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COVID-19 fight: Chinese company’s assistance welcome, it’s corporate social responsibility, says FG  

  …256 equipment, 50 ventilators 1.3m medical masks, 150,000 pieces of assorted personal protective items to be donated Amid criticisms of Chinese offer...

Pep Guardiola’s mother dies after contracting coronavirus aged 82

  Manchester City have announced the death of Pep Guardiola’s mother, Dolors Sala Carrio, after she contracted coronavirus aged 82. Spain has the...

COVID-19 Lockdown violation:  Funke Akindele, hubby convicted 

  … to serve 14-day community service …fined N100,000 each for flouting social distancing law For flouting the Lagos State Infectious Disease (Emergency...

NNPC GMD, says petrol subsidy is gone forever

  With the reduction of the pump price of petrol from N145 to N123.50, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation says there will be...

COVID-19: Oyo Gov. Makinde recovers, tests negative

  After a week-long self-isolation, tests and prayers,  Oyo State Governor, Mr Seyi Makinde says he has recovered and tested positive for the...

Covid-19 lockdown violation: Funke Akindele arrested

: … police issue warrant for hubby, Naira Marley For hosting a birthday party in violation of the COVID-19 lockdown, Funke Akindele, has been...

COVID-19 Fatalities : 36-year-old male patient dies of virus in Lagos, the second 

  The Lagos COVID-19 centre has lost another patient, according to the State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi. He announced on Sunday:...

COVID-19 claims medical doctor, two other Nigerians in US

  Three Nigerians including a medical doctor have died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the United States, a report said on Sunday.The...

Ogun CDAs reject Gov. Abiodun’s one bag stimulus package for each CDA

  …a bag for 56 households ridiculous, miserable, dehumanizing, they say Some Community Development Associations in Ogun State have rejected the one bacco...

Convicted Awolowo Varsity sex-for-mark lecturer serves out two-year jail term

    After serving his two-year term behind the bars, the sex-for-mark senior lecturer of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Prof....

Ogun 14-day lockdown: Gov. Abiodun provides leeway, orders food market open biweekly

    …begins distribution of stimulus package As the 14-day lockdown of Ogun State commenced on April 3 night, the State Government has...

COVID-19 Lockdown: Two foreign nationals, 10 others arraigned in court, convicted

  …nationals “sentenced’’ to mandatory isolation for 14 days, others fined   No fewer than 12 violators of the COVID-19 lockdown order including...

At 68, Oshiomhole’s mojo remains intact

By Sufuyan Ojeifo Last year, in a tribute I penned, titled: “Dynamite comes in small packages” to celebrate Comrade Adams Aliyu  Oshiomhole’s 67th...

Discos get three months ultimatum to improve power supply or be sanctioned

  Unimpressed with the performance of electricity  distribution companies (Discos), the Federal Government has again given them a three-month ultimatum to improve electricity supply...

Ritual murder of female varsity student: 2 men get hangman’s tags

  …raped before being killed It is end of the road for two men in Osun State, Southwest, Nigeria who seized, killed and...

Four coronavirus patients discharged in Lagos

  The Lagos State commissioner for health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, said that the state on Friday discharged four coronavirus patients, bringing the total...