Following the 14-day extension of the lockdown to check the spread of the novel coronavirus, the Presidential Task Team on Law and Order in Apapa, headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, has issued fresh guidelines on port operations, saying trucks ...
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Scientist challenges FG over claim to COVID-19 cure, 200 defaulters sentenced in Jos
A Kaduna-based scientist, Professor Ayodele Adeleye, has urged the Federal Government to engage him over his claim to the cure for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Adeleye, a native of Ijebu Igbo in Ogun State, said in Ilorin that his claim ...
Read More »VSF shares food, medical supplies to Borno IDPs, Benue to review COVID-19 measures
Victims Support Fund (VSF) Task Force on COVID-19 will distribute food items and medial consumables to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and the vulnerable in North East. The IDPs were sacked from their ancestral homes in Borno, Adamawa, Taraba and Yobe ...
Read More »National dialogue on 2023 Nigerian president of Igbo extraction put on hold
The decision to defer the national dialogue on the possibility of a Nigerian President of Igbo extraction earlier billed for Enugu on April 30, 2020 followed total lockdown in the country due to coronavirus. At the discourse, which was being ...
Read More »Kebbi Sector of FRSC urges drivers to maintain social distancing directive
Sector Commander, Kebbi sector of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Commander Ebenezer Abayomi Asaniyan, has directed drivers to abide by social distancing. He disclosed this in a statement issued by the command’s Public Education Officer, Uko Okore Uko, adding ...
Read More »FRSC boss Boboye Oyeyemi orders arrest, seizure of violators, unauthorised vehicles
Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Boboye Oyeyemi, has ordered commanding officers to step up enforcement on restrictions and physical distancing among vehicle occupants and carry out the presidential directive by seizing any vehicles that violate the orders. This ...
Read More »MD of DESOPADEC, lawmaker urge Nigerians to remain focused on God
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, ...
Read More »MOSOP demands palliatives from HYPREP over pandemic
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, ...
Read More »Chief of Army Staff reiterates commitment to restore peace soon in N’East
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 ...
Read More »President Buhari commends EU’s N21 billion donation for COVID-19 fight
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 ...
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