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Mar 19, 2020

Lagos private schools announce closure over COVID-19

Some private schools in Lagos have taken the initiative to announce closure from Thursday without any prompting from the Ministry of Education This is coming...

Mar 19, 2020

JAMB releases another 450,000 candidates’ results • Saturday's results not cancelled, says board • Exorbitant fees: NECO petitions education commissioners

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released another batch of results of about 450, 000 candidates who sat for the Unified Tertiary Matricul...

Mar 19, 2020

Ex-Rivers Governor Odili under probe for N100b ‘fraud’ •Wike govt ‘paid N2b into account’

A PROBE into how a former Governor of Rivers State, Dr. Peter Odili, allegedly diverted N100 billion for personal use, has commenced. Odili, who was governor...

Mar 18, 2020

BREAKING: House of Reps bans open worships, visitors to NASS over COVID-19

The House of Representatives, after a two-hour debate on Wednesday, banned all forms of open worships across the country over the corona virus pandemic. It s...

Mar 18, 2020

COVID-19: Senate urges Buhari to address Nigerians

The Senate on Wednesday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to personally address Nigerians on the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. The upper chamber also u...

Mar 18, 2020

UPDATED: Nigeria records five new cases of coronavirus

The Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) has confirmed 5 new cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria within the last 36 hours, bringing total number of confirmed cases in Nig...

Mar 18, 2020

Fed Govt launches I-MOP for access to health services

The Federal Government has officially launched the Integrated Medical Outreach Programme (I-MOP); an intervention programme aimed at bringing succor to the vuln...

Mar 18, 2020

BREAKING: Nigeria records five new cases of coronvirus

The Federal Ministry of Health on Wednesday announced five new cases of COVID19 in Nigeria, bringing the total number confirmed cases in Nigeria to 8. All fi...

Mar 18, 2020

BREAKING: Katsina records first suspected case of coronavirus

Katsina state on Wednesday announced her first suspected case COVID 19, since the outbreak of the Global pandemic early December last year The Permanent Secr...

Mar 18, 2020

BREAKING: FG restricts travellers from US,UK, 11 others over COVID-19

The federal government has issued a ban on entry into Nigeria on the United States of America, the United Kingdom and eleven other countries. Announcing the...

Mar 18, 2020

BREAKING: FG imposes travel ban on 13 countries from Saturday

The Federal Government has issued a travel ban on 13 countries over the spread of the Coronavirus. The Ban will take effect from Saturday, March 21, 2020. D...

Mar 18, 2020

APC will bounce back stronger, says Oshiomhole •Suspended national officers recalled •All suits to be withdrawn from courts •Ajimobi, Chukwuma take NWC seats •Oshiomhole, Giadom embrace at meeting •National Secretary Bulama absent

LEADERS of the All Progressives Congress (APC) put behind them weeks of bickering yesterday as the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) met and declared the...

Mar 18, 2020

Recruitment of fresh 10,000 constables begins soon — Minister

The Minister of Police Affairs, Muhammad Dingyadi, has said the recruitment of a fresh batch of 10,000 policemen will soon commence. This is part of the plan...

Mar 18, 2020

BREAKING: Coronavirus: NYSC shuts down Orientation Camps nationwide

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) on Wednesday morning shut down all orientation camps nationwide over fears of the coronavirus. The Batch A corps memb...

Mar 17, 2020

Imo set to conduct LG elections – Uzodinma .... Appoints ISIEC chairman, members

Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State on Tuesday declared his intentions to conduct local government elections anytime soon. He made his intentions known throu...

Mar 17, 2020

BREAKING: Church of England suspends public services

The Archbishop of Canterbury on Tuesday announced that public worship is ‘suspended until further notice’ amid fears over coronavirus. In a joint letter, the...

Mar 17, 2020

Kenya confirms 4th case of Covid-19

Kenya on Tuesday confirmed its fourth case of the novel Coronavirus code named Covid-19. In a televised address on Tuesday, Health Minister, Mutahi Kagwe, sa...

Mar 17, 2020

FAAN suspends national aviation conference over coronavirus

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has suspended its national aviation conference following the spread of coronavirus. The Authority explained...

Mar 17, 2020

FG releases N20b for completion of East-West road …contractors ordered back to site

At last the Federal Government has released the sum of N20billion for the completion of the East-West Road project that was awarded in 2006. The 657 kilomete...

Mar 17, 2020

BREAKING: UEFA postpones Euro 2020 for a year

Union of European Football Associations, UEFA has postponed Euro 2020 until next summer, the Norwegian FA claim. Euro 2020 was due to begin on June 12 for on...