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The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) has called on Muslims to observe social distancing when searching for the moon in respect of this year’s Ramadan. It specifically advised faithful to remain indoors and shun crowds. The council’s Deputy ...

The Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government is today holding an Extraordinary Session through videoconference. The ECOWAS Commission, through its Communications Department, yesterday said the leaders would discuss the “Situation and Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic in the ...

The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has attributed the rising cases of the disease to expansion of government’s testing capacity and activities as well as evidence that community spread was taking place. “Considering the dynamic nature of the response ...

A member of the Correspondents Chapel of the Adamawa Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has emerged the first journalist to test positive for COVID-19 and the index case in the state. Governor Ahmadu Fintiri, in a statewide ...

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has confirmed his recovery from the novel coronavirus after testing negative twice for the virus. In a live broadcast, he said: “I am delighted to report today (yesterday) that after nearly four weeks of observing ...

The private sector-led Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID) has disclosed that no fewer than 1.7 million households would benefit from its food relief packages to help alleviate the effects of the lockdown adopted by governments across the country. It also disclosed ...

Chairman of the Ebonyi State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Comrade Tony Nwizi, has declared that journalists deserved better working conditions and palliatives like health workers. He argued that giving journalists better working conditions and palliatives would ...

A coalition of anti-corruption organisations under the aegis of Upright For Nigeria, Stand Against Corruption Campaign have charged the Federal and state governments to publish the full list of all beneficiaries of COVID-19 palliatives. This, the groups said, would ensure ...

Deputy Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Toby Okechukwu, has expressed concern over the rising incidents of violence and extrajudicial killings by security agencies in parts of the country. Okechukwu, who represents Aninri/Awgu/Oji River Federal Constituency of Enugu State, ...

The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) has endorsed an inter-state lockdown in the country for another two weeks to contain spread of coronavirus among states of the country. Chairman of NGF and Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, who disclosed this after ...