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A former Assistant Commissioner of Police, Hamza Idris Malikawa, has died in Kano State. Malikawa’s younger brother, Rilwanu, confirmed his death on Tuesday. He said the ...
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COVID-19: SGF, ministers, NCDC boss brief Reps
The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 is currently appearing before the House of Representatives in plenary to brief the parliament on the efforts by the ...
Read More »Senate asks FG to suspend 5G network deployment
The Senate on Tuesday asked the Federal Government to suspend the planned deployment of the Fifth Generation Network in Nigeria. The red chamber stated this ...
Read More »Kano rejects PTF preliminary report on cause of mass deaths
Kano State taskforce on COVID-19 pandemic has distance self from the preliminary report of investigation disclosed by Presidential Taskforce on mass deaths in Kano. Team ...
Read More »How NNPC spent N752B on subsidy in 2019
According to a recent report on NNPC’s operations and financial activities for the period of January 2020, the country doled out a whopping sum of ...
Read More »Akwa Ibom 2023: Too early to discuss succession – Governor
Akwa Ibom Governor Udom Emmanuel has reiterated that it is too early to discuss the issue of succession, maintaining that he is committed to working ...
Read More »COVID-19: Navy suspends resumption for training new recruits
The Nigerian Navy has suspended the resumption for the training of successful candidates of the Nigerian Navy Basic Training School (NNBTS) Batch 30. The candidates ...
Read More »10 years on: Yar’Adua lived, died for Nigeria’s sake — Jonathan
Former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua was a man with an accommodating spirit and enormous goodwill who built bridges of hope, love and understanding among Nigerians, ...
Read More »(BREAKING) Coronavirus: Contentious bill appears in the Senate
A Bill on Control of Infection Diseases Bill 2020 has been introduced in the Senate. The Bill under a different title (National Health Emergency Bill, ...
Read More »COVID-19: Enugu govt intercepts patient who escaped from Delta isolation centre
The Enugu State rapid response team/task force on COVID-19 and the state’s security apparatus, in a coordinated sequence of events with the Delta State COVID-19 ...
Read More »245 new coronavirus cases push total to 2,802
Nigeria has recorded 245 new cases of Coronavirus, the highest it has recorded in a single day ...
Read More »Lagos records two new COVID-19 deaths
Two more patients have died of coronavirus-related complications in Lagos State. The Lagos State Ministry of Health made this known via its Twitter handle on Monday ...
Read More »Lockdown support: Senate probes Conditional Cash Transfer register
The National Assembly is scrutinising the National Social Register being used by the Federal Government for its Conditional Cash Transfer to vulnerable households across the country, The Nation learnt on Monday ...
Read More »COVID-19: Wike locks down Port Harcourt, Obio/Akpor LG
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Monday, announced a 24-hour total lockdown and a dusk-dawn curfew on Port Harcourt and Obio/Akpor Local Government Areas as part of the state government’s measures to check the spread ....
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