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...
A fire outbreak on Monday at the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) filling station in the Ifako-Ijaiye area of Lagos destroyed 30 vehicles, the state emergency...
These 5 latest stories from the tech space will keep you updated with trends today. 1. Nigeria’s Stears raises $600,000 from investors Nigerian financial and data...
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 Rivers State Police Command has confirmed the dismissal of Sergeant Bitrus Osaiah, who shot his colleague, Lavender Elekwachi, dead, inside a market at Eneka in...
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...
Authorities of the Scandinavian Airline (SAS) have revealed plans to lay off close to 5,000 full-time employees due to the limited demand for air travels as...
The Bank of Industry (BOI) has offered a three-month moratorium for all the loans it granted to borrowers to enable them deal with the impact of...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that the COVID-19 pandemic was far from over. WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus gave the warning in a statement...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said it will resume cheque clearing effective from Tuesday. “In view of this, the Bank hereby lifts the temporary...
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 President of the United States of America, Donald Trump has declared that China has a lot of questions to answer for not stopping the spread...
An assessment report by United States Africa Command has confirmed that an airstrike by the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) military operations in the Horn of...
The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva on Monday said she expected the Fund to have granted Nigeria with considerable emergency financing...
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...
Oil prices continued their free fall Tuesday morning as the world grappled with dwindling storage capacity and the fear that demand for fuel might recover slowly...
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...
The Petroleum Products Price Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) has said Nigerians should be ready to pay high or low prices for petrol considering the price liberalisation scheme...
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...
The global economy is in a tailspin. IMF and the World Bank have both predicted a contraction of the global economy with developing economies likely to...
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,...
Ondo and Ekiti state governments Monday debunked the rumour making the rounds that they returned over 1000 bags of rice donated to the states by the...
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...
A woman, Fatima Sani, has been arrested by police in Niger State for allegedly stabbing her mother-in-law to death. The state Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Adamu...
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...
The Senate will resume plenary on Tuesday, the clerk of the upper legislative chamber said on Monday. Nelson Ayewoh, who disclosed this in a statement in...
Taraba State Governor, Darius Ishaku, on Monday, confirmed six index cases of COVID-19 in the state. The governor, in a state-wide broadcast from the Government House,...