The Sultan of Sokoto and President General of the Jama’atu Nasril Islam, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar lll, has warned Muslims against lectures and mosque gatherings during the...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Monday hinted that 8,003 samples have been tested of the novel coronavirus in Nigeria. In NCDC’s Covid-19 situation...
The Lagos State Government on Monday threatened to shut down any market in the state that fails to adhere to social distancing rules. The Corps Marshal...
The twitter storm In what turned out to be an outrage on social media, Bello El-Rufai, the son of Kaduna State governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, in...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will make your Tuesday morning. 1. 38 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed as Nigeria’s overall figure hits 665 For...
The output levels of Nigeria’s hydropower plants recorded rapid depletion in the last couple of days, which saw the entire power generation slip to 3,757MW. Data...
The Kano State government led by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has openly solicited help from the Federal Government of Nigeria in its ongoing fight against the dreaded...
President Muhammadu Buhari has sent a thank you message to the many callers who condoled with him, the Kyari family and the nation, over the death...
Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum, on Monday ordered a total lockdown of the state following the death of the state’s COVID-19 index case. The patient,...
The management of Verdic Lifecare Hospital in the Lekki area of Lagos Monday asked all those who visited the facility in the last 10 days to...
The Minister of Agriculture, Sabo Nanono, said on Monday the Federal Government would soon inaugurate a joint task force to ensure unrestricted movement of farm produce...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has published on its website, the 2019 provisional list of candidates admitted into institutions of higher learning across the...
For the first time in about two weeks, no single case of COVID-19 was recorded in Lagos after the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Monday, reversed his eviction of Caverton Helicopters from the state following the resolution of the crisis caused by the arrest...
Saint Nicholas Hospital Monday suspended services at its Lagos Island branch over exposure to COVID-19. The hospital’s clinical director, Ebun Bamgboye, who disclosed this in a...
The Kano State government has promised to look into “multiple reports” of increase in “mortality rate” in the state. In a statement on his verified Twitter...
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US oil prices plummeted to their lowest points in 22 years on Monday as crude storage facilities filled up swiftly in the face of falling demand...
The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) will meet on April 22 to review the COVID-19 situation and various measures taken by state governments at various stages since...
The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 Monday apologised to Nigerians for the breach of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) guidelines during the burial of...
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said on Monday the state government may start enforcing the use of face masks in public places from next week. Sanwo-Olu...
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said on Monday all the COVID-19 patients who lied about their travel history would be prosecuted. The governor, who disclosed this...
The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, said on Monday the closure of airspace and airports in the country had been extended by two weeks due to...
The Ekiti State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Mojisola Yahaya-Kolade, said Monday 70 out of the 73 contacts of the state’s third COVID-19 case had been traced....
Arsenal players and coaching staff have agreed to take a 12.5% cut in their wages to cushion the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on the club’s...
Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, is getting better in isolation and has not been transferred to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), his chief of staff said...
Russian President, Vladimir Putin, stated Monday that the country was yet to witness her worst days as the peak of the pandemic gradually approaches. In a...
The President of Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) in University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Dr. Adedayo Williams, has tested positive for COVID-19. Williams, who disclosed this...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo has rejected the claim by the state governor, Godwin Obaseki, that his administration had so far expended over N1...
The Nasarawa State Government said on Monday the 24 vehicles purchased for members of the state House of Assembly were ordered before the outbreak of coronavirus...
A patient suspected to be suffering from Covid-19 and being transported to Osun State from Oyo State died on Sunday when police intercepted the vehicle carrying...
The Nigeria bourse recorded its first loss in nearly two weeks on Monday as profit-taking in a number of blue-chip equities caused market capitalisation to dip...
Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, said on Monday the state government would henceforth isolate any residents of the state returning from either Lagos or Kano state....
“Lockdown has immediate ramifications for individuals who live on a hand-to-mouth basis, and for the networks of their dependents. If people cannot eat, they will not...
‘Johnny’ crooner, Yemi Alade has tasked the Lagos State government and the Federal Government of Nigeria led by President Muhammadu Buhari to give account of how...
Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, said on Monday the state‘s coronavirus index case had recovered from the disease after testing negative twice. Akeredolu disclosed this during...
The Edo State Government has discharged its seventh COVID-19 patient on Monday, after he tested negative for the virus. Governor Godwin Obaseki, who made the announcement...
The Borno State government said on Monday it had identified 99 contacts of the state’s index COVID-19 case. The patient, a health worker with Doctors Without...
The Plateau State Government on Monday said it was yet to receive any palliatives for the COVID-19 pandemic from the Federal Government. This was disclosed by...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has insisted that there was no approved vaccine for the treatment of Covid-19 either in Nigeria, or any part of Africa....
Three staff of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) are in some trouble for indecently “flaunting bodies” in the Don’t Rush Challenge video which has been on...
The Federal government has urged Nigerians to disregard information from fraudsters who disguise as palliatives distributors to access personal data such as bank verification number and...
The Oyo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday, called on Governor Seyi Makinde to immediately provide emergency relief packages for victims of...
Doctors Without Borders (MSF), an international humanitarian medical non-governmental organisation of French origin has confirmed the death of one of its aid workers to COVID-19 in...
Members of Oyo State House of Assembly have announced that they would take a 30 per cent cut in their monthly allocation to support the ongoing...
The Kano State Government led by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has started the deportation of Almajiris to their home states to stem the spread of the dreaded...
The International Press Centre (IPC) Lagos has condemned the harassment of a journalist in Ebonyi state and the abduction of another in Kaduna State by unknown...
A coalition of 67 women groups have called for the trial of Bello El-Rufai for allegedly threatening to gang rape a women in a recent tweet...
With so much investment diverted by industry leaders into tech lately, the race to go completely digital has become fiercely intense, with tens of thousands of...
Nigeria and other African countries can overcome the coronavirus crisis by looking “at the lessons learnt from the crisis and heed the urgency for change that...
