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COVID-19 lockdown unrest: Sanwo-Olu orders total clampdown on hoodlums

COVID-19 lockdown unrest: Sanwo-Olu orders total clampdown on hoodlums

To flag off daily food kitchen for youths to douse tension among restive youths Says over 200,000 vulnerable households have been reached so far on palliative measures 600 childbirths recorded so far in Lagos on free of charge during lockdown ..Updating data for remittance of cash to about 250,000 indigents by the end of the […]

Monarch’s wife, daughter kidnapped in Oyo

Monarch’s wife, daughter kidnapped in Oyo

Olori Funbi Ojo, the wife of Oba Olusanjo Ojo, the Baba-Aso of Igboole in Igboora area of Oyo State, was on Monday evening kidnapped alongside her daughter by unknown gunmen. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the wife of the monarch is the Matron of Oyo State College of Agriculture and Technology (OYSCATECH) […]

CBN N50bn COVID-19 Fund: NIRSAL MFB waives business plans

CBN N50bn COVID-19 Fund: NIRSAL MFB waives business plans

Emma Ujah The NIRSAL Microfinance Bank (NMFB) has waived Business Plans as a mandatory requirement for loan applications from interested members of the public and business enterprises. The Managing Director (MD), Mr Abubakar Kure, announced this, in Abuja, this afternoon, at a press conference, jointly addressed with the Director of Corporate Communications, of the Central […]

5G coronavirus conspiracy theory ‘fuelled by coordinated effort’

5G coronavirus conspiracy theory ‘fuelled by coordinated effort’

A conspiracy theory linking 5G technology to the outbreak of the coronavirus is quickly gaining momentum, with celebrities including actor Woody Harrelson promoting the idea. But the theory is also getting a boost from what some researchers say is a coordinated disinformation campaign. Marc Owen Jones, a researcher at Hamad bin Khalifa University in Qatar, […]

COVID-19: El-Rufai approves release of 72 convicts

COVID-19: El-Rufai approves release of 72 convicts

Gov. Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has approved the release of 72 convicts from the Kaduna and Kafanchan Correctional Centres as part of the government’s efforts to check the spread of COVID-19. The state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Aisha Dikko, who announced the release of the inmates on Tuesday, said 69 of the […]