Nigeria on Monday recorded 242 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 4,641 ...
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Madagascar’s COVID drug to be used when confirmed safe, working – FG
The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, on Monday said the Federal Government and the World Health Organisation were carrying out COVID-19 drug trial in the Federal Capital Territory and fives states ...
Read More »Abuja doctor explains COVID-19 treatment regimen
The COVID-19 Team Leader at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Dr. Yunusa Thairu, has given a rare insight into the treatment regimen for the COVID-19, explaining how a cocktail of an anti-retroviral drug, Aluvia, as well as Zinc ...
Read More »APC mocks PDP over Ekiti caretaker exco composition
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the choice of Oyo and Osun state indigenes as Chairman and Secretary of the caretaker committee of the Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, as an indictment on PDP members in the state.
Read More »NEITI: FG, States, LGs shared N1.945tr FAAC disbursements in Q1 2020
The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has disclosed that the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) disbursed N1.95 trillion to the federal, states, local government areas and other statutory agencies in the first quarter of 2020.
Read More »Lagos, Adamawa, Cross River, Ogun, Ebonyi lead in rights violations
There was pandemonium at Karimu, a satellite town in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), as residents numbering over 300, trooped out to protest the killing of a-52-year old man, Solomon Eze, by a policeman in the area.
Read More »Protest rocks Abuja over police killing of 52-year-old man
There was pandemonium at Karimu, a satellite town in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), as residents numbering over 300, trooped out to protest the killing of a-52-year old man, Solomon Eze, by a policeman in the area.
Read More »Ondo correctional service rejects Olakunri’s murder suspects
The Nigeria Correctional Service in Ondo State has refused to admit three of the four suspected killers of Mrs Funke Olakunri, daughter of elder statesman Pa Reuben Fasoranti after one of them, Adamu Adamu, tested positive for COVID-19.
Read More »Kano extends lockdown as COVID-19 deaths reach 32
Kano State Government has announced the extension of the two-week total lockdown imposed on the state by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Read More »COVID -19 cure: FG yet to show interest in our drug – Iwu
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Bioresources Development Group (BDG), Prof. Maurice Iwu has stated that the Federal Government is yet to show interest in treatment presented by his team of researchers for COVID-19.
Read More »Court orders forfeiture of ex-presidential fleet commander’s N510m
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, granted an order of interim forfeiture of N510m allegedly owned by a former Commander, Presidential Air Fleet, Air Vice Marshall Uko Ebong.
Read More »South-South, South-West get tough on almajarai, increase surveillance at borders
There were indications on Monday that states in the South-West and South-South had stepped up measures to check the influx of Quranic education pupils, popularly known as Almajirai from the North into their states.
Read More »We’ve not issued 5G licence to any operator, says NCC
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has maintained that it has not issued 5G licence to any operator in the country.
Read More »Why we’re keeping Orji Uzor Kalu at Kuje Prisons — Nigerian Correctional Service
The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), has dismissed speculations that it was holding unto Senator Orji Uzor Kalu at Kuje Prisons due to certain vested interests.
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