Access Bank Plc has revealed its intention to embark on mass retrenchment of staff, pay cut for the rest of its workforce and closure of several...
The President of the United States of America Donald Trump has declared that he is confident that the dreaded COVID-19 virus which has claimed scores of...
The governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has accuse the federal government of paying more attention to only Lagos, Ogun and Kano states in the fight...
The Kano State government has moved to publish the pictures of the two remaining patients who went into hiding after testing positive to COVID-19. This was...
A high court in Kampala has ordered Members of the Parliament (MP) to refund the sum of $2.4 million they had allocated to themselves initially meant...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed May 7, for its officials to meet in its offices across the country to review resuming normal activities....
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday announced that 102 potential COVID-19 vaccines were being developed around the world. Scientists worldwide had been working round the...
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on Thursday alleged that efforts of the state government to contain the spread of the dreaded COVID-19 pandemic in the...
Governor Gboyega Oyetola has introduced a partial lockdown in Osun State as the total lockdown earlier placed in the state expired mid night of Thursday. He...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday denied having a prior knowledge of the Control of Infectious Disease Bill that is currently before the...
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Thursday night confirmed 204 fresh cases of COVID-19 in the country. In the highlight of the report posted on...
The Federal Government said on Thursday it would work to ensure that there were no job losses arising from the extreme effects of the COVID-19 pandemic...
The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday dismissed as misleading and false the claim that palm oil is capable of stopping the spread of...
Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, on Thursday, appointed Mr. Femi Adeoye as the state’s COVID-19 Response Ambassador for stopping his son from entering his home after...
Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, Thursday confirmed two fresh cases of COVID-19 in the state. The governor, who disclosed this at a press briefing in Lafia,...
The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, said Thursday the centre was currently struggling for bed spaces for COVID-19 patients...
The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Enahire, said Thursday that at least 113 health workers in the country had been infected by COVID-19. The minister, who...
The Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly Thursday passed the amended 2020 budget which saw a reduction from the initial N597.7 billion to N366 billion in...
The time supposedly wasted by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government before closing the country’s borders, seaport, and airports, has been blamed for the spread of COVID-19...
Governor Nyesom Wike has blamed bribe-taking security agents for new cases of COVID-19 in Rivers State. He stated this on Thursday when he inaugurated COVID-19 Border...
A herbal solution to fight the COVID-19 pandemic which has spread across countries of the world is at an advanced stage, with traditional medicine practitioners, so...
The total number of COVID-19 related death in Lagos State has risen to 20. The state’s Health Commissioner, Professor Akin Abayomi said the latest patient to...
Nigeria’s foreign reserves shrank by $5.09 billion from $38.53 billion to $33.44 billion in the nearly four-month period between 2nd January and 28th April 2020, the...
Kaduna State government has confirmed 16 new cases of the dreaded COVID-19 pandemic. Governor Nasir el-Rufai, who stated this in a post Thursday morning on his...
The Benue State Government on Wednesday said plans have been concluded to return 40 Almajiris who defied the inter-state travel ban in place in the country...
The government of Cross River State has alleged that people are being promised millions of naira should they claim to be COVID-19 positive. The state Commissioner...
Governments across the world have been urged by the World Food Programme and the United Nations children’s agency to shore up the futures of the 370...
The Jigawa State Government has confirmed the death of one person who tested positive for the feared COVID-19 disease in the state. Dr. Abba Zakari, Chairman...
The Yoruba Ronu Leadership Forum on Wednesday warned that easing the COVID-19 lockdown in Lagos, Ogun and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) is risky if certain...
Six patients who initially tested positive to the dreaded COVID-19 virus in Katsina have now been discharged by the state government after testing negative to the...
The Kano State government led by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has recorded 24 fresh cases of the dreaded COVID-19 disease which has fast spread across states in...
The Borno State government led by Governor Babagana Umara Zulum has confirmed six fresh cases of COVID-19, raising the total number of infections in the state...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 to immediately account for the N5 billion released by President Muhammadu Buhari,...
President Muhammadu Buhari has told the people of Kano State that his government would not let them down. He stated this in a statement on Wednesday...
For the second consecutive day, Nigeria recorded about 200 cases of COVID-19 after the nation’s centre for disease control confirmed 196 cases in Lagos and 11...
Workers in Kaduna State Wednesday rejected the state government’s deduction of 25 percent from salaries of senior civil servants in the state. The state governor, Nasiru...
Ekiti State Government Wednesday ordered the indefinite suspension of a member of the state Task Force on COVID-19, Sola Durodola, for alleged incompetence and highhandedness. Durodola,...
Sokoto State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Mohammed Ali Iname, said on Wednesday at least 12 health workers had tested positive for COVID-19 in the state. Iname,...
The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, said Wednesday 825 COVID-19 tests produced the 195 positive results announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)...
Guinea Bissau Prime Minister, Nuno Nabian, and some senior government officials have tested positive for COVID-19. The country’s Minister of Health, Antonio Deuna, said at a...
Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, Wednesday revealed how he survived the COVID-19. The governor, who tested positive for COVID-19 on March 28 and only returned to...
Three days after its first record of COVID-19, Ebonyi State has recorded another case of the dreaded virus bring the total in the state to two....
Anambra, Sokoto and Nasarawa states on Wednesday received over 5,400 bags of 50kg rice and other relief items from the Federal Government as palliatives to cushion...
The Ekiti State government led by Governor Kayode Fayemi has decried the increasing number of pastors arrested and prosecuted in the state for flouting the state’s...
Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, on Wednesday revealed that six local government areas in the state have recorded confirmed cases of the dreaded COVID-19 disease. The...
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, Sadiya Umar Farouq, has stated the need for collaboration with states for the effective distribution of COVID-19 palliatives...
The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) has accused the Lagos State government of not sharing COVID-19 palliatives to Arewa Community in the state. Following the lockdown...
Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) appointed President Muhammadu Buhari to lead the region’s fight against the spread of coronavirus last week....
Kogi State Government on Tuesday said it takes exemption to claims by the Director-General of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, that...