archiveAugust 9, 2020

Many churches in Lagos on Sunday witnessed low turnout on the first Sunday of reopening after 20 weeks of lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu had on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020 relaxed some of the lockdown measures instituted by the...

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has tested negative for COVID-19. His Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday. Akinyemi explained that his boss took the test on Friday, August 7, 2020, at his Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Pent House residence, Okemosan, Abeokuta, Ogun State...

The remains of Senator Buruju Kashamu, have been buried at his Ijebu-Igbo country home. Kashamu who died at 62 on Saturday of COVID-19 complications was buried at around 12:55 pm on Sunday. Ogun Governor Dapo Abiodun was part of the crowd that bidded the politician a tearful farewell. Sympathisers shunned...

Former Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has condemned former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo for his comment about late Buruji Kashamu. Kashamu, a former Ogun senator and Peoples Democratic Party chieftain, died on Saturday after battling with COVID-19 for more than two weeks at the First Cardiology Consultants Hospital in Lagos...