A date for the re-opening of the nation’s airways and commencement of commercial domestic flight will be announced next week by the federal government. This was...
The coronavirus outbreak hindered the running of around 74.2% of Nigerian businesses, the Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA) has said. Taiwo Adeniyi, NECA’s acting President, made...
The governor of Kaduna, Nasir El-Rufai, has confirmed that the state recorded 33 more COVID-19 cases on Thursday. The governor in a post on his official...
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), on Thursday said there was no plan yet in the pipeline to open orientation camps. According to the NYSC, the...
Nigeria on Thursday night recorded 594 fresh COVID-19 cases. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), which confirmed this on its Twitter handle, said the fresh...
Five million Nigerians are at risk of being impoverished as the coronavirus outbreak sparks off the worst recession in Africa’s largest economy since the 1980s, the...
COVID-19 is increasingly wreaking havoc on the health of Nigerians, but its economic impact may well be more devastating. Before the pandemic, the Nigerian economy was...
Niger State government on Wednesday confirmed that 13 fresh cases of the dreaded COVID-19 had been recorded in the state. The state’s Task Force on COVID-19,...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has lowered Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth forecast for 2020, saying it envisages that the economy will contract by 5.4%....
The Federal Government on Wednesday proposed that schools must create isolation spaces before reopening the learning facilities. The Ministry of Education disclosed this in a document...
Nigeria on Wednesday night recorded 649 fresh COVID-19 cases. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), which confirmed this on its Twitter handle, said the fresh...
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved N2.3 trillion stimulus package to support the Nigerian economy in the face of the disruptions and challenges of...
Three members of the Oyo State executive council has tested positive for COVID-19. The state governor, Seyi Makinde, who disclosed this on his Twitter handle on...
The Ebonyi State government on Wednesday proposed a 26 percent reduction in its 2020 budget due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the state’s...
Deutsche Bank Luxembourg S.A. has completed a landmark US$3 billion Export Credit Agency (ECA)-backed hybrid corporate financing for Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) to develop the NLNG...
Dr Anthony Fauci, a top US medical expert, has warned that the United State of America will face a dangerous surge of new COVID-19 cases as...
The Jigawa State government has extended the work at home order to civil servants in the State for an additional one week in a move to...
Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma on Tuesday assured Imo pensioners that they would be paid by Friday. The aggrieved pensioners in the state on Tuesday protested...
Nigeria on Tuesday night recorded 452 fresh COVID-19 cases. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), which confirmed this on its Twitter handle, said the fresh...
The Anambra State House of Assembly on Tuesday adjourned plenary for three weeks to allow fumigation of the assembly complex as fear of COVID-19 pandemic heightened...
Thirty one new cases of the deadly COVID-19 disease have been recorded in Delta State, according to the latest update provided by the Nigeria Centre for...
This year, there was some feeling of nostalgia about May 29 as Nigeria’s Democracy Day. When a few persons called me to ask if there were...
Thirteen members of the Imo State House of Assembly have tested positive to the covid-19. The Imo State House of Assembly has recorded 13 more of...
The Oyo State government led by Governor Seyi Makinde has confirmed 67 new cases of COVID-19 and the discharge of nine patients who have tested negative...
The federal government of Nigeria has revealed why no fewer than 12,000 N-Power beneficiaries are yet to be paid their three-month stipends. The Minister of Humanitarian...
The Kano State Government has moved to clear the air on its alleged move to approve the reopening of schools in the state amid the COVID-19...
The Kaduna State government has confirmed that it has recorded no fewer than twenty new cases of the dreaded COVID-19 disease in the state. This was...
The Federal Government has said it was reviewing the ban on interstate travels and would soon decide on lifting it. This was disclosed by the National...
Virgin Atlantic has unveiled plans to resume flights from Lagos to London’s Heathrow Airport on 24th August, 2020. The international carrier declared in a statement on...
The Nigerian government on Monday declared that it would conduct a simulation trial of domestic flight operations at the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos on Saturday...
The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Monday expressed worries that Nigerians are not taking the COVID-19 pandemic and precautionary measures attached to it seriously. The...
Nigeria on Monday night recorded 675 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 Monday the task force would continue to monitor developments nationwide in order to...
The Bayelsa State government through its COVID-19 Task Force has confirmed that it has recorded no fewer than 14 new cases of the deadly disease and...
A two-years old girl has tested positive for the Covid-19, an official announced in Ogun State on Sunday. A statement from the Federal Medical Centre in...
The Edo State government has confirmed 31 new cases of COVID-19 infections bringing the total number of suspected cases of the virus in the state to...
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed joy over Nigeria’s Polio free status, describing it as a promise kept and one of the obvious dividends of his administration....
The Akwa Ibom State government has sealed off the premises of Christ Embassy Church, Nung Akpa Ime branch, Uyo, for allegedly attacking the state COVID-19 Compliance...
The Osun State government on Sunday confirmed six new COVID-19 cases in the state. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Rafiu Isamotu, who disclosed this in...
The Secretary to the Delta State Government (SSG) Mr. Chiedu Ebie, and the state’s Commissioner for Information, Mr. Charles Aniagwu, have both tested positive for COVID-19....
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against Dr Osagie Ehanire, Minister of Health and Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, Director General, Nigeria Centre...
The Jigawa State government led by Governor Badaru Abubakar has ordered the immediate resumption of interstate travel and the suspension of all security checkpoints at its...
Six Gombe State House of Assembly members infected with COVID-19 have recovered from the dreaded disease. The six lawmakers recovered and tested negative for the virus...
Nigeria on Saturday night recorded 661 fresh COVID-19 cases. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), which confirmed this on its Twitter handle, said the fresh...
The European Union (EU) and United Nations (UN) on Saturday handed essential medical supplies to the Federal Government to fight the COVID-19 pandemic in the country....
The Nigerian Government said it had concluded plans to evacuate more Nigerians from the United States (US). A recent statement from the office of the Consulate...
Kwara State has recorded three more cases of COVID-19 on Friday, while 20 patients who tested negative twice, were discharged. The Chief Press Secretary to the...
The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned of a “new and dangerous phase” in the accelerating COVID-19 pandemic after 150,000 new cases...
The Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu Campaign Organisation has frowned at the way Governor Godwin Obaseki and his supporters disregarded social distancing rules meant to contain the spread...
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Friday confirmed the discharge of 98 more COVID-19 patients in the state. Sanwo-Olu, who disclosed this in a statement, said a...
