archiveApril 19, 2020

The Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, says it has successfully delivered a 68-year-old woman of a set of twins, following an IVF conception. Prof. Wasiu Adeyemo, Chairman, LUTH Medical Advisory Committee (CMAC), told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday that the woman was pregnant for the first...

    as gov urges residents to follow preventive guidelines Oyo State governor and chairman of the State’s COVID-19 Task Force, Engineer Seyi Makinde, has declared that another two confirmed patients of the novel Coronavirus disease have been discharged in the state. A statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary...

Saudi Arabia’s top Islamic authority has called on Muslims around the world to perform prayers at home during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. Ramadan, marked by intense worshipping, is set to begin on April 23, but most Muslim countries have shut...

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) All-Share Index and Market Capitalization both appreciated by 7.19 per cent to close the week at 22,921.59 and N11.946 trillion respectively. All other indices finished higher with the exception of NSE ASeM which closed flat. A total of 37 equities appreciated in price during the...

  A coalition of 67 women groups have added a fresh twist to the threat by Bello Nasir El-Rufai, son of governor Ahmad Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State, saying he should be prosecuted for threatening violence and gang-rape of a woman on Twitter. The demand by the women group of...

The Zone 6 Headquarters of the Nigerian Police in Calabar has arrested the suspected killers of Naval Sub Lt. David Igbashal. Igbashal was abducted on Feb. 22 while on his way from Calabar to Makurdi in Benue for his wedding arrangements. The arrest is contained in a release signed by...

The Chairman of Borno High Powered Taskforce on COVID-19, Alhaji Umar Kadafur, says the state’s taskforce is still waiting for results of the first suspected Coronavirus (COVID-19), case in the state. Kadafur, who is also the state’s deputy governor, told newsmen on Sunday in Maiduguri, that speculation over the death...

Most Rev. Alexander Ibezim, Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Awka, has called on priests in the diocese not to abandon their members who were passing through various hardship caused by the Coronavirus Disease and the prevailing lockdown. Ibezim made the call in his Sunday sermon, entitled “This sickness is...

The Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Most Rev. Adewale Martins, on Sunday urged Christians to show more love and mercy to their neighbours  this period of COVID-19 affliction on Nigeria. Martins said in a sermon in Lagos that such acts would demonstate faith in God and help Christians to access God’s...

Nigerian youth are usually not interested in agriculture due to their perception of farming being old-fashioned and unprofitable. The National Coordinator of the Nigerian Young Farmers Network (NYFN), Mr Promise Amahah, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Sunday. He stated that the youth...