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President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday directed a review of the country’s budget for 2020, saying the budget review, alongside other policy implementations, is to reflect current realities in the oil sector and to respond to emerging threats pose by cases of coronavirus. Other policy implementations directed by Buhari include prioritization of the health sector infrastructure […]

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said it will ban entry to arrivals from Friday, March 20th from 13 of the countries worst hit by the COVID 19 pandemic. According to a post on the agency, Twitter handle on Wednesday, countries on the list have more than 1,000 cases and include the United States, […]

The federal government Tuesday inaugurated a presidential task force for the control of the deadly Coronavirus (COVID-19). The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Boss Mustapha, who inaugurated the task force, said its composition by President Muhammadu Buhari was necessary to monitor developments around the world on the outbreak of the contagion. The […]

The Nigeria High Commission in Ottawa, Canada, has suspended passport application processing to prevent the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in its community. In a statement dated March 16, the high commission said that the suspension was effective immediately and would last until further notice.   It, however, said the issuance of Emergency Travel Certificates […]

Turkish club, Trabzonspor yesterday terminated the contract of former Super Eagles’ Captain, John Obi Mikel following the Nigerian’s refusal to continue playing during the current Coronavirus crisis, reports goal.com. A statement by the club read that they parted ways with Mikel by mutual consent.   Mikel only joined Black Sea Storm as a free agent […]

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, […]

Access Bank Plc has commenced the 12th season of its DiamondXtra promo. The bank intends to reward about 5,074 customers with prize of over N1 billion. Also, the Executive Director, Retail Banking, Access Bank, Victor Etuokwu said the bank was targeting to increase its customer base from 41 million to 100 million by year 2022. […]

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 […]