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Public service rules and the Ministry of Power: Matters Arising
By Henry Anibe Agbonika “As we create an environment that allows initiative, enterprise and hard work to thrive, it is more important than ever to ...
Read More »COVID-19: Publisher lauds FG planned stimulus package for media, creative industry
A leading Online Publisher, Femi Soneye, has commended the Federal Government for the stimulus package being initiated to cushion effects of COVID-19 on Nigerian media ...
Read More »Kano, Katsina, Borno Muslims ignore Sultan, PTF directives, assemble at prayer grounds
Muslims in Kano, Katsina, Borno, Zamfara and Bauchi states on Sunday shunned a directive of the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, and the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, which stated that there should be no large ...
Read More »Ogun State adjusts curfew times
The Oyo State COVID-19 Task Force said it has relaxed the existing curfew imposed on the state to between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m ...
Read More »South-East Governors direct Igbos to obey subsisting orders on COVID-19
Governors of the South East geo-political zone, on Sunday, met with some leaders of the zone, at the Government House, Enugu, directing all Igbos, living in and outside Igbo land, to obey all the extant restriction orders...
Read More »Nigeria confirms 313 new coronavirus cases, 5 deaths
Nigeria on Sunday confirmed 313 new cases of COVID-19; taking the country’s total to 7,839 ...
Read More »Lagos discharges 31 COVID-19 patients
Thirty-one COVID-19 patients have been discharged from the various isolation centres in Lagos State ...
Read More »South-East governors reject IGP community policing template
Governors of the South-East states and other leaders in the zone rose from a meeting on Sunday in Enugu and faulted the implementation of community policing programme of the Nigeria Police Force in the zone ...
Read More »South-West states work out plan on Amotekun collaboration
The Attorneys-General of the six states of the South-West have begun moves to strengthen collaboration among the Amotekun security networks in the states in the zone ...
Read More »Abike Dabiri-Erewa and Isa Pantami in war of words
The Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, and the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, on Sunday traded words on Twitter over the forced eviction of NIDCOM staff ...
Read More »Military killed 200 Zamfara, Katsina bandits — DHQ
The Defence Headquarters, Abuja, said on Sunday that over 200 bandits were killed in multiple air strikes conducted on camps in Katsina and Zamfara states in its Operation Hadarin Daji in the North-West region.
Read More »US returnees allege abandonment at isolation centres, threaten protest
Nigerian returnees from the United States in quarantine in Abuja, have complained of alleged abandonment by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), stating that the agency had not reached out to them since they took samples
Read More »FG sanctions UK airline for flight ban violation
The Federal Government on Sunday said it has sanctioned Flairjet, a UK company after it was found to have violated the nation’s Civil Aviation Regulations.
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