The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) said Sunday the May/June 2020 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) 2020 had not been cancelled. The Head of...
The management of the University of Lagos Sunday announced the temporary closure of its Medical Centre after the facility was exposed to a COVID-19 patient. A...
The Lagos State government Sunday confirmed the discharge of six COVID-19 patients from the state’s treatment centres after they recovered fully from the disease. The state...
Osun State Governor, Gboyega Oyetola, Sunday confirmed two coronavirus-related deaths in the state. The governor, who disclosed this at a press briefing at the Government House...
The Borno State Government said on Sunday it had quarantined 70 travellers for defying the lockdown in the state. The state’s deputy governor, Alhaji Umar Kadafur...
Farmers under the auspices of Concerned Members of All Farmers Association of Nigeria (CMAFAN) Sunday wrote an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari and accused the...
The Lagos State Police Command said on Sunday at least 620 people have been arrested for violating the government’s stay-at-home directive. The Command spokesman, Bala Elkana,...
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), Sunday asked the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, to publish the full report of a medical team put together...
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested seven interstate commercial buses with its 95 passengers, and 39 strippers who violated the lockdown and social distancing directives...
The suspected COVID-19 patient who fled from the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, Ondo, has returned to the hospital. The Chief Medical Director of the...
Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, Sunday confirmed nine new cases of COVID-19 in the state. Masari disclosed this while briefing journalists in Katsina. He said: “We...
The Nigerian Court of Appeal has set up special panels with mandates to preside over time-bound matters during the period of the COVID-19 lockdown. In a...
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) said on Sunday it had received 13 Nigerians that arrived from Lome, Togo, at Seme-Krake joint border post. The spokesman of...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded for an immediate investigation into the alleged mass deaths in Kano State. The Kano State government admitted that about...
Tragedy struck around Kara, Ayetoro area on the Lagos – Ibadan expressway when an accident involving two trucks claimed the life of one person and injured...
The strides that our country has made in the fight to end malaria could understandably be overlooked against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. Perhaps more...
Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, the Senate Minority Leader, representing Abia South has warned the Federal Government led by President Muhammadu Buhari not to extend the ongoing COVID-19...
Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi on Sunday said he cannot order a total lockdown of the state due to covid-19 pandemic because of its economic peculiarities...
Police have arrested suspected killers of Nnadi Michael, a seminarian of the Catholic Good Shepherd Major Seminary at Gonin Gora, Kakau in Chikun Local Government Area...
Three persons, including one of the suspected killers of Funke Olakunrin, daughter of Pa Rueben Fasoranti, have tested positive for Covid-19 in Ondo State. The state...
The Zamfara State government led by Governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle has confirmed two new cases of COVID-19 in the state. Governor Matawalle in a series of...
Officials of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Saturday took sample from the National Leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned against countries issuing “immunity passports” as there is ‘no evidence’ that recovered coronavirus patients are protected from reinfection. WHO...
The main opposition party in Burundi, the National Congress for Liberty (CNL), has decried a crackdown against its members by President Pierre Nkurunziza’s government. Party spokesman,...
And it came to pass that on the 22nd day of the fourth month in the year 2020 in the midst of Covid-19 pandemic, Governor Dave...
Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, has responded to the spread of the COVID-19 disease to the state by imposing a dusk to dawn curfew in the...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urges Nigerian governors to urgently provide information on spending details on COVID-19 in their state, and to immediately redirect...
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The two policemen caught on camera flogging a lady, Alimat Azzez, in Iwo, Osun State for allegedly flouting the COVID-19 lockdown order in the state, have...
The Oyo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned the state Governor, Seyi Makinde, against playing politics with the COVID-19 pandemic in the...
A former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has slammed the Nigerian government for allegedly sending rotten rice, as Covid-19 palliatives, to South West states. The former...
The four family members of Katsina State COVID-19 index case, Dr. Aliyu Yakubu, who died as a result of the disease, have been discharged after testing...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will make your Sunday morning, April 26, 2020 1. Anambra govt relaxes COVID-19 lockdown, orders reopening of churches, markets...
The Lagos State Government on Saturday announced that six COVID-19 patients have been discharged from the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) Isolation Centre, Idi-Araba, after recovery...
The Lagos State government has lamented the congestion of mortuaries in the state due to the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown imposed to check the spread of the...
The Minister of Power, Alhahi Saleh Mamman has explained why it would not be possible for the Federal Government to give free electricity to Nigerians for...
The death of Abba Kyari, the former Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, has elicited a great deal of controversy, but the posterity demands that...
The Chairman of Amuwo Odofin local government area of Lagos, Mr. Valentine Buraimoh, on Saturday dismissed reports on the alleged widespread cases of COVID-19 in the...
John Hopkins University said on Saturday the global coronavirus death toll had now reached 200,000 with 2.8million confirmed infections. The university released the latest figures just...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Saturday night confirmed 87 new cases of COVID-19 in the country. The latest figure has increased the number of...
Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has approved the appointment of Osaze Ethan Uzamere as his Chief of Staff. The Secretary to the State Government, Osarodion Ogie,...
Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, Saturday evening confirmed four new COVID-19 cases in the state. The governor, who disclosed this in a statement, said the four...
Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, Saturday relaxed the COVID-19 lockdown in the state. However, the governor said the state’s borders would remain closed and asked religious...
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The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has postponed the entrance examination into Air Force Comprehensive Secondary Schools and Air Force Secondary Schools until further notice. The NAF...
The Deputy Coordinator of Kano State COVID-19 Response Team, Dr. Sabitu Shuaibu, Saturday dismissed reports that the state recorded 640 deaths in two days. Kano, the...
Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, on Saturday, ordered the state secretariat to reopen for workers from level 13 upward to resume work on Monday. Makinde, who...
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Saturday, said the compulsory use of face masks by residents takes effect from Monday as part of measures to check...
The Akwa Ibom State Police Command Friday confirmed the arrest of a bricklayer, Godwin Jeremiah, for allegedly raping his 13-year-old daughter, Miss Emem Godwin Jeremiah. Jeremiah...
Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, Saturday confirmed 74 new cases of coronavirus in the state. Ganduje, who disclosed this at a press briefing in Kano, said...