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Nigerian Government has declared Friday, May 1, as public holiday to mark this year’s International Workers’ Day Celebration. Interior Minister, Rauf Aregbesola, who declared the holiday in a statement, commended Nigerian workers for their resilience, patience and understanding, particularly in their support of the President Muhammadu Buhari Administration’s efforts at stemming the spread of COVID-19 […]

With the coronavirus ravaging the earth, doctors now warn that anxiety symptoms can often be very similar to that of the virus. According to Dr. Sarah Jarvis, clinical director of “Patient Access”; “Some of the symptoms of anxiety and panic attacks – feeling short of breath, palpitations and dizziness – are sometimes also seen in […]

The Rivers State Government through the Ministry of Social Welfare has profiled and evacuated 150 vagrants to Ebonyi, Akwa Ibom, some states in the north and Niger Republic.   The state Commissioner for Social Welfare, Mrs. Inime Aguma, Tuesday led other officials of the ministry to profile all the vagrants before they were evacuated to […]

The Chairperson, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has disclosed that the woman who was offered for sale on Facebook by a Lebanese, Wael Jerro, has been rescued. She said the victim, Busari Peace, was with the Nigerian Mission in Beirut, Lebanon.   Jerro had advertised the victim with her Nigerian passport […]

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday extended the lockdown in Lagos, Ogun and the country’s capital city Abuja by a week. “The lockdown in the FCT, Lagos & Ogun States shall subsist remain in place until these new ones come into effect on Saturday, 2nd May 2020 at 9 am,” Buhari said in his national […]

To curb the spread of the deadly coronavirus in the country, President Muhammadu Buhari has announced new nationwide measures, including dusk-to-dawn curfew and mandatory use of masks in public, from May 4.    In his third national broadcast on the COVID-19 pandemic, President Buhari said “There will be an overnight curfew from 8pm to 6am. […]

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, has cautioned President Muhammadu Buhari against adopting policies that could worsen the economy in the ongoing fight against COVID-19.   In an exclusive interview with THISDAY, the chairman of the main opposition party urged the president to consider the health of the economy […]

Cracks in the cabinet of incumbent Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki came to the fore Saturday with the resignation of his Chief of Staff, Francis Taiwo Akerele. Also, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Political Matters in charge of Edo North, Hon. Kabiru Adjoto was said to have thrown in the towel.   With […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday reaffirmed its plans to go ahead with the governorship elections in Edo and Ondo States as scheduled, notwithstanding the disruptions caused by COVID-19 pandemic.   INEC National Commissioner in charge of Voters’ Education and Information, Festus Okoye, told reporters in Abuja that the commission had not met to […]

Kano State governor Umar Ganduje on Monday accused the Presidential Taskforce on Coronavirus of neglecting the state in treatment and containing the spread of the global pandemic.   “The problem (is) with the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19. Even its Director-General was in Kano. He spent a night here but we have not heard from […]

A coalition of Nigerian legal experts has filed a class action suit against the Peoples Republic of China over the effects of the coronavirus pandemic effect on Nigerians. They are demanding $200 billion as damages for the “loss of lives, economic strangulation, trauma, hardship, social disorientation, mental torture and disruption of normal daily existence of […]

Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai announced on Sunday that he has extended the quarantine orders being enforced in the state for another 30 days. El-Rufai also announced that the state public servants earning, at least, N67, 000 will have 25% of their salaries “donated” to the state’s treasury until the end of the quarantine period. […]