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Oil price collapses to $12 as global market experiences glut

    US oil prices dived to 21-year lows Monday, giving up more than 30 percent in a market flooded with crude and...

Nigeria’s confirmed coronavirus cases reach 627; 21 deaths

  The number of confirmed new coronavirus cases and the related death toll continued to mount Sunday in Nigeria as the NCDC  reported...

COVID-19 palliatives: NGOs deploy 1,000 volunteers to monitor distribution, intervention funds 

    In a bid to ensure transparency in the distribution of COVID-19 palliatives across the country, Nigeria’s leading civil society groups have deployed...

Kyari’s death : SGF to COVID-19 doubters : Virus is real, matter of life and death

  With coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic claiming the life of  the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, doubting Thomases should know that...

Abba Kyari: Tinubu, Jonathan, Ooni of Ife, Lawan,  Sanwo-Olu, Kyari, others extol his virtues

  … extremely able, loyal and talented man – Tinubu … truly good man, profoundly faithful and loyal to our country – NNPC...

Nigeria’s Chief of Staff, Kyari, buried in Abuja

    The body of the late Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Malam Abba Kyari, has been interred in Abuja. Kyari,...

COCAVID Fund rakes in N25.89 bn

      The Nigeria Private Sector Coalition Against COVID-19 (COCAVID) says it has raked in N25.89 billion as donations from individuals and...

COVID-19: In few weeks, the world to get cure as world’s biggest trial of drugs begins in UK

  Within the next weeks, the world may have a cure for COVID-19 as the world’s biggest trial of drugs to treat the...

COVID-19: Nigerian Polytechnic produces ventilator

    The Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, in Ogun State, has announced a major breakthrough in the manufacture of a COVID-19 ventilator. The Rector,...

Abia State Governor Writes Thank-You Letter to Unubiko Foundation for Coronavirus Help

  Abia state governor Okezie Ikpeazu expressed his sincere gratitude to Unubiko Foundation for their support to the state after the outbreak of the...

COVID-19 Lockdown: FCTA introduces mobile courts to try offenders

  The Federal Capital Territory Authority (FCTA) set up mobile courts to try violators of the current  COVID-19 lockdown order  in the area....

COVID-19 lockdown violation : Stop taking bribes to allow movement of vehicles on highways, IG-P warns policemen

  …threatens sanctions, to publish tel. nos to report bribe-taking officers Miffed by reports about his officers and men still collecting bribes to...

COVID-19: FG to build isolation centers at borders to isolate and test Nigerian returnees

  …targets 4,000 testing of people daily nationwide The Federal Government is to build isolation centres at the borders for Nigerians and other...

Give us own share of COVID-19 fund, Northern governors tell Buhari

  …say NO to lockdown of the region …no testing centre in the 19 states Citing the Federal Government’s N10 billion intervention fund...

Coronavirus-infected U.S. returnee dies in Lagos

  Lagos State has recorded yet another fatality — a 56-year-old Nigerian man who recently returned from the United States. He reportedly died...

COVID-19: Buhari extends lockdown of Ogun, Lagos and Abuja by 14 days

  …says coronavirus not a joke, matter of life and death …urges Nigerians to observe, restrictions, lockdown to avert national disaster Worried by...