By Bashir Bello KANO – An anti-graft agency, Kano Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission have on Wednesday sealed warehouses for alleged hoarding of food items and essential commodities in the state. The agency’s Chairman, Muhuyi Rimingado, in a statement made available to newsmen in Kano, said that the warehouses were sealed and food items seized […]

By Chioma Obinna The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN, on Wednesday, appealed to the Federal Government to extend the recent import waiver on medical supplies by President Mohammadu Buhari to all essential drugs and not only those related to COVID-19. Stating this in Lagos, the President of the PSN, Pharm. Sam Ohuabunwa said the extension […]

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru – Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of retired Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Barrister Suleiman Abba, as Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Nigeria Police Trust Fund. A statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu in Abuja, Wednesday, said the approval […]

MINISTER for Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama has restated the palliatives his Charity Organization, Kwusike Foundation, distributed to different segments of Enugu residents, last Sunday, was not a politically motivated gesture.

BUA Foundation has donated five ambulances and 20 Hilux vehicles to assist Kano State government in stemming the spread of the virus in the state as part of its COVID-19 health infrastructure and response grant for the state. BUA Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Africa’s leading foods and infrastructure conglomerate, BUA Group founded by […]

FOLLOWING zero-tolerance against the unlawful occupation and operation on the premises of its Public Schools, Oyo State Government has arrested and vowed to bring to justice about eight (8) persons who illegally converted the premises of Community Basic School, at Ologuneru area of the state to a block making factory.

The Federal Government has extended the ban on all flights into the country for another four weeks. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and Chairman of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, announced this at Wednesday’s daily of the Task Force. Recalled the federal government had on March 18th […]

By Asteroid Bassey Since the controversial removal of Dr Aniekeme Uwah as the Akwa Ibom State Epidemiologist, several lies have continuously been peddled by media hirelings of ‘powers that be’ to smear the character of the renowned and celebrated medical expert. As the Akwa Ibom NMA PRO stated on a live radio interview, after the […]

The Bauchi state governor, Bala Mohammad, said by revealing the drug used while in isolation, he was not encouraging self-medication by people that contracted the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN) recalled that Gov. Bala Mohammad had on Wednesday, April 29, said that the state’s medical team had used chloroquine and Zithromax […]

By Dapo Akinrefon The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, on Wednesday, faulted the composition of the Federal Character Commission, FCC, saying it is skewed in favour of a particular geo-political zone. In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, Afenifere said it will not allow President Muhammadu Buhari to get away with yet […]

By Chioma Onuegbu – Uyo A Civil Society Organisation, under the aegis of Niger Delta Movement for Peace & Justice, NDMPJ, has commended members of the National Assembly for setting up an ad-hoc committee to investigate the alleged N40billion fraud levelled against the Interim Management Committee (IMC) in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). National […]

The Ondo State government has said that three more COVID-19 patients have been successfully treated and discharged at the Ondo State Infectious Disease Hospital. Information and Orientation Commissioner, Donald Ojogo, said that “we are delighted to inform the good people of Ondo State that three more Coronavirus patients have been discharged. This brings to six, […]

Prof. Akin Abayomi, Lagos State Commissioner for Health, says the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Lagos is now 1, 242.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has deployed 20 additional vehicles to Sokoto State to assist the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in its bid to tackle the pandemic in the state. The INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja Wednesday. Okoye said […]

No fewer than 90,000 health workers worldwide are believed to have been infected with COVID-19, and possibly twice that, amid reports of continuing shortages of protective equipment, the International Council of Nurses, ICN, said on Wednesday. The disease has killed more than 260 nurses, it said in a statement, urging authorities to keep more accurate […]