Mr Olisa Ifeajika, Chief Press Secretary to Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta has donated sanitisers and other items to the people of his constituency, Illah, Oshimili North Local Government Area of the state.

The Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has donated relief materials to vulnerable persons at the Uhogua Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp, in Ovia North East Local Government Area of the state. Permanent Secretary, Cabinet, Mrs Julie Olatunji, who represented the governor, said the materials were donated to the IDPs by the governor, as part […]

By Chioma Obinna The Nigerian Union of Allied Health Professionals, NUAHP, on Wednesday, demanded life insurance scheme and immediate payment of N100, 000 special COVID-19 allowances to all health workers at the frontline of the war against the disease as presently done to other health workers globally. Making the demand in a press statement jointly […]

 Ikeja Electric (IE) has announced the suspension of all disconnection activities of non-paying customers for a period of two weeks effective April 1, due to the lockdown of Lagos State caused by COVID-19.

LAFIA——–AS the nation contends with coronavirus pandemic, organized labour in Nasarawa State has threatened to shut down the state if the Local Government authority goes ahead with their plan to pay percentage salaries to staff of the Local Government Areas across the 13 LGAS.

By Rasheed Sobowale “This is where we find ourselves, lockdown without social amenities nor any palliative. It’s so heartbreaking our leaders are not leaving up to expectations,” a twitter user Light Odewingie (@LuvlyEddy) commented. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic which has killed two people so far in Nigeria, the Federal Government has ordered the […]

Dr. Sa’ad Usman, the Emir of Jere in Kagarko local government area of Kaduna State, is dead. He was 70. The late Emir was the husband of a former Minister of Finance, Nenadi Usman. The Spokesperson of the Jere Chiefdom, Alhaji Hamza Yakubu, confirmed the monarch’s death to journalists on Wednesday. Yakubu said Usman died […]

MTN Group has renewed its bid  to cut its presence in Nigeria, by selling 15% stake to the subscribers. The operator said it is pursuing sale in smaller in bits due to  the emergence of the Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, says his ministry has not received any request from Nigerians aboard for their evacuation in view of the global Novel Coronavirus (COVID19) pandemic outbreak. Onyeama made this known on Tuesday in Abuja at the Presidential Task Force briefing on update of COVID-19 in the country. “As of […]

By Chioma Obinna The Lagos State branch of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, and the Medical Guild yesterday alleged undue “harassment” of medical doctors and other health workers in Lagos even as they decried what they described as ‘uncomplimentary’ statement credited to the State Commissioner of Police, CP,  Mr. Hakeem Odumosu on the movements of […]