The Anambra State House of Assembly Friday passed a bill to enforce measures initiated to prevent the spread of coronavirus and other dangerous infectious diseases in...
The Presidency has attacked Senator Ali Ndume for claiming that the Committee on COVID-19 palliatives was corrupt. The senator from Borno State had accused the committee...
The Federal Government of Nigeria has admitted that it does not have enough isolation centres in the country to accommodate nationals in diaspora who are willing...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Friday said males form the bulk of the 6,649 people that have so far been tested for the...
The Sokoto State government has increased hazard allowance for health workers in the state by 100 per cent for the months of April and May. It...
Nollywood actress, Toyin Abraham has denied suggestions on social media that she has replaced fellow actress Funke Akindele as the brand ambassador of Nigeria Centre for...
These 5 latest stories from the tech space will keep you updated with trends today. 1. Norway launches app to track coronavirus Working on lifting lockdown...
A 15-year old girl, name withheld, has narrated how her father, Chinonso Okonkwo, 44, had been defiling her since she was 13. She also said that...
The corpse of a single mother, simply identified as Yetunde, was on Tuesday recovered by the roadside by police in Idi Isin, Ikirun area of Osun...
A medical doctor has been confirmed dead in Akwa Ibom State after showing symptoms of the coronavirus. In a statement on Thursday, the chairman of the...
The headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), was on Friday gutted by fire. The fire, which started by 11am in the morning, affected a...
The arrest of suspects involved in a face-mask fraud scheme linked to Nigeria has been announced by the International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL). The organisation in...
Lagos lawyer, Femi Falana has told the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) that contrary to its position, 21 Nigerians were killed and not 18 during the...
Two of the 210 people who had contact with confirmed COVID-19 cases in Ogun State have tested positive, the state government said on Thursday. This was...
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), an Islamic human rights organisation, on Friday demanded that the Federal government be more transparent in the process leading to the...
French President, Emmanuel Macron has on Friday, criticized China’s transparency on coronavirus. He said this in an interview from the Elysée Palace with the Financial Times...
The Niger State government has lifted the ban on religious gatherings to allow for this Friday’s (today) Juma’at prayer. In a statement released on Friday by...
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has expressed sadness over the fire outbreak at an Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Borno State. The fire incident which...
The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Thursday raised an alarm that persons confirmed to have tested positive for the dreaded virus are crossing state boundaries...
A former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has decried the reported killings of Nigerians over COVID-19 lockdown by security forces. He lamented that more citizens had...
A taxi driver, Emmanuel Imhoudu has been sentenced to six months in jail by an Abuja magistrate court for flouting the lockdown order by President Muhammadu...
A report by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has warned that over 300,000 Africans risk losing their lives to COVID-19. The report said that would...
Concerned authorities in Tunisia have moved to arrest two men, including a suspected jihadist, over an alleged plot to infect members of the security forces in...
Figures provided by the John Hopkins University have revealed that the death toll arising from COVID-19 infections in the United States of America has jumped by...
The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has said there will not be a rebound in the global demand for crude until the second half of...
The Gombe State government led by Governor Inuwa Yahaya has inaugurated two new treatment and isolation centres in the state to combat the spread of the...
The Sweden football association has handed former Super Eagles midfielder Dickson Etuhu a five-year ban from all football activities in the country following his involvement in...
The Lagos-Ibadan rail project is just 10% away from full completion, the Nigerian government has said. Sabiu Zakari, the outgoing Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry...
Power generation companies (Gencos) have claimed they are not aware of any N200 billion paid to the power industry by the Nigerian government in the past...
The Kano State government led by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has explained that there was no new confirmed case of COVID-19 infection in the state on Thursday...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will make your Friday morning. 1. Nigeria’s total hits 442 as 35 new cases of COVID-19 announced The Nigeria...
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai has told troops of the Nigerian Army that there is no room for the chicken-hearted in...
The value of transactions executed online by bank customers rose to N11.44 trillion in March 2020, the latest statistics from the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS)...
No less than 14 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) were on Thursday reportedly killed following a fire outbreak at a camp in Ngala Local Government Area of...
The Federal Government on Thursday warned that private hospitals treating COVID-19 patients in the country would be shut down. The Minister of Finance, Osagie Ehanire made...
The Nigeria Police Force on Thursday, in Abuja said it had arrested four suspects in connection with the murder of Mrs Funke Olakunrin, daughter of the...
The House of Representatives and stakeholders in the power sector on Thursday agreed to set up a joint implementation committee on the proposed two-month free power...
Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel, Thursday extended the restriction of movement imposed on the state following the outbreak of COVID-19 in the county by one...
The second COVID-19 patient in Enugu State has been discharged after he recovered fully from the disease. The patient was discharged from the state isolation facility...
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) Thursday rejected claims the Federal Government was providing free electricity to Nigerians to cushion the effect of the COVID-19 lockdown...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Thursday night confirmed 35 new cases of coronavirus in the country. The centre said on its Twitter handle the...
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said on Thursday that northern Nigeria remained a high-risk region for the spread of COVID-19 due to its weak primary...
The Nigerian Correctional Service on Thursday dismissed reports that Maryam Sanda, the woman who was sentenced to death for killing her husband, had been granted presidential...
The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has faulted the forecast by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) would contract by 3.4% in...
Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, said on Thursday the state government would provide palliatives to cushion the effect of the COVID-19-induced lockdown on the people of...
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, on Thursday, charged Nigerian tailors to start mass production of face masks with local fabrics. Mustapha,...
The Osun State Government Thursday restated its warning that private hospitals in the state should steer clear of suspected or confirmed coronavirus patients in the state....
Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) said on Thursday its workforce, both expatriate and indigenous, were free of the coronavirus. The company said in a statement issued by...
Bargain-hunting in bellwether stocks continued Thursday, causing the Nigerian bourse to record its third gain in a row this week. All the key market indicators ended...
The Delta State Police Command said on Thursday at least 18 suspected miscreants have been arrested in connection with Wednesday’s protest against the state government’s decision...
