The Queen of England would mark her 94th birthday on Tuesday, April 21 without the royal artillery gun salute due to the coronavirus outbreak, a Buckingham...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has sent a condolence message to President Muhammadu Buhari over Abba Kyari’s death. He said the death of Kyari, who was Buhari’s...
The First lady, Aisha Buhari, on Saturday prayed for the repose of the soul of the late former Chief of Staff to the Presidential, Abba Kyari,...
The Lagos State government has recorded three new deaths arising from the deadly COVID-19 virus which has claimed no fewer than 13 persons in the country....
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the death of the Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari, as depressing and saddening. “The PDP...
Fresh data provided by the John Hopkins University has revealed that the number of deaths arising from the outbreak of the deadly COVID-19 virus has reached...
Funds contributed through the Private Sector Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID) reached N25.89 billion on Friday, a statement from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has shown....
Senator Ali Ndume has insisted on his claim that the Committee on COVID-19 Palliatives is corrupt and deserved to be disbanded. He was responding to attacks...
The Jigawa State Government on Friday explained that the state’s first confirmed positive case of COVID-19 belonged to Kano State, but was receiving treatment in the...
Governors in the South-West region of Nigeria have agreed to jointly close all borders in the region in a bid to stem the spread of the...
Nigeria’s premium crude oil grade, Bonny Light, dropped to about $12 or $13 per barrel this week, according to traders monitoring the West African Market. The...
Kaduna State government said on Friday three COVID-19 patients had been discharged from the state Isolation center after testing negative for the disease. The state Commissioner...
The Chinese government on Friday raised the official coronavirus death toll in Wuhan by 50 percent, giving more credence to claims the country may have lied...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Friday night confirmed 51 new cases of COVID-19 in the country. The centre said on its Twitter handle that...
The Nigeria Air Force (NAF) has commenced mass production of face masks and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to fight the coronavirus in the country. The Chief...
The Nigerian military has presented to health authorities two laboratories for testing of COVID-19 cases in the country. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche,...
The Presidency has attacked Senator Ali Ndume for claiming that the Committee on COVID-19 palliatives was corrupt. The senator from Borno State had accused the committee...
The Federal Government of Nigeria has admitted that it does not have enough isolation centres in the country to accommodate nationals in diaspora who are willing...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Friday said males form the bulk of the 6,649 people that have so far been tested for the...
The Sokoto State government has increased hazard allowance for health workers in the state by 100 per cent for the months of April and May. It...
A medical doctor has been confirmed dead in Akwa Ibom State after showing symptoms of the coronavirus. In a statement on Thursday, the chairman of the...
The arrest of suspects involved in a face-mask fraud scheme linked to Nigeria has been announced by the International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL). The organisation in...
Two of the 210 people who had contact with confirmed COVID-19 cases in Ogun State have tested positive, the state government said on Thursday. This was...
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), an Islamic human rights organisation, on Friday demanded that the Federal government be more transparent in the process leading to the...
The Niger State government has lifted the ban on religious gatherings to allow for this Friday’s (today) Juma’at prayer. In a statement released on Friday by...
The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Thursday raised an alarm that persons confirmed to have tested positive for the dreaded virus are crossing state boundaries...
A former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has decried the reported killings of Nigerians over COVID-19 lockdown by security forces. He lamented that more citizens had...
A report by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has warned that over 300,000 Africans risk losing their lives to COVID-19. The report said that would...
Concerned authorities in Tunisia have moved to arrest two men, including a suspected jihadist, over an alleged plot to infect members of the security forces in...
Figures provided by the John Hopkins University have revealed that the death toll arising from COVID-19 infections in the United States of America has jumped by...
The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has said there will not be a rebound in the global demand for crude until the second half of...
The Gombe State government led by Governor Inuwa Yahaya has inaugurated two new treatment and isolation centres in the state to combat the spread of the...
The Federal Government on Thursday warned that private hospitals treating COVID-19 patients in the country would be shut down. The Minister of Finance, Osagie Ehanire made...
Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel, Thursday extended the restriction of movement imposed on the state following the outbreak of COVID-19 in the county by one...
The second COVID-19 patient in Enugu State has been discharged after he recovered fully from the disease. The patient was discharged from the state isolation facility...
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) Thursday rejected claims the Federal Government was providing free electricity to Nigerians to cushion the effect of the COVID-19 lockdown...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Thursday night confirmed 35 new cases of coronavirus in the country. The centre said on its Twitter handle the...
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said on Thursday that northern Nigeria remained a high-risk region for the spread of COVID-19 due to its weak primary...
The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has faulted the forecast by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) would contract by 3.4% in...
Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, said on Thursday the state government would provide palliatives to cushion the effect of the COVID-19-induced lockdown on the people of...
The Osun State Government Thursday restated its warning that private hospitals in the state should steer clear of suspected or confirmed coronavirus patients in the state....
Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) said on Thursday its workforce, both expatriate and indigenous, were free of the coronavirus. The company said in a statement issued by...
A businessman, Jimoh Ibrahim, Thursday donated N40 million to Ondo State government to cushion the effect of COVID-19 lockdown on the people of the state. Ibrahim...
The death of Menegian, son of the late environmental activist and poet, Ken Saro-Wiwa, has been announced by his sister who revealed that he lost his...
One million COVID-19 tests are expected to be done in Africa from next week to ascertain the number of infected persons. Africa Centres for Disease Control...
Corona virus disease has continued to dominate discussions world over in the media, at home and sundry other places and we may not stop talking about...
Millions of family farmers across Africa are facing economic devastation as COVID-19 pandemic disrupts exports and global food supply chains. This is according to the Impact...
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Lockdown Enforcement Team, on Wednesday arraigned and convicted about 20 violators. The team arraigned them before the five mobile courts recently...
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) on Thursday said the test results of 90 persons who showed symptoms of the dreaded COVID-19 disease have come out...
Former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately intervene to halt extra-judicial killings by security agencies in...
