Iheaka community in Igboeze South Local Government Area of Enugu State Thursday 26th of march 2020 withness strange thin in the town as a man who was suspected to have beheaded his mother for ritual purposes was killed by his ...
Read More »Food prices soar in Enugu State, residents seek FG’s intervention
Indications have emerged that prices of food items and other materials used in containing the Coronavirus pandemic have risen, even as Enugu residents asked government to provide palliatives to cushion effects of lockdown on their families and businesses. It was ...
Read More »Group urges government to tackle disease the Nigerian way
An advocacy group has urged government not to follow measures taken by the European countries to curb the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic but use the Nigerian context. It pointed out that while developed nations have put in place social ...
Read More »Experts task investors on proactive approach to pandemic
As the COVID-19 challenge shakes the globe to its very foundation, investors in the Nigerian capital market have been enjoined to adopt proactive measures to the problem the losses in stocks and other investments notwithstanding. A Research Analyst with Investment ...
Read More »Global shortage of testing capacity, ventilators, others threaten efforts to contain COVID-19
As the number Nigerians battling the COVID-19 rises above 97, there are indications that global shortage of testing capacities, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and ventilators, may threatens the chances of patients to survive and nations to stop the spread of ...
Read More »DG, governors’ forum, wife test negative for Coronavirus
Director General of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), Asishana Okauru and his wife, Ifueko, have tested negative for Coronavirus (COVID-19). Okauru stated this in a statement issued in Abuja, following the tests earlier conducted on him and his wife at ...
Read More »Umahi closes markets as Owerri Catholic Diocese cancels mothering Sunday
Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi has ordered the closure of all markets and shops that are not dealing on essential commodities, a statement issued by Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Dr. Keneth Ugbala has disclosed. The directive, in which ...
Read More »Publish weekly details of spending on COVID-19, SERAP tells Federal Government
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Federal Government to “publish weekly details of funds and other resources allocated and received from the private sector, as well as details of their use in combating the spread COVID-19.” ...
Read More »Labour canvasses interventions for vulnerable groups in Nigeria
Organised labour has stressed the need for the three tiers of government to design intervention packages to help vulnerable groups escape hardship during the shutdown. Immediate past General Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson, said it ...
Read More »Terminal donates N100m for COVID-19 fight
APM Terminals Nigeria has earmarked N100 million to support the efforts of the Federal Government in curtailing the spread of COVID-19 in the most populous black nation. The port operator added in Lagos that was maintaining continuity in its operations ...
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