The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) said Tuesday a total of 264 doctors had been exposed to COVID-19 situations in the country. In a message of solidarity...
The Ekiti State government Tuesday urged the leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the state to caution pastors against further contravening the COVID-19...
The Nasarawa State government said on Tuesday it had quarantined over 200 people coming from states with a high number of confirmed coronavirus cases. The state...
The Edo State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Patrick Okundia, said Tuesday the state had recorded 29 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and three deaths since the outbreak...
President Muhammed Buhari Tuesday had a telephone conversation with his United States counterpart, Donald Trump. The discussion focused on the COVID-19 pandemic which has several countries...
The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, said on Tuesday members of the Chinese medical team currently in Nigeria to assist in the ongoing efforts to...
The Nigerian Senate after sitting on Tuesday (today) for the first time since over one month, has again adjourned its plenary indefinitely. The adjournment came after...
Governor Ahmadu Finitri of Adamawa State has ordered compulsory wearing of face masks in public as the state records its second case of the dreaded COVID-19...
Cross River State Governor, Professor Ben Ayade, has made another set of controversial comments regarding the fight against COVID-19. The governor, who had earlier dismissed social...
The Delta State Government has declared a partial lifting of the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions in the state, beginning from Thursday, 30th April, 2020. This was disclosed...
There is palpable anxiety in some local governments of Osun State as the government has said that it was awaiting test results of 30 persons who...
The National Assembly has been charged to ensure the immediate passage of the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB) and amendment of the 2020 Appropriation Act. The...
The House of Representatives Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, on Tuesday regretted that many Nigerians in need were yet to get any form of COVID-19 palliative. He therefore,...
The House of Representatives Caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called for urgent practical steps to address the health crisis leading to mysterious deaths...
No fewer than 125 Almajiris evacuated by the Gombe State government have been received in Yobe State and have been placed under isolation to ascertain their...
The Senate on Tuesday gave a speedy approval to a request by President Muhammadu Buhari to borrow N850billion to finance the 2020 budget. President Buhari had...
The Nasarawa State has recorded its first confirmed case of the deadly COVID-19 disease which has fast spread across the country. This was confirmed on Tuesday...
Akwa Ibom State Governor Udom Emmanuel has said that conducting a random test for COVID-19 in the state would amount to absolute waste of resources. “It...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Tuesday said two laboratories with capacity for COVID-19 testing have been activated in Lagos and Ogun states. The...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday asked the Nigerian Senate to approve N850 billion loan for the Federal Government. He said the loan would be used by...
The National Assembly has resumed plenary on Tuesday (today) after its break following the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria. The lawmakers, meanwhile, adhered to the...
Salaries of political appointees in Ekiti State havr been reduced by 50 percent on the order of the state Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi. The governor also...
The Director-General of the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Chikwe Ihekweazu has said that the country now has capacity for about 50,000 COVID-19 tests. Ihekweazu...
The Kaduna State Government on Monday turned back trailers conveying passengers from Kano at the state’s boundary. The state’s Commissioner of Internal Security and Home Affairs,...
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, has denied that the Federal Government distributed rice not fit for human consumption to...
The Federal Capital Territory Administration has recorded fifteen new cases of patients who have tested positive to the COVID-19 disease which has fast spread across the...
The trial of Kenny Martins over alleged fraud in the N7.74 billion Police Equipment Fund may no longer hold on Tuesday (today) as earlier fixed. A...
Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Monday dismissed President Muhammadu Buhari’s address to the nation on COVID-19 address, describing it as empty...
No fewer than 11 mobile courts have been inaugurated by the Kano State Chief Judge, Justice Nura Sagir Umar, to try offenders who defy the COVID-19...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will make your Tuesday morning. 1. COVID-19: Nigerian govt begins payment of upgraded hazard allowances to health workers The...
Former President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan has warned that except there is aggressive testing for COVID-19, efforts by the Nigerian Government and other African nations may fail...
The Akwa Ibom State Government on Monday denied reports that nine of its commissioners had been infected by the dreaded COVID-19 disease. The state government made...
A former Member of the House of Representatives and governorship candidate of the Allied People’s Movement in Ogun State in the 2019 general elections, Adekunle Akinlade,...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called for an immediate system-wide investigation into alleged massive fraud, stealing and looting of funds at the Niger Delta Development...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Monday night confirmed 64 new cases of COVID-19 in the country. With this new figure, Nigeria now has 1,337...
The Federal Government said on Monday it had commenced the payment of upgraded hazard allowances to frontline health workers fighting the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic...
Mohammed Atiku, son of former vice president Atiku Abubakar, has recovered from coronavirus. The ex-vice president’s son, who was discharged on Monday, tested positive for COVID-19...
President Muhammadu Buhari Monday signed the Proclamation Order on the General Management of COVID-19 in Lagos, Ogun, Kano, the Federal Capital Territory and other states in...
The Kano State Government has commenced the contact tracing to the five Almajiri pupils who tested positive for coronavirus in Kaduna State. The Kaduna State Government...
Nigerians who have made a pastime of trying to rubbish the memory of late Mallam Abba Kyari, ex-Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, have been...
The Niger State government has announced the extension of the partial lockdown of the state for another two weeks in a bid to halt the spread...
Taraba State Governor, Darius Ishaku, Monday evening confirmed two more COVID-19 cases in the state. The latest confirmation takes the total number of cases in the...
Former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, in a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, has challenged Governor Umar Ganduje’s claims that the mystery deaths in the State,...
In his address to the nation this evening, President Muhammadu Buhari disclosed that the distribution and expansion of palliatives ordered by him in his earlier broadcast...
Address by H. E. Muhammadu Buhari, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the cumulative lockdown order of Lagos and Ogun states as well as...
President Muhammadu Buhari Monday ordered a total lockdown of Kano State as the country continues it battle against COVID-19. In a nationwide broadcast on the COVID-19...
President Muhammadu Buhari Monday approved the gradual relaxation of the lockdown in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Lagos and Ogun states with effect from May 4....
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Monday announced the discharge of another 15 COVID-19 patients in the state. The Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on New...
Suspected abductors of the Ekiti State Commissioner for Agriculture, Folorunso Olabode, have reportedly demanded a ransom of N30 million for his release. This was revealed by...
The Chairman of DAAR Communications Plc, Raymond Dokpesi Jnr, has tested positive for coronavirus. In a short message to members of DAAR Communications staff in Abuja...
