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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 ...

Enugu residents and the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) in the state have commended the Enugu North Council for closing the tomato section of Akwatta Market in Ogbete Main Market, describing the action as worthwhile. They applauded the state ...

The Bayelsa State Government has disclosed that it will revert to its earlier order on total lockdown of the state, as part of measures to prevent the spread of the dreaded COVID-19. The government had last Thursday relaxed its lockdown ...

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mohammed Musa Bello, has disclosed that the Ministerial Advisory Committee on COVID-19 in the FCT pays as much as N50000 daily to its doctors assisting in the fight against the spread of coronavirus. ...