These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will make your Thursday morning. 1. MYSTERIOUS DEATHS: I’ll not let you down, Buhari tells Kano people President Muhammadu...
The Kano State government led by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has recorded 24 fresh cases of the dreaded COVID-19 disease which has fast spread across states in...
The Borno State government led by Governor Babagana Umara Zulum has confirmed six fresh cases of COVID-19, raising the total number of infections in the state...
The Oyo State Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Jacob Ojemuyiwa and other officials of the state government were on Wednesday denied entry at the main...
Nigeria’s state-owned refineries recorded a combined operational loss of N9.6 billion in January 2020, the latest figures on the financial performance of the plants from the...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 to immediately account for the N5 billion released by President Muhammadu Buhari,...
President Muhammadu Buhari has told the people of Kano State that his government would not let them down. He stated this in a statement on Wednesday...
For the second consecutive day, Nigeria recorded about 200 cases of COVID-19 after the nation’s centre for disease control confirmed 196 cases in Lagos and 11...
The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo (SAN), Wednesday promised to quit President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration if the proposed recruitment of 774, 000...
The United States has expressed optimism regarding the trial of the antiviral drug, Remdesivir on coronavirus patients on Wednesday. According to Dr Anthony Fauci, Director of...
Workers in Kaduna State Wednesday rejected the state government’s deduction of 25 percent from salaries of senior civil servants in the state. The state governor, Nasiru...
United States President, Donald Trump, said on Wednesday Nigeria desperately needed ventilators to boost its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. He also confirmed the US would...
Ekiti State Government Wednesday ordered the indefinite suspension of a member of the state Task Force on COVID-19, Sola Durodola, for alleged incompetence and highhandedness. Durodola,...
“We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.” – Kenneth Levine “When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that...
Sokoto State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Mohammed Ali Iname, said on Wednesday at least 12 health workers had tested positive for COVID-19 in the state. Iname,...
The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Wednesday ordered the reopening of markets and restaurants on selected days in the state. The governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Gboyega...
The Federal Government Wednesday directed banks to reopen for commercial operations in Abuja, Lagos and Ogun states beginning May 4. The National Coordinator of the Presidential...
Three sisters have drowned in a river in Amauzu-Amaeze, Ishiagu, in Ivo local government area of Ebonyi State. The sisters whose names are Chisom Goodness Okoro,...
The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, said Wednesday the Federal Government had disbursed the sum of N43,416,000,000.00 ($120.6 million) to 24 states...
Sustained buy pressure in blue-chip equities lifted the Nigerian bourse higher on Wednesday as the key performance indicators ended in the positive territory. Bargain-hunting, particularly in...
The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, said Wednesday 825 COVID-19 tests produced the 195 positive results announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)...
Guinea Bissau Prime Minister, Nuno Nabian, and some senior government officials have tested positive for COVID-19. The country’s Minister of Health, Antonio Deuna, said at a...
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Wednesday confirmed the discharge of 48 more COVID-19 patients from the state’s isolation centres. Sanwo-Olu, who disclosed this at a press...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said Tuesday the emergency phase of Lassa fever outbreak was over following the decline in the number of cases...
Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, Wednesday revealed how he survived the COVID-19. The governor, who tested positive for COVID-19 on March 28 and only returned to...
Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, dismissed a fresh bail variation application filed by a former chairman of the defunct Pension...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has deployed 39 additional vehicles to support the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVlD-19 in contact tracing, surveillance, laboratory and...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said Wednesday it had resumed sale of dollar to commercial banks in the country in view of the gradual easing...
Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, Wednesday confirmed the death of three COVID-19 patients in the state. The Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs to the...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday the number of reported COVID-19 cases in Africa had increased from 33, 000 to over 34,000 in the...
‘Ghetto Soldier’ and former Glo brand ambassador, Daddy Showkey has recounted how he was abandoned by close friends he helped in the past after he was...
These 5 latest stories from the tech space will keep you updated with trends today. 1. Nigeria to launch mobile COVID-19 testing lab Nigeria’s one-year old...
No fewer than 986 offenders of the social distancing and lockdown order have been arrested by men of the Kaduna Police Command. The State Commissioner of...
Three days after its first record of COVID-19, Ebonyi State has recorded another case of the dreaded virus bring the total in the state to two....
A civil society group, Concerned Nigerians, has disagreed with the deportation of Almajiris by state governors in the North, describing the action as unconstitutional and abuse...
Ebonyi State civil servants have been ordered back to their duty posts by the state Governor, David Umahi. The affected civil servants, from grade level 1...
More than 300 coronavirus cases have been detected in three of Morocco’s 73 prison facilities, Moroccan Prison Service disclosed on Tuesday. The discoveries were made after...
Anambra, Sokoto and Nasarawa states on Wednesday received over 5,400 bags of 50kg rice and other relief items from the Federal Government as palliatives to cushion...
The Ekiti State government led by Governor Kayode Fayemi has decried the increasing number of pastors arrested and prosecuted in the state for flouting the state’s...
No less than 1,000 face masks, produced by corps members in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Garment Factory in Minna, have been donated to the...
Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, on Wednesday revealed that six local government areas in the state have recorded confirmed cases of the dreaded COVID-19 disease. The...
An alleged plot to reinstate suspended Prof. Charles Dokubo as the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) has forced some Niger Delta youths to pen...
The Cross River State Government on Wednesday called on the Federal Government to provide the state with more COVID-19 test kits and also situate a vaccine...
An alarm has been raised by a human rights group with claims, that over 300 Nigerian businessmen and women who are stranded in the Chinese business...
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, Sadiya Umar Farouq, has stated the need for collaboration with states for the effective distribution of COVID-19 palliatives...
The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) has accused the Lagos State government of not sharing COVID-19 palliatives to Arewa Community in the state. Following the lockdown...
Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) appointed President Muhammadu Buhari to lead the region’s fight against the spread of coronavirus last week....
Kogi State Government on Tuesday said it takes exemption to claims by the Director-General of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, that...
The move by the chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina to soften the bail conditions granted him has hit the rock....
An atheist, Mubarak Bala has been arrested by the Kaduna State Police Command for allegedly insulting Prophet Mohammed on his Facebook page. He was said to...
