Three states of the federation – Kaduna, Rivers and Enugu – are taking the business of enforcement of the safety protocols more seriously than many others, because they know for a fact, that Covid-19 is not a joke, even though Read more…
Month: May 2020
The Department of State Services (DSS) was on Thursday, awarded N10million fine as damages for illegally detaining a trader, Mr. Anthony Okolie, for a period of 10 weeks without any charge, although he was accused of using a SIM card Read more…
Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, a former Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has called on African countries to step up their games and develop untapped “scientific capital” buried in their forests and ecosystems. An Online news outlet reports that Moghalu Read more…
■ Condemn repatriation, ban, say govs’ action anti-Islam A new group, Concerned Almajirai has called for the constitution of a stakeholders forum by the Federal Government to design a blueprint to address the challenge of Almajiri system in northern states. Read more…
The Anambra Primarily Healthcare Development Agency on Saturday decried the low turnout of routine immunisation meant to protect children against diseases. Dr Chioma Ezenyimulu, Executive Secretary of the agency attributed the low turnout to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ezenyimulu expressed her displeasure Read more…
■No, they’re innocent Nigerians being persecuted – Yerima, Arewa youths leader As the controversy rages over the movement of suspected Almajirai from the North to the South, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Movement for the Actualisation of Read more…
The Enugu State Government through the Enugu Capital Territory Development Authority (ECDTA) has sealed the state headquarters of popular Pentecostal church, the Lord’s Chosen Charismatic Revival Movement. The action, according to ECDTA was to forestall likely casualty from the imminent Read more…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday handed over a property forfeited by former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Allison-Madueke to the Lagos State government for use as an isolation centre for COVID-19 patients. The property consisting of six Read more…
As part of efforts to reach out and help people, organizations and health institutions through the Coronavirus pandemic, the Vice Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in the last election, Mr. Peter Obi, has taken his COVID-19 intervention Read more…
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has met with his Guinea Bissau counterpart, Umaro Sissoco Embaló. Buhari received his guest on Saturday afternoon at the State House in Abuja, according to his Personal Assistant on New Media, Bashir Ahmad. Read more…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it has not been proven if people can catch the novel coronavirus by touching surfaces where it lingers, such as handles, doorknobs or keyboards. The UN agency, which said this on Saturday, recommended in Read more…
The head of Russia’s space agency, Dmitry Rogozin, fired off a tongue-in-cheek tweet in response to Donald Trump’s brag about the uber-powerful missile that he alleges leaves Russian or Chinese analogues far behind. While unveiling the flag of the Space Read more…