Kogi State government said on Tuesday said that 111 persons it tested for coronavirus returned negative. The state Commissioner for Information and Communication Strategy, Mr Kingsley Fanwo, made the disclosure in a statement in Lokoja, the state capital. Fanwo, however, said that the tests were conducted on the persons without the supervision of officials from…
The House of Representatives has approved the request by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to borrow N850bn to fund the 2020 budget. The Senate had earlier recently okayed the borrowing plan amidst controversy. The approval was however given by the House at the plenary on Tuesday within about seven minutes. Details later…
Governor Bala Mohammed has revealed that residents of Bauchi state do not believe Coronavirus is real even after he survived the disease. Speaking during an NTA programme on Monday, May 11, Governor Bala stated that denial, intransigence, and adamancy constitute a better part of the problem in the state. He said; “Part of the problem…
Kaduna State government has disclosed that it has realized the sum of N1.9 million from violators of the lockdown order in the state, within 2 days. The state government, through the Ministry of Justice, said 605 culprits were convicted between Thursday and Friday last week, for violating the lockdown order adding that, “about N1,909,600 was…
Doyin Okupe, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, and his wife have been discharged from the Ogun state Isolation center after testing negative twice for the novel Coronavirus. Okupe in a post shared on his Facebook page this afternoon, said himself and his wife Aduralere, tested positive for the ravaging virus on April 23rd…
Below are pictures showing the amazing transformation of Korede Taiwo, the little boy who was rescued after he was chained up for months without food. Korede was adopted by Mrs. Funsho Amosun after he was rescued from the horrible condition which his father and stepmother placed him in. He’s now reportedly chasing a dream of…
“I am ill. I’m being treated,” Peskov was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies TASS and Interfax, which specified he had COVID-19. Peskov is the fourth senior government official to have fallen ill, after Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, Culture Minister Olga Lyubimova and Construction Minister Vladimir Yakushev said they tested positive for the coronavirus….
At least six persons, including four of the suspected armed herdsmen, have been killed after soldiers repelled an attack on a village in Benue State. The gunmen, on Monday night, killed two villagers in the Agasha community in the Guma Local Government Area of the State. It was gathered that the attackers invaded the village…
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says 15 persons died while 27 others sustained injuries from road accidents in Ogun since the federal and state governments restricted movement in the state 45 days ago. Mr. Clement Oladele, FRSC Sector Commander in Ogun, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in…
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a former Minister of External Affairs, Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, as his Chief of Staff. The new Chief of Staff was born on November 24, 1944, in Ilorin, Kwara State, and served as Minister for External Affairs between 1984 and 1985. He holds the record of being the longest-serving Ambassador/Permanent Representative…