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The Sports Writers’ Association of Nigeria (SWAN) at the weekend felicitated with Muslims faithful across the country as they commence the month-long Ramadan fast. In a statement signed by its President, Comrade Ahmed Aigbona and Secretary-General, Comrade Mike Oboh, it ...

Ecobank Nigeria has donated food items to several states across the country as a contribution to various initiatives aimed at cushioning the effect of the current lockdown on citizens. The palliatives are targeted at the most vulnerable members of society, ...

Anambra State Governor Willie Obiano at the weekend lifted the ban on free movement and Church service across the state, while criminalising breaches of border closure. Obiano, who spoke in a statewide broadcast, also ordered shop dealing in foodstuff and ...

The United States (U.S.) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) are still at loggerheads as the U.S. has shunned global health leaders, private sector partners and other stakeholders at the unveiling of Access To COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator. The ACT ...

A governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu at the weekend assured that there will be no hard feelings should he lose in the party’s primary scheduled for June. In a statement issued ...

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent Freedom of Information (FoI) requests to governors urging them to redirect their security votes and life pensions to funding of public healthcare facilities and quality education. It urged governors of the ...

Amid fear of the rising cases of coronavirus in the country, some groups in Cross River State have canvassed door-to-door scientific data collection to ensure that the virus does not spread to and escalate in the state. So far, Cross ...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation/National Petroleum Investment Management Services ((NNPC/NAPIMS) and Total Upstream Nigeria Limited with partners- CNOOC, SAPETRO and PRIME- have collaborated to support people living with HIV in Lagos with bags of palliatives within the period of the ...

As the nation witnesses the plummeting of crude oil prices, Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE) has said that geopolitical restructuring is imperative, urging the Federal Government to give grants to small-scale enterprises to remain afloat after the coronavirus disease. Meanwhile, ...

Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, and former National Chairman of the defunct United Progressives Party (UPP), Chief Chekwas Okorie, have called for national emergency to navigate out of the present health and economic crisis wreaked by coronavirus. They insisted ...