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A sick Chinese national (names withheld) was kept under close observation at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, pending the outcome of medical tests. He was suspected to have contacted the Coronavirus disease following several coughs, as he disembarked ...

Two foreign nationals, who were suspected to have contacted the Coronavirus (COVID-19) from Asia, have tested negative to the disease in Lagos State, Chief Incident Commander of the virus, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said. Sanwo-Olu disclosed that medical examination at ...

The House of Representatives has summoned officials of 14 oil firms to explain alleged maltreatment of their host communities in the Niger Delta region. Co-Chairman, joint House Committees on Treaties, Protocols Agreements and Petroleum Resources (Upstream), Ossai Nicholas Ossai at ...

Apparently deferring to the outcry in the land, the   Senate has introduced a bill seeking total adherence to the federal character principle in the appointment of service chiefs. Sponsored by the Minority Leader, Eyinnaya Abaribe, the piece of legislation, which ...

The Cross River State House of Assembly has rejected the confirmation of Justice Akon Ikpeme as substantive Chief Judge (CJ) of the state. Governor Ben Ayade had not been favourably disposed to the nomination of Ikpeme since she hailed from ...

Subtle moves by the Ijaw of Delta South Senatorial District to occupy Government House, Asaba in 2023, has been challenged by the Urhobo, who have argued that the Ijaw were trying to truncate the procedure for transition. They insisted that ...

Representative of Biase State constituency in the Cross River State House of Assembly, Ogbor Ogbor Udop has blamed the National Boundary Commission (NBC) for recurrent communal crisis between the state and its neighbours in Ebonyi, Abia, Benue and Akwa Ibom ...

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has urged the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) to immediately end oil spills caused by leaks on its pipeline at Taylor Creek oilfields in Bayelsa State. ERA/FoEN also aksed industry regulators, ...

Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Dominic Ukpong has disclosed that government has taken adequate preemptive measures in the last 72 hours to checkmate any circumstances that could lead to outbreak of Coronavirus in the state, insisting that there ...

The Lagos State House of Assembly has urged Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to ensure proper sensitisation of residents on the dreaded Coronavirus, otherwise called COVID-19. Representative of Oshodi Isolo I constituency, Akeem Shokunle raised the issue under matters of urgent public ...