archiveMay 2020

  Despite the challenge posted by coronavirus pandemic, Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 1.87 per cent on a year-on-year basis in the first quarter of 2020 the National Bureau of Statistics’ (NBS) report has shown. The performance recorded represented a contraction of 0.23 per cent compared to Q1...

  Nigeria on Sunday night confirmed 313 new cases of coronavirus. The Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, confirmed this in a post on its official Twitter page. Lagos recorded the highest number with 146 new cases, while FCT followed with 36. This brings the total number of cases in...

  Nigeria now has the highest cases of coronavirus in West Africa with 7,839 confirmed cases, as well as 226 fatalities. Africa has recorded over 3,000 deaths due to complications arising from COVID-19. According to the latest figure released by the Africa Centre for Disease Control (ACDC), there are 3,246...

Former Minister of State for Education, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, has described Chief Edwin Clark, as a nationalist and an elder-statesman committed to the unity of the Nigerian State. Gbagi stated this in a statement released on Sunday in Abuja to felicitate with Clark on the occasion of his 93rd birthday....

  Gov. Bello Matawalle of Zamfara says only eight patients out of the 73 confirmed coronavirus cases recorded in the state are still at the isolation center. Matawalle made this known on Sunday at a gathering in Maradun where he went to celebrate the Sallah break. The governor congratulated health...

UK Government has made arrangement for another batch of British travellers stranded in Nigeria to return home on three chartered flights in the next 11 days. The British High Commission in Nigeria said in a statement on Sunday that more than 1,700 British travellers had already returned to the UK...

Private School owners have appealed to the Federal Government to facilitate  a revolving loan scheme for them at a reduced interest  rate to cussion the effects of COVID-19. They made the appeal under the aegis of the Association of Private School Owners of Nigeria (APSON). In a letter, APSON urged...

    The US should stop wasting time in its fight against the coronavirus and work with China to combat it, rather than spreading lies and attacking the country, the Chinese Government’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, said on Sunday. The Sino-US ties have nosedived since the outbreak of the new...

The General Overseer of the Living Faith Church Worldwide (Winners Chapel), Bishop David Oyedepo, has reacted to the re-opening of some churches and mosques globally, describing it as a welcome development. Oyedepo, in a programme on Saturday maintained that the remaining states have no choice but to follow the footsteps...

In support of the Oluwarotimi Akeredolu’s administration, Wife of the Governor, Her Excellency, Arabinrin Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu has concluded plans to unveil a website, https://ondowidows.com, to avail the government needed data that would help improve the lives of widows in Ondo State. According to her, availability of data would enable the...