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The World Health Organization recommended Tuesday that people suffering COVID-19 symptoms avoid taking ibuprofen, after French officials warned that anti-inflammatory drugs could worsen effects of the virus. The warning by French Health Minister Olivier Veran followed a recent study in The Lancet medical journal that hypothesized that an enzyme boosted by anti-inflammatory drugs such as […]

The tug-of-war between the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and two oil and gas majors, Chevron and Equinor over the latter’s lawsuit is being waged by two teams of lawyers highly regarded within the oil sector. The majors have asked a US court to force NNPC to pay out $1 billion in overpayments on OML […]

The fate of the suspended embattled national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, remains unknown as the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, Monday, postponed the hearing of the appeal he filed challenging his suspension as APC chairman by the Abuja High Court to April 7, 2020. The appeal was earlier slated […]

Nigeria police on Monday arraigned kidnap suspect, Bala Hamisu, aka Wadume, an army captain Tijjani Balarabe and 18 others for terrorism, murder, kidnapping, and possession of illegal arms. Wadume was arraigned before Justice Binta Nyanko at the Federal High Court in Abuja on a 16-count charge filed against by the police on Monday, February 3, […]

The embattled national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, got a lifeline on Monday after President Muhammadu Buhari and APC governors meeting in Abuja, agreed to postpone the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the party scheduled to hold Tuesday.  The NEC meeting had been called by the Acting National Secretary […]

The Federal Government has told the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) that it had “no record of the exact amount of public funds stolen by a former military Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, and the spending of about $5 billion recovered loot for the period between 1999 and 2015.” The government’s response followed […]

Contrary to widespread public perception that President Muhammadu Buhari gave the green light for Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje to depose the Emir of the Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi ll, the President actually made several moves to reconcile the two men in the peak of their feud, according to a highly placed source in the […]

The national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has weighed-in on the crisis rocking the party, describing it as “old Ambition-virus 2023;” a sickness which he says affects the Nigerian political class along with their allies in the media. Defending the embattled APC national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, Tinubu noted that […]

Nigeria’s diplomatic missions in the United States – Washington, New York and Atlanta – have suspended passport interviews and biometric data capture over the coronavirus crisis. The suspension, which takes effect from Monday, is until further notice, the missions said in separate statements made available to www.www.aso.rocks search engine on Sunday. According to the statements, […]

Experts are worried that there could be more cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria in the next two weeks, insisting that it is inevitable because the country has been identified as one of the 13 countries in Africa at a high risk of being overwhelmed by the virus due to weak health sector. The alarm was […]

The raging Coronavirus, otherwise known as Covid-19, may cause Nigeria’s total revenue from crude oil export in 2020 to drop to between $14 billion and $19 billion, compared to $38.9 billion previously predicted, a UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) report has stated. The ECA, in a report titled, “Economic Impact of the COVID-19 on […]

As strong indications emerged that Ekiti State Governor and chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF), Kayode Fayemi was poised to follow the footsteps of his Kano counterpart, Abdullahi Ganduje who dethroned the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, the Alaafin of Oyo, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Lamidi Olayinwola Adeyemi III, the Ooni of Ife, […]