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The Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, has tested positive to coronavirus (COVID-19). The governor’s Senior Special Assistant on Media, Mukhtar Gidado, made this announcement in a statement on Tuesday This comes a day after the governor took the test having had contact with the son of former Vice President …

A man from China’s Yunnan province tested positive for Hantavirus on Monday. He died while on his way back to Shandong Province for work on a chartered bus, China’s Global Times reported. 32 other people have been tested, the report added. Following his death, hantavirus became a trend on social …

Fear heightened on Monday over the fate of about 35 senators who have not complied with the measures to determine their Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) status, THE NATION reports. The senators last week returned from a trip to the United Kingdom (UK), where they attended a Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB) seminar …

The Adamawa High Court sitting in Yola has sentenced a former executive secretary, Adamawa State Christian Pilgrims Welfare Board, Bishop Jingi Mayo, to five years imprisonment. Mr Bello Bakori, Adamawa Commissioner, Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), confirmed the development in a statement made available to the …

Abba Kyari President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, has tested positive for Coronavirus (COVID-19). Kyari, who had recently returned from Germany through Egypt, did not show symptoms of COVID-19. The Chief of Staff was said to have isolated himself upon return from the trip on suspicion that he …

Details have emerged on how Nigerian lawmaker died in United Kingdom. Cross River Female Senator, representing Northern Senatorial District of the state, Dr Mrs Rose Okoji Oko is dead. She was aged 63. The late Senator Oko, died last night at a UK medical facility, was a second term member of the Red …

There is panic over likely petrol scarcity in Nigeria as members of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association (IPMAN) on Monday raised the alarm over the inability of the Depot and Petroleum Products Marketing Association (DAPPMA) to secure the Federal Government’s approval for selling the Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) petrol at N125 per …

Dangote Cement Plc, the most capitalised stock on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), has made disclosed intentions to issue N300 billion bonds. The company, in a notice to the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), on Monday, announced its inaugural issuance of bonds under its N300 billion shelf registration programme. The company …

Ibrahim Muhammad, chief justice of Nigeria (CJN), has ordered that all courts in the nation to suspend judicial activities in order to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Muhammad gave the directive on Monday evening. On Friday, the CJN had issued a circular mandating all staff and court visitors (including lawyers, litigants, …

Ecobank Nigeria, on Monday, said it has temporarily closed its Wuse II, Abuja branch. This was announced in a statement released by the bank. According to the statement, the first victim of Coronavirus to die visited the Abuja branch on March 12, 2020. However, according to the bank, at the time of …