Following the reduction of pump price of petrol from N125 per litre to N123.50 per litre, the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association in Kano State has directed its members to ignore the directive on new price and sell the product at N125 per litre until their old stocks are exhausted. IPMAN’s Chairman for Kano State, Alhaji…
The general overseer of the Living Faith Chapel International (a.k.a Winners Chapel), Bishop David Oyedepo has joined the growing list of private individuals who are making donations towards the fight against the novel coronavirus. The clergyman on Wednesday, donated an ambulance and medical consumables to the Ogun state government. Making the donation, the popular preacher…
Four days after the explosion which occurred in Ondo State, the driver of the truck that conveyed the explosives, Mr Isiaka Yinusa, said he did not know that his vehicle carried explosive devices. The explosion occurred on Akure-Owo Expressway, at Ilu Abo town in the Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State in the…
The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, stated during the Wednesday Presidential Task Force Briefing in Abuja that a breakdown of the confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Nigeria indicated that 70 per cent are male and 30 per cent female. Ehanire also hinted that the age range of these COVID-19 victims is mostly between 30…
Twelve new cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Nigeria, says the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. Nine were recorded in Osun State, two in Edo State and one in Ekiti State. “As at 12:30 pm 1st April there are 151 confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported in Nigeria,” said NCDC. Nine have been discharged while…
Former Minister of Finance, Senator Nenadi Usman, has lost her husband, Sa’ad Usman. Usman was the Finance Minister during the Obasanjo administration. The deceased who until his death was the Emir of Jere, Kaduna State, died today April 1st. Younger brother of the late emir, Aminu Jere, announced the passage of the monarch on Wednesday. “I…
The Taraba State Government has announced the closure of markets in the state and a ban on a public gathering of more than 20 people. The state’s Deputy Governor, Engr. Haruna Manu who made the announcement on Wednesday, April 1, further disclosed that the stay at home order and closure of the state borders is still…
The federal government, Wednesday, began the disbursement of N5,000 to one million indigent Nigerians in the country. But the beneficiaries the money said to be from the Conditional Cash Transfers Scheme, were paid N20,000 each covering four months. The action was in line with a recent directive by President Muhammadu Buhari that the conditional cash…
According to experts, ditching your bra in this period of coronavirus lockdown can lead to saggy boobs. It’s been days in Nigeria, weeks in some countries and months in another since there has been a coronavirus lockdown, in most parts of the world. Pyjamas are naturally becoming the national uniform and nobody has a clue…
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has said that an American who tested positive for coronavirus has been evacuated to the US. He made this known while giving an update on his Twitter handle on Wednesday. The commissioner said the last confirmed coronavirus case recorded in the state was on Tuesday. He…