The Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Abba Kyari, has tested positive for Coronavirus.
He was said to have possibly contracted the virus during a visit to Germany and Egypt for a meeting on the Nigerian Electricity Regulation Commission, whose executive chairman, Prof. James Momoh, was part of.
The CoS...
The Federal Government on Monday issued stay at home order for Federal civil servants at grade levels one to 12 as a precautionary measure against the spread of coronavirus in the country.
A circular signed to the effect by the Head of the Civil Service if the Federation, Folashade Yemi-Esan,...
Isolation centre for immediate upgrade
State revs up preparation, trains more personnel
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has hinted at more sweeping measures to curtail the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in the state and nationwide.
Kwara currently has no confirmed case but the government has set up various preventive and...
Access Bank Plc on Monday closed one of its branches in Lagos State over a coronavirus case.
The bank in a statement said it closed its Ligali Ayorinde Branch, after confirmation that a customer at the branch tested positive for coronavirus.
The statement read in part, “We have just confirmed that...
Wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari, has called for a total lockdown of activities across the country as coronavirus toll hits 36 with one death recorded on Monday.
Mrs Buhari specifically cited the case of state governors shutting down schools but allowing their parents to continue going to work.
She...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation said on Sunday that it sold a total of 21.51 billion litres of petrol worth N2.64tn from December 2018 to December 2019.
The NNPC said the sale of white products from December 2018 to December 2019 by its subsidiary, the Petroleum Products Marketing Company, stood...
The Federal Government has announced the cancellation of the meeting of heads of states and governments of the Chad Basin scheduled for next week.
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, announced this at a media briefing in Abuja, on Monday.
He said the cancellation was part of measures being...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, on Monday, declared an indefinite strike over the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System and the non-implementation of the 2009 agreement.
The union’s National President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, announced the strike at a press briefing in its National Secretariat, Abuja.
He noted that the government...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has confirmed the first coronavirus death in Nigeria.
The NCDC via its Twitter handle, @NCDCgov, on Monday, said, “The first #COVID19 death in Nigeria has been recorded. The case was a 67-year-old male who returned home following medical treatment in the United Kingdom.
“He had...
