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COVID-19: SERAP invokes FoI, wants governors to rechannel security votes, life pensions into healthcare

  …demands details of coronavirus spendings, palliatives, beneficiaries Worried by the steepy rise in the COVID-19 fatalities and community spread of the pandemic,...

VIDEO: Woman uses overhead vent to dry her underwear during flight to Moscow

    A video of a woman using the overhead vent on a flight to dry her underwear has gone viral. The incident was...

70-year-old man stabbed to death by his son in Anambra

  A 37-year-old man is accused of stabbing his father to death during a domestic-related incident, police said. Chigorom Ezeofor, 37, axed his 70-year-old father...

Where we went wrong with preparing for COVID-19 – Lindsey Allen

  By Lindsey Allen, author of ‘The Psychology of Pandemics’ Although some aspects of the novel coronavirus remain unknown, research on past pandemics...

Malam Abba Kyari, blessed with mountainous gifts, uncommon attributes of intelligence- Mamman Daura

  BY MAMMAN DAURA Coronavirus is a law, yet lawless unto itself. As of yesterday it has claimed 183,424 lives worldwide and 28...

Domestic violence against women grows during coronavirus lockdown

  As people across the world scramble to buy toiletries and food, millions of women have an additional set of stress: worrying about...

Two multi-million dollars state-of-the-art Mobile Harbor Cranes inaugurated at Apapa Ports

    …NPA MD urges terminal operators’ investments in port facility   The Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman,...

40 healthcare workers in Nigeria test positive for coronavirus

    The first set of healthcare workers in Nigeria to test positive for the coronavirus were diagnosed this week. As of Thursday,...

FG warns private hospitals against treating Covid-19 cases without approval

  The Federal Government on Thursday warned medical facilities in the country to obtain approval before treating any confirmed coronavirus case. “We therefore...

The Judiciary Must Embrace Technology Now, That’s What Malami Has Proposed

By Samson Angulu As countries around the world find ways to contain the Covid-19 pandemic and reopen their economies, many sectors hard hit...

SERAP gives Gov Umahi 48 hours to reverse ‘illegal life ban on The Sun, Vanguard reporters’

  Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has condemned “the blatant intimidation, harassment and attacks on journalists and media houses by Governor David...

After 25-day COVID-19 lockdown, treatment, Kaduna Gov. El-Rufai tests negative 

    After about 25 days of self-isolation and treatment for testing positive, Kaduna State Gov. Nasir El-Rufai, says he has fully recovered...

Famed lawyer, politician Richard Akinjide is dead

  Famed attorney Richard Akinjide, perhaps best known for being a former minister for Justice in the government of Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa,...

CNN’s Richard Quest Says He’s Tested Positive For Coronavirus

  CNN host Richard Quest of the network’s Quest Means Business and economics reporter, said that he has tested positive for  coronavirus “I am...

Attendees at Kyari’s burial : SGF, ministers, others defy Buhari’s directive to self-isolate,  address daily COVID-19 media briefing

  …we made mistakes with burial, PTF apologises In defiance of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive that attendees at the burial of the...

Kyari’s burial: NUJ wants PTF members, other attendees to keep off COVID-19 media briefings

    The Nigeria Union of Journalists, FCT Council, has urged members of the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 and other attendees at...