The move by the Federal Government of Nigeria to use foreign airlines to evacuate Nigerians stranded across the globe due to the COVID-19 pandemic has been...
Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has described the leader of Ohanaeze Youth Council Worldwide, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, as an impostor and disowned his group. Isiguzoro and his group had...
A chartered plane conveying Nigerian returnees from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has reportedly made a u-turn as a pregnant woman went into labour. The incident...
The Police Command in Lagos State has said that it dragged 325 persons to court for alleged violation of COVID-19 directives on Tuesday, May 5. In...
Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has revealed why his administration designated the Enugu Medical Diagnostic Centre as a COVID-19 isolation centre. The governor, who gave the explanation on...
The evacuation date of scores of Nigerians stranded in the United States of America which was earlier scheduled to take place on Sunday, has now been...
Urgent practical strategic measures to ensure courts continue to function despite the COVID-19 lockdown has been recommended by a 10-man committee set up by the Chief...
The Governor of Katsina State, Aminu Bello Masari has promised hell to unrepentant bandits amid the fight against the spread of COVID-19 in the state which...
Another set of Britons, no less than 304 of them were on Tuesday evacuated from Nigeria through the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos, by...
Dr Abukakar Nagona, the Chairman of Association of Resident Doctors at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) has revealed that no fewer than 10 doctors have...
Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU), has threatened to withdraw service of health works in Kogi over alleged lack of COVID-19 testing in hospitals in the state....
Flogging Governor Ganduje President Muhammadu Buhari is certainly a man under pressure but the demands of the office are not such that he can abandon except...
The Oyo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has denied that the state Governor, Seyi Makinde is at war with the Federal Government, or...
The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL) has decried the inability of government to use tranches of Abacha loot previously returned to the country to...
Four of the travellers from Sokoto State, who were intercepted by the Oyo State Police have tested positive to COVID-19. No less than 11 travellers from...
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday approved its committee recommendation that the nation’s police force should be decentralised. The lawmakers also approved community policing as a way...
The Federal Government on Tuesday said it will build at least one state of the art intensive care units, isolation/treatment centres in the 36 states of...
The Federal Capital Territory Administration has confirmed 10 new cases of COVID-19 infection in Abuja bringing the total number of cases of the dreaded disease in...
No less than 32 health workers have tested positive to the covid-19 pandemic in Kano State. The state Ministry of Health, in a post on its...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will make your Wednesday morning, May 6, 2020 1. 148 new COVID-19 cases in Nigeria as total climbs to...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said Tuesday the internally displaced children in Nigeria were among the most vulnerable groups to the impact of the COVID-19...
Nigeria’s COVID-19 figure inched closer to the 3,000 mark on Tuesday night after the country’s centre for disease control confirmed 148 fresh infections in several parts...
Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has granted pardon to 93 inmates serving various jail terms in correctional centres across the state as part of measures to...
Lagos State Police Command said Tuesday at least 179 persons were arrested across the state for flouting directives on the relaxation of COVID-19 lockdown in the...
President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday described the late former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua as a patriot with a passion for the masses. In a statement marking the...
The Lagos State Commissioner for Agriculture, Gbolahan Lawal, said Tuesday the state government had reached 440,000 households across the state with its COVID-19 Emergency Food Response...
Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, said on Tuesday the state government had traced 74 contacts directly linked with the late member of the state House of...
The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, said Tuesday a broad-spectrum anti-retroviral medication, Remdesivir, is being used to treat COVID-19 patients in the country. Remdesivir is...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, said on Tuesday the Control of Infectious Diseases Bill would undergo public hearing. The Speaker stated this...
Nigerians would never forget the achievements of late former President Umaru Yar’Adua’s short-lived administration, ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said. In a tribute issued on Tuesday...
Alhaji Kabiru Muhammed Inuwa Tuesday emerged the new Emir of Rano Emirate Council in Kano. Inuwa, who was the District Head of Kibiya, succeeds Alhaji Tafida...
Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said Tuesday an additional 60 COVID-19 patients had been discharged from the state’s isolation centres. The governor, who disclosed this via...
The American University of Nigeria (AUN), Yola, Adamawa, has sacked about 400 of its staff. The Vice President for University Relations, AUN, Prof. Abba Tahir, disclosed...
The Lagos State government Tuesday confirmed the death of another one COVID-19 patient in the state. The state Ministry of Health, which disclosed this on its...
The Presidency said Tuesday the $311 million recovered from the family of the late former Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, had been allocated to the...
The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) said on Tuesday it had impounded over 100 vehicles that violated the state government’s social distancing directive. The General...
The Chairman of Kano State chapter of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Dr. Sunusi Muhammad Bala, said Tuesday one of its members had died from COVID-19....
The Jigawa State government said on Tuesday 32 out of the 57 samples taken from contacts of infected persons in five local government areas of the...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan, on Tuesday described late Umar Musa Yar’Adua as a President like no other in Nigeria. He stated this in his tribute to...
Reports from Gombe State suggests that covid-19 patients have embarked on a protest outside the state’s isolation centre in Kwadon. Although details are yet to be...
A National Health Emergency Bill on Tuesday passed first reading at the Nigerian Senate. The bill, which is a quarantine law, is similar to the Infectious...
The Enugu State Government on Tuesday said it has arrested a COVID-19 patient, who escaped from an isolation and treatment centre in Delta State. According to...
Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State has ordered the palace of the Emir of Daura to be shut over concerns occasioned by the spread of the...
A driver with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has tested positive for the COVID-19 disease in Nasarawa, the state Governor, Abdullahi Sule said on...
The Benue State government has recorded its second case of the novel COVID-19 disease six weeks after its index case was confirmed by the Nigeria Centre...
The Kano State Government on Tuesday announced the discharge of three patients being treated for the dreaded COVID-19 disease in the state. The patients were said...
The Senate has urged the Federal Government of Nigeria led by President Muhammadu Buhari to suspend the planned deployment of the Fifth Generation Network across the...
The Nigerian House of Representatives on Tuesday succumbed to public outcry and accepted to subject the Infectious Diseases Bill to public hearing. The House also denied...
While the nation, and the world at large, are taking steps, and doing everything possible to end the covid-19 pandemic, the Enugu State government is at...
For several months, beginning August, 2019, Ripples Nigeria took on the task of ranking Nigerian governors based, among others, on policy initiatives and execution. In March,...
