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A reputable crowd-funding platform, Giving.ng, has announced a fundraising campaign to support health workers who are on the front-line of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Companies and individuals have offered support in various forms as a means of showing their support towards the fight against coronavirus such as cash donation, material support …

NIPR President, Mukhtar Zubairu Sirajo, fnipr The Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), has commended the federal government of Nigeria, medical professionals and the Nigerian media for their efforts in combatting the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic ravaging the country, THE WITNESS reports. A statement on Thursday by the president and chairman of the governing …

NAPIMS GGM, Bala Wunti The Group General Manager, National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS), Mr. Bala Wunti, has said the focus of the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mr. Mele Kyari, presently is to ensure that Nigerians have sufficient supply of petrol despite the disruption in the country …

Hafez Ghanem, World Bank Vice President for Africa The World Bank Group said on Thursday that coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic will drive many African countries, such as Nigeria, South Africa and Angola into recession, the first for Sub-saharan bloc in 25 years. In a statement, the bank said growth in Africa will fall sharply from 2.4 …

Sam Adeyemi, the senior pastor of the Daystar Christian Centre, has reacted to the 5G network, anti-Christ and coronavirus controversy. The clergy, stressed that leaders should stop giving extreme interpretations to the Coronavirus epidemic ravaging the world. He debunked Pastor Chris Oyakhilome’s claim of government shutting down churches to install the 5G network. Oyakhilome in …

President Muhammadu Buhari Ten days after the COVID-19 lockdown of Lagos, Abuja and Ogun State, the Federal Government on Tuesday declined to confirm whether the restrictions will end after 14 days. President Muhammadu Buhari slammed the lockdown as part of the measures to halt the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. …

…Sanwo-Olu Receives Fed Govt’s 12-Man Taskforce, Pledges More Collaboration To Stop Pandemic …‘We’re Satisfied With Facilities Assessed’ – Health Minister Lagos State Government has earned a remarkable commendation for its response strategy deployed to curtail the spread of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. Secretary to the Government of …

Isa Pantami, Hon. Minister of Communications and Digital Economy The federal government has said that no licence has been issued for the deployment and operation of Fifth Generation Mobile Networks (5G network) in Nigeria, THE WITNESS reports. Numerous conspiracy theories shared on and off social media claim that 5G mobile networks are the cause …

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has dismissed allegations by some interest groups against the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio and the commission’s Interim Management Committee (IMC). NDDC Director, Corporate Affairs, Charles Odili, in a statement he released in Port Harcourt, said the attackers were mainly targeting …

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has directed all its missions abroad to compile lists of willing nationals who wanted to come back home, over the COVID-19 pandemic. Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, disclosed that this was a sequel to requests by Nigerians stranded abroad in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. …