Total Health Trust Provides Covid-19 Relief for Healthcare Providers in Nigeria
With rising costs and operational challenges due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this relief aims to support the scheme’s healthcare providers across the country. As Nigeria continues its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, Total Health Trust Limited (THT), a member of the Liberty Group, is playing a leading role in the response through its strategic collaboration […]
Buhari participates in Summit of Non-Aligned Movement to combat COVID-19
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in Abuja via teleconference participated in online Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Contact Group Meeting in response to COVID-19.
Akwa Ibom oil-bearing communities tell ExxonMobil to name contributions to fight against COVID-19
Akwa Ibom Core Oil Bearing Community Vanguard has called on ExxonMobil affiliates in Nigeria operating in Akwa Ibom state to name what it has contributed to the fight against Coronavirus in the state.
Access Bank denies plan to sack 75% workforce, close branches
Access Bank Plc on Monday denied news making rounds that it would sack 75 per cent of its workforce and as well close over 300 branches. The bank denied this in a statement signed by Mr. Sunday Ekwochi, its Company Secretary, posted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) website. It said the closure of a […]
Boris Johnson calls for “truly global effort” to combat COVID-19
British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has called for “a truly global effort” against COVID-19, saying that “the race to discover the vaccine to defeat this virus is not a competition between countries.”
RIFAN appeals to Delta Govt. to provide agrochemicals for farmers
The Chairman, Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN), Delta, Mr. Silver Ejezie, has appealed to the state government to make agrochemicals available to farmers in the state. Ejezie made the appeal on Monday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Asaba. He expressed regret over the shortage of agrochemicals used for […]
Ogun State PDP congress followed due process ― Kashamu
The Ogun State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate in the 2019 elections, Senator Buruji Kashamu, has said that the recently held congresses of the party, which produced a new set of party executives in the state, followed due process. Kashamu stated this in a statement entitled “Setting the records straight on Ogun State PDP […]
PenCom hands over First Guarantee Pension Ltd to reconstituted board
The National Pension Commission (PenCom) has handed over First Guarantee Pension Limited, a Pension Fund Administrator (PFA), to a reconstituted board. PenCom’s Head of Corporate Communication, Mr. Peter Aghahowa, who made this known in a statement in Abuja on Monday, said that the commission had dissolved the Interim Management Committee (IMC) it appointed on Aug. […]
2020 World Press Freedom Day: Journalists’re frontline heroes – Human Rights Commission
As Nigeria joins the rest of the world to celebrate the 2020 World Press Freedom Day amidst the challenges posed by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission, Mr. Tony Ojukwu has commended the efforts of Nigerian journalists in creating awareness and disseminating information on the COVID-19 […]
China says Pompeo ‘insane’ over virus lab origin theory
China’s state broadcaster CCTV on Monday attacked US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s “insane and evasive remarks” over the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, further fuelling Sino-US tensions. Pompeo on Sunday said “enormous evidence” showed the virus originated in a lab in China, doubling down on previous claims that have been repeatedly denied by the World Health Organization […]
Video, Photos: About 40 people from Zamfara hidden amid cows arrested in Lagos
Video and Photos by Lamidi Bamidele A trailer loaded with cow and about forty people coming from Zamfara State was intercepted at the Berger end of Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Monday. The Lagos State security personnel has however ordered the return of the trailer truck from the state. Vanguard News Nigeria.
Greeks rush to hairdressers, florists, beaches, as virus lockdown eases
Greeks were finally allowed to get their hair cut, buy books and flowers and even venture back onto the beaches on Monday as part of a gradual easing of lockdown restrictions imposed six weeks ago to curb the spread of the new coronavirus. Police conducted inspections on buses, in metro stations and shops to make […]
COVID-19: Godson Umeh, celebrity jeweller, supports indigents with N2m
Founder of Godsontheplug, Godson Umeh, has reached out to some families and indigents Nigerians with palliatives worth N2 million, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic ravaging the world. Umeh, who said he is set to collaborate with his Root-Nigeria to push boundaries and further establish his brand and services around the world, made the […]
EFCC arraigns ex-minister,Turaki over alleged fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) on Monday arraigned a former Minister of special duties and Inter-governmental affairs, Kabiru Turaki over alleged fraud in a Federal High Court, Abuja.
German study suggests infections are 10 times the number of confirmed cases
More than 10 times as many people in Germany have likely been infected with the Coronavirus than the number of confirmed cases, researchers from the University of Bonn have concluded from a field trial in one of the worst-hit towns. The preliminary study results, which have yet to be peer-reviewed for publication in a scientific […]
ISIS dumped bodies in 50-metre-deep Syria gorge ―HRW
Human Rights Watch on Monday called for an investigation into a spectacular gorge in northern Syria that has been used as a dumping site for dead bodies over several years. The 50-metre-deep hole in a desert area of Raqa province was once controlled by the Islamic State group, when it still ruled its “caliphate” straddling […]
