The Director General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, on Tuesday denied that the agency inspected the bags of rice...
Lagos State Commissioner of Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, on Wednesday morning revealed new discoveries around the novel COVID-19. Abayomi, who spoke to Arise Television said, “There...
Britain’s National Health Service and Medical Practitioners in the United States, Spain and Italy say they may have detected a possible link between the novel coronavirus...
Data compiled by Johns Hopkins University has revealed that the total number of COVID-19 infections recorded across the world has risen to more than three million,...
The Jigawa State Government led by Governor Badaru Abubakar has ordered a total lockdown in three local government areas in the state after the samples of...
Governor Udom Emmanuel on Tuesday said the COVID-19 pandemic did not meet the state unprepared even though the disease is a new one. Emmanuel, who spoke...
The Kano State government has recorded 38 fresh cases of the dreaded COVID-19 disease which has fast spread across many states in the country. This was...
The Federal Government’s team sent to Kano to shore up efforts at containing the rapid spread of COVID-19 pandemic in that state arrived on Tuesday. The...
The Gombe State government led by Governor Inuwa Yahaya has confirmed 10 new cases of COVID-19 infections in the state. The development was made known via...
The Bauchi State government has set up special mobile courts to try erring citizens who defy the COVID-19 lockdown order in the state. The special mobile...
The Federal Government on Tuesday said it does not have any date in mind yet for schools in the country to reopen despite the gradual relaxation...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Tuesday night confirmed 195 new COVID-19 cases in the country. The centre said on its Twitter handle that the...
The German government said on Tuesday it had granted Nigeria debt relief totalling N8.9 billion (€22.4 million) over the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. The country...
A staff of APM Terminals in Apapa, Lagos, has tested positive for COVID-19. The company’s General Manager, External Relations, Daniel Odibe, disclosed this in a statement...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has set a target of testing two million people in the next three months to check the spread of...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Tuesday implored the federal and state governments not to stop or deduct workers’ salaries amid the fight against COVID-19 pandemic in...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said on Tuesday donations into the Nigeria Private Sector Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID) has hit N27,160,190,011.94. The Director of Corporate...
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...
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...
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 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 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...
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 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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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,...
The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 Monday called for unity in the fight against the COVID-19 in the country. The chairman of the task force,...
