archiveApril 26, 2020

  The Oyo State government has expressed its readiness to see to the safe return of an indigene of the state, identified as Peace Ufuoma Busari, who was recently put up for sale on the internet in Lebanon, for the sum of $1000. A statement signed by the Senior Special...

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has extended the quarantine orders being enforced in the state for another 30 days, the governor’s spokesperson, Muyiwa Adekeye, said in a statement. The statement added, “The governor’s decision follows a recommendation to that effect by the State Standing Committee on Covid-19, which is chaired...

  …says state may lockdown communities that flout precautionary guidelines …as Hausa leaders promise cooperation The media sub-committee of the Oyo State Covid-19 Task Force, on Sunday, took its sensitisation campaign to leaders of the Hausa community in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. The sensitisation drive, which was led by...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday received briefing from Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, and Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Chikwe Ihekweazu, on the latest development over Coronavirus and the reported strange disease in Kano. Ehanire, who spoke to State House correspondents on the outcome of the closed...

  The government of Oyo State said on Sunday that it rejected the 1,800 bags of rice meant as Covid-19 palliatives by the Nigerian Customs Service because they were truly bad and unfit for consumption. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Seyi Makinde, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, who...

  By Olaseni Aka-Bashorun   The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) proposed rules on Crowdfunding have elicited different reactions from stakeholders, it has rattled the cage of most businesses that leverage on the internet to access credit to finance their business, businesses that create an opportunity for other businesses to...

Gov. Gboyega Oyetola of Osun, on Sunday, confirmed the death of two patients out of the 12 newly-recorded COVID-19 cases in the state, even as he said that three health workers had also been infected with the virus. Oyetola disclosed this at the Government House in Osogbo, while addressing newsmen...

Access Bank Plc recorded N211.12 billion gross earnings in the first quarter (Q1) ended March 31, 2020, representing an increase of 31.85 per cent above the N160.12 billion posted in the corresponding period of 2019. The bank’s net interest income rose from N56.838 billion to N72.212 billion, while non-fee and...

  calls for financial support from FG, donors Kano State Government on Sunday acknowledged recent deaths in the state, assuring that the government was on top of the situation even as the State Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje was said to have already directed the state Ministry of Health to conduct...

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested 288 violators of the lockdown directive by the Federal Government in the last three days. The Command’s Spokesman, DSP Bala Elkana, who made the disclosure to newsmen on Sunday, said that majority of the violators were held for disobeying the social distancing directive....