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Mar 25, 2020

COVID-19: Arik Air to shut down operations

Arik Air will join Air Peace and Aero Airlines which have announced plans to shut down operation. This will bring to three the number of local carriers shutt...

Mar 25, 2020

BREAKING: Edo Speaker tests positive for COVID-19

The Speaker of the Edo state House of Assembly, Frank Okiye, has tested positive to Coronavirus. This was confirmed by the Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, on...

Mar 25, 2020

UPDATED: Britain’s Prince Charles tests positive for COVID-19

Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, has tested positive for coronavirus, his household said. Charles, eldest son of Queen Elizabeth 11, is 71....

Mar 25, 2020

COVID-19: Wike locks down Rivers, closes all borders Says infected person was stopped from boarding flight to P/Harcourt

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has announced total lockdown of the state as part of drastic measures to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic....

Mar 25, 2020

UK returnee, kids evacuated in Abuja

There was panic on Tuesday at the posh Games Village in Abuja following the evacuation of a woman and her three children suspected to have flauted the 14-day se...

Mar 25, 2020

BREAKING: Libya records first Covid-19 case

Libya recorded its first confirmed case of the novel coronavirus on Wednesday, the UN-backed government announced, stoking concern that an outbreak could overwh...

Mar 25, 2020

Osun, Ekiti, Ondo begin recruitment for Amotekun corps •Lagos, others use different models

After months of planning, recruitment into the Southwest security outfit, Amotekun Corps, has begun in three Southwest states. This followed the successful p...

Mar 25, 2020

Dunamis church shut

Founder of Dunamis International Gospel Church, Pastor Paul Eneche, said his church has complied with Federal Government’s directive for churches to close follo...

Mar 25, 2020

BREAKING: Two new cases in Lagos, Osun as coronavirus toll hit 46

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Tuesday announced two new cases of the novel coronavirus increasing the confirmed cases in the country to 46. One o...

Mar 25, 2020

FG alerts Nigerians to dangerous computer coronavirus

The Federal Government on Tuesday raised the alarm over the existence of an Android-based malicious and fraudulent coronavirus Ransomware application, which cla...

Mar 25, 2020

BREAKING: COVID-19: NCDC confirms two new cases in Lagos, Osun

Two new cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Nigeria, one in Lagos and the other in Osun state. According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (N...

Mar 24, 2020

BREAKING: Bauchi Governor, Bala Mohammed, tests positive for Coronavirus

The Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, has tested positive to coronavirus (COVID-19). The governor’s Senior Special Assistant on Media, Mukhtar Gidado,...

Mar 24, 2020

BREAKING: CBN warns NASS not to tamper with revised oil benchmark

As the impact of the Coronavirus kick in, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has warned the National Assembly (NASS) not to tamper with revised oil benchmark of...

Mar 24, 2020

COVID- 19: JAMB suspends services nationwide

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board(JAMB) has suspended services requiring physical contacts in its offices and centres nationwide for two – week becau...

Mar 24, 2020

COVID-19: Lagos CJ orders courts not to remand suspects in prison except for capital offences

The Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Kazeem Alogba has directed courts in the state not to remand suspects in correctional facilities, except those charged w...

Mar 24, 2020

Ex-Adamawa Pilgrims Welfare boss bags five years imprisonment for fraud

The Adamawa High Court sitting in Yola has sentenced a former executive secretary, Adamawa State Christian Pilgrims Welfare Board, Bishop Jingi Mayo, to five ye...

Mar 24, 2020

BREAKING: COVID-19: Senate set to suspend plenary

The Senate is presently in an executive session preparatory to suspend plenary. The suspension of plenary has become necessary to curb the spread of the Coro...

Mar 24, 2020

BREAKING: Buhari tests negative for COVID-19

President Muhammadu Buhari has tested negative for coronavirus. However, his Chief of Staff Abba Kyari tested positive. Details shortly…

Mar 24, 2020

BREAKING: Abba Kyari tests positive for COVID-19

The Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Abba Kyari, has tested positive for Coronavirus. He was said to have possibly contracted the virus during a...

Mar 24, 2020

Coronavirus: Aisha Buhari calls for ‘total lockdown’

The First Lady, Aisha Buhari on Monday called for a total lockdown over the outbreak of coronavirus in the country. She commended the state governors for clo...