The latest figures by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has shown that Nigeria has recorded a total of 112,004 COVID-19 cases.
Chairman of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha on Monday stated that one in every five persons tested in Nigeria within the past week kí were positive.
The federal government on Monday said the country could be locked down again if the current COVID-19 infection trend continues.
The NCDC Director-General, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, made the call at the Presidential Tasks Force (PTF) on COVID-19 national briefing in Abuja.
Lalong, who gave the assurance on Monday in Bokkos during inspection of ongoing 15 projects in the school, also promised improved infrastructure during resumption.
Yahaya Bello, governor of Kogi state, has yet again belittled the severity and malignance of the COVID-19 infection.
Mohammed Buba Marwa, a former military governor of Lagos state, has bemoaned the scourge of drug abuse in the nation.
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, on Monday, said that after personally studying the transcript of a Christmas message by the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Kukah, he has found nothing in it that belittles Islam.
The troops on Saturday laid ambush against the insurgents when they attempted to attack troops’ location at the outskirts of Marte on Saturday, killing dozens of them in seven gun trucks.
Mama Boko Haram was Monday arraigned before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court sitting in Maiduguri Eko hot blog gathered, on a fresh three count charges involving criminal conspiracy and obtaining the sum of N41, 777,750.00 (Forty-One Million Seven Hundred and Seventy-Seven thousand seven hundred and fifty naira) by false pretence.
The Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Unit (Taskforce) has secured a Court Order authorising it to publicly auction 88 vehicles impounded by the Agency for contravening the One-Way Traffic Law and forfeited to the Government by an order of a Lagos State Mobile Court.
Leading real estate firm in Lagos, Photizo Properties Limited, says it has concluded plans to begin the construction of 50 units of two-bedroom fully-detached bungalows in ancient town of Epe.
Giwa was reportedly killed after he received a parcel bomb which detonated at his residence, then located at No. 25 Talabi street, Ikeja, Lagos state.
According to the group, Igbos, in the absence of the ex-Biafra leader, have been ‘scattered like sheep without a herder’ since his passing, Eko hot blog gathered.
A man went ahead and married his girlfriend who died in Bauchi state.
A High Court in Ekiti state has sentenced Okubo Aboye, an assistant commissioner of police, to life imprisonment for purchasing a vehicle stolen by kidnappers.
The Police Intelligence Response Team on Sunday gunned down two suspected armed robbers and kidnappers in Plateau State.
Former Rector, Plateau State Polytechnic, Engr. Sam Gyang Audu has been reported dead.
“Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of equality and social justice for all remains an inspiration,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a tweet.
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris resigned her Senate seat.
As an act to empower the Governor to constitute Tribunal of Inquiry and other matters ancillary thereto and pursuant to the powers conferred on the Executive Governor of Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun, by the Tribunals of Inquiry Law, Laws of Nigeria and Ogun, 1990,(“the Law”) the Governor on 17, October 2020 set up a panel known as the Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution for Victims of Special Anti-Robbery Squad Related Abuses.
The United Nations has been overwhelmed with complaints that Nigeria is fast becoming a police state which is somehow incongruous with the self-evident and glaring insecurity all over our beloved nation.
It’s still a thing of bewilderment whenever I hear of babies, girls, and women been subjected to the cruelty of rape by those who are meant to protect them, people in positions of trust and influence in their lives.
Multi-award-winning comedian, Owen Osamwengie, popularly called Owen Gee, says he contracted COVID-19 alongside his wife and children.
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has put in place a special COVID-19 task force to the safety of sportsmen and women in the soccer sector.
Two Spanish giants are interested in Arsenal star
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