BREAKING: Six NDDC workers test positive for COVID-19
Six members of staff of the Niger Delta Development Commission have tested positive for coronavirus, The PUNCH reports. The Commission, while announcing…
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Doctors on COVID-19 duty, others begin strike next week
The National Association of Resident Doctors, the umbrella body of all doctors working in government health facilities, has issued a notice of…
COVID-19 Patient Who Escaped From Imo State Arrested In Ondo Selling Okirika
Members of Ondo State Special Task Force on COVID-19 have arrested a Coronavirus patient, who escaped from Imo State to Akure in…
NGO Raises Awareness On COVID 19 As It’s Sets To Commission Borehole To Mark Children’s Day
The African Scholars Care Initiative-ASCI, a non governmental organization in Africa under the leadership of Lady Onumajuru Osomiamhe Joy, has commenced a…
Demolition of Hotels! Uwazuruike rains abuses on Wike
Leader of the Biafra Independence Movement –BIM, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, has lambasted Rivers State governor Nyesom Wike for demolishing two hotel for…
Oyo COVID-19 recoveries rise to 17
The number of discharged patients in Oyo State has risen to 17, The PUNCH reports. This was as the state discharged three…
Gov elections: INEC orders Ondo, Edo offices to reopen
The Independent National Electoral Commission has ordered its Edo and Ondo State offices to reopen “immediately” in preparation for the upcoming governorship…
Police recover one-month-old baby stolen in Imo, sold to couple in Lagos
The Lagos State Police Command says it has arrested two men, Mbama, 41, and Ekwebele, 30, who allegedly stole a one-month-old baby…
Foreign reserves gain $1.22bn in 11 days
Foreign reserves have risen to $34.65bn within eleven days, latest figures from the Central Bank of Nigeria have indicated. The report specifically…
Lawan kicks as senators violate social distancing
The Senate on Tuesday resumed plenary with many senators failing to practise social distancing to halt the spread of coronavirus. Our correspondent…
Buhari Gives Order On Madagascar’s Covid 19 Cure
President Muhammadu Buhari, has directed that Madagascar’s cure for coronavirus be picked up. Madagascar had prepared a drug named “covid organics” for…
Buhari Replaces Dead Nominee On Federal Character Board
President Muhammadu Buhari has replaced Tobias Okwuru, who was named a member of the Federal Character Commission (FCC) board two months after…
Wike relaxes lockdown in Rivers for two days
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has announced the temporary lifting of the total lockdown on Obio/Akpor and Port Harcourt Local Government Areas…
Hit-and-run driver kills policeman in Lagos
An officer of the Nigeria Police Force has been killed by a hit-and-run driver at Marwa, along Lekki-Epe Expressway, Lagos. The PUNCH…
I did not violate any law – Rivers hotel owner
The owner of Prudent Hotel demolished by the Rivers State Government, Promise Gogorodari, has denied violating any law to warrant the demolition…
Abia Gov’t Reopens Churches, Markets, Others
The subsisting total lockdown in Abia state as directed by the government will be relaxed with effects from Monday, May 11, the…