The federal government has announced the granting of a two-month licence-fee waiver for terrestrial broadcast stations in the country by the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, as part of efforts to ease the negative effect of COVID-19 pandemic on the broadcast industry.

Another industrial crisis is brewing at the Jos University Teaching Hospital, JUTH, following disengagement of 25 doctors by management of the hospital.

ONE of the four suspected killers of the daughter of  Afenifere  leader, Funke Olakunri, who is being treated for COVID-19 at the Ondo Infectious Disease Centre, Adamu Adamu, yesterday, attempted to escape.

By Lawani Mikairu The federal government Wednesday announced the extension of the current closure of Airports and flights into the country by four weeks. Disclosing the extension at the briefing of the presidential task force on COVID-19 on Wednesday, Mr Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the government of the federation, said after due consultation, the federal […]

Prof. Segun Ajiboye is the Registrar/Chief Executive Officer, Teachers’ Registration Council of Nigeria,TRCN. In this interview, he talks about the impact of COVID-19 on education in Nigeria and effects the pandemic will leave on the education system after it is finally contained. Excerpts:

By Olu Fasan A FEW years ago, some foreign security experts visited Nigeria to study its crisis management system with a view to offering advice and support. What they found shocked them. Nigeria’s standards, they said, were below what they had feared. The country’s technical ability to handle crisis was very low. There was little […]

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would present the government’s plans to ease the UK’s COVID-19 lockdown on Sunday. “We will, of course, be setting out the details about that plan on Sunday,” Johnson said on Wednesday during his first appearance at Prime Minister’s Questions in parliament after undergoing treatment for COVID-19. The prime minister […]

The UK government intends to double the number of tests for the coronavirus run per day by the end of May and to carry out up to 200,000, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency said that the country had begun producing a new […]

Advocate inclusive approach to defeat pandemic By Chris Ochayi – Abuja Registered political parties in Nigeria have called on the Federal Government to provide adequate funds to the National Centre for Diseases Control, NCDC, to enable it to increase testing capacity and creation of isolation centers in order to defeat the dreaded Coronavirus, COVID-19 pandemic. […]

The Oyo State Government, on Tuesday, arrested eight persons for establishing a block making industry illegally on the land belonging to the Community Basic School Ologuneru area of the state. Dr. Nureni Adeniran, the Executive Chairman, Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), said the eight persons would be brought to justice in a statement […]