By Prince Osuagwu – Hi-Tech Editor Pay Television operator, Multichoice Nigeria has rolled out different Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Among all of them, the investments in public information, using tech-based platforms, appears to break the barriers in customer relations. The company has made remarkable initiatives worth over N1 billion […]

FOLLOWING long stay onboard vessels occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic seafarers have turned on themselves.
Deputy President General of Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, Comrade Douglas Eromoboh, raised an alarm that two seafarers stabbed themselves onboard a vessel and that all over the oil platforms and rigs, seafarers are now attacking their captains because they want to go home.

By Aare Afe Babalola IT is no longer news that SARS-CoV-2, renamed COVID-19 by the World Health Organisation on February 11, 2020, has taken the world by storm, transcending borders and geographical landscapes, defying orthodox treatments and holding several economies, first-world and third-world alike, to ransom. Besides its dire health implications, the COVID-19 pandemic has […]

Leading Tech and E-commerce company, Arigo.ng is offering business owners in Nigeria and Sub-Sahara Africa one-month free business registration on its platform. Arigo is a top-notch tech and I.T firm with interests in e-commerce, database management, web/apps design development, ICT training and consulting, to mention just a few. Due to the current lockdown measures put […]

Madagascan president Andry Rajoelina has announced that clinical trials will start today (May 4) with COVID-Organics. A factory will also be built within a month to boost its production. The president disclosed the developments during a national address on Sunday during which he extended the state of health emergency in the southern African island nation […]

Ethiopian Airlines, Africa’s biggest and most profitable, was not left out of the effects of the coronavirus pandemic which hit the aviation industry very badly. Whiles most airlines across the continent are grounded totally, Ethiopian continues flying in two main operation zones – cargo and repatriation flights. ALSO READ: Madagascar starts COVID-Organics clinical trials, factory to […]

Africa’s oil-producing nations have not been spared the impact of the global decision to reduce oil output. About 14 countries in sub-Saharan Africa produce oil, which accounts for most of their annual export income. Crude oil prices rose marginally on Friday (May 1) as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and their allies started […]

By Dapo Akinrefon Captain Harrison Adekunle Kuti, first Nigerian commercial pilot to fly Boeing 747 is dead. He died after a brief illness on March 28, aged 78. His death was announced by his widow Dr. Adegoriola Eni-Iyi Kuti. According to a statement by the family, Captain Kuti was until his death the President, Hak […]

Lawyers in Nigeria have dragged the Federal Government to court, demanding the categorization of legal practice and the Judiciary as essential services, particularly during periods of emergency. In suit no FHC/ ABJ/CS/467/2020, filed at the Federal High Court, Abuja Division, against the Federal Government, the lawyers said their services would be required at all times […]

By Aliyu Dangida, Dutse Irked by the daily reported death case in the last 10 days across the state, Jigawa state governor, Muhammed Badaru Abubakar has set up five-man committee saddled with responsibility at checking the remote cause of the death. This was disclosed by the state Chairman, COVID 19 Task force, who is also […]

Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa says the state has recorded an additional confirmed case of coronavirus, bringing the number of active cases to 12. Sule made the disclosure during an expanded state security meeting on Tuesday in Lafia. The governor said the affected person is a driver with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NSCDC), […]

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru ABUJA — THE Presidency on Tuesday said that returned $311 which was part of the money allegedly stolen by the late former Head of State, Gen. Sanni Abacha has been allocated for infrastructure development in the country. The Presidency also said that part of the returned loot in 2019 was being used […]

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) says the proposed bill on Infectious Disease Control will deny Nigerians their Fundamental Human Rights (FHR) if passed into law.

By Tordue Salem – Abuja Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire told the House of Representatives on Tuesday, that the government of President Muhammadu Buhari, is open to the possibility of using local herbs to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, but insisted that the Nigeria Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development must first certify any such […]

 President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the opening of five COVID-19 Donor Accounts which form part of the existing Treasury Single Account (TSA) arrangement in five commercial banks.