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 ...
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 »Cleric decries mass hunger, suffering despite huge donations from good-spirited Nigerians
General Overseer of the Zionwealth Church, Chris Omoshola, has decried the increasing hunger in the country and government’s inability to address the plight of Nigerians despite the lockdown due to outbreak of COVID-19. Blaming the situation on President Muhammadu Buhari, ...
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 »Edo State PDP laments rising cases of COVID-19
Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the 13 confirmed cases of coronavirus and two deaths recorded in the state has further made a mockery of the state government efforts to contain spread of the pandemic. ...
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