The presidency on Saturday urged Nigerians to ignore claims on the whereabouts of President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, Laolu Akande, who made the call said he made an Instagram post in which he gave an insight […]

…Opens bid for local manufactures of kits …Records 448 recoveries, 33 deaths so far …Confirmed 1,683 cases …As Sanwo-Olu orders immediate local production of lab apparatus for diagnostic process By Olasunkanmi Akoni Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu has disclosed plans to scale up its testing capacity for COVID-19 from 850 to 1500 and 2000 […]

Top gospel singer, Frank Edwards has revealed his plans to record his mother for the purposes of sharing the testimony of his life by herself from childhood till he was 17.

By Chioma Obinna Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, on Saturday, faulted Kogi and Rivers states’ stance on the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, advisory for the management of COVID-19 pandemic. The doctors noted that while it would be welcome news for a ‘no-positive-case’ status in those states, every state must ensure they follow the testing […]

Except he’s not somewhere close to the camera, you can’t comfortably classify him as a funny bone. But if he is, then being funny is his second nature.

By Demola Akinyemi – Ilorin Kwara State Police Command, weekend intercepted a lorry load of the trailer fully loaded with 200 Almajirai (street urchins) in Olooru,Moro local government area of the statements. The Almajirai were on their way to Kwara state before luck ran out of them in Olooru, a border area to Niger state. […]

Federal Government has been asked to shun the idea of dealing with individuals when Nollywood is the subject matter to avoid pitching practitioners against the guilds and associations in the industry.

By Egufe Yafugborhi – Port Harcourt Police in Rivers State have rescued Lebanese born Nollywood actor, Bilal Nosser, from kidnappers’ den in Ndashi forest, Etche Local Government Area, Rivers State. Nnamdi Omoni, Police Public Relations Officer, Rivers Command, said, Nosser, better known as Mr B, “was kidnapped early hours of Friday in neighboring Imo state […]

Multi-talented record producer Adewumi Adeyanju Moses popularly known as Biesloaded has released his debut single titled ‘Blogger Blogger’. The single features the Marlians records signee rapper Mohbad alongside the indigenous rap king, Kabex. The Song was produced by Rexxie, mixed and mastered by Spiritmyx. Biesloaded, also an internet blogger, was born in his hometown, Ilesa, […]

ActionAid Nigeria has taken COVID-19 awareness campaign to Kogi State, with the goal of reaching 36,000 rural community dwellers. Mr. Anicetus Atakpu, ActionAid Resilience Programmes Coordinator, on Saturday, told NAN of the target during a Door-to-Door COVID-19 Precautionary Awareness Campaign and strengthening of community facilitators in Koton-Karfe community, Kogi-KK Local Government area. ALSO READ: COVID-19: […]

ALARMED by the growing cases of child abuse in the society, a non-governmental organisation, Let’s Talk Humanity Initiative (LTHI), has urged the Federal Government to strengthen institutions saddled with the responsibility of child advocacy throughout the country in order to curb the menace of child abuse.

By Olasunkanmi Akoni Following the sharp rise in the confirmed cases of COVID-19, Lagos State Government, through the Lagos State Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development has released additional guidelines. The guideline was intended to curtail the possibility of continuous spread of the virus on all building construction sites in the state. Commissioner for […]

By Henry Ojelu The ex-wife of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Mrs Taiwo Obasanjo, has asked all the youths in Nigeria to join her effort to free the country from the rampaging coronavirus pandemic. In a statement, Mrs Obasanjo noted that her voluntary organisation, Youths for National & International Responsibility, wants all the youths in Nigeria […]

The Nasarawa State Police Command on Saturday confirmed that a man simply identified as James Samuel committed suicide on the premises of his former school. The command spokesman, Rahman Nansel, who disclosed this to journalists in Lafia, said Samuel, 30, hanged himself in a classroom at Government Secondary School in Gurku, Karu local government area […]

By Joseph Erunke – Abuja The federal government has said a total of 3.1 million households in Nigeria will benefit from its Homegrown School Feeding programme during the lockdown period. The revelation came as 520 people living with disabilities in Abuja village, Saturday, benefited from its ongoing palliatives following the lockdown declared to control the […]