An Internally Displaced Person (IDP) has tested positive for the dreaded Covid-19 pandemic in Borno State. The IDP, whose name was not given, tested positive for...
The Jigawa State government has received no fewer than 524 Almajiris evacuated by the Kano State government to stem the spread of COVID-19. Governor Badaru who...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed concerns over the reported appointment of President Muhammadu Buhari as the ECOWAS Covid-19 Response Champion. The party said it...
As the coronavirus crisis bites harder at aviation operations across the globe, Arik Air has said it would cut employees’ salaries by 80% beginning from April....
The Borno State government is set to prosecute no fewer than three Imams for flouting the COVID-19 lockdown order by holding Friday congregational prayers. Babakura Abba...
The British government said on Friday it would evacuate 900 of its citizens who want to leave Nigeria. The British High Commission said in a statement...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Friday night confirmed 114 new cases of COVID-19 in the country, with Lagos for the umpteenth time accounting for...
Seven health workers have tested positive for coronavirus in Borno State, Commissioner for Health, Salihu Kwaya-Bura confirmed on Friday. The commissioner made the disclosure at the...
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, said on Friday the Federal Government would not accept the request to self-isolate in their homes by Nigerians abroad...
The Oyo State government has rejected the 1,800 bags of rice donated by the federal government through the Nigeria Customs Service to cushion the effect of...
The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing has said that Britons desiring to be evaluated from Nigeria to the United Kingdom (UK) would pay more....
The head of the Gavi Vaccine Alliance, Seth Berkley, has noted that the first vaccines against the deadly COVID-19 virus might be available in 12 to...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has set up a 10-member committee to fashion out ways courts could sit amid measures to contain Covid-19 spread. Lockdown and...
The Adamawa State government led by Governor Ahmadu Fintiri has immediately ordered a total lockdown in the state for two weeks, days after recording its COVID-19...
The Bauchi State Government has banned the Almajiri system of quranic education and religious gatherings in the state as further measures aimed at containing the spread...
Ondo Police Command and the state government on Friday arraigned four suspects over the murder of Mrs Funke Olakunrin. Olakunrin, daughter to a leader of the...
The Kaduna State government has initiated moves to ensure that there is no discrimination and stigmatization of discharged COVID-19 patients in the state. Dr Amina Mohammed...
There are now over 2.7 million covid-19 cases and at least 190,000 deaths globally according to the Johns Hopkins University. The United States alone has claimed...
The first human trial of the novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccine has begun in Europe. Two volunteers were injected in Oxford out of more than 800 people...
A former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has reacted to the appointment of President Muhammadu Buhari to lead the fight against Covid-19 in West Africa. He said...
The government of Niger State, has vowed to arrest residents of the state without face masks outside their homes. Governor Bello announced this on Thursday while...
The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL, has lambasted the Federal Government of Nigeria led by President Muhammadu Buhari over its lopsided nature of sharing...
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is pushing for measures aimed at easing the debt burden of about $3.4 trillion on Nigeria and...
The Adamawa State Government on Thursday said it has started tracing 84 contacts of the state’s COVID-19 index case, a journalist, Kabir Awal. This is just...
There is a growing apprehension within medical circles over the number of critical equipment and professionals that may be needed in handling the growing cases of...
The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, said Thursday Nigeria would not rule out a homegrown vaccine for the prevention and cure of COVID-19. Ehanire, who...
The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, said Thursday countries had different approaches to testing for COVID-19. There have been...
The National Coordinator of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Dr. Sani Aliyu, said on Thursday the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the World...
A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, on Thursday, charged the Federal Government to relax the lockdown it imposed...
A zoo in the United States said on Thursday four more tigers and three lions have tested positive for COVID-19 after the first case of a...
In a bid to fight against the spread of COVID-19, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Independent Petroleum Producers Group (IPPG) have donated six...
The Federal Government said on Thursday that it was planning to evacuate Nigerian students who were stranded in Khartoum, Sudan due to the global COVID-19 pandemic....
No fewer than 419 Almajiris evacuated by Kano State government to their state of origins as part of measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 have...
Nigeria is an impoverished country. In fact, the country has never been rich – in the economic sense of the word. The assumptions of wealth have...
Lagos State Commissioner of Health, Professor Akin Abayomi has confirmed that the state has lost two more patients to Covid-19. Abayomi made the confirmation in a...
No less than 73 inmates have been set free by the Chief Judge of Delta State, Justice Marshal Umukoro. The inmates were released from Ogwashi-Uku and...
More than 2.6 million people have been infected with covid-19 worldwide with a larger chunk of casualties still stemming from the United States according to the...
The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has clarified that there was no scientific proof at the moment to prove the virus could be transmitted sexually....
Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has made wearing of face masks compulsory in the state over Covid-19. The governor, who just recovered from the dreaded disease...
Health authorities in China have reported that they recorded 10 new coronavirus cases in mainland China, as the number of so-called imported cases involving travellers from...
The Nigerian government has been called upon to come to the rescue of Kano State in the fight against Covid-19 spread in the state. The Chairman,...
The Minister for Health, Osagie Ehanire on Wednesday explained that testing for COVID-19 disease was stopped in Kano because some persons working in the laboratory got...
The Minister for Health, Osagie Ehanire on Wednesday disclosed that the 15-man Chinese medical team would be undergoing the COVID-19 test on Thursday (today), to ascertain...
The Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) has warned the Nigerian government not to extend the current lockdown beyond 27th April, saying the decision is...
Seventy-two Nigerians who were waiting to be evacuated in Guangzhou city, Guangdong Province of China have tested positive for COVID-19. 56 Nigerians, whose test results were...
The Nigeria Labour Congress has warned the Federal Government of Nigeria against any further extension of the lockdown over the coronavirus pandemic in the country. The...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Wednesday night confirmed 91 new cases of coronavirus in the country. The centre said on its Twitter handle that...
The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) met on Wednesday in Abuja and agreed to implement inter-state lockdown to stem the spread of coronavirus in the country. Nigeria...
Edo State recorded its second COVID-19 death on Tuesday. The state Commissioner for Health, Patrick Okundia, who confirmed the development to journalists Wednesday, said the dead...
The Ekiti State government said on Wednesday the state had recorded its first COVID-19 death. The state Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr. Mojisola Yaya-Kolade,...
