Our Reporter Lagos State Government has warned against sale of food packs provided under its economic stimulus package for indigent and the most vulnerable as a result of the stay-at-home directive to […]

Our Reporter The Lagos State Government has suspended the announced closure of Marine Bridge in Apapa until further notice. A statement signed by the Commissioner for Transportation, Dr Frederic Oladeinde hinged the […]

Our Reporter Women’s place as mothers and pillars in homes are crucial at this time of the Coronavirus scourge. The Commissioner for Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Cecilia Dada called on all […]

Our Reporter Office of Education Quality Assurance (OEQA) has intensified its monitoring and compliance drive to ensure that all schools shut down to curtail the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19). Addressing newsmen during […]

Our Reporter Lagos State Government has taken delivery of a 110-bed isolation facility on Lagos Island, where confirmed cases of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the State can be managed and treated. […]

Our Reporter Chairman, House Committee on the Environment, Lagos State Assembly cum-actor, Desmond Elliot has taken the Coronavirus campaign to his Surulere constituency home with support from the Nollywood family. The campaign […]

By Ademola Adesola Since the rise in the spread of the novel coronavirus in Nigeria, especially among the high and mighty, my mind has been repeatedly wandering back to one of the […]

Hardball For the two years he held sway as chairman of the now disbanded Special Investigation Panel on Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), Mr. Okoi Obono-Obla was like a guided missile gone […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State has expressed sadness over Saturday’s bomb explosion at Eleyewo in Akure North Local Government Area. A statement on Sunday by the Publicity Secretary, Alex […]

Our Reporter The Railway Police Command headquarters, Ebute-Metta, Lagos has advised the general public or whoever has lost a Honda Accord with registered number JU 703 KJA parked at Railway Police Command […]

By Emeka Omeihe Those privy to a recent letter by the Chief of Staff (COS) to President Buhari, Alhaji Abba Kyari directing legislators who just returned to the country to report to […]

Sam Omatseye Please tell us, Covid-19, who you are serving, God or the Devil. Because both the followers of the good and the followers of the devil are claiming you as their […]

By Femi Macaulay Birthdays bring memories. Retired diplomat Dapo Fafowora’s 79th birthday on March 29 drew attention to his multidimensionality. An old boy of CMS Grammar School, Lagos (1954 -58), Fafowora had […]

Osagie Otabor, Akure Residents of Eleyewo in Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State are lamenting their loss after Saturday’s bomb explosion. A truck conveying dynamites exploded on the highway, destroying […]

By Ibanga Jo Inyang SIR: Sustaining the COVID-19 pandemic containment is a journey, not a step; however, early detection is a right step on that journey. Consider if the coronavirus disease, COVID-19 […]

By Collins Nweze The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is real in Nigeria with nearly 100 confirmed cases recorded so far in the country. But government, banks and private sector leaders are taking steps […]

Yusuf Alli, Managing Editor, Northern Operations The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has forced a contractor to go back to site. This followed the abandonment of a N1.24billion project. The commission […]

By Samson Omotunde Makanju SIR: Mass communication is the process of transmitting ideas, social values, information from a source, through a chosen channel of communication to a large heterogeneous audience. Nigeria’s audience […]

Samuel J. Samuel The first case of COVID-19 was detected on 17 November, 2019, according to a report. It was weeks later before the Chinese authorities acknowledged the reality of the new […]

Editorial On the surface, the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) would appear to have a point, as regards its grouse with the Federal Government, over the reduction of pump price of […]

Editorial The raging pandemic of Coronavirus is yet to turn the abatement corner.  So, alarm bells are clanging over the implications of the ongoing lockdown to halt its spread. The worries are specific and general.  At at the micro level, […]

By Abdulganeey Abiola Adeyemi SIR: Like many other countries battling the novel Coronavirus, the Nigeria government, at all levels, this time around, have done quite well by taking urgent and hard-headed precautionary […]

Agency Reporter Following the stay-at-home order by the Edo State Government, local councils in the state have taken urgent steps to enforce the order in their councils, compelling the people to observe […]

David Adenuga, Bauchi Bauchi Governor Bala Mohammed has offered N2 million as compensation for information that will lead to safe return  of his abducted brother. Nation reports that unknown gunmen whisked away […]

Bolaji Ogundele, Abuja The Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Mallam Abba Kyari, has announced his positive coronavirus (COVID-19) status. Mallam Kyari, who disclosed this in a message on Sunday night, […]

Agency Reporter The Edo State Chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has called for a shutdown of services within church premises across the state, as part of urgent measures to […]

Bolaji Ogundele, Abuja The Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Mallam Abba Kyari, has announced his Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) status as being positive. Mallam Kyari, who disclosed this in a message […]

By David Adenuga Bauchi Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi state has offered N2 million as compensation for information that will lead to safe return of abducted brother. The Nation reports that unknown […]

Agency Reporter The National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Bola Tinubu has donated N200 million to support current effort of the Federal Government towards curbing the spread of CoronaVirus […]

By Alao Abiodun The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported fourteen new cases of coronavirus in the country, taking the total number of infections to 111. According to the NCDC, […]

Duku JOEL, Maiduguri Borno Commissioner for Health Dr. Salisu Kwayabura has confirmed that all the five suspected cases of COVID-19 in the state have tested negative. Dr. Kwayabura, who addressed journalists on […]

Sanni Onogu, Abuja Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola (Lagos West) on Sunday lauded the National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for playing critical roles in the lives of […]

Agency Reporter The Bauchi State Government says two out of the 93 samples collected from the state tested positive to coronavirus (COVID-19) virus. The Commissioner for Health, Dr Aliyu Maigoro, made this […]

David Adenuga Bauchi No fewer than  21 pending samples of suspected coronavirus cases in Bauchi State have tested negative. The  Commissioner for Health, Dr Aliyu Maigoro Mohammed, disclosed  this to newsmen in […]

By Gabriel Ogunjobi President Muhammadu Buhari has said that journalists and all other media practitioners are excluded from the restriction of movement within Abuja, Lagos, Ogun states. He gave this permission on […]

By Robert Egbe Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa has argued President has no powers to restrict the movement of persons without recourse to the National Assembly. Adegboruwa said Buhari’s two-week […]

Gbenga Omokhunu, Abuja The General Overseer of the Redeeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, on Sunday said ‘only those whose time has come will die’ as the world and […]

Our Reporter President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered a two-week shutdown of all activities and movements in Lagos, Abuja and Ogun State. The President also ordered the payment of two- month conditional cash […]

  Bolaji Ogundele, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered a two-week shut down of all activities and movements in Lagos, Abuja and Ogun State. The President also ordered the  payment of two- […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has stopped all movements in Lagos, FCT and Ogun to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. He gave the order in a presidential broadcast on Sunday evening. He said the no-movement […]

ADDRESS BY H.E. MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA  ON THE COVID- 19 PANDEMIC SUNDAY 29TH MARCH, 2020    Fellow Nigerians,    From the first signs that Coronavirus, or […]

Kelvin Osa Okunbor   Air Peace has evacuated about 274 Israelis from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos and the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja to Israel’s major city, Tel-Aviv. The […]

Gbenga Omokhunu, Abuja The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Malam Muhammad Bello has tested negative for the Coronavirus (COVID-19). The minister, who had not travelled to one of the endemic countries in […]

Vincent Ikuomola, Abuja Stranded staff of the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) drafted to Brazzaville, the Republic of Congo to undergo a special capacity building course with the World Health Organization […]

By: Gbenga Omokhunu, Abuja   President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. Samson Ayokunle,  has assured Nigeria will overcome the coronavirus pandemic. He cautioned against fear, saying the nation will […]

Following the closure of land borders by the Delta State government over coronavirus,  Anambra Governor, Chief Willie Obiano, has announced the closure of Onitsha Bridge head with immediate effect. Only vehicles transporting […]

By Precious Igbonwelundu Retail shops located on streets are free to open up for business as long as they respect the social distancing and crowd control directives, the Lagos State Police Command […]