The International Monetary Fund, IMF has projected that Nigeria’s economy will face the worst recession in 30 years. IMF stated further that Nigeria’s economy will recede by 3% in 2020 due to the Coronavirus pandemic, which has disrupted global supply chains. It noted that this would be the worst recessionContinue Reading
The European Union (EU) on Tuesday in Abuja donated €50m, an equivalent of N21 billion, in support of Nigeria’s fight against COVID-19 to the excitement of President Muhammadu Buhari. Leading a delegation to the State House for presentation of the donation to Buhari, Ambassador Kelti Karlsen described the fund, saidContinue Reading
Lagos has discharged another eight new patients diagnosed with COVID-19. This was made known in a Tweet by the Lagos state Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Tuesday. The governor said: “More great news today from our Mainland Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba. “Eight more people: two females and six males have testedContinue Reading
Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, has advised Nigerians to exercise restraint in accepting and disseminating information on alleged maltreatment of Nigerians and by extension Africans living in China. Onyeama said this on Tuesday at a briefing in Abuja. Flanked by the Chinese Ambassador in Nigeria, Dr Zhou Pingjian, theContinue Reading
The Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen. Yusuf Tukur Buratai has vowed that he will not leave the theatre of Operation Lafiya Dole until he gave a final blow on the Boko Haram insurgents in the northeast. The Nation reports that General Buratai had earlier announced his relocation to theContinue Reading
In line with its mandate of developing a template to manage the economy after the COVID-19 pandemic, the seven-man Economic Sustainability Committee headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is to devise ways to protect jobs and also create new ones after the pandemic, THISDAY has learnt. It was also gatheredContinue Reading
THE Federal Government is in talks with the Rivers State government over the detained Caverton Helicopter pilots, the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, said yesterday. The pilots were arrested by the police for flouting the state’s government’s directive by flying into the Air Force Base in Port Harcourt afterContinue Reading
President Muhammadu Buhari, Monday night, signed the Quarantine Order. The order gives a legal backing to the lockdown extension. The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, Lagos and Ogun States are affected. The Nigerian leader made the initial lockdown announcement in a national broadcast on Sunday, March 29. But legal practitioners andContinue Reading
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed twenty-two new cases of COVID-19 this evening. NCDC recorded thirteen new cases in Lagos, two each in Edo, Kano, Ogun and one in Ondo. See tweets below…….. More Details….Continue Reading
Omoyele Sowore, rights activist and presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2019 election, says the Buhari administration is the “virus destroying the country”. Nigeria has been battling the COVID-19 pandemic since March with new cases recorded daily. But Sowore, in a video, said the country willContinue Reading
