The National Judicial Council, NJC has recommended the compulsory retirement of two judges with immediate effect.

THE Isoko Monitoring Group, IMG, has told the Delta State Government to take urgent steps to develop testing centres for the deadly coronavirus pandemic across the state.

 Gabriel Jesus has described his battle with Sergio Aguero for a place in Manchester City’s starting line-up as “thankless”.

Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, on Friday signed the state Procurement Bill into law. Speaking at a brief ceremony at the Government House, in Lafia, Sule described the event as historic for the people of the state. He said with the law in place, a Bureau for Procurement would be constituted. The governor said: “The […]

The United States government has in a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, narrated how his late Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari played key role in the return of $300m Abacha loot.

The Board and Management Team of Standard Chartered PLC “the Group”, alongside all our 84,000 colleagues remain committed to supporting our clients in the communities in which we operate, both through the current pandemic crisis and the longer-term support and renewal phase.

….Arrest 20 Kidnapping Gang Members Terrorizing FCT By Kingsley Omonobi, Abuja The Commissioner of Police, FCT, CP Bala Ciroma on Friday disclosed that in enforce the Coronavirus directive of the federal government, operatives of the FCT Police Command working in synergy with other security agencies, have arraigned 1,909 violators of the lockdown order noting that […]

South Africa’s Finance Minister Tito Mboweni said on Friday there was more than $4 billion available from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to help South Africa fight the COVID-19 crisis. “We too are entitled to approach the IMF and World Bank for funding. The IMF has indicated that South Africa is entitled to […]

Some mango sellers in Enugu on Friday decried low patronage as lockdown continued following the global outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic. A Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who went round some markets in Enugu, observed that the price of mangoes was relatively low as patronage very low. One of the sellers at New […]

The United States will not take part in the launching of a global initiative on Friday to speed the development, production, and distribution of drugs and vaccines against COVID-19, a spokesman for the U.S. mission in Geneva told Reuters. “There will be no U.S. official participation”, he said in an email reply to a query. […]

From Asia to Africa, London to Berlin, China’s envoys have set off diplomatic firestorms with a combative defense whenever their country is accused of not acting quickly enough to stem the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. They belong to a new generation of “Wolf Warrior” diplomats, named after patriotic blockbuster films starring a muscle-bound Chinese […]

Experts on Friday dismissed as reckless and irresponsible US President Donald Trump’s suggestion of injecting disinfectant to treat patients with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. “Is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside (the body)?”, Trumps asked at his daily briefing Thursday, having said that disinfectant knocks […]

Bosnia’s autonomous Bosniak-Croat Federation on Friday loosened restrictions that kept seniors and children from leaving their homes at all, in order to stop the spread of the coronavirus, after the top court ruled those restrictions violated the constitution. As of today, people older than 65 will be allowed to leave their homes from 0900 to […]

The Management of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), Edo has directed compulsory use of face masks on its campus to curtail the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the state. Dr Benedicta Ehanire, Public Relations Officer of UNIBEN, announced the directive in a statement issued on Friday in Benin. “This is in line with the Edo […]

By Olayinka Latona “I feel with the way the number of new cases from Lagos increased in the past few days, I feel the FG should further extend the lockdown with strict enforcement, else we will be looking at larger numbers than what we have seen from these states.” – Ogunkunle Emmanuel, Writer “With lockdown […]