Global Leadership Lacking In Fight Against Covid-19 -UN Scribe
News Investigators/UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday said global leadership had been lacking in the fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Speaking during a virtual news conference More...
Fayemi Appoints Father Who Denied ‘Runaway Son’ Access Home Covid-19 Ambassador
Alaba Ajibade/ The Governor of Ekiti State, ADO-EKITI/Kayode Fayemi has honoured the father of the young man who sneaked into Ado -Ekiti from Lagos, Femi Adeoye as Covid-19 ambassador. Mr. Adeoye was honored More...
Internet Fraud: 2 Bags Jail Sentence In Kaduna
News Investigators/ The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Kaduna Zonal Office on Thursday secured the conviction of Idahosa Bobby and Aidamebor Israel for offences bordering on internet fraud. They More...
Yahaya Commisserates With Adamawa Gov Over Mother’s Death
GOMBE/News Investigators/ Gombe state Governor, Alhaji Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya has commiserated with his Adamawa state counterpart, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri over the demise of his mother Hajiya Fatima Umaru Badami who More...
25-Yrs Old Dies Of COVID-19 Related Disease In Lagos -Official
LAGOS/News Investigators/ The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Akin Abayomi, has announced another COVID-19 related death, involving a 25-year-old male patient. Mr. Abayomi, a professor, through his Twitter More...
COVID-19: Kaduna Vasity Sends Casual Workers On Compulsory Leave
News Investigators/ The Kaduna State University has directed its casual workers to proceed on compulsory leave without pay due to Coronavirus pandemic. The Register of the institution, Mr Samuel Manshop, said More...
I-G Deploys 4 CPs To States, Formation
News Investigators/ The Inspector General of Police (I-G), Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the posting of four Commissioners of Police (CPs) to states and police formation. The Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), More...
COVID-19: NCDC Targets To Test 2m Nigerians In 3 Months
News Investigators/ The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said that in terms of testing capacity for the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19, pandemic the agency had targeted to test two million Nigerians in More...
Buhari Orders Total Lockdown In Kano, Stops Interstate Movement
News Investigators/ President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered a two week total lockdown in Kano State with immediate effect as a result of harvest of deaths ravaging the state from Coronavirus pandemic. Just as More...
FOR THE RECORD: Address By President Muhammadu Buhari On Covid-19 Cumulative Lockdown Order
ADDRESS BY H.E. MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE CUMULATIVE LOCKDOWN ORDER OF LAGOS AND OGUN STATES AS WELL AS THE FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY ON COVID- 19 PANDEMIC AT THE STATE More...
Raymond Dokpesi Tests Positive For Covid-19, Urges DAAR Comm Staff To Go For Test
News Investigators/ The Chairman of DAAR Communications Plc, Raymond Dokpesi Jnr., has tested positive for COVID-19, even as he urged staff members that have been in contact with him to submit themselves for test. Mr. More...
Covid-19 Lockdown: Buhari To Speak Tonight
News Investigators/ President Muhammadu Buhari will address the nation Monday, April 27, 2020 at 8pm. A statement by Presidential spokesman, Femi Adeniyi advised television, radio and other electronic media More...
Buhari Appoints Unilorin Director As VC Federal Agric Varsity, Zuru
News Investigators/ President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of a former Director of theUniversity of Ilorin (Unilorin), Musa Ahmed, as the Vice-Chancellor of the newly established Federal University More...
Lockdown: 500,000 Households To Benefit From Aisha Buhari’s Donation In Kano
News Investigators/ Wife of the President, Hajiya Aisha Buhari, through her foundation, ‘Future Assured’, has donated 16 trucks of assorted food items and for distribution to 500,000 households in Kano State. Mrs More...
COVID-19: Niger Govt Repatriate Almajiri Children To Home States
News Investigators/ The Niger Government says it has concluded arrangements to repatriate all Almajiri children to their states of origin. Ahmed Matane Secretary to the State Government and Chairman, Niger State More...
Covid-19: Crystal Palace Chefs To Cook 900 Meals A Week
News Investigators/ Crystal Palace’s chefs will cook 900 meals a week for frontline healthcare workers and vulnerable families in South London during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Premier League club said on Monday. The More...
Covid-19: Gombe Governor Bans “Achaba”, Approves Additional Measures
News Investigators/ Gombe state Governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya has banned the use of commercial motorcycles popularly known as “Achaba” as part of additional measures to curtail the spread of coronavirus More...
Fight Against Spread Of COVID-19 Can Reverse Effort On Malaria -Expert
News Investigators/ A malaria expert professor, Olugbenga Mokuolu, says efforts toward reducing malaria globally, can be reversed, as attention is totally shifted to war against the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. Mokuolu, More...
Oba Abolarin’s Great Plan For The Poor And Homeless Through Iconic school
By Shola Oshunkeye The road to Oke-Ila Oragun, an agrarian town in the Ifedayo Local Government Area of Osun State, is defined by a vast rain forest with lush green panoply of branches that lure the visitor More...
Gombe Inaugurates 10-Year Dev. Plan Committee
News Investigators/ Gombe state Governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya has inaugurated a steering committee for the preparation of Gombe State 10-Year Development plan. The Committee was inaugurated by the Deputy More...
Kyari Tribute: I Need No Validation Of Man -FFK
By Femi Fani-Kayode My opposition to the Buhari Government for the last five years has been as constant as the northern star and it remains as strong today as it ever was. I warned Nigerians what would happen More...
Ramadan: Clerics Urge Muslims To Use Period To Intercede For Nigeria
News Investigators/ Some clerics in Lagos State on Friday urged the Muslim faithful to use the season of Ramadan for intercession for the nation to overcome its present challenges. The News Agency of Nigeria More...
German Unemployment To Rise Beyond 3m In 2020 –Research
News Investigators/ German unemployment is set to rise by around 520,000 and exceed 3 million this year, the IAB labour market research institute said on Friday. The institute added that the coronavirus pandemic More...
TRIBUTE: “I Looked Back Instinctively… …But It Turned Out To Be My Last View Of Kyari”
By Femi Adesina He told us he would be back at his desk soon. I believed it. But now, it would never happen. Not tomorrow, not next week, not forever. Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari, has More...
U.N. Agency Advocates $1 Trillion Developing World Debt Write-Off
News Investigators/ The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said on Thursday that around one trillion dollars of debt owed by developing countries would be cancelled under a proposed global deal. The More...
Immortalize Akinjide, PDP Tells FG
News Investigators/ The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the Federal Government to immortalise the Late Chief Richard Akinjide for his dedication, commitment and patriotism toward the country. The More...
Oyo Gov. Announces New Appointments
Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has approved the appointment of Mrs Bolanle Sarumi-Aliyu as his Senior Special Assistant on Diaspora. This was contained in a statement issued on Tuesday in Ibadan by Moses Alao, More...
COVID-19: Ooni Fumigates Ile-Ife, Moves To Donate Fumigators To 36 States
News Investigators/ The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi Ojaja II, has fumigated the ancient city of Ile-Ife and its environs against the pandemic Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease with newly invented locally made More...
Covid-19: Experts Call For Mutual Trust, Understanding Between Africa, China
Flags of some African countries alongside China’s By Idowu John Bakare/ Experts have stressed the need for more mutual trust, deeper understanding, sincere solidarity as well as mutual support and cooperation More...
Kano Govt Investigating “Surge In Deaths” –official
News Investigators/ The Kano State Government says it has begun investigation into claims that there was a surge in deaths in Kano metropolis. Media report had it that the State recorded about 150 death in the More...
Ex-attorney General, Richard Akinjide Is Dead
News Investigators/ A former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Richard Akinjide is dead. Mr. Akinjide, aged 88, died in the early of hours of Tuesday at his Ibadan home. The More...
TRIBUTE: How Are The Mighty Fallen
By Femi Fani-Kayode Insults mean nothing to me. They only fuel my resolve and strengthen my determination. They are like water off a duck’s back and neither can they deter me from speaking my mind on any More...
AfDB Debars Chinese Firm, Zhonghao Over Alleged Fraudulent Practices
News Investigators/ The African Development Bank (AfDB) has debarred China Zhonghao Company, a civil engineering firm registered in Nigeria, for 18months over alleged fraudulent practices.The debarment renders More...
CRA Condemns Kano Governor For Forceful Conversion Of Christian Minor Girls To Islam
ABUJA/News Investigators/ The Christian Rights Agenda (CRA) has condemned in the strongest terms the forceful and provocative conversion of Christian minor girls from Christianity to Islam by Kano state Governor More...
COVID-19: Why We Are Making 1 Million Face Masks –Makinde
IBADAN/News Investigators/ Oyo State governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, has said that the state government has resolved to produce one million face masks for use of the people of the state as a measure of fighting More...
Gunmen Kidnap Anglican Priest In Delta Community
ASABA/News Investigators/ Gunmen on Saturday kidnapped an Anglican priest working on his farm at Issele-Mkpitime in the Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta. A resident in the community, Uche Obinkwor, More...
Lockdown: Censor What Your Kids Watch On TV – Psychologist
News Investigators/ A Lagos based Psychologist, Chidinma Nwobi, on Saturday, x-rayed some useful measures mothers could adopt to engage the children positively during the COVID-19 lockdown. Mrs. Nwobi, an Intentional More...
VIEWPOINT: Abba Kyari: Speaking Ill Of The Dead
By Remi Oyeyemi “The evil that men do live after them.” — William Shakespare I am aware that this is breaking with the conventional wisdom. I am conscious that this is a rebuke of tradition. More...
Tinubu Expresses Sadness, Says Kyari’s Death Should Not Be In Vain
News Investigators/ The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Sen. Bola Tinubu, has expressed sadness over the death of Abba Kyari, President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff. Tinubu, in a condolence More...
Osinbajo Condoles With Buhari, Kyari Family
News Investigators/ Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and his wife, Dolapo, have expressed their heartfelt sympathies to President Muhammadu Buhari over the death of Malam Abba Kyari, his Chief of Staff. The condolence More...
Abba Kyari’s Death, End Of A Surrogate Presidency, The Coming Chaos
By Farooq Kperogi To say I was shocked by Abba Kyari’s death would be to tell a lie. Being an asthmatic patient who routinely had “breathing problems” that necessitated periodic trips to London More...
Buhari’s Chief Of Staff, Abba Kyari Is Dead
News Investigators/ Chief of Staff to Nigerian president, Abba Kari, is dead.Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Femi Adesina confirmed this in a tweet in the early hours of Saturday. Femi More...
Fear Of Sack Grips Teachers In Kaduna As COVID-19 Spread
KADUNA/News Investigators/ Fear of job loss has grips private school teachers in Kaduna State as school owners may not cope with payment of salaries due to the COVID-19 lockdown. A teacher at Excell Model School, More...
34 New COVID-19 Cases Confirmed In 5 States, As Figure Rises To 407
News Investigators/ The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 34 new positive cases of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). NCDC, through its verified Twitter account, on Wednesday said that the More...
74 Million Risk Contracting Covid-19 -UN
News Investigators/ Around 74 million in the water-scarce Arab region are at risk of contracting COVID-19 due to lack of access to handwashing facilities, a United Nations agency warned on Wednesday. Washing More...
Urban Poor With Less Than N5,000 To Benefit From Conditional Cash Transfer -Minister
News Investigators/ The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar, says urban poor dwellers with an account balance of N5,000 or less will be among the beneficiaries More...
FG Blames Poor Communication For Escalation Of Tension Between China – Africans
News Investigators/ The Federal Government says poor communication between the Chinese authorities and African consulates in Guangzhou, China, is responsible for the tensions in the alleged maltreatment of Nigerians. The More...
PM Johnson Tests Negative For Coronavirus Disease
News Investigators/ British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested negative for COVID-19, his spokesman said on Monday. The test on leaving hospital was standard medical practice, the spokesperson said, according More...
Putin Warns Russia’s Coronavirus Situation Getting Worse
News Investigators/ Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Monday that the coronavirus epidemic in the country was “not getting better,” according to comments carried by state media. Mr. Putin demanded More...
Create Uniform Template For Fight Against Covid-19, Group Urges FG
The National Association of Government General Medical and Dental Practitioners (NAGGMDP) on Monday advised the Federal Government to create a uniform templates for the fight against Covid-19 pandemic in Nigeria. Its National More...
Ekiti Sets To Release ‘Low Risk’ Inmates
News Investigators/ The Ekiti Government says all is set for the release of “low risk” inmates of the Ado Ekiti Correctional Centre to further curtail the spread of COVID-19 in the state. The Attorney-General More...
Observe Strict Precautionary Measures, Air Chief Tells Personnel
News Investigators/ The Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, has urged personnel of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) to strictly observe prescribed precautionary measures against the Coronavirus. Abubakar More...
COVID-19: NGO Partners Oyo To Organise Free Testing For 2,000 Residents
News Investigators/ In line with Governor Seyi Makinde’s plan to conduct COVID-19 tests on at least 10,000 residents of the State within a short time, a Non-Governmental Organisation(NGO), Citizen For Citizen, More...
G20 Backs OPEC+, But Deal In Jeopardy As Mexico Refuses Cuts
News Investigators/ In an historic effort to power the oil and gas industry out of its worst tailspin in its 100-year history, the United States, Canada and other G20 nations are backing the OPEC+ group of countries More...
COVID-19: Ondo Cancels Easter Services
AKURE/ News Investigators/ The Government of Ondo State has reversed its earlier decision to allow Christians to hold Church services on Sunday, saying the discovery of a second index case Covid-19 informed its More...
Easter: Yahaya Felicitates With Christians, Urges Sustained Prayers Against Covid-19
GOMBE/ News Investigators/ Governor of Gombe State Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya has urged Christian faithful to pray for enduring peace, stability and an end to the Covid-19 pandemic, just a he felicitate with the Christian More...
2 Months Free Electricity Tariff Is NASS’ Proposal -PHED
PORT HARCOURT/ News Investigators/ The Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHED) has denied plan to offer two months free electricity to customers as part of palliative to cushion the effect of lockdown More...
FG May Introduce Additional Stimulus Measures As Buhari Meets Osinbajo, SGF
News Investigators/ President Muhammadu Buhari has met with Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo as the country battles the Coronavirus pandemic. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Osinbajo is also the chairman More...
OPEC+ Close To Ending Oil Price War, Awaits G20 Meeting
News Investigators/ In a move to save the oil industry — facing the biggest crisis in its history — OPEC and Russia have agreed on new production cuts, with the OPEC+ group agreeing to eliminate 10 million More...
Beware Of Illegal Charity Donors, Cure Claims On Covid-19 -EFCC Tells Nigerians
News Investigators/ The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has again cautioned members of the public against unsupported claims of fraudulent operators advertising cures and treatments of the dreaded More...
COVID-19: Don Calls For Investment In Massive Testing To Avoid Serious Outbreak
News Investigators/ The Vice-Chancellor of Al-Hikmah University, Taofeeq Ibrahim has called on the Federal and State Governments to invest on massive testing for coronavirus to avoid a serious outbreak in the country. Mr. More...
COVID-19: We Have Traced 8,932 People Of Interest –Task Force
News Investigators/ The Presidential Task Force for the Control of Coronavirus (COVID-19), says it has successfully traced no fewer than 8,932 people of interest and is still monitoring 220 others. Minister More...
Chinese Medical Team Will Not Treat Covid-19 Patients -CCECC MD Jiang
News Investigators/ The China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) says the Chinese medical team that arrived Nigeria Wednesday are not going to treat coronavirus patients but instead would provide More...
Nigeria Receives 2nd Batch Of China’s Medical Supplies, Personnel
News Investigators/ The Federal Government has taken delivery of the second batch of medical supplies and personnel from China in the vigorous fight against the Coronavirus pandemic. Air Peace’s Chairman, More...
COVID-19: Group Accuses US Of Anti-Chinese Propaganda, Says It’s Hurting Africa-China Friendship
News Investigators/ The Chinese investors Association for Development and Promotion in Nigeria has expressed concern over what it described as United States’ propaganda against China in Africa, warning that More...
Covid-19 Lockdown: Widows, Widowers, Aged Gets N1.5M NGO Largesse
News Investigators/ To cushion the hardship from COVID-19 lockdown in Lagos State, the “Touch of Love and Lifting Hands Foundation”, an NGO, on Wednesday concluded its two-day door-to-door relief items delivery More...
Covid-19: Nigerian Military Provide 3 Additional Isolation Centres
News Investigators/ The Armed Forces of Nigeria has provided three additional isolation and treatment centres to support the Federal Government’s efforts in containing COVID-19 patients. Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, More...
COVID-19: Only Buhari Can Extend Lockdown, Says Task Force
News Investigators/ The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 says only President Muhammadu Buhari can decide whether or not to extend the ongoing 14 days lockdown in Lagos, Ogun and Abuja. The Task Force Chairman, More...
EU Wants To Help Africa, Others Fight Covid-19 With €15Billion
News Investigators/ The European Union is set to give 15 billion euros’ (16.3 billion dollars’) worth of support to Africa and other regions of the world for their efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic. “In More...
COVID-19: FCT Discharges 7 Patients, 39 Others To Follow
News Investigators/ The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) says it has discharged seven patients earlier screened of COVID-19 and managed at the isolation and treatment centre after they tested negative More...
PDP Calls For Policy Statement On Subsidy Removal
News Investigators/ The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised the Federal Government to announce the total removal of petroleum subsidy and under-recovery through a policy statement. The party gave the advice More...
Court Convicts Impostor Of Senator Bulus Amos
News Investigators/The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Gombe Zonal Office, Tuesday secured the conviction of one Prince Musa, who impersonated Gombe senator, Bulus Amos. Sen. Amos representing More...
Global Oil Outlook: Kyari Says No More Oil Subsidy
News Investigators/ The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mele Kyari, says Nigeria would no longer pay subsidy on petrol with the ongoing global oil price decline. Kyari More...
Easter: FG Declares Friday, Monday Holidays
News Investigators/ The Federal Government has declared Friday, April 10 and Monday 13, as public holidays to mark the 2020 Easter Celebration. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola made the declaration More...
UN Chief Decries Domestic Violence Surge Amid COVID-19 Lockdowns
News Investigators/ UN Secretary-General António Guterres has decried a “horrifying global surge in domestic violence” against women and girls amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In a video message More...
Civil Servants In Kastina Resume Monday -HoS
News Investigators/ Amid worry of the growing cases of the coronavirus spread in the country, Gov. Aminu Masari of Katsina State has directed workers in the state’s civil service to resume work on Monday. The More...
Gombe APC Brouhaha: Let The Truth Be Told
By Sadiq Umar The recent development in Gombe State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in which 7 out 27 officials of Kumo East Ward purportedly expel a two term member representing Akko Federal More...
Covid-19: Lagos Lockdown Day 4 In Pictures
So, i made a short trip on the 4th day of the Lockdown in Lagos to pick up a few more things and to feel the pulse on the streets and the streets were more scanty than the first day in the places that i passed. I More...
2 Shops Gutted Fire At Idumota
LAGOS/ News Investigators/ Two shops with household utensils were destroyed in a fire at Maola Shopping Mall in Idumota area of Lagos on Friday. Director-General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), More...
Maj.-Gen. Yahaya Takes Over As Theartre Commander Operation Lafiya Dole
Maj.-Gen. Farouq Yahaya on Friday took over as the new Theater Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole (OPLD) in Maiduguri. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Yahaya took over from Maj.-Gen. Olusegun More...
COVID-19: Coalition Urges FG To Provide N96bn For Senior Citizens’ Social Package
News Investigators/ Coalition of Societies for the Rights of Older Persons in Nigeria (COSROPIN) on Friday urged the Federal Government to provide about N96.1 billion as special security package for senior citizens. Sen. More...
Usman Bello Kumo Remains Our Bonafide Member -APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) leadership in Kumo East Of Gombe State Thursday distanced itselves from the purported dismissal of the member representing Akko Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives, More...
COVID 19: Appeal To The President To Unlock Lagos And Abuja
By Ebun-Olu Onagboruwa On March 29, 2020, the President directed the lockdown of Lagos, Ogun States and Abuja. Everything became paralyzed from March 30, 2020, as movements of persons were restricted, save those More...
I Have Fears Covid-19 Funds Will Be Looted – Olaniyan
(News Investigators) In this interview with OLADIMEJI RAMON, Legal Adviser at Amnesty International Secretariat, London, Dr Kolawole Olaniyan, speaks about Nigeria’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the More...
COVID-19: A 240-Bed Isolation Center In Anambra At NYSC Camp
Covid-19: NYSC Camp Mbaukwu/Umuawulu Isolation Centre. The 240 Bed Isolation Centre at the NYSC Camp Mbaukwu/Umuawulu, Anambra State is taking shape. Photos show a section of the facility…. Our Prayer More...
Chadian Soldiers Kill Boko Haram Terrorists, Shekau Consoles Fighters (Video)
(News Investigators) After an ambush by insurgents which killed over 90 of its soldiers last week, the Chadian military has eliminated dozens of Boko Haram terrorists in a retaliatory operation. Few days after More...
Covid-19: Gombe Sets To Establish Testing Centre
News Investigators/ Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya has approved the establishment of covid-19 testing centre in Gombe. The Chairman of the Taskforce on Covid-19, Professor Idris Mohammed who disclosed this More...
