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Coronavirus infections in Lagos have reached 1,006 after the state recorded 30 new cases on Friday. It appears the state has passed its peak as it recorded a drop in infections in the last two […]

Atiku Abubakar, former vice-president, says the crash in crude oil price is a blessing in disguise for Nigeria. He said the country should use the current developments in the oil market as an opportunity to […]

Nigeria’s COVID-19 cases reached a new milestone of 1,532 early on Wednesday with NCDC announcing 195 new cases. Lagos has the bulk of the new cases with 80. It was followed by Kano with 38. […]

President Donald Trump had a telephone conversation with President Muhammadu Buhari earlier on Tuesday, solidarising with Nigeria over the coronavirus pandemic. According to Lai Mohammed, minister of information, who disclosed this at the media briefing […]

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 64 new COVID-19 cases in four states and the federal capital territory. The agency announced this on its Twitter handle on Monday night. According to the […]

Pandemonium broke out on Monday in Kubwa, a satellite town in the Federal Capital Territory, as angry residents attacked a council chairman and palliative committee members over plans to divert relief items meant to help […]

President Muhammadu Buhari will address the nation Monday, April 27, 2020 at 8pm. Statement issued by Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, said television, radio and other electronic media stations […]

Nigeria’s tally of confirmed COVID-19 cases rose to 1,273 on Sunday from 1,182 reported on Saturday evening by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). The country also recorded five deaths from the disease on […]

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 114 new cases of COVID-19 in eight states and the federal capital territory. The agency announced this on its Twitter handle late Friday. According to the […]

Mudashiru Obasa, speaker of the Lagos house of assembly, says the lockdown in the state is not effective. On March 30, President Muhammadu Buhari ordered a lockdown in the federal capital territory (FCT), Lagos and […]

ADDRESS TO THE NATION BY PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, NANA ADDO DANKWA AKUFO-ADDO, ON UPDATES TO GHANA’S ENHANCED RESPONSE TO THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC, ON SUNDAY, 19TH APRIL, 2020. Today, Sunday, 19th April, 2020, is exactly […]

Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano state, has sacked Muazu Magaji, commissioner of works and infrastructure, over his comments on the death of Abba Kyari. On Friday, the presidency announced the death of Kyari, the chief […]

The chief of staff to the Nigerian president Abba Kyari is dead, presidential spokesmen Femi Adesina said on Saturday morning. “Funeral arrangements to be announced soon,” Adesina said. Garba Shehu, the special assistant on media […]

Despite the daily rise in the number of infected persons, nearly three in every ten Nigerians believe they have some form of immunity to the coronavirus, a recent poll reveals. The latest survey from NOIPolls […]