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The Adamawa/Taraba command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has seized 31,125 litres of petrol in two weeks. The 1,245.25kg gallons, valued at N3.9 million, were confiscated along the Nigeria-Cameroun border. The smugglers often ferry product through Mubi and Mahia ...
Read More »Buhari felicitates with UK premier on discharge over coronavirus, greets Ambassador Akporode Clark at 90
President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, following his discharge from hospital over the COVID-19 pandemic. In a message by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, yesterday in Abuja, the president said he received ...
Read More »APC National Leader Tinubu canvasses food security, robust economy to contain COVID-19
National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has enjoined the Federal Government to ensure food security and enthrone a robust economy for an effective COVID-19 fight. In a statement, the former governor of Lagos State ...
Read More »FG restricts, begins evacuation of trucks in Lagos, IGP discourages night trips as Obi decries pervasive hunger
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 ...
Read More »Renewed cult violence claims two lives in Edo State
Despite Edo State government’s partial lockdown due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), renewed cult violence has claimed two lives in Egor Council of the state. The killings occurred late Monday night in two separate locations along Benin Technical College (BTC) ...
Read More »JDAN, Ishaku differ on efforts to quell Tiv, Jukun crisis as Sule’s mediation suffers setback
Taraba State Governor Darius Ishaku and Jukun Development Association of Nigeria (JDAN) are not on the same page over the state’s efforts to control the crisis that have led to loss of lives and property in the southern part of ...
Read More »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 »Northern govs seek coordinated response to COVID-19, Gombe to establish testing lab
Governors of the 19 northern states under the auspices of the Northern States Governors’ Forum (NSGF) rose from their meeting with a call for more test centres and a coordinated response system to the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. Chaired ...
Read More »Five tests positive, one dies of coronavirus in Katsina State
Of the 71 suspects tested for the novel coronavirus in Katsina State, five returned positive, while one died in Daura Council. Chairman of the Katsina State Special Taskforce Committee on Sensitisation on COVID-19, Abdulkarim Sirika, made this known yesterday while ...
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 ...
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