The Adamawa State Government on Thursday said it has started tracing 84 contacts of the state’s COVID-19 index case, a journalist, Kabir Awal. This is just...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the United States has quit its inquiry into the acquisition of an offshore oil asset in Nigeria in 2011...
There is a growing apprehension within medical circles over the number of critical equipment and professionals that may be needed in handling the growing cases of...
He told us he would be back at his desk soon. I believed it. But now, it would never happen. Not tomorrow, not next week, not...
The Nigerian government has said it was ‘extremely disappointed’ over the alleged inhuman treatment of Nigerians and other Africans in China. It has therefore declared the...
The Bayelsa State House of Assembly Thursday passed the 2020 budget estimate of N242.2billion. The appropriation bill christened “Budget of Consolidation for Prosperity,” which was presented...
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, has declared Friday as the first day of the Ramadan fast in Nigeria. Abubakar announced the sighting of...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Thursday confirmed 108 fresh cases of coronavirus in the country. Thursday night’ figure has pushed up the total number...
A Kenyan man, George Mambezi, who has been in the global spotlight for beating up his son who failed to sit for Mathematics and English examinations...
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Muhammad Musa Bello, on Thursday, vowed to invoke all relevant laws to force wealthy Nigerians who have tested positive...
Following the tragic passing of the former Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Abba Kyari, last weekend, tributes had been coming in torrents from power...
The Imo State government said on Thursday the state’s former governor, Emeka Ihedioha, would be asked to explain how he spent the N20 billion allocated to...
The Director-General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, said on Thursday the United States’ halting of funding for the World Health Organisation...
The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, said Thursday Nigeria would not rule out a homegrown vaccine for the prevention and cure of COVID-19. Ehanire, who...
Five inmates of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Enugu custodial centre have bagged degrees in various fields of study after successfully completing their first degree studies at...
The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, said Thursday countries had different approaches to testing for COVID-19. There have been...
The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, said on Thursday over 40 health workers had contracted COVID-19 in the country. Ehanire, who disclosed this during the...
Profit-taking especially in blue chip equities led investors to dump large volumes of shares for sale Thursday as the market shed N161.302 billion. A negative market...
The National Coordinator of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Dr. Sani Aliyu, said on Thursday the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the World...
A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, on Thursday, charged the Federal Government to relax the lockdown it imposed...
The Akwa Ibom State government on Thursday extended the lockdown imposed on the state till April 27 as part of measures to halt the spread of...
A zoo in the United States said on Thursday four more tigers and three lions have tested positive for COVID-19 after the first case of a...
In a bid to fight against the spread of COVID-19, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Independent Petroleum Producers Group (IPPG) have donated six...
West African leaders Thursday tapped President Muhammadu Buhari to lead the battle against the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in the sub-region. The Special Adviser to...
The Medical Guild said on Thursday three of its members at Alimosho General Hospital and Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja, had tested positive for...
Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, Thursday extended the lockdown imposed on the state by another 14 days to check the spread of coronavirus. The governor announced...
Nigeria’s oldest and biggest brewer, Nigerian Breweries Plc Thursday reported a 30.93% fall in its earnings for First Quarter 2020, compared to the corresponding period of 2019. The...
Nollywood actor, Yul Edochie has revealed the brutal reaction meted out to him by his father, Pete Edochie after he told him while he was in...
The Kogi State Police Command Thursday confirmed the arrest of three suspected kidnappers in the Okene area of the state. The command spokesman, DSP William Aya,...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo Thursday presided over the meeting of the Economic Sustainability Committee (ESC) put together by President Muhammadu Buhari to address the economic fallout...
The Federal Government of Nigeria has set up a probe committee to investigate the fire outbreak at Ngala Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in Borno State....
A compound in Bulawa, on the fringes of the Sambisa Forest, Borno State believed to be housing leaders of the terrorist group, Boko Haram, has been...
The Federal Government said on Thursday that it was planning to evacuate Nigerian students who were stranded in Khartoum, Sudan due to the global COVID-19 pandemic....
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No fewer than 419 Almajiris evacuated by Kano State government to their state of origins as part of measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 have...
The Federal Government of Nigeria said it had concluded plans to disburse the sum of N446.5 million to 22,380 less-privileged households in Kaduna State, under its...
The formation of an Israeli coalition government led by Netanyahu and Gantz, the leaders of Likud and Kahol Lavan respectively, will finally put an end to...
Nigeria is an impoverished country. In fact, the country has never been rich – in the economic sense of the word. The assumptions of wealth have...
Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, has directed the use of face masks would become mandatory from Friday, the 24th of April in the state. According to...
Deji Adeyanju, the convener of a pro-democracy group, Concerned Nigerians, has said there was currently a “leadership vacuum” in Nigeria. He said President Muhammadu Buhari was...
In reaction to the widespread idea by conspiracy theorists of a connection between the novel coronavirus and 5G networks, Twitter has warned that it would delete...
A Lebanese, Wael Jerro, who offered to sell a Nigerian, Peace Busari, an Oyo State indigene for $1000 on Facebook has been arrested, NIDCOM chairman disclosed...
The Defence Headquarters said on Thursday that troops had raided a suspected militia camp at Anku Mbagen in Atera-Jange Torov Council Ward of Ukum local government...
Lagos State Commissioner of Health, Professor Akin Abayomi has confirmed that the state has lost two more patients to Covid-19. Abayomi made the confirmation in a...
No less than 73 inmates have been set free by the Chief Judge of Delta State, Justice Marshal Umukoro. The inmates were released from Ogwashi-Uku and...
The father of a former governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff, has died in a fire incident, Thursday, officials confirmed. The deceased Modu Sheriff the...
More than 2.6 million people have been infected with covid-19 worldwide with a larger chunk of casualties still stemming from the United States according to the...
Police authorities in Zambia have summoned a man in a viral video for giving his son multiple slaps after the boy, failed to sit for his...
A coronavirus infected patient at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo State has died. Governor Seyi Makinde made this announcement in a series of tweets on...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned against relaxing containment measures because the novel coronavirus which has claimed many lives across the globe will be with...