Borno response team orders screening at entry points
Borno response team orders screening at entry points By Innocent Anoruo (Lagos) and Njadvara Musa (Maiduguri) Babagana Zulum The Borno State COVID-19 response team has directed the Army to screen…
we can not die of COVID-19 as Nasarawa residents defy shutdown, return to businesses
Nasarawa residents defy shutdown, return to businesses By Adamu Abuh (Abuja), Joseph Wantu (Makurdi), Akin Alofetekun (Minna) and Njadvara Musa (Damaturu) Law enforcement officials checking vehicles at the Nasarawa and…
Cardinal Pell freed after winning appeal over child sex abuse
Cardinal Pell freed after winning appeal over child sex abuse By AFP Australian Cardinal George Pell leaves after being released from Barwon Prison near Anakie, some 70 kilometres west of…
Body of missing Kennedy family member found
Body of missing Kennedy family member found By AFP (FILES) In this file photo David McKean, Maeve Kennedy Townsend Mckean and their children (son Gideon 2R) attend the Robert F.…
British PM Johnson in intensive care with coronavirus
British PM Johnson in intensive care with coronavirus By AFP A still image from footage released by 10 Downing Street, the office of the British prime minister, on April 3,…
China says no new deaths in coronavirus milestone
China says no new deaths in coronavirus milestone By AFP People wearing hazmat suits walk along a street in Wuhan, China’s central Hubei province on April 7, 2020. – Wuhan,…
India eases malaria drug export ban after Trump threat
India eases malaria drug export ban after Trump threat By AFP Hydroxychloroquine, a treatment for malaria, is one of the medicines being testedPhoto: Getty Images India announced Tuesday a partial…
Medicine shortage looms over coronavirus-hit Europe
By AFP hydroxychloroquine Photo: Getty Image While the world waits for a coronavirus vaccine, medicines used to deal with the symptoms of the disease are increasingly in critically short supply…
it’s our time to make money as police, military extort at COVID-19 checkpoints
‘How police, military extort at COVID-19 checkpoints’ By Lawrence Njoku (Enugu), Rotimi Agboluaje (Ibadan), Charles Ogugbuaja (Owerri), Abdulganiyu Alabi (Kaduna), Charles Akpeji (Jalingo), Sony Neme(Asaba), GordiUdeajah (Umuahia) and Murtala Adewale…
devils meets Angel as Smugglers attack customs operatives in Ogun
By Odita Sunday Daredevil smugglers operating in Ogun State have attacked operatives of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Ogun Area 1 command. Spokesman of the command, Mr. Abdullahi Maiwada, disclosed this…
Nurses, patients flee from COVID-19 suspects in Adamawa
By Mansur Aramide (Yola) and Saxone Akhaine (Kaduna) • Fintiri wades into media/police face-off• MRA urges police to produce SARS personnel that brutalised journalists It was drama in Adamawa State…
we need foreign molecular biologists, says Lagos commissioner
Lagos needs foreign molecular biologists, says commissioner • ‘Alimoso at risk’ By Oziegbe Okoeki Lagos State Government needs Molecular biologists and logisticians to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, Commissioner for Health,…
COVID-19: we believe in Chinese as over 18 Chinese doctors come over to Nigeria
From Bolaji Ogundele, Sanni Onogu, Moses Emorinken, Juliana Agbo, Tony Akowe, Victor Oluwasegun, Abuja and Ogochukwu Anioke, Abakaliki Gbajabiamila: they must be quarantined SGF, ministers seek support for action The…
NCDC confirms new cases in Edo, Kwara, FCT•Ogun announces two
Bisi Olaniyi (Benin), Adekunle Jimoh (Ilorin) and Ernest Nwokolo (Ogun) Six more Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases were yesterday confirmed in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Edo and Kwara states. The cases…
Nigeria gets UN’s $2m grant to fight Coronavirus
Bolaji Ogundele, Abuja Nigeria and the United Nations (UN) on Monday, at a ceremony in Abuja, launched a joint initiative to support the fight against the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.…
Fed Govt targets N2.7tr stimulus cash• To take $3.4b in IMF coffe
Zainab Ahmed From Nduka Chiejina, Abuja The government will source N2.7 trillion from multi-lateral financial institutions and the Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) to cushion the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on…
U.S. warns citizens about returning home
Our Reporter The United States has advised its citizens in Nigeria who wished to return home. The U.S. embassy, in an advisory published on its website, said the cost of…
5G demonstration the best solution to 4G spectrum –Minister
5G demonstration trials done with 4G spectrum –Minister Sunday Aborisade, Ihuoma Chidozie and Ife Ogunfuwa Fifth Generation Mobile Networks demonstration trials conducted in the country by MTN Nigeria in November…
we are the future of Nigeria after Lagos begins COVID-19 clinical trial
Lagos begins COVID-19 clinical trial Dayo Ojerinde The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has said the state has concluded plans to start COVID-19 clinical trial in partnership…
after life na life conviction or no conviction Mixed reactions greet Funke Akindele, husband’s conviction
House party: Mixed reactions greet Funke Akindele, husband’s conviction Funke Akindele before her arrest on Sunday • Actress, JJC Skillz sentenced to 14-day community service• Ex- Lagos gov candidate,…