The headquarters of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has been gutted by fire. This is coming exactly one week...
Nigerians with more than N5,000 in their bank accounts will not be included among the beneficiaries of the Federal Government’s palliatives intended to mitigate the effects...
Hundreds of protesters on Tuesday evening took to the streets of Mumbai, India to protest the nationwide lockdown extension announced by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi,...
The profile of Damini Ogulu popularly known as Burna Boy has just been boosted a notch higher after his album African Giant, recently became the most...
The Federal Government of Nigeria has declared its inability to cater for over 2000 Nigerians in diaspora who have indicated their interest to return home following...
It has been alleged that a huge number of staff of University of Calabar were not paid their salaries for March 2020 due to issues with...
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday told vigilante groups in areas that have recorded violence and robberies as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown,...
The Federal Government on Tuesday denied claims by a positive COVID-19 disease case, Susan Okpe that she was being wrongly detained by government. It would be...
These 5 latest stories from the tech space will keep you updated with trends today. 1. Healthtech startup Ingress raises R6m for facility business. Ingress Healthcare...
Wearing of face masks by members of the public without has been recommended by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). The NCDC said wearing of...
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) administration on Wednesday announced the discharge of nine COVID-19 disease patients who had recovered from the disease. This was announced on...
The Lagos State Commissioner of Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, on Wednesday confirmed that the state had lost a 7th patient due to COVID-19 pandemic. He said...
The Kaduna State Government on Wednesday announced that one of the six confirmed cases of the dreaded COVID-19 disease has been discharged from its Infectious Disease...
A report by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has indicated that Nigeria’s security agencies have killed 18 Nigerians over measures to protect them from COVID-19...
The Kano State government on Tuesday said five new cases of the deadly Covid-19 had been recorded in the state, bringing the total in the state...
Since the beginning of this year, the world attention is on Corona Virus Disease 2019 otherwise known as COVID-19. What is said to have originated in...
The Chairman of the defunct Sosoliso Airlines Limited , Victor Ikwuemesi has died of Covid-19 on Tuesday in London, United Kingdom. The deceased whose result came...
Abia State Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has ordered compulsory wearing of face masks by Abia residents and visitors. The order which takes effect from Wednesday (today), according...
Wife of the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, Betsy has warned that hunger and not the novel coronavirus would kill many Nigerians if care was not...
Osun State Governor, Gboyega Oyetola, has extended the coronavirus lockdown in the state for another two weeks after the end of the first two weeks to...
Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has attacked President Muhammadu Buhari’s minister for saying that claims of China’s maltreatment of Nigerians in their country was half-truths. He...
Global airline passenger revenues will contract by $314 billion in 2020, a 55% plunge relative to the 2019 figure. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said Tuesday in...
President Muhammadu Buhari, in the past week, approved the employment of 774,000 Nigerians into the Special Public Works programme, supposedly, as part of a stimulus package to ameliorate the effect...
The President of the United States of America, Donald Trump has kept to his promise of cutting funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) over its...
The senator representing Borno South at the Senate, Ali Ndume has accused the Presidential Committee on the distribution of COVID-19 palliatives of corruption. Ndume, who is...
Applications numbering over 80,000 have been received by the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) from individuals and businesses for the central bank’s...
The Lagos State government has introduced a new scheme as part of measures to cushion the effect of the COVID-19 lockdown extension in the state. This...
A surplus of Nigerian crude weighed on the international oil market on Tuesday with lower demand from China than in the past couple of weeks. Nigeria...
The Niger State Police Command is now on the hunt for a councillor in Katcha Local Government Area of Niger State who allegedly absconded with 30...
The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire on Tuesday said the Federal Government plans to establish treatment centres close to the nation’s legal border entry points...
The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has alleged that face masks imported from China, to prevent COVID-19, were contaminated. He therefore...
The Adamawa State government led by Governor Ahmadu Fintiri has relaxed the COVID-19 order earlier imposed on the state about two weeks ago to check the...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has introduced a number of measures and strategies targeted at building a more resilient and more self-reliant national economy in...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will make your Wednesday morning. 1. NCDC confirms 11 fresh cases of COVID-19 in Lagos as Nigeria’s figure rises...
The Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chike Ihekweazu, on Tuesday said the major challenge the nation is facing at the...
Whenever man is confronted with a terrifying aspect of the world in which he lives, his natural instinct is to seek to understand the new phenomenon...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged the Federal Government of Nigeria led by President Muhammadu Buhari to address the issue of palliatives as the COVID-19...
The house to house search for potential COVID-19 patients by the Lagos State Government may have started yielding results, as 119 people have been discovered to...
Exactly one hour after the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced the discovery of 19 cases of coronavirus in some parts of the country, the...
Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, on Tuesday, declared that the state would be on total lockdown for the next 14 days. The governor, who made the...
Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, on Tuesday, granted pardon to 72 inmates of the Kaduna and Kafanchan Correctional Centres as part of government’s efforts at checking...
The Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Muhammad Babandede, has recovered from the coronavirus. The Service Public Relations Officer, Sunday James, disclosed this in a...
At least 25 persons were killed and several others injured in a bloody clash between Shomo and Jole ethnic groups in Lau local government area of...
Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, Tuesday ordered the total lockdown of the state following the rising cases of coronavirus among the people. Ganduje, who disclosed this...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Tuesday night confirmed 19 new cases of coronavirus in the country. The centre said on its Twitter handle that...
The United Nations on Tuesday evening delivered ventilators and other medical supplies to Nigeria. The medical supplies were received by the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika,...
Kano State Ministry of Health Tuesday confirmed an additional case of coronavirus in the state. The ministry, who stated this on its Twitter handle @KNSMOH, dismissed...
The Defence Headquarters Tuesday dismissed reports of the alleged killing of civilians during airstrikes by Air Task Force component of Operation Lafiya Dole at Shokotoko Village...
President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday met with the leadership of the National Assembly (NASS) at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting was attended by the Senate President,...
The Nigerian Ambassador to Switzerland, Baba Madugu, said on Tuesday two Nigerians temporarily living in the Alpine nation had declared their desire to be evacuated to...