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Victims Support Fund (VSF) has earmarked N1 billion as a palliative for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the North East as the world battles the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The non-governmental organisation yesterday presented goods and other items worth N65 million ...

The Federal government has disclosed that it will embark on community testing for coronavirus and social mobilisation at the grassroots level to ensure physical distancing and advise on the use of masks to reduce the risk of transmission. Insisting that it ...

A former national President of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Dr. Idris Omede, has charged the Federal Government to facilitate and commence its planned life insurance for medical and health professionals and other front liners in the fight to contain ...

Residents of Odighi Community in Ovia North East Council Area of Edo State have lamented that their community is under siege as herdsmen killed and beheaded two hunters on their farms. The residents, who are mostly farmers, have expressed sadness ...

Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, has introduced tougher measures to the lockdown that was extended last week for another two weeks. Under the new measures, hospitals in the state that refuse to treat sick persons would face sanctions, just as the ...

The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC), has restated its commitment to protect consumers in the country. Its Chief Executive Officer, Babatunde Irukera, stated this in Lagos during an enforcement exercise, following complaints from customers over certain cosmetic surgical ...

Chief Judge of Bayelsa State, Justice Kate Abiri, has directed judges to resume sitting immediately and give an expeditious hearing to cases with capital punishment whose offenders are currently remanded in correctional centres across the state. This comes as she ...

Controller-General of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Ja’afaru Ahmed, has advised the public to discountenance reports that Maryam Sanda, who killed her husband, had been pardoned. The service lamented the news making the rounds that Sanda was among the 2,600 prisoners granted ...

The National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) has sought a full-scale investigation into the fires that destroyed parts of the office of the Accountant General of the Federation (AGF) and the national headquarters of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) in Abuja. ...

Immediate past governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson; his successor, Douye Diri; and the entire Ijaw nation are in mourning over the death of businessman and politician, Keniebi Okoko in Lagos. Keniebi is the son of the Pro-Chancellor of the ...