archiveApril 3, 2020

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has invited Nigeria and other members of the group for an emergency meeting scheduled for Monday next week in an attempt to strike a deal to cut production output to strengthen crude oil prices. The meeting, which is expected to be via video...

At least 1,169 persons have died of Coronavirus in the last 24 hours in the United States – the single daily highest anywhere in the world. With 5,926 deaths and 245,570 confirmed cases, the US faces the toughest challenge among nations confronted with the virus. This comes amidst concerns for...

  Amidst a lockdown of their country due to the COVID-19 pandemic, an Indian couple has named their newborn twins ‘Corona,’ a boy and ‘Covid,’ a girl. The couple based in Raipur, capital of Chhattisgarh, a state in central India, said, to them, the names connote the triumph they had...

    Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has ordered the disbursement of 9 billion riyals (N910billion) to private-sector workers amid the COVID-19 outbreak even as it has postponed some government fees and taxes. The government said this was to deter companies from laying off staff. The emergency stimulus package was announced...

Former director-general of the Nigeria Law School Dr Kole Abayomi has died in the United Kingdom (UK) after contracting coronavirus. Abayomi died on Thursday, April 3, a statement by the secretary of the Body of Senior Advocates of Nigeria (BOSAN), Seyi Sowemimo, SAN, disclosed. “The BOSAN Secretariat wishes to announce...

The Lagos State Government has discharged four coronavirus patients, bringing the total number of discharged persons in the state to 23. Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, disclosed this at a news conference on Friday. The state had earlier discharged 19 patients....

Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has said that coronavirus corpses cannot be claimed for burial as they can only be handled by the Ministry of Health because they are contagious. The minister made this clarification while speaking at a News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) forum in Abuja...

The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) has demanded that President Muhammadu Buhari government suspend all States’ deductions and restructure all debt service due to the coronavirus crisis. The body also urged the federal government to initiate fiscal measures to safeguard the liquidity of state governments. The demands were contained in a...

Retired doctors, nurses and laboratory scientists across the country have volunteered their services to the cause of fighting the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic spreading across states in Nigeria. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made this known in Abuja, when he appeared as guest on News Agency...