An appeal has gone to Lagos State government to lend support to Igbo traders to enable them bounce back after the hugelosses suffered in the midst of Coronavirus lockdown.President of Imo State Town Associations in Lagos (ISTDAL), Agu Chris Ekeoch, Read more…
THE Federal Government has said it would roll out the course of action for the reopening of schools in the country. The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, stated this during a briefing in Abuja yesterday. Read more…
Global rights group, Amnesty International, has condemned the treatment of children arrested for allegedly engaging in terrorism. Amnesty said the children were locked up alongside adult terrorists who sexually abuse them while military officials look the other way. The rights Read more…
An intrepid Pakistani ‘spy’ pigeon is facing a life behind bars in India. The allegation was made after Geeta Devi, a resident of the Kathua district of Indian-administered Kashmir, reported a bird – painted pink and carrying a coded ring tagged Read more…
President Vladimir Putin has announced that Russia’s postponed Victory Day parade will take place on June 24. First planned for May 9, the 75th-anniversary celebration of Soviet victory over Nazism was canceled due to Covid-19. According to the president, the Read more…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation will probe the death of a black man who died shortly after being apprehended by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after disturbing video emerged on social media showing a police officer with his knee on the Read more…
Governor Nasir El-Rufa’i of Kaduna State has warned that parents who enrol their children into the Almajiri education system stand the risk of prosecution and up to two years jail. He stated this in Kaduna when he visited some 200 Read more…
A 27-year-old man identified only as “Sooraj” has been arrested for allegedly murdering his wife by letting loose a cobra in her room after first failing to kill her with a viper. According to Dailymail. co.uk, Sooraj, who worked in Read more…
The National Health Insurance Scheme has developed guidelines to tackle the spread of coronavirus among health management organisations accredited by the scheme. This follows a call by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, on May 21, for institutional leaders to develop Read more…
Governors of the South-East say they will further engage the NigeriaCentre for Disease Control, to scale up testing for Coronaviruspandemic in the region. This is contained in a communique issued by the Governors at the endof their meeting at the Read more…
It is my pleasure once again to update you on the efforts our dear state is making to protect our people from the fast-spreading Covid-19 pandemic that is ravaging the world today. As you are well aware, long before we Read more…
Our Reporters The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), said on Sunday that he observed the Eid-el-Fitr prayers at his State House residence because of the raging COVID-19 pandemic. He explained that his decision was in compliance with the measures Read more…