Following reports that persons on non-essential duties have continued to traverse the boundaries of Enugu State “with the tacit support of some unscrupulous persons” despite the state government’s COVID-19 Containment Order (Executive Order No. 1 of 2020) in force, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has directed all the 17 Local Government Council Chairmen “to mobilize all Development Center Administrators, Councilors, Traditional Rulers and Presidents General of Communities as well as Neighborhood Watch Groups and Youth Leaders within their jurisdiction to man the borders of their local Government Council Areas that are contiguous with other States”.

LAGOS—THE Yoruba World Congress, YWC, yesterday, threw its weight behind the evacuation of Almajiris to their respective states of origin by Northern governors, noting that it is time to end totalitarianism and over-centralisation which is hindering the country’s development.

The German league confirmed Thursday that clubs have started testing players for the coronavirus as part of plans for the Bundesliga to resume next month. Testing players for the virus, which has so far claimed over 6,000 lives in Germany, is a key component in the plans to restart the Bundesliga in stadiums without spectators. […]

OSOGBO—THE Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, yesterday, dissociated the palace from any dispute over the streaming of a play tagged Moremi-the musical on YouTube.
A statement signed by the Ooni and made available to journalists in Osogbo on Wednesday said the house of Oduduwa has an understanding with Bolanle Austen-Peters of BPA production to create and produce the movie.

The football season in France has been declared over following a league vote on Thursday, with Paris Saint-Germain being named as champions. PSG topped the Ligue 1 table by 12 points from Marseille when the season was suspended in mid-March because of the coronavirus outbreak, which has gone on to kill more than 24,000 people […]

Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, on Thursday, extended the dusk-to-dawn curfew in the state for another 14 days. The curfew is to run from 8:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. Obaseki had on April 19 announced a 10-day dusk to dawn curfew to contain the spread of COVID-19 in the state. At a media briefing in […]

By Osigwe Omo-Ikirodah Ogiemwonyi’s aspiration has presented a credible alternative to what is available but now its members need to make a decision: Are they ready to spend the next four years being ridiculed and alienated? Or do they aspire to be something bigger, the party members wish for a prosperous Edo State that would […]

Kaduna—Governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufa’i of Kaduna State has warned that coronavirus was not a friend to anybody and could strike where it was least expected.

By Ike Uchechukwu – Calabar The People’s Democratic Party, PDP, ward executive committee members in Cross River State were on Thursday inaugurated in 196 wards of the state. The Ward Executive Committee members, who were sworn-in by a Notary Public, Okimasi Ojong, Esq, principal partner of Barr Okimasi Ojong and Co, in accordance with the […]

The US intelligence community said Thursday it had concluded that the novel coronavirus that has swept the globe originated in China but was not man-made or engineered. “The entire Intelligence Community has been consistently providing critical support to US policymakers and those responding to the COVID-19 virus, which originated in China,” the Office of the […]

The Federal Government on Thursday ordered civil servants in the country to resume duties on May 4. The Head of Service of the Federation, Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan, disclosed this in a memo to all heads of Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs). Yemi-Esan said the workers would be allowed to work three times in a week […]

A leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State who was also its gubernatorial candidate in the 2019 elections, Senator Buruji Kashamu, has stated that he is ready to reconcile and work with aggrieved members of the party in the state to ensure its success. Kashamu, who stated this in a statement he […]

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday criticised South Africa and Qatar for accepting doctors from Cuba to battle the coronavirus, accusing the communist island of profiting from the pandemic. Cuba’s globe-trotting doctors have long been a source of diplomatic soft power and pride for Havana, but the US says the medical workers only […]

By Obi Nwakanma It is quite shocking, sometimes, what blind power does to ordinary men. Well, so it is with David Umahi, a very ordinary man, who now thinks he is a god. The tin-god governor of Ebonyi state has issued an “executive order” banning the correspondents of the Vanguard Newspaper and the Sun newspaper […]

Nigerians resident in China have cried out to President Muhamadu Buhari to come to their rescue from the hands of Chinese authorities, who they accused of harassing and maltreating them, following the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus.