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The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi today announced the COVID-19 related death of a 63-year-old man with no travel history or contact with any confirmed case. Abayomi in his statement also stated that the total number of ...

The UK hit back at Donald Trump today amid international fury at his decision to halt £400m of funding to the World Health Organisation (WHO). The US President made the shock announcement last night to temporarily halt around 15% of ...

There has been a fire incident at the headquarters of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) in Abuja. This is coming about one week after similar fire incident engulfed the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation, located in Garki area ...

The Police on Tuesday said they had arrested a female armourer and recovered 21 stolen cars from an armed robbery gang operating at the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) car park. The Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), DCP Frank Mba, ...

A former aide to presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has in several media interviews accused him of s.e.xually assaulting her nearly 30 years ago when he was a U.S. senator, an assertion that Biden’s campaign has strongly denied. Tara ...

Keniebi Okoko, Bayelsa-born billionaire businessman and philanthropist, has died in Lagos, throwing many Bayelsans into mourning. Some reports said Okoko, son of Professor Kimse Okoko, died on Tuesday during a liposuction surgery in a Lagos hospital. A power outage was ...

A married mother miraculously came back to life as funeral parlor workers were set to prepare her body for a service hours after a doctor at a private clinic in east-central Paraguay had informed her family she had died. Gladys ...

Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun on Tuesday said the current relaxation of the lockdown in the state from 7am to 2pm would be suspended on Friday. The governor also said the state would soon commence strict enforcement of wearing of ...

The Federal Government has said that people with over N5, 000 in their bank account will not benefit from the palliatives to cushion the effect of the lockdown as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The government also said that ...

A brave schoolboy has beaten coronavirus while undergoing gruelling cancer treatment. Tottenham-mad Archie Wilks, four, was diagnosed with neruroblastoma in January 2019 and was undergoing brutal chemotherapy sessions when he tested positive for coronavirus last month. Parents Simon and Harriet, ...

The Federal Government, as part of efforts to take advantage of two-week lockdown extension ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari, aims to conduct 4,000 COVID-19 tests every day. The Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Chikwe Ihekweazu, who ...

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, said a total of 119 people with COVID-19 symptoms have been identified in the state. Abayomi, at a briefing of Tuesday, said a total of 118,000 households had been reached in ...

A Facebook user, Saheed Akinloye, was on Tuesday remanded in a correctional centre by the Osun State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Osogbo for accusing the state government of importing COVID-19 patients into the state in order to access funds from ...

Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun on Tuesday said the current relaxation of the lockdown in the state from 7am to 2pm would be suspended on Friday. The governor also said the state would soon commence strict enforcement of wearing of ...

n Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said miscreants using the lockdown to unleash havoc on the residents are not ‘hungry people’ but opportunistic criminals. Sanwo-Olu, who said this at the COVID-19 and security briefing in Marina, assured that his ...

The Kwara Government has dismissed claims across the state suggesting that a local delicacy of yam flour, popularly called ‘Amala’, cures Coronavirus (COVID-19). Dr Abubakar Ayinla, the Permanent Secretary, state Ministry of Health, dismissed the claims on Tuesday in Ilorin ...

Three weeks after the Central Bank of Nigeria released the guidelines for the N50bn targeted credit facility, over 80,000 applications have so far been received from businesses and individuals. The Managing Director, NIRSAL Microfinance Bank, Mr Abubakar Kure, confirmed this ...

The Head, European Union Delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Amb. Ketil Karlsen, has said that the N21bn (€50m) donated to Nigeria by the EU is largely meant for the poor. “That is why part of the €50m we provide will ...

Representative of Mitsubishi Motors in Nigeria, Massilia Motors, has provided food items to feed members of about 1,000 homes in Ijora, a suburb of Lagos State, where the company’s head office is located. A statement by the company said a ...

The Lagos State Government has partnered the National Youth Service Corps to release corps members to anchor the distribution of food palliatives across the 20 Local Government Areas and 37 Local Council Development Areas of the state. According to the ...

The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra has called on donors in the South-East and South-South geopolitical zones to do so directly to their people. MASSOB argued that passing cash and food items through the governors ...

A councillor in the Katcha Local Government Area of Niger State has allegedly disappeared with 30 bags of palliative grains meant to alleviate the sufferings of the people of his constituency occasioned by COVID-19 lockdown, The Punch reports. The Secretary ...

Thce, has tested negative twice to the coronavirus disease after self-isolating, an official has disclosed. The Service Public Relations Officer (SPEO), Sunday James, disclosed this in a statement made available to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Abuja ...

The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has announced another 11 fresh cases of Coronavirus in Nigeria, with all cases detected in Lagos. This takes the national Coronavirus toll to 373, with Lagos having 214 cases. The Centre had earlier ...

The Federal Government has explained why there is delay in the evacuation of stranded Nigerians abroad. The Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama said the need to put in place isolation facilities was responsible for the delay of stranded Nigerians ...