archiveMarch 2020

  Opens up on gains of restructuring, insists employees remain major asset Leading downstream oil and gas company in Nigeria, NIPCO Plc, has heightened the supports for its customers and staff in the prevention of the Coronavirus ravaging the World. Managing Director of the company, Suresh Kumar, who declared this...

The coronavirus epidemic in the UK is showing signs of slowing and antibody tests could be ready in days, Neil Ferguson, a professor of mathematical biology at Imperial College London, said on Monday. Britain, which has the world’s fifth largest economy, initially took an approach to containing the spread of...

The Minister of Finance and the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) have secured approval from President Muhammadu Buhari to exempt key players in the financial services sector from COVID- 19 movement restrictions. A statement jointly issued by the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab...

  Australian companies will get 1,500 Australian dollars (922 dollars) a fortnight in wage subsidies per employee to keep their workers salaried during the coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday. “The announcement was part of the 130-billion-dollar economic package. “Economic package to support the jobs and livelihoods...

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, on Sunday assured that the COVID-19 pandemic will soon be over. According to him, people have no cause to fear, as ‘only those whose time has come will die’ as the world and Nigeria battle the...

The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has expressed support for President Muhammadu Buhari’s order to lock down Abuja, Lagos and Ogun States for an initial period of 14 days in the move to stop the spread of the coronavirus. The CUPP, an umbrella body of opposition parties,  expressed its support...

  Calls on govts, churches to provide palliatives The President, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. Samson Ayokunle, on Sunday, urged Nigerians not to be afraid in order to overcome the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Ayokunle, who doubles as the President of the Nigerian Baptist Convention (NBC), also narrated how he...

  Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s nationwide broadcast will help to bring all the separate interventions into an integrated response strategy. Buhari had, during a nationwide broadcast on Sunday, ordered a lockdown of Abuja, Lagos, and Ogun States, respectively, in a move to...

One of the front line civil society group on accountability, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has asked the federal government to publish weekly details of exact funds and other resources allocated by the authorities and received from the private sector as well as details of used and planned...

The Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Muhammed Babandede, has tested positive for the dreaded Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19). Public Relations Officer (PRO) of NIS, Sunday James, stated yesterday that the NIS boss had been on self-isolation after his return from the United Kingdom. Babandede had submitted his sample for...