Year: 2020
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Health
COVID-19: Total number of infections in Nigeria now 2558
By Abujah Racheal Abuja, May 4, 2020 The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Sunday recorded 170 new cases…
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Local
Liverpool should be awarded Premier League title, ex-manager Houllier says
Paris, May 3, 2020 Former Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier believes his old club should be awarded the 2019/2020 English Premier…
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Local
Funke Akindele, others felicitate with Genevieve Nnaji @41
By Taiye Olayemi Lagos, May 3, 2020 Actress Funke Akindele and other celebrities on Sunday took to their various…
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Health
COVID-19: Nestlé donates foods, beverages worth N32m to Kano State Govt.
By Muhammad Nur Tijani Kano, May 3, 2020 Nestlé Nigeria Plc has donated food and beverages worth N32 million as…
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Illegal mining: Task Force arrests 17 Chinese, 10 locals in Osun
By Victor Adeoti Osogbo, May 3, 2020 The Osun Joint Task Force charged with fighting assorted crimes, has apprehended 27…
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Health
Sanwo-Olu delays resumption of civil servants, as lockdown directive expires … Releases numbers for whistleblowers to report erring companies
The five-week lockdown imposed by the Federal Government on Lagos State and two other states to combat Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)…
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Health
Fed Govt set to evacuate Nigerians from USA; 1st batch departs Sunday, May 10, for Abuja
The Consulate General of Nigeria in New York, United States of America, USA, has announced that the first batch of Nigerians…
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Obi donates COVID-19 relief materials to NAUTH, Nnewi
The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, over the weekend…
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After N2bn donation, Aliko Dangote Foundation engages 54gene laboratory to conduct 1,000 COVID-19 tests per day in Kano
The Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF), a philanthropic endeavor of Aliko Dangote, has contracted 54Gene, a molecular diagnostics company specialized in…
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CBN, Bankers’ Committee suspend lay-offs in banks
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and the Bankers’ Committee have directed that no banks in the country must retrench or…
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Polo fetes journalists; Salutes courage in stemming tide of fake news
Nigeria’s foremost luxury and lifestyle company Polo Limited, as part of its multi-level intervention in providing succour for segments of…
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Business and Economy
The case against high interest rates in time of contagion By Bola Tinubu
THE TIME IS NOW – CORRECT THE INTEREST RATE The economic fallout from the coronavirus may present the best, most…
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COVID-19: Use confiscated stolen assets as isolation centres, SERAP asks Buhari
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an appeal to President Muhammadu Buhari urging him to “urgently instruct the…
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COVID-19: NNPC-led Oil & Gas Industry Intervention commences construction of 200-bed Infectious Diseases Hospital in Yenagoa
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)-led Oil & Gas Industry Intervention Initiative on COVID-19 over the weekend began the third…
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Health
Obi did as much in health as in education during his days as Governor — Okunna
Former Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget and Chief of Staff in the Peter Obi Administration, Prof. Chinyere Stella Okunna,…
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Lead Story
President Buhari commends, charges media on World Press Freedom Day
On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, celebrated every May 3, President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated the commendation he…
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Health
COVID-19: Mbaise nation declares “WAR” on COVID-19, deploys hundreds of footsoldiers
New York, May 02, 2020 The New York USA and Owerri, Imo State based Mbaise Policy Roundtable (MPR), has declared Mbaise…
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Health
League, federation to decide when La Liga returns, Spanish PM says
Madrid, May 2, 2020 Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Saturday said he was hopeful that La Liga returns “soon”.…
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Health
COVID-19: Dangote donates mobile testing centre to Kano govt.
By Aisha Ahmed Kano, May 2, 2020 Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest businessman, has donated a mobile testing centre with…
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Health
Covid-19: Police intercept Sokoto travellers at Osun-Ibadan boundary … We won’t release them until they are tested—Makinde
Officers of the Nigeria Police have apprehended 11 travellers from Sokoto, who defied the inter-state lockdown order of the…
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Business and Economy
Coronavirus: Dangote promotes worker-friendly environment – Edwin …Thumbs up Nigerian workers’ resilience
As workers globally marked the May Day, a case has been made for the collaboration between employers and employees to…
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Health
COVID-19: Atiku urges prayers for Dokpesi, family, others
By Emmanuel Oloniruha Abuja, May 2, 2020 Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has urged Nigerians to pray for speedy…
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Faith
PRAYER POINTS OF RCCG HOLY GHOST SERVICE OF MAY 2020 – THEME: LET THERE BE LIGHT 5
1. Praise God, thank Him and give Him glory. He is the giver of all good gifts. 2. Father,…
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Arts & Entertainment
Olusola Dada celebrates wife, Abolanle Amosu Olusola-Dada, at 40
Pastor-in-charge of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, New Dawn Pavillion, Lagos, Olusola Dada, recently celebrated his wife, Abolanle Amosu…
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Health
Fourth confirmed case of COVID-19 emerges in Enugu
Commissioner for Health, Enugu State, Professor Obi Emmanuel Ikechukwu, has said that a fourth confirmed case of coronavirus has emered…
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