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  The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has given the Federal Government of Nigeria a January 5, 2021 deadline to resolve the dispute with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The President of NANS, Sunday Asefon, who disclosed this to journalists when he paid a solidarity visit to...

The Kaduna State Government has directed all workers below Grade Level 14 to work from home as from Monday to prevent spread of Coronavirus COVID-19. This is contained in a statement by Mr Muyiwa Adekeye, Special Adviser on Media and Communication to Gov. Nasir El-Rufai on Sunday in Kaduna. Adekeye...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has reported 501 new COVID-19 infection in Nigeria even as the country continue to reports new deaths. NCDC disclosed this via its verified Twitter handle on Sunday night. The health agency said that the country sadly recorded three additional deaths in the last...

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) All-Share Index and Market Capitalization appreciated by 7.46 per to close last week at 36,804.75 and N19.236 trillion respectively. Similarly, all other indices finished higher while the NSE ASeM and NSE Growth Indices closed flat as 53 equities appreciated in price during the week, higher...

The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Friday ordered civil servants from Grade Level 14 and below to work from home. The governor gave the directive in a statement titled: “We cannot afford to relax the battle against COVID-19.” The directive was in response to the recent upsurge of COVID-19...

Presidential spokesman, Mallam Garba Shehu, has expressed sadness over the misrepresentation of figures while reacting to the abduction of more than 300 students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, last weekend. Shehu, during an interview granted the Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), had said only...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Friday, ordered all schools in the state to shut down indefinitely. The governor said the measure was crucial to public health safety amid the increasing COVID-19 cases recorded in all local government areas in the state. Sanwo-Olu in a statement today, titled, ‘We Cannot...

The United States has continued to oppose Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s bid to become the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), suggesting that the process to finding a new D-G needs to be reopened. In an interview with BBC News on Friday, December 18, Robert Lightizer, the U.S Trade Chief...

  Ayade laments death, condoles Police family, Commissioner of Police in Cross River State, Abdulkadir Jimoh on Friday morning died in Calabar after battling with health challenges for some weeks. The Chief Medical Director of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital Prof. Ikpeme A. Ikpeme who confirmed the unfortunate incident...

  Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, has gone into isolation after coming in contact with a person who tested positive for COVID-19. Tambuwa, announced this via his Twitter handle, stating that he had undergone a COVID-19 test. “Gov @AWTambuwal goes into isolation after coming in contact with someone who tested...