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The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has advised the federal, state and local government authorities to create feeding centres urgently in order to cushion the effect of the extension of COVID-19 lockdown. It said this followed its discontent with the handling ...

The Legal Defence and Assistance Project (LEDAP) has charged attorney generals and commissioners of justice to end indiscriminate arrests and detention of citizens, as a measure to curb the spread of coronavirus. In a statement issued by its National Coordinator, Chino ...

FCT to enforce lockdown during distribution of palliatives The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Task Force on COVID-19 has ordered the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) to deploy its newly developed made-in-Nigeria disinfectant safety sprayers to the Asokoro ...

The Nigerian military has refuted alleged killing of civilians in airstrikes by Operation Lafiya Dole (OPLD) at Shokotoko village in Damboa council area of Borno State. Coordinator of Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, in a statement in Abuja, said: ...

A section of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) headquarters in Maitama, Abuja has been razed by a mysterious fire. The blaze, according to an investigation, resulted from a power surge on the sixth floor of the building. The inferno was, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...