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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 ...

The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has commended the professionalism demonstrated by the Nigerian doctors, nurses and other health workers in handling the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in the country. In a statement yesterday, NUJ national president, Chris Isiguzo, called ...

COVID-19 response team of Borno State has locked down the state, closing its borders with Adamawa, Yobe and Gombe states, as well as Niger Republic and Cameroon. The lockdown and border closure, which take effect from April 13 by 6 ...

No fewer than nine commercial motorcyclists who were arrested on Sunday in Jos, Plateau State, while returning from Lagos through Kaduna were cleared, as they did not show any symptom of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Arrested for unlawfully entering the ...

The police in Rivers State are investigating the motive for the stockpiling of Rocket-Propelled Grenade (RPG) launcher, General-Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG) and other lethal weapons in a forest in Ogu-Bolo Council of the state. Delighted by the discovery of the ...