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A Federal High Court in Lagos has fixed June 2 to hear an application filed by Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu, seeking his release from prison. The motion on notice will be heard by Justice Mohammed Liman.   The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Kalu is currently serving a 12 years jail term at […]

The federal government has announced that it has received a batch of 292 stranded Nigerians from Saudi Arabia. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, who tweeted from his verified twitter handle, said that the returnees are doing well and have all settled down in hotels for the mandatory 14-day quarantine.   He noted that […]

The Nigerian Postal Service Headquarters was on Wednesday hit by an early morning fire, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports.   The Federal Capital Territory Fire Service personnel were, however, on hand to contain the fire, which attracted a large crowd at the busy Area 10, Garki, in Abuja.   Efforts by a NAN […]

The Kaduna-based professor of microbiology and Covid-19 cure researcher, Ayodele Israel Adeleye, has vowed to access any isolation center, treat five patients on ventilators and five other confirmed positive coronavirus patients without wearing any personal protective gear during the exercise.   He also pledged to carry out the treatment of the 10 persons free of […]

The anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) said its attention has been drawn to the antics of some few elements in the social media, employing desperate antics of blackmail, and smear campaigns against the successful war being fought against corrupt practices by the Commission and its courageous Chairman, Ibrahim Magu.   EFCC […]

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday approved the extension of measures, exemptions; advisories and scope of entities allowed to reopen under phase one of the eased lockdown for another two weeks across the country effective from midnight Monday, May 18 – June, 1, 2020. Specifically, the nationwide curfew and the imposition of precision lockdown in states, or […]

The predictions were somber and the doomsday predictions scary. The World Health Organization (WHO) warned African countries to “prepare for the worst”, while the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) had in April predicted: “anywhere between 300,000 and 3.3 million African people could lose their lives as a direct result of COVID-19.” Melinda Gates, co-chair […]

A former director general of the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Prof. Epiphany Azinge (SAN), has served a notice of class action against the National Health Commission of the Peoples Republic of China, demanding the immediate payment of $200billion (N80 trillion) as the compensation for the spread of Coronavirus to Nigerians.   The professor […]

The main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday accused the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19, Boss Mustapha of acting ultra vires and usurpation of presidential powers by announcing an extension of lockdown and curfew in the country.   PDP, in a statement by its […]

The Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, yesterday, said the agency had received more than 40 applications on rapid testing kits, out of which 15 have been approved.   She, however, said the agency was yet to receive the Madagascar herbal remedy for COVID-19 from […]

Aviation Minister, Senator Hadi Sirika, announced yesterday that the federal government has quarantined the pilots of the impounded aircraft owned by a British company for 14 days.   He said: “There is a company called Flairjet. I want to apologise that I tweeted in the afternoon (on Sunday) when the fasting was biting harder and […]

There was a mild drama yesterday as Waziri Bulama was sworn in as Acting National Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Bulama, who hails from Borno State, replaces Mai Mala Buni, who was elected governor of Yobe State on the APC platform in last year’s polls.   However, APC’s National Vice Chairman (North […]