archiveSeptember 17, 2020

The Lagos State Government says it will celebrate the 2020 World Tourism Day in conformity with COVID-19 safety protocols. Mrs Uzamat Akinbile-Yusuf, Lagos State Commissioner for Tourism, Arts and Culture, disclosed this during a technical meeting held in preparation for the event slated for Sept. 27, 2020. This was contained...

  Africa’s largest airline, Ethiopian Airlines, has resumed passenger flights from New Jersey, United States, to Lagos and Abuja. This follows the recent reopening of the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja, and the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, on Sept. 5. Mr Million Legesse, Ethiopian Airlines’ Traffic and Sales Manger...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed that coronavirus death toll in Nigeria is now 1,091. The NCDC made this known on Wednesday night. Confirming that there were 126 new infections on Wednesday, NCDC stated that the new cases of COVID-19, were recorded across 17 States. This brings...

  says ’Soyinka, a consistent critic’ The Presidency has debunked assertions that the President Muhmmadu Buhari-led administration has divided Nigeria along fault lines of ethnicity and religion. Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity Femi Adesina debunked the claims on Wednesday on a Channels Television political and current affairs programme,...

The Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), led by Prof. Itse Sagay has described as fraud a proposed bill for the amendment of the establishment Act of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and called on Nigerians and the National Assembly to reject it. Sagay declared that even the...

 The Osun State government has closed one the isolation centres in the state as the Covid-19 pandemic curve is said to be flattening within its border. This was disclosed in a statement issued on Wednesday by the State Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, Funke Egbemode, who announced the closure...