Nigeria

COVID-19: Some Nigerian lawyers slam $200bn damages on China 

    As Nigeria battles the virulent COVID-19 with several fatalities, some Nigerian lawyers have concluded plans to institute a $200 billion suit...

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,...

Abba Kyari: Gatekeeper to the President – Financial Times

Abba Kyari was an unlikely svengali. The most prominent African victim so far of coronavirus, who has died at the age of 67,...

COVID-19 death: Bank’s Regional Manager’s family accuses Kano Govt., NCDC of abandoning rescue attempt

    (Listen to her plea for help above)   Grief-stricken septuagenarian mother-in-law of a Kano-based bank’s Regional Manager has cried foul over...

Nigeria’s COVID-19 cases hit 1,000 mark with whooping 114 fresh cases

  COVID-19 confirmed cases in Nigeria have galloped to 1,095 on Friday with fresh 114 cases nationwide. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control...

In spite of business upsets, UBA records impressive N32.7bn profit-before-tax Q1 2020

    … retail, electronic banking businesses hit all-time high Buoyed by modest growth and efficiency, the Pan African financial institution, the United...

Nigeria hits 981 COVID-19 cases with 31 fatalities

    The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 108 new confirmed cases of coronavirus in the country, spiking it to...

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,...

COVID-19: FG spurns China’s mistreatment of Nigerians, says it’s disappointing

      …it’s a red line, we‘ll fight it to the very end   …to demand compensation from China   The continued mistreatment...

COVID-19: NNPC, Partners Donate Ambulances, Medical Kits to South-West States

  The ongoing efforts by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)-led Oil and Gas Sector coalition against COVID-19 was bolstered on Thursday in...

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,...

COVID-19: No sign of protest from Labour on possible lockdown extension – FG

    The Federal Government has said the letter from by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), contained no threat should there be a...

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...

Post-COVID-19: NIRSAL creates 16, 000 Agro Geo-Cooperatives, plans four million hectares of farmland

   … enrols about 8m farmers to produce 12m metric tonnes of grains annually   … facilitates access to structured finance, quality inputs,...