A patient suspected to be suffering from Covid-19 and being transported to Osun State from Oyo State died on Sunday when police intercepted the vehicle carrying...
The Nigeria bourse recorded its first loss in nearly two weeks on Monday as profit-taking in a number of blue-chip equities caused market capitalisation to dip...
Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, said on Monday the state government would henceforth isolate any residents of the state returning from either Lagos or Kano state....
“Lockdown has immediate ramifications for individuals who live on a hand-to-mouth basis, and for the networks of their dependents. If people cannot eat, they will not...
‘Johnny’ crooner, Yemi Alade has tasked the Lagos State government and the Federal Government of Nigeria led by President Muhammadu Buhari to give account of how...
Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, said on Monday the state‘s coronavirus index case had recovered from the disease after testing negative twice. Akeredolu disclosed this during...
The Edo State Government has discharged its seventh COVID-19 patient on Monday, after he tested negative for the virus. Governor Godwin Obaseki, who made the announcement...
The Borno State government said on Monday it had identified 99 contacts of the state’s index COVID-19 case. The patient, a health worker with Doctors Without...
The Plateau State Government on Monday said it was yet to receive any palliatives for the COVID-19 pandemic from the Federal Government. This was disclosed by...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has insisted that there was no approved vaccine for the treatment of Covid-19 either in Nigeria, or any part of Africa....
Three staff of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) are in some trouble for indecently “flaunting bodies” in the Don’t Rush Challenge video which has been on...
The Federal government has urged Nigerians to disregard information from fraudsters who disguise as palliatives distributors to access personal data such as bank verification number and...
The Oyo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday, called on Governor Seyi Makinde to immediately provide emergency relief packages for victims of...
Doctors Without Borders (MSF), an international humanitarian medical non-governmental organisation of French origin has confirmed the death of one of its aid workers to COVID-19 in...
Members of Oyo State House of Assembly have announced that they would take a 30 per cent cut in their monthly allocation to support the ongoing...
The Kano State Government led by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has started the deportation of Almajiris to their home states to stem the spread of the dreaded...
The International Press Centre (IPC) Lagos has condemned the harassment of a journalist in Ebonyi state and the abduction of another in Kaduna State by unknown...
A coalition of 67 women groups have called for the trial of Bello El-Rufai for allegedly threatening to gang rape a women in a recent tweet...
Nigeria and other African countries can overcome the coronavirus crisis by looking “at the lessons learnt from the crisis and heed the urgency for change that...
Muazu Mogaji, the former Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure in Kano State who was sacked on Saturday by Governor Abdulahi Ganduje for making ‘Unguarded utterances’ over...
A former publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Mr. Chris Finebone, has demanded more explanation from Governor Nyesom Wike on why...
Chinese billionaire, Jack Ma on Monday announced the donation of a second batch of medical equipment supplies to the continent of Africa to help curb the...
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Geng Shuang has responded to criticisms fired by America over their transparency about the virus stating that attacking China “wouldn’t win back...
I try to be very factual in my submissions to public discourse. It is now a known fact that we all can be very emotive in...
Ghanaian president, Nana Akufo-Addo, has announced Sunday night, the lifting of the three weeks lockdown imposed on parts of the country on March 30, to curb...
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has confirmed seven new cases of COVID-19 infections. This was revealed on Monday in a post shared on the official...
‘’History is not without examples of entire nation or civilisation having perished, because they know not and seized not the critical moment for the solution of...
Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has given reasons why many Nigerians referred to Abba Kyari, the late Chief of Staff (CoS) to the President as a...
The Lagos State government has discharged four more Covid-19 patients, bringing the total of persons treated and discharged in the state to 98. This was announced...
The Nigerian bourse recorded gains in all its sessions last week, making it one of the best weekly performances so far this year. We have selected...
The Nigerian Army has said that its Operation Lafiya Dole troops killed 105 Boko Haram members at the outskirts of Buni Gari village in Yobe State....
Health authorities in 211 countries and territories worldwide have reported more than 2.4 million coronavirus cases and 165,257 deaths since the pandemic broke out in December....
Protests have erupted in some state’s in the United States of America over a persisting “stay at home” order issued by government to stem the spread...
A tragic scene played out in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia on Sunday when a gunman disguised as a police officer went on a shooting...
A Lagos based lawyer and human rights activist, Femi Falana (SAN), has called for a probe into the death of Abba Kyari, President Muhammadu Buhari’s former...
The removal of subsidy payment on petroleum products by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) will prove a major paradigm shift for the oil and gas sector in...
The Akwa Ibom State chapter of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) has decried the manner of information management in the state as it battles the...
The family of the Edo State Commissioner for Science and Technology, Mr. Emmanuel Agbale, who was kidnapped on Friday, has been contacted by his abductors, reports...
Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki has said that his government was leading COVID-19 battle from the front and had spent over N1 billion to curtail its...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will make your Monday morning. 1. 86 new cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria; total now 627 The Nigeria Centre...
The Presidency on Sunday asked journalists who covered the burial of Mallam Abba Kyari, the late Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, to proceed on...
The Lagos State government has recorded no fewer than 70 new cases of COVID-19 infections, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the state to...
The Jigawa State Government has confirmed that it has recorded its first COVID-19 case in the Kazaure Local Government Area of the state and has thus...
Nigeria and other countries in Africa require $114 billion to tackle the coronavirus pandemic successfully, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said. A statement released by...
The Abia State Police Commissioner, Ene Okon said the police officer who killed a young man in Ohafia has been arrested He revealed that the officer...
The Yobe State government led by Governor Mai Mala Buni has extended COVID-19 lockdown in the state by two weeks in a bid to curb the...
He played in the background so well. Abba Kyari was the mystery of the presidential villa. Unobtrusive and self-effacing, yet his influence was palpable beyond the...
“The evil that men do live after them.” — William Shakespare I am aware that this is breaking with the conventional wisdom. I am conscious that...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Sunday night confirmed 86 new cases of COVID-19 in the country. With these new discoveries, the number of people...
An official of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has tested positive for coronavirus in Bauchi State. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Aliyu Maigoro, confirmed this...