Urges LASG to adopt strategies used during Ebola crisis By Chioma Obinna With only 11 medical doctors currently attending to increasing patients at the Yaba Isolation Centre, medical doctors under the employ of Lagos state government has called for a total shutdown of the State even as it urged the State government to adopt the […]

Ado-Ekiti—In view of dwindling economic fortune of the nation arising from the Covid-19 pandemic ravaging the world, Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has restated his administration’s resolve to use the agriculture sector as a platform for the diversification of the state’s economy.

Lauds CBN, Bankers Committee on N100b loan package By Chioma Obinna To mitigate the shortage of essential drugs, the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigerian, PSN, on Thursday, appealed to the Federal government in the interim to issue directives to the Custom services to grant expedited clearance of health care and pharmaceutical in the ports, as many […]

Credible recognitions came the way of the founder of the respected wholly owned Nigerian conglomerate, Coscharis Group, Dr. Cosmas Maduka recently when he was awarded on three different platforms in his capacity as an entrepreneur per excellence.

As part of efforts to sustain the ongoing advocacy campaigns to curtail the spread of coronavirus through overloading of vehicles with passengers, the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, has again admonished all drivers of vehicles to carry only one person at the front and not more than three in a row  of the vehicles. While motorcycle riders should carry only one person at a time so that occupants will be able to guard themselves and watch out for symptoms as they commute to their destinations.

6 more people recovered in Lagos – Abayomi By Chioma Obinna and Gabriel Olawale The Bauchi State government yesterday announced the second case of confirmed cases of coronavirus disease in the state bringing the number to two.   With the new case in Bauchi which is yet to be confirmed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease […]

Entrepreneurship is open to everyone, says high-flying real estate investor Femi Aguda

By Adewale Kupoluyi THE sit-at-home directive meant to mitigate the adverse effects of the ravaging coronavirus disease, COVID-19, pandemic is timely and reasonable. It would be recalled that the federal and various state governments closed down institutions, schools and offices as preventive measures to curtail the spread of the deadly virus. Hence, parents, children and […]

By Solomon Oseke These are indeed interesting times in Nigeria where the media has elected to be on the other side of the divide, churning out divisive news items that serve the country no good, all in return for a plate of porridge. It is also a sad epoch in our existence as a people […]

By Owei Lakemfa IMAGINE. Imagine you are in a cruise ship with 681 others and then discover that some of them have contacted a highly infectious virus that has neither cure nor vaccine. Even if there was a cure, it was not within reach as you are afloat in the ocean and no country wanted […]

The third part of this piece was published yesterday IN Atiku Abubakar & Anor v INEC & Ors LER (2019) CA/PEPC/002/2019) the petitioner was given only 10 days to prove the allegations that Presidential Muhammadu Buhari did not validly win the 2019 presidential election. In the circumstance, he called a few witnesses and tendered volumes […]

– Buhari, Osinbajo lead adherence to self-Isolation Since the declaration of Coronavirus a pandemic by the World Health Organisation, self-isolation amongst other measures are increasingly being adopted as effective means of checking the spread of the disease across the world, including Nigeria where top leaders are also complying with the advisories. Leading the pack in […]

Victor Ogunyinka The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has announced 14 new cases of coronavirus, 12 in Lagos, 1 in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and 1 in Bauchi. According to a tweet from the agency, “Of the 14, 6 were detected on a vessel, 3 are returning travellers & 2 are close contacts of […]

….N5b special intervention fund to NCDC By Gabriel Olawale President Muhammadu Buhari has approved immediate release of a N10 billion grant to Lagos State, which remains the epicentre of the Covid-19 outbreak in Nigeria and N5 billion special intervention fund to the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) to equip, expand and provide personnel to […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has asked for the immediate release of N5 billion special intervention fund requested by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), to equip and expand their facilities and laboratories.