President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday evening described as “extremely horrifying,” the news of the death of 14 persons and injury to many from a fire incident at an IDP camp in Ngala, Borno State.
Reacting to the sad incident, the President directed the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social...
Niger State Government is to collaborate with the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) For the establishment of Coronavirus (COVID 19) laboratory testing centre in the state.
Governor Abubakar Sani Bello disclosed this while inspecting the 50-beds Capacity Isolation Centre donated by the El-Amin Foundation in Minna.
Governor Sani Bello who...
Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi has said that COVID-19 tests in all approved testing centres in Lagos State are carried out free of charge.
Abayomi stated this today while reacting to an online report which alleged that patients pay 30,000 Naira for COVID19 test at Nigeria Centre...
Cause of fire unknown—Victim
Oyo State governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, on Thursday, visited the scene of the fire incident that razed some shops in Dugbe market, Ibadan, on Wednesday.
Governor Makinde, who was accompanied by a number of government officials, told the victims and a crowd of sympathisers, who had...
Niger State has confirmed another case of coronavirus, health authorities said on Thursday, bringing the total number of cases to two.
The Niger State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Muhammed MakuSidi announced that the second case was a returnee from Lagos State who is a resident of Tegina, Rafi LGA resident.
The...
As part of his philanthropic gesture towards the fight against the Covid-19 in Ondo State, Nigerian business mogul and politician, Dr. Jimoh Ibrahim (CFR), has donated N40Million to the state Government.
Ibrahim, who presented the cheque to the state Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, on Thursday, at the Government House,...
The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has appealed for calm over the protests in Sapele, Delta State against the state government's two-week extension of the lockdown.
Omo-Agege also condemned, in strong terms, the alleged shooting of one of the protesters by security agents and called for the...
Kwara State Government on Wednesday discharged two of its four COVID-19 patients after they have both twice tested negative.
They were discharged alongside five members of their families who were also at the state's isolation centre and have equally twice tested negative, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq told reporters in Ilorin, the...
The Lagos State Government has introduced additional initiatives to cushion the effects of the ongoing lockdown, just as it reviewed the Food Relief Stimulus Package to finetune lapses observed during the first round of distribution of the items.
The renewed scheme is in continuation of palliative measures introduced as a...
Extends Curfew, Markets Closure By Two Weeks
Owing to the current economic realities and the impending recession caused by Coronavirus pandemic, the Benue State Government has cut down the 2020 Budget from N189 billion to N119 billion.
Govenor Samuel Ortom disclosed this today at the Benue Peoples House Makurdi while...
