The Anambra State Government has ordered the closure of private and public motor parks in the state. This followed the announcement of the state’s COVID-19 index case on Friday by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. Our correspondent learnt that Read more…
Nigeria’s former finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, was on Friday named a member of the External Advisory Group constituted by the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva. The group of prominent individuals from around the world are Read more…
Today I met with the Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria on the disturbing allegation of ill treatment of Nigerian citizens in China. I showed him the video clip that had made the rounds. He promised to look into it and get Read more…
Tukur Buratai, chief of army staff, has relocated to the north-east to join soldiers fighting Boko Haram insurgents, according to the army. In 2015, following President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive, the military command centre was relocated to Maiduguri in Borno state, Read more…
The Nigerian Government appears to have ignored leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria in its latest pardon of prisoners in the country. On Thursday, Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, said government was freeing 2,600 inmates in various prisons in Read more…
FULL TEXT OF THE EASTER MESSAGE BY THE GOVERNOR OF ENUGU STATE, HIS EXCELLENCY, RT. HON. IFEANYI UGWUANYI, ESPECIALLY IN VIEW OF THE CORONAVIRUS DISEASE (COVID-19) PANDEMIC RAVAGING THE WORLD, April 11, 2020. “Maka Odinamma Anyi”Ndi Enugu, 1. The forty-day Read more…
