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By Emmanuel Oloniruha(Abuja)/ Monday Ajogun (Benin) March 25, 2020 Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has advised the Federal and State Governments to provide palliatives to Nigerians to enable them comply and survive the directive to work from home. This is as the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) and Governor …

By Huseyn Abubakar Mbar. Bauchi, March. 25, 2020 Gunmen on Wednesday night, kidnapped Mr Adamu Mohammad, elder brother to Bauchi state Governor, Bala Mohammad. Gov. Mohammed tested positive to the coronavirus and is presently quarantined and receiving medical attention. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the gunmen, after firing …

In hopes of minimizing the chances of employee and customers’ exposure to the disease and to join responsive corporate entities across the country to restrain the spread of the COVID-19, Kia Motors Nigeria has introduced measures to curtail the spread of the virus. Rooted in the practice advisedby the World …

The Federal Government has alerted Nigerians to the existence of an Android-based malicious and fraudulent Coronavirus Ransomware Application, which claims to provide updates on the virus and infections near the user. In a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the …

Despite the worrying trajectory of the coronavirus (COVID-19) which is fast spreading across Nigeria, Konga, Nigeria’s foremost e-commerce giant, has announced its determination to continuously deploy its huge nationwide delivery and warehousing infrastructure to assist the government in reaching the citizenry with essential needs; even as it has reassured its …

Gov. Douye Diri of Bayelsa has dispelled rumors that he had contact with the Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari, and Bauchi Governor, Senator Bala Mohammed, who have both tested positive to the corona virus. The governor cleared the air during an inspection tour of the isolation …

New York, March 24, 2020 Authorities in Niger should immediately release journalist Kaka Touda Mamane Goni and halt legal proceedings against him, the Committee to Protect Journalists has said. On March 5, police arrested Kaka Touda, an independent journalist who publishes news reports on his Facebook and Twitter pages, at …

The Vice-Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has appealed to market leaders nationwide to close down the non-essential parts of their markets, leaving such essential parts as drugs and food stuff, as one of the preventive measures towards curtailing the spread …

United Nations, March 25, 2020 President of the United Nations General Assembly (PGA), Amb. Tijani Muhammad-Bande has called for concerted global action against modern slavery. Muhammad-Bande made the call in a message to mark the 2020 International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. …

Nigerian politicians always talk of the need for a handshake across the Niger. The politicos have from the First Republic been talking of forging an alliance between East and West toward the greater growth of Nigeria. Thus far it has been all talk and no action on the political front. …

For twenty years running, our health sector funding has declined. In many other cases, budgets are padded and looted by lawmakers and public officials with impunity. Some states just looked away in funding health and education sectors preferring instead to be erecting white elephants. Our political elite lived in a …

By Ayinde Olaide/Amina Ahmed Bauchi, March. 24, 2020 Some residents of Bauchi on Tuesday said they received with shock, news of Gov. Bala Mohammad of Bauchi State testing positive to the deadly coronavirus disease. Mr Muktar Gidado, the governor’s Senior Special Assistant (SSA), Media, revealed  that Gov. Mohammad tested positive …

Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, reputed to be the defacto president of Nigeria, Malam Abba Kyari, has tested positive for Coronavirus. Details of his infection are still sketchy and the story is coming against the background of high level of anxiety that has gripped the people of Bauchi …

  By Kingsley Okoye Abuja, March 24, 2020 Sen. Rose Oko, representing Cross River North Senatorial District of Cross River is dead, aged 63. The late Oko, who died last night at a UK hospital, was the Chairman, Senate Committee on Trade and Investment. A close aide of the late …

My first reaction to the news of the cancellation or suspension of $22 billion loan sought by Nigeria’s Federal Government, if at all it is accurate and correct, was not to comment but try to understand the implications of such a decision against the background of the current global economic …

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and his as yet unnamed son who has tested positive to the novel coronavirus have come under attack by people who have condemned the handling of the crisis, especially by the former Vice President’s now hospitalised son. Comments on the social media say that the …

Konga, Nigeria’s foremost e-commerce giant, has revealed that a minimum of 10,000 shoppers will benefit from its N10m fund set up to cushion the effects of the dreaded coronavirus (COVID-19). As a matter of fact, Konga had disclosed that the N10m intervention package, set to be disbursed to customers through …

Abujah Racheal Abuja, March 23, 2020 The Federal Ministry of Health(FMoH), has called on the Chinese Government to lend its technical support to the fight against Coronavirus (COVID19) in the country, following 36 confirmed cases, two discharged and one death recorded. The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, made the …

By Chidi Opara Owerri, March 23, 2020 Gov. Hope Uzodinma of Imo has assigned portfolios to the 23 commissioners that would assist him to run the affairs of the state. Mr C.O.C Akaolisa, from Orsu Local Government Area was assigned the portfolio of Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr …

Bern (Switzerland), March 23, 2020 This season’s Champions League, Europa League and women’s Champions League finals scheduled for May have been formally postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic, European soccer’s governing body UEFA said on Monday. All three competitions are currently suspended along with almost every European domestic league because …

Borno State Government on Monday imposed a four-week ban on visitors to all Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in the state. The move is part of the state’s strategy to contain the outbreak of the virus in the state. Zulum had last week appointed the state’s deputy governor, Umar Kadafur …

Chairman, Nigeria’s Presidential Task Force On COVID-10 Pandemic, Mr. Boss Mustapha, has  announced that the weekly Federal Executive Council, FEC, meetings and a scheduled meeting of the National Council of States, NCS, have all been suspended as part of the efforts of the government to stop the spread of the …

Against the background of the increasing number of people confirmed positive for the novel coronavirus, the University of Lagos, UNILAG, has, after an emergency meeting, asked some of its staff to stay at home for two weeks with effect from Tuesday, March 24, 2020. In a statement, the frontline university …

Maritime stakeholders have commended President Muhammadu Buhari for appointing a technocrat, Dr. Bashir Jamoh, as Director-General/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA). Voicing the endorsement at a recent reception in Lagos to honour the new Director-General, the industry stakeholders said with Jamoh leading the charge, …

From: Ruth Yarnap Bauchi Bauchi state Governor, Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed has gone into self isolation following contact with the son of the former Vice President, Mohammed Atiku Abubakar last week. This came as the result of the report from the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, that the son of …