Nigeria on Friday night recorded 667 fresh COVID-19 cases. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), which confirmed this on its Twitter handle, said the fresh...
The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, said on Friday the Federal Capital Territory remains one of the red spots in the...
Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, said on Friday, the state recorded 83 new COVID-19 cases in two days due to community transmission. Okowa, who disclosed this...
Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi has ordered that all courts in the state be shut down immediately. The governor gave the directive on Friday, in...
The death toll arising from COVID-19 disease in Brazil has reached 50,000 even as the number of infections thus far recorded in the South American country...
The Bayelsa State government led by Governor Duoye Diri has ordered the State COVID-19 Taskforce Team to reopen worship centres in the state that were sealed...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed on Thursday reiterated that COVID-19 is real. He said Nigerians who kept denying the existence of the virus...
The Nigerian Government on Thursday said 50 citizens stranded in Pakistan as a result of the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic have been evacuated. The Minister...
The Cross River State government has accused the Federal Government of Nigeria of plotting to violate its COVID-19 free status by shipping positive and negative test...
Bolaji Tunji, a spokesman to Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has urged Nigerians to disregard rumours circulating on social media about the former Oyo State governor. News circulating...
The Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly is seeking tougher sanctions against rapists in the state and has thus urged all law enforcement agencies, courts and...
Nigeria on Thursday night recorded its highest single-day COVID-19 figure after the country’s centre for disease control confirmed 745 fresh cases in 20 states of the...
The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Thursday decried the continuous flouting of guidelines by Nigerians, despite the rising cases of COVID-19 infection in the country....
The ECOWAS Ministerial Coordination Committee on Transport, Logistics, and Trade, on Thursday, recommended a harmonized and gradual reopening of land, air, and sea borders for restoring...
Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, Thursday extended the relaxation of the curfew imposed on the state by another two weeks. In a statement issued by his...
The pastor of Chapel of Answers Ministry, Jubilee Road, Aba has been arrested and the church sealed off by the Abia State Inter-Ministerial Committee on Covid-19....
The Oyo State Government on Thursday said it had recorded one more COVID-19 death and 56 confirmed new cases. The state Governor, Seyi Makinde, made the...
The Delta State government has confirmed that the state recorded 50 new cases of COVID-19 patients. It also announced that 17 more patients, who tested positive...
Resident doctors at the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, Awka, Anambra State, have embarked on an indefinite strike. The doctors, who said their action was...
The Plateau State Government led by Governor Solomon Lalong has confirmed that no fewer than 29 health workers have tested positive for the dreaded COVID-19 disease...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Wednesday night confirmed 587 fresh COVID-19 cases in 17 states of the federation and Abuja. In its regular...
The Edo House of Assembly complex was on Wednesday shut down for fumigation as part of efforts at preventing the spread of COVID-19 in the state....
Imo State House of Assembly will not be opened for legislative business until after two weeks, the Speaker, Chiji Collins has said. The speaker had ordered...
The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, on Wednesday admitted that testing has remained the weakest point in the nation’s...
The Kano State government led by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has picked holes in the report by the Federal Government that over 50 per cent of about...
A leading member of the White House coronavirus task force, Anthony Fauci has urged US states including Arizona, Texas, and Florida to move aggressively to prevent...
Nigeria’s foreign reserves fell by $115.26 million in the one week period between 4th and 11th June 2020, data obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has warned that Bonny Kingdom, in the Bonny Local Government Area of the state could become the epicenter of the Covid-19...
Lagos State has recorded no fewer than twenty five new COVID-19 related deaths according to the latest update provided by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control,...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Tuesday warned that Dexamethsaone has not been validated or approved for the treatment of COVID-19 patients in the...
Nigeria’s aviation industry has recorded losses in the region of $700 million in the past 3 months to the coronavirus crisis, Funke Adeyemi, Africa Regional Director...
The Federal Capital Territory Authority, FCTA, has recorded 60 new cases of the deadly COVID-19 disease in Abuja bringing the total number of infections confirmed in...
Two million smallholder farmers in Nigeria are to enjoy zero-interest financing options through the Agric for Foods and Jobs Plan (AFJP) as a mitigant against the...
The Vice-President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, on Tuesday said all camps where the National Youth Service Corps orientation exercises are usually undertaken should be closed for two...
The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Tuesday, reacted to the ongoing controversies where an aviation company said it mistook Nigerian singer, Naira Marley...
Doctors in the employ of the Lagos State Government have threatened to down tools if their demands are not met after the expiration of a 21-day...
The power of a woman! The Villa is never short on surprises. So it was last Thursday night, when Aisha Buhari, wife of the president, insisted...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Tuesday night confirmed 490 new COVID-19 cases in 15 states of the federation and Abuja. In its regular...
The Imo State House of Assembly has been shut down for two weeks after a lawmaker tested positive for COVID-19 in the state. The Chairman of...
President Muhammadu Buhari will on Wednesday participate in the Extraordinary China-Africa Summit on Solidarity against COVID-19. The teleconference which is slated for 12:50 p.m, will be...
The Kano State Government has conducted about 8,723 coronavirus sample tests since the outbreak of the pandemic in the state in April. This information was disclosed...
A former Kaduna State lawmaker, Shehu Sani has told state governors to consider the health of students in congested public institutions before deciding to reopen schools...
The government of Delta State on Tuesday confirmed that the state recorded 13 fresh cases of COVID-19 and one more death. With the development, the state...
The federal government, on Tuesday, outlined conditions to be met for it to consider the reopening of educational institutions in the country, including universities. The conditions...
The European Union (EU) has decried the escalating insecurity situation in Nigeria, especially in the northern part of the country. It said that no less than...
The number of recorded cases arising from the outbreak of the deadly COVID-19 disease globally has surpassed eight million according to the latest figures provided by...
The Gombe State government has confirmed that another executive member and one member of the state House of Assembly have both been confirmed to be positive...
Nigeria loses on average, the sum of $29 billion yearly to failure of the power sector, Senate President Ahmed Lawan has said. He made the disclosure...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Monday night confirmed 573 new COVID-19 cases in 19 states of the federation and Abuja. In its regular...
Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, on Monday, announced the relaxation of the curfew imposed on the state following the outbreak of COVID-19 in the country. He...
