Joint troops from Nigeria and Niger Republic yesterday battled fighters of Boko Haram and the Islamic State for West African Province (ISWAP) in Tumbun Tago and Tumbun Fulani in Borno State. This is coming as the Nigerian Navy yesterday recovered 140 litres of stolen crude oil from an illegal oil refinery site in Warri, Delta […]

The federal government has revealed that local production of ventilators and disinfectant spraying devices to combat the rampaging pandemic would commence soon. The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, disclosed this yesterday when he launched the newly produced devices by the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) in Abuja The minister […]

The leadership of the National Assembly has rejected the list of the vulnerable compiled by the presidency as beneficiaries of the COVID-19 special fund, describing it as fraudulent. The lawmakers have also expressed concern that the Social Investment Programme (SIP) introduced by the federal government in 2016 was yet to be backed by law. It, […]

Nigeria has recorded 16 new cases of COVID-19, bringing to 254 the total number of confirmed cases in the country. Announcing this Tuesday, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said 10 of the cases were recorded in Lagos, two each in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and Oyo, while one each in Delta and […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered distribution of 150 trucks of rice seized by Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) to the 36 states of the federation. The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed disclosed this while fielding questions from journalists at a news conference in Abuja yesterday. The news conference was on the […]

GROUP Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, has said Nigeria would no longer pay subsidy on petrol with the ongoing global oil price decline. Kyari made this known in a statement signed by NNPC spokesman, Dr Kennie Obateru, in Abuja on Monday. “There is no subsidy and it is […]

Nigeria has recorded six new cases of coronavirus. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said on Monday evening that two of the cases are Edo, two in Kwara, one in Rivers and one is FCT. The new cases bring the total number to 238 in Nigeria. According to NCDC, “Six new cases of #COVID19 […]

Governors of the 36 states of the federation have called on the federal government to allow them to oversee the distribution of palliatives to cushion the effects of COVID-19. The palliatives being distributed to the vulnerable are currently being handled by the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development and the Coalition Against […]

A Magistrate’s Court sitting in Lagos yesterday sentenced Nollywood actress, Mrs. Funke Akindele-Bello, and her husband, Mr. Abdulrasheed Bello, a.k.a JJC Skills, to 14 days of community service each for violating regulations on social distancing meant to curb the spread of COVID-19. The couple would spend three hours per day, excluding Saturday and Sunday, in […]

The Prime Minister of UK, Mr. Boris Johnson, was moved to an intensive care unit yesterday after his condition with COVID-19 worsened. CNN reported that Johnson, 55, was first admitted to St Thomas’ Hospital in London on Sunday evening for what he said were “routine tests,” adding that he was in “good spirits.” But the […]