archiveSeptember 10, 2020

    The Ondo State office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC is currently on fire. The fire outbreak which started around 8:45pm at the ICT unit of the commission is yet to be contained as at press time. Over 5000 card readers have been destroyed in the inferno....

The Federal Government has said that it has not come to a point where it is convinced that schools should be reopened for academic exercise after their closure due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja at a meeting...

  President Muhmmadu Buhari has ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to withhold funding for importation of food items and fertilizer. The presidential order was issued on Thursday to CBN Governor Godwin Emiefile during the meeting of the National Food Security Council (NFSC) in Abuja. According to a statement...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved 27.33 million dollars in grants to boost the African Union’s  efforts to mobilise a continental response to curb the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a statement from the AfDB, the approval is made by the organisation’s Board of Directors on Wednesday. The approval followed...

The Federal Government has approved additional N8.9 billion to pay up the large chunk of the June 2020 COVID-19 allowance to all Medical Health Workers in the country. Sen Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment disclosed this during the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the end...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has confirmed 176 new cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19 ) bringing the nation’s total infections to 55,632. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Wednesday. It said that 176 new confirmed cases and 3 deaths were recorded in the...

Opposition figures have descended on U.S. President Donald Trump after he admitted downplaying the severity of the coronavirus pandemic in the country. Trump reportedly told Washington Post editor, Mr Bob Woodward, that he played down the danger of the virus in spite of available evidence to the contrary. He said...

According to the 2020 mortality estimates released by United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Nigeria has overtaken India as the world capital for under-five deaths. The development comes two years earlier than the World Bank projected. The global bank had said in 2018 that Nigeria would take over from India as...

The Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said that the total value of transactions through electronic payment channels recorded in the second quarter of 2020 by Nigerian banks stood at N263.78 trillion with a transaction volume of 2,160,436,659. The report titled: ‘Selected Banking Sector Data: Sectorial Breakdown of Credit, e-Payment...

SaharaRepoters said it has uncovered the real reason Nigerian military killed a wanted militant in Benue State, Terwase Akwaza widely known as Gana, on Tuesday. According to the online news medium, Gana, was said to be the most wanted criminal in the state, was eliminated to prevent him from implicating...