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The Director General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, has warned that the Coronavirus pandemic is spreading fast, causing mild symptoms in some victims and severe illnesses and death in others. Ihekweazu disclosed this on Monday in Abuja at the joint national briefing of the Presidential Task …

The Department of State Services (DSS) wishes to alert the public about plans by some elements working with external forces to incite religious violence across the country. Targeted States include Sokoto, Kano, Kaduna, Plateau, Rivers, Oyo, Lagos and those in the South East. Part of the plans is to cause …

The Chief Magistrate of a Magistrate Court sitting in Abuja has granted bail to the publisher of SaharaReporters, Omoyele Sowore in the sum of N20 million and two sureties in like sum. The court further ordered that one of his sureties must be a civil servant not below grade level …

•Directs Outgoing VC To Convene Emergency Senate Meeting Lagos State Governor and Visitor to Lagos State University (LASU), Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has cancelled the ongoing process set up for the appointment of a substantive ninth Vice Chancellor of the University. The Governor further directed that a fresh process that would …

  A large number of motorists and commuters are held up in a gridlock caused by a petroleum tanker explosion around Toyota bus-stop inwards Mile 2, along Oshodi/Apapa expressway. As at the time of filing this report, emergency response teams were already on ground. More to come…

  Within the past 24 hours, Nigeria’s count of coronavirus infections has jumped by more than 1,600 new positive samples — the country’s highest single-day count since the index case of the virus was confirmed on February 27, 2020. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed the new cases …

The Department of State Services says it is not currently recruiting and therefore cautions  the public against falling into the hands of fraudsters. Dr. Peter Afunanya, Public Relations Officer of the service, made this known in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. Afunanya said the clarification became necessary following desperate …

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) says the new electricity tariff increase will not affect low-income areas with lesser energy supply. The commission was reacting to reports of the new increase in tariff from January 1. In a series of Twitter post, the NERC said the tariff for customers on …

Boss Mustapha, chairman of the presidential task force on COVID-19, says 731 of the 34,418 Batch B members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in 2020, tested positive for coronavirus. Speaking at the briefing of the task force on Tuesday, Mustapha said corps members across the country took COVID-19 …

Lateefa Okunnu, judge of the Lagos state high court sitting in Ikeja, on Tuesday, convicted and sentenced Okey Nwosu, a former managing director, Finbank Plc, to three years imprisonment over N10 billion fraud. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had arraigned Nwosu alongside Dayo Famuroti, Agnes Ebubedike and Danjuma …