archiveApril 2020

  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....

Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, Senior Special Assistant (SSA), to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), says there is need to empower National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), members  to drive Nigeria’s renewable energy revolution. Orelope-Adefulire made the call during an online virtual commencement of a free training on Solar Technology for...

  The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has stated that West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination, 2020 WASSCE, has not been cancelled. The body made this known in a statement by the Head of WAEC, Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Areghan, on Sunday, the body explained that a notice alleging the cancellation...

  The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has urged Nigerians to remain indoors if they wanted to be safe from the deadly Coronavirus currently ravaging most countries of the world. While giving a sermon on Sunday in a broadcast, Adeboye said citizens...

Following the alleged death of 640 in Kano, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday called for investigation, urging President Muhammadu Buhari to visit the state. The party in a statement signed by Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity Secretary, PDP equally lampooned Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, noting that he abandoned his duty...

The Nigerian Association of Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA)  says it has become necessary to review the near one-month old lockdown order and replace it with a more strategic approach favourable to the Nigerian economy. Its Director-General, Amb. Ayoola Olukanni gave the advice in a statement to...

  …As govt reopens secretariat to workers on GL 13 and above on Monday …commends FG on fight against pandemic Oyo State governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, disclosed on Saturday, that no fewer than 120,000 households and groups will benefit from the palliatives being planned by the state. Governor Makinde, who...

An economist, Dr Boniface Chizea, on Saturday in Lagos urged the Federal Government to consider gradual unlocking of sectors of the economy as it continues to fight COVID-19 spread. Chizea, the Managing Director of BIC Consultancy Services, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that gradual unlocking of the economy...

says homegrown efforts should be encouraged efforts commendable-Makinde The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II, on Saturday, donated two locally-fabricated modular fumigators and drones to the Oyo State government to assist the state in its effort to contain the spread of the novel Coronavirus. Oba Ogunwusi, who...