The Bauchi State Government on Monday announced the discharge of 20 COVID-19 patients from the state isolation centres after fully recovering from the disease. The state...
The Bauchi State Government on Sunday revealed that a medical doctor in the state, who initially refused to receive treatment, infected 10 of his family members...
The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on media and publicity, Femi Adesina has said Nigeria has more capacity to take new loans, contrary to what...
The Sokoto State Government has announced the discharge of 5 COVID-19 patients from IDH Amanawa Isolation Centre after they all fully recovered from the virus. The...
The immediate past Deputy Speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly, Okey Onyekanma, has denied reports that he led the immediate former Governor of the...
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has cautioned against the reopening of mosques amid the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, stating that the move to do so...
A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain and former Lagos state gubernatorial aspirant, Babatunde Gbadamosi, has indirectly hit the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) below the belt...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will make your Monday morning. 1. PTF briefs Buhari on COVID-19, ease of lockdown as Nigerians await president’s next...
President Muhammadu Buhari will on Monday (today) address Nigerians as the first phase of the gradual easing of the COVID-19 lockdown comes to an end. Buhari...
The Enugu State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Emmanuel Ikechukwu, said on Sunday a three-year-old COVID-19 patient had recovered after testing negative for the disease in the...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Sunday night confirmed 338 new COVID-19 cases in the country. The centre said on its Twitter handle that the...
Ahead of this week’s review of the relaxation of the COVID-19 lockdown in Lagos, Ogun and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), the Presidential Task Force on...
Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said on Sunday 15 more COVID-19 patients have been discharged from the state’s isolation centres after they were medically fit to...
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Sunday, expressed satisfaction with the compliance to safety guidelines put in place by the state government to check the spread...
The Lagos State Police Command said on Sunday at least 1,872 people had been arrested in the last two weeks for allegedly violating the government’s movement...
Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong, Sunday confirmed the first COVID-19 death in the state. Lalong, who disclosed this at a media briefing on the pandemic situation...
Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, Sunday pledged to continue working with the Federal Government to check the spread of COVID-19 in the state. The governor, who...
The Chief Medical Director of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Prof. Adetokunbo Fabamwo, said on Sunday the hospital had developed six COVID-19-related research proposals...
The Ondo State government Sunday confirmed another COVID-19 case in the state. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Wahab Adegbenro, who confirmed the development to journalists...
Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, on Sunday, slashed the salary of political office holders in the state by 50 percent due to shortfall in the revenue...
Akwa Ibom Governor, Emmanuel Udom, said Sunday security agents had intercepted 68 suspected COVID-19 patients at a border area in the state. Emmanuel, who disclosed this...
The Medical Guild said Sunday testing of healthcare workers and patients in hospitals should be given utmost priority. In a statement jointly signed by its Chairman...
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Sunday deployed its Special Forces Operatives to Nasarawa to boost internal security in the state and the North-Central part of the...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday assured that action would be taken against bandits in Katsina State. Katsina is one of the states in Nigeria where bandits...
Chief Olabode George, a former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party has kicked against the move by the Federal Government of Nigeria to continue...
The appointment of the Director General of the Budget Office of the Federation, Ben Akabueze has been renewed for another tenure by President Muhammadu Buhari. The...
Ekiti State government has deployed drones and motorized fumigators to fumigate the streets in the state’s 16 local government areas. The development is part of efforts...
The Imo State government has threatened to impose another lockdown in the state after four new cases of COVID-19 infections were recorded by concerned authorities. Governor...
A House of Representatives member, Oluwole Oke, has decried alleged substring parliamentary system of government used in the running of local government areas in Osun State....
An aircraft belonging to a British company has been impounded by the Federal government for operating a commercial flight into the country without approval. This was...
A group, the South South Buhari Anti-corruption Group has called on Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State to declare the National Chairman of the All Progressives...
Thirty-nine Nigerians, who returned from Ghana and other West African countries have been quarantined by the Lagos State Government in Badagry. The returnees, according to reports,...
The Minister of State for Labour and Productivity, Festus Keyamo (SAN) has frowned at those criticising the Madagascan herbal medicine for COVID-19 cure. Madagascar has been...
Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari has ordered that the lockdown imposed on the state to curb the spread the COVID-19 pandemic in the state, be lifted...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to ban the purchase of new cars by the presidency, and all ministers for the...
The Oyo State Government on Saturday said the state had shut down a company in the Ibadan West Local Government area of the state, after 30...
The Lagos State Government on Sunday said that three of the 256 Nigerians evacuated from the United Arab Emirates have tested positive for COVID-19. The state...
Members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State will on June 23 and 24 choose a candidate for the state governorship election scheduled to...
A Nigerian medical doctor, Laoluwa Adejayan, has reportedly been appointed as the head of Sierra Leone COVID-19 Task Force. According to reports emanating from the West...
Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has raised questions about the whereabouts of the Chinese medical team brought to the country to help the Nigerian authorities to...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will make your Sunday morning. 1. Aide explains why Buhari is never seen wearing a face mask An aide...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan in Saturday denied making comments being ascribed to him on the position of the Niger Delta over agitations for a sovereign state...
The governor of Kaduna State Nasir el-Rufai and his wife, Aisha have apologized to residents of the state over the sufferings the COVID-19 lockdown might have...
An aide to President Muhammadu Buhari, Lauretta Onochie has explained why the President often appears without a face mask. One of the directives of the Nigeria...
Niger State government on Saturday announced that the state had recorded its first death from the covid-19 pandemic. It said the deceased was a 40-year-old diabetic...
The number of Nigerians who have contracted the COVID-19 pandemic continued on the rise on Saturday with the country recording 176 new cases. The Nigeria Centre...
The Chairman of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly Committee on Information, Alhaji Mohammed Omadefu, said on Saturday all the members of the House had tested...
The Lagos State government said on Saturday a 33-year-old pregnant COVID-19 patient was delivered of a baby boy at the Gbagada Isolation Centre in the state....
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kaduna State has suspended Senator Suleiman Uthman Hunkuyi and six other party stalwarts in the state for alleged anti-party activities....
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Saturday gave the Federal Government a 48-hour ultimatum to declare the whereabouts of the Chinese medical team brought to the country...