General Overseer of the Zionwealth Church, Chris Omoshola, has decried the increasing hunger in the country and government’s inability to address the plight of Nigerians despite the lockdown due to outbreak of COVID-19. Blaming the situation on President Muhammadu Buhari, ...

The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) has asked the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) for palliatives to cushion the effect of the coronavirus in the Niger Delta region. In a statement issued by its President, Fegalo Nsuke, ...

Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the 13 confirmed cases of coronavirus and two deaths recorded in the state has further made a mockery of the state government efforts to contain spread of the pandemic. ...

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, has declared that communication lapse is responsible for the recent alleged assault on Nigerians and other Africans by the Chinese in Guangzhou City. Onyeama, who spoke at a forum to clarify on the trending ...

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai has declared that troops’ sacrifices and professionalism were key to ending the insurgency in the North East. He submitted that the observance of the two virtues was strong enough to rout the ...

Successful applicants of the Central Bank of Nigeria  (CBN) soft loans will, from next week, receive disbursements from the fund’s managers, NIRSAL Microfinance Bank. Between N3 million for households and N25 million for small and medium enterprises are to be ...

Contrary to reports that the conventional vaccine for tuberculosis (TB) offers protection against the novel coronavirus, the World Health Organisation (WHO) dismissed the claim. The apex United Nations health body said there was no evidence that the Bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccine ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has commended the European Union (EU) for donating 50 millions Euros (N21 billion) towards containing the novel coronavirus in Nigeria. Receiving the EU delegation, led by Ambassador Ketil Karlsen in Abuja, he noted that the gesture would ...

Former Director General of the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research  (NISER), Professor Olu Ajakaiye, has predicted that the Nigerian economy would rebound in the fourth quarter of the year. “The 2020 Appropriation Act was based on certain fiscal ...

Kaduna State coronavirus disease (COVID-19) taskforce has expressed fear that the state could record up to 57,000 cases, if the violation of the lockdown order persists. The taskforce said the case of an infected gateman, who returned from Lagos, was ...