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State governors in the North have begun deporting students of the Almajiri educational system as the region battles growing cases of COVID-19, with Kano taking the lead; expelling 435 Almajiris to Katsina; 524 to Jigawa, while Kaduna deported 40 Almajiris to Kebbi state. Derived from Arabic “Al-Muhajirun,” an Almajiri is a person who leaves his […]

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has suspended laboratory tests for Covid-19 in Kano, prompting the senator representing Kano North, Barau Jibrin to issue an urgent SOS appeal to the federal government for assistance to curb the coronavirus pandemic sweeping through the metropolis. “Even in the USA, the administration of President Donald Trump is […]

The Presidency has directed all State House correspondents and the Media Office staff who attended and covered the funeral prayer and burial of the late Chief of Staff, at Defence House and at the Gudu Cemetery Abuja, respectively, to stay off the Presidential Villa, ostensibly for violating President Buhari’s order on social distancing. A statement […]

More cash came in yesterday for the 36 states of the federation as the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) shared a total of N780.926 billion as March allocation based on the new exchange rate of N360 to a dollar. Other beneficiaries included the federal government, local governments and other agencies. The distributed amount comprised Statutory Revenue, […]

Charity they say begins at home, Africa`s richest man, Aliko Dangote is busy grandstanding and  exploring how he can score political points  with  Nigerian ruling cabal by  allegedly mobilizing  the Nigerian private sector to donate money (One billion naira) each, for COVID-19. However, his home state, Kano is currently engulfed in a disaster with rising death profile, […]

Barely a week since the death of Abba Kyari, President Buhari has lost another aide, the latest is  his personal body guard, Warrant Officer Lawal Mato According to Shehu Garba, Mr. Mato succumbed to  complications resulting from diabetes. “After three years of struggling with diabetes, one of President Muhammadu Buhari’s bodyguards, Warrant Officer Lawal Mato, […]

In a 2015 speech, Bill Gates warned that the greatest risk to humanity was not nuclear war but an infectious virus that could threaten the lives of millions of people. That speech has resurfaced in recent weeks with 25 million new views on YouTube — but not in the way that Gates probably intended. Anti-vaccinators, […]

The Nigerian Presidency  has said that Mallam Abba Kyari, chief of staff to the president is dead.His death was announced  via a press release issued on Saturday, April 18, 2020 by  Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President (Media and Publicity.Hear him:“The Presidency regrets to announce the passage of the Chief of Staff to the […]

Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), has appealed to Nigerians to embrace the lockdown imposed by governments at all levels to curb the spread of COVID-19 pandemic.He spoke yesterday as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control Wednesday confirmed 34 new cases of coronavirus in the country, taking the total to 407. […]

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said the Nigerian economy falls into the category of economies to be hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. To this end, the multilateral institution has advised federal and state governments to roll out more fiscal measures to fight the virus which has continued to spread in the country. IMF’s […]

A medical doctor in Lagos, Dr. Chugbo, has become the first health worker in Nigeria to die from COVID-19 after he contracted the virus from a patient he was treating. The doctor, who died at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) Wednesday after being rushed to the facility Monday, was said to have managed a […]

No fewer than five states of the federation, including Lagos, Delta, Borno, Ogun, and Ebonyi were conspicuously excluded from the list of states currently benefiting from the federal government’s N20, 000 conditional cash transfer scheme to the poorest and most vulnerable households in the country to cushion the hardship posed by the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. […]