure developed by the Malagasy Institute of Applied...
Lebanon’s Ministry of Health has informed that no fewer than 25 passengers on a flight from the city of Kano to Beirut have tested positive for...
The woman whose name was announced as the index case of COVID-19 in Benue state, Susan Okpe, has lamented what she said is her continued detention,...
Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari has lamented the never ending atrocities of bandits in the state and said that banditry, and not COVID-19 is the major...
The Gombe State COVID-19 Task Force on Thursday, said the state government was tracing residents who mixed with COVID-19 patients who were protesting at the Kwandon...
Some COVID-19 patients at an isolation centre in Niger State have protested the way they were being treated. The patients, who were caught shouting on top...
These 5 latest stories from the tech space will keep you updated with trends today. 1. Elon Musk looks to add videoconferencing to Tesla cars Tesla...
The Lagos State Government on Thursday said 10 persons associated with the Lagos State House, Marina, have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. The Lagos State...
Crisis equals opportunity. And difficult roads often lead to amazing destinations. Always? Sometimes? Brutus to Cassius in Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare put it succinctly: ’’There...
A total of 11,231 new cases of covid-19 has emerged in Russia within the last 24-hours, the country’s covid-19 response team declared in a statement. Altogether,...
Embattled music video director, Clarence Peters, who was detained over the death of video vixen, Love Divine, a.k.a. Picture Kodak, who was reportedly electrocuted in a...
A former Works and Infrastructural Development Commissioner in Kano state, Engr. Muazu Magaji, who was sacked for allegedly celebrating the death of the late Chief of...
Distraught by his son’s disturbing behaviour, a nonagenarian simply identified as Pa Olasupo based in Osun State has begged the State Police Command to keep his...
Edo State government on Wednesday intercepted over 100 passengers from Kano and Rivers State, screened and took their samples for COVID-19 test. It was learnt that...
Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, on Wednesday described theInfectious Diseases Bill before the House of Representatives as superfluous, illegal and unconstitutional. According to Falana,...
A newly posted Divisional Crime Officer (DCO) to Achala Police Division in Anambra State has been ordered to submit himself for COVID-19 test due to his...
The Oyo State government has revealed how a 10-year-old boy who tested positive for COVID-19 in the state absconded to the northern part of Nigeria to...
Sterling Bank Plc has reported a N1.175 billion plunge in profit for first quarter 2020, compared to the corresponding period of 2019. The highlights of the tier...
The Federal Government has warned security agencies to stop harassing journalists and other essential duty workers as they enforce the COVID-19 curfew imposed by President Muhammadu...
The non inclusion of Almajiris in distribution of covid-19 palliatives in the country has been condemned by a group of Non Governmental Organisations (NGO), operating under...
Parents of three university students who were murdered in Rivers State have urged the police to ensure justice was done in the matter. The parents made...
Oil prices climbed up further on Thursday as U.S. inventories increased less than expected. Analysts however predicted that additional gains might be limited by the current...
The Niger State Government has said it intercepted at least 40 people who were Lagos bound from Kano despite the ban on interstate travels in place...
The number of people infected with the novel COVID-19 disease which was first recorded in Wuhan, China, has now reached 3.7 million people, according to data...
Rescue operatives in Chemoe on the border of Baringo North and Tiaty sub-counties in Kenya are having a tough time rescuing survivors after floods and landslides...
Gunmen suspected to be herdsmen have shot a popular pastor, Bayo Famonure, his wife and two children in Gana-Ropp, Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau...
The Media Rights Agenda (MRA) and the International Press have both condemned Monday’s abduction of Ms Chinenye Iwuoha, a presenter with the Pacesetter FM station of...
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami (SAN), on Wednesday, reacted to the backlash that has trailed his description of the...
Kano State has confirmed the death of five more patients to the dreaded Coronavirus also known as COVID-19 in the state. The state Ministry of Health...
The Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir-El Rufai has disclosed that the ongoing deportation of Almajiris from various Northern States to their indigenous States was an...
It was a tragic end for a 26-yr-old man, Olajide Asade on Wednesday, as he was crushed to death by a car while he was making...
No fewer than 343 Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists in the northeast theatre of operations have been neutralised between March 18 and May 5, so says the Nigerian...
