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SERAP to FG : Publish details of home feeding programme suppliers, sites, budget 

  …wants response in seven days as it  invokes FoI Act Demanding accountability and transparency, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has...

COVID-19: ECA announces back-on-track strategies for African economies 

  Following the imposition of lockdowns to suppress COVID-19 pandemic with devastating economic consequences, the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has proposed to African...

39 dead, 74 more infected as coronavirus devastates Lutheran Church

    At least 39 members of the Saint Peter’s Lutheran Church in New York have died from the coronavirus. Another 74 members...

COVID-19: Ondo Polytechnic mass produced face masks, donates sanitisers, others to Governor

  Determined to join forces with the government and other organizations in the COVID-19 fight, Ondo State-owned Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, has donated...

NEXIM Bank Announces Kingsley Obiora As New Chairman

  The Nigerian Export-Import Bank (NEXIM) has announced the appointment of Kingsley Obiora as new chairman. Mr. Kingsley Obiora will succeed chairman Joseph...

Veteran NAN Editor Kunle Akinsola Named Per Second News Top News Executive

  Per Second News has named Mr. Kunle Akinsola, a veteran News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, editor, as the online newspaper’s permanent chief...

Escape from COVID-19 isolation centres must stop, says FG

    …asks states to provide adequate security at centre   …trend ‘ll spike number of infected persons …frowns at breach of inter-state...

CSOs to Buhari: Make pronouncement on petroleum products subsidy removal

      … want nation’s four refineries privatized … query Petroleum Support Fund in no-subsidy regime A consortium of civil society organizations...

PTF tells security agents: Journalists are on essential service, exempt them from curfew

  …Information Minister to take on Lagos Police Commissioner   The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and Chairman of the...

Nigerian woman gives birth mid-air, forces plane’s air return 

    A mid-air birth of a baby on the flight evacuating stranded Nigerians from the United Arab Emirates has been reported. As a result...

Oil price rises above $31 

  Following ease of coronavirus lockdowns by some countries, oil price on Wednesday rose above $31 per barrel.  Brent crude has almost...

COVID-19: NTA Kastina GM, Ayinde Soaga, tests positive 

  The General Manager, NTA Kastina, Alhaj Ayinde Soaga, says he has tested positive for Coronavirus. He had personally posted his status on the...

COVID-19: N2trn stimulus to be injected into Nigeria’s economy — FG

  The Federal Government says a N2 trillion stimulus will soon be injected into the nation’s economy to cushion the effects of the...

Stop “Control of Infectious Diseases Bill 2020’’ now, civil society groups tell Gbajabiamila

  ….provisions draconian, inconsistent with civil rights, liberties Irked by the provisions of the Control of Infectious Diseases Bill 2020 now before the...

Lagos makes history, holds first-ever virtual court sitting

    …watched online by judges, lawyers, others as judgment was delivered The Lagos State Judiciary recorded a novelty on Monday as the...

Disruption of #RevolutionNow protest: Court orders FG to pay lawyer N1m

  …to also apologise in 3 newspapers for tear gassing him …judge condemns mass arrest, harassment, tear-gassing, clamping into detention of protesters For...