AS NCDC confirms new cases in Lagos, Ogun LASG  urges all participants of AMVCA to go on self -isolation By Chioma  Obinna The number of cases of coronavirus diseases in Nigeria on Tuesday, rose from 40 to 42 following two new confirmed cases in Lagos and Ogun State. Confirming this in its twitter handle – […]

…okays compliance by fuel stations By Ibrahim Hassan The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) monitored petrol stations in Kaduna on Tuesday to enforce the N125 pump price compliance. It, however, expressed satisfaction with the compliance rate by many petrol stations in the state to the new fuel pump price of N125 per litre. Speaking to […]

Prof Akin Abayomi, Lagos state Commissioner for Health has directed that all attendees at the just concluded African Magic Viewers Choice Award (AMVCA7) to self isolate themselves.

The Lagos State Government has urged all participants in the recently conducted African Magic Viewer’s Choice Award, AMVCA 2020, to self-isolate. It confirmed that one of the participants had tested positive to the COVID-19 virus, thereby exposing other attendees to the raging virus. The announcement was made through the state Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin […]

By Dirisu Yakubu – Abuja The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to douse what it called “widespread public anxieties” by immediately addressing the nation on the status of the Presidential villa, in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is even as the party said its demand is predicated on “public […]

Dr. Mrs. Seinye O. B. Lulu-Briggs, widow of founder of Moni Pulo Limited, High Chief Olu Benson Lulu-Briggs, on Tuesday alleged that her stepson desperately procured a ruling claiming a Ghanaian magistrate ruled that her late husband died in Nigeria and not Ghana. The widow who made the remarks in a statement signed and released […]

The historic decision to postpone this year’s Olympic Games over the coronavirus pandemic is likely to pile on the pain for Japan’s economy, already expected to be roiled by the global virus outbreak, economists say. What has the Games cost Japan? At the end of 2019, organisers estimated the total cost of the Games at […]

Peter Crouch has claimed that both Liverpool and Nottingham Forest wanted to sign Gareth Bale before he burst on to the scene with Tottenham. Crouch heard that Liverpool wanted to sign Bale from Southampton in the summer of 2007 before he moved to White Hart Lane. And then Nottingham Forest were keen on the Wales […]

The Defence Headquarters says the troops of ‘Operation Whirl Stroke’ deployed in Benue has recovered a large cache of weapons from fleeing bandits in Odogoke and Odejo communities in Agatu Local Area of the state. The Acting Director, Defence Media Operations, Brig.-Gen. Bernard Onyeuko made the disclosure in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. Onyeuko […]

By Chimaobi Nwaiwu, Nnewi Medical doctors in Anambra state yesterday suspended its four-weeks old industrial strike following the rising cases of coronavirus in Nigeria. Operating under the aegis of Conference of Civil Service Doctors in Anambra State had embarked on the industrial action over alleged neglect by the state government. However, addressing newsmen in Onitsha, […]

Boko Haram terrorists have reportedly killed 70 soldiers in the restive North East Military sources said on Tuesday the insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades at a lorry carrying troops as it travelled near Gorgi village in Borno State on Monday. “It was a huge loss, at least 70 soldiers have perished in the ambush,” one of […]

By Henry Umoru CHAIRMAN, Senate Committee on Trade and Investment, Senator Rose Oko, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Cross River North is dead. Senator Oko, who died last night at a UK medical facility, was aged 63. The late Senator, who was one of the female lawmakers at the Hallowed Chamber, was elected into office as […]

Number one bestselling author and former aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, Pastor Reno Omokri, has called on politicians in the country to commence distribution of personal protective equipment (PPE) such as face masks, hand sanitizers and ventilators to protect Africans from COVID-19, otherwise known as Coronavirus. Pastor Omokri also urged politicians to buy these equipment […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the procedure for the appointment of new permanent secretaries to fill the existing vacancies in 16 states of the federation. In a statement signed by Mrs Olawunmi Ogunmosunle, Director of Information, office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HOCSF), on Tuesday in Abuja, the affected states […]

HEAVY wind on Monday evening reportedly blew off the   roof of a building housing prisoners/inmates at the Warri Correctional centre, (formerly known as Warri Prison) on Okere road in the oil rich city of Warri, Delta state.