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…..15 states commence online teaching The Federal Government has announced the indefinite postponement of this year’s West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination and the National Examinations Council because of the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic. The Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, said this at the daily Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 briefing in Abuja on Tuesday. Both examinations were ... Read More »

]…59 cases recorded in Lagos One hundred and seventeen new cases of Coronavirus have been recorded in Nigeria. According to a tweet from the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, (NCDC)  on Tuesday night, 59 cases were recorded in Lagos, 29 cases were discovered in the FCT, 14 cases were found out in Kano State and six cases were recorded in ... Read More »

The Director General of the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu has announced President Muhammadu Buhari will make some difficult decisions on COVID-19 containment next week. He said: ”President Buharit will on Wednesday have a tele conference with the Governors and there will be some difficult decisions to be made on how to restart the economy, especially ... Read More »

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the immediate payment of the February and March, 2020 withheld salaries of lecturers in federal universities who had not registered in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information (IPPIS) platform. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator (Dr) Chris Ngige, made this disclosure in a statement on Tuesday night. In the statement circulated by his media ... Read More »

Nigeria has recorded 86 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 627. According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), the new cases were recorded in Lagos, Abuja, Katsina, Akwa Ibom, Jigawa, Bauchi and Borno. ‪70 in Lagos‬ ‪7 in FCT‬ ‪3 in Katsina‬ ‪3 in Akwa Ibom‬ ‪1 in Jigawa‬ ... Read More »

•Lagos State opens up on how he died •Witnesses report seeing massive police presence at hospital where he died •He had no consultations with PTF, NCDC before going for private treatment The late Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari, was hours from being discharged from the hospital on Friday before his condition unexpectedly took a twist and ... Read More »

Troops of the Operation Lafiya Dole, have foiled a combined attack by the Boko Haram and Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) terrorists on Buni Gari village in Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State. Many of the insurgents were killed in the operation, while catchment of arms including Gun trucks, General Purpose Machine Guns (GPMG), AK-47 Rifles, among ... Read More »

Naval officer, David Igbashal who was abducted on the 22nd February, 2020 by unknown gunmen somewhere in Akwa Ibom State on his way home from Calabar has been confirmed dead. We gathered that 11 of these abductors suspected to be ritualists have been arrested by security operatives at a Shrine in Agbor, Delta state. Naval officer David Igbashal was a ... Read More »

Abia State government on Saturday evening announced that the suspected COVID-19 patient; one Vincent Prosper it had earlier declared wanted is now in their custody. This was disclosed by the Commissioner for Information in the state, Chief John Okiyi-Kalu in a Press Release. Okiyi-Kalu while recounting the efforts it took to trap the COVID-19 suspect said that Prosper who had ... Read More »

Mallam Abba Kyari, who died on 17th April, 2020, at the age of 67 from complications caused by the Coronavirus, was a true Nigerian patriot. My loyal friend and compatriot for the last 42 years – and latterly my Chief-of-Staff – he never wavered in his commitment to the betterment of every one of us. He was only in his ... Read More »