Queen Elizabeth II will make a special broadcast this weekend to Britain and the Commonwealth on the coronavirus pandemic, Buckingham Palace said on Friday. “The televised address will be broadcast at 8 pm (1900 GMT) on Sunday 5th April 2020. The address was recorded at Windsor Castle,” a statement said. The queen, 93, has made…
Several churches, including homes, have collapsed in Mbayongo Ward, Katsina-Ala local government area of Benue State which shares a boundary with southern Taraba. A woman was killed and many injured to the disaster. Properties and equipment estimated at millions of naira were destroyed. Jonathan Agbidyeh, a House of Assemblymember representing Katsina-Ala east Constituency where the…
The Nigerian Communications Commission has warned Nigerians, especially telecoms consumers, not to fall prey to a fraudulent message being spread on the Internet by a fraudulent website. The commission, in a statement on Thursday, identified the fake website as https://covid-19-fg-grant.blogspot.com/?=1, saying it was asking Nigerians to apply for a free Internet bundle, claiming it was…
Hours after gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen killed three persons in Ancha community in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State, seven other persons have again been hacked and burnt to death in the neighboring Hukke village in the same local government area. The spokesman for Miango Youth Development Association, Mr. Lawrence Zongo, who…
A man has been confirmed dead in Abia State after being crushed by a billboard that fell during a storm in the state. The incident which occurred on Wednesday, April 1 at Osisioma Junction in Aba, left another seriously injured and fighting for his life. It was further gathered that two occupants of a tricycle popularly known…
The Rivers State Police has arrested and prosecuted over 100 residents of the state for violating a lockdown order issued by the state government. Recall that Governor Nyesom Wike had announced the closure of land and sea borders in the state and a ban on vehicles entering or leaving the state. He also announced the setting…
There was a mild drama in Ilutitun, an agrarian community in Okitipupa Local Council of Ondo State, as youths in the community drove government officials, who were dispatched by the state to set up isolation centre, out of their town. The Guardian gathered that the state government had mapped out a mega primary school, a…
Residents of Omole Estate, Phase II, Lagos are now in perpetual fear following the death of a patient suspected to have died of Coronavirus. The report said the patient who presents with Coronavirus symptoms was rushed to the Primary Healthcare Centre in the area, and that there was no ambulance from the NCDC and the…
The donations to combat Coronavirus in Nigeria has hit N15bn as confirmed in a statement released by the Director of Corporate Communications at the Central Bank of Nigeria, Isaac Okorafor, on Wednesday, April 1, 2020. The donations which came from individuals, banks and other corporate bodies were paid into an account set up at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)…
…Berates APC For Manipulating Prices, Fleecing Nigerians The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in a statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary Kola Ologbondiyan rejects the April 1 tweaking of fuel price from N125 to N123.5 instead of the appropriate N90 per liter canvassed by Nigerians. Our party describes the reduction of pump price by N1.50k…