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Managing Director of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun Askia Ogieh, has urged Nigerians to remain focused on God as the nation battles the COVID-19 pandemic. In his Easter message released in Warri, titled “An Awesome God, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a bid to cushion the effect of the lockdown against COVID-19 pandemic, political leaders of Isoko North Council in Delta State, have donated food items to the less privileged in the local government area. Items donated include 170 bags ...