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The Federal High Court, Lagos has granted post-conviction bail to a former Director of Finance and Account at the Abia State Government House, Jones Udeogu, who was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment last December. He was convicted of a N7.1 ...

APM Terminals Nigeria has donated $200,000 (N75 million) towards the United Nations in Nigeria basket fund to boost government’s efforts at addressing the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. The global agency is mobilising funds to procure equipment for testing, quarantine and ...

Delta State Governor Ifeamyi Okowa has imposed a two-week restriction on residents of Asaba. He also ordered the closure of the airport to traffic from 6:00pm today, just as all land and sea borders had been pronounced shut effective 6:00am ...

The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has urged the three tiers of governments and employers of labour to ensure prompt payment of salaries to sustain the stay-at-home orders for containment of the COVID-19 pandemic nationwide. It also urged that ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has warned Nigerians against patronising unregistered fund managers. The organisation said it had observed lately the proliferation of unlicensed investment schemes with promises of huge returns on investments. SEC Acting Director General, Mary Uduk, ...

Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State has ordered the closure of all borders and roads leading to the state with immediate effect just as he directed Ibom Air to suspend all flights operations with effect from March 29. The ...

The Cross River government has read a riot act to commercial transport operators on provision of hand sanitisers in their vehicles for use by passengers in the state. Consequent upon the directive of Governor Ben Ayade, employees of the Ministry ...

Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, and his Bayelsa counterpart, Douye Diri, have tested negative for Coronavirus but remained in self-isolation. In a statement, his Special Adviser on Media and Communication Strategy, Crusoe Osagie, said the result was that of the ...

The Rivers government and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) have differed on the existence of an index case in the state of the COVID-19 currently ravaging the globe. The NCDC had on its official tweet handle disclosed that ...

The Delta State Traditional Rulers Council backed the ban on social activities by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa to check the pervasive CONVID-19 outbreak in the country. Its chairman and the Obi of Owa, Dr. Emmanuel Efeizomor II, who communicated the decision ...