The Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Mathew Kukah, has donated a 30-room hotel to the Sokoto State Government as an isolation centre for suspected coronavirus patients in the state. This was made known...

A member of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Adamu Suleiman, has died of coronavirus (COVID-19). Suleiman is the first patient to die of COVID-19 complications in the state. The state governor, Abdullahi...

The Emir of Kaura Namoda, Ahmad Muhammad Asha also known as Sarkin Kiyawan Kaura Namoda, has died in the early hours of Sunday at the age of 71. The Emir, according to the Publicity Secretary for the Control...

The Emir of Rano in Kano State,  Alhaji Tafida Abubakar Ila Auta Bawo, is dead. He died on Saturday at a hospital in Kano at the age of 74. A member of the House of Representatives and Turakin Rano,...

The total number of Coronavirus cases in Nigeria is now 2170  as 238 new cases have today been confirmed. This was disclosed via the official twitter handle of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.   238...

The United States on Friday allowed emergency use of remdesivir, an experimental drug that appears to help some coronavirus patients recover faster. It is the first drug shown to help fight COVID-19,...

Founder of DAAR Communications Plc,Raymond Dokpesi has tested positive for coronavirus. This was disclosed in a report by a subsidiary of his company, AIT. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)...

A senior World Health Organisation official has insisted the coronavirus is “natural in origin” after Donald Trump claimed to have seen evidence that the outbreak originated from a laboratory in China. The...

US presidential candidate, Joe Biden, on Friday  denied sexually assaulting a former aide, saying the incident she says occurred 27 years ago “never happened.” Biden, 77, said Reade’s...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has made his first public appearance since speculation about his health began last month, cutting the ribbon at the opening of a fertilizer factory, KCNA reported Saturday. Kim...

The Director-General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Friday announced that the agency is currently tracing about 12,000 persons who have had contact with confirmed cases of COVID-19. Dr...

More than 1,000 graduate trainees recently recruited by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) are to assume duty Monday 4 May, 2020, a release by the corporation’s Group General Manager,...

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Nigeria has risen to 1932 as 209 new cases have been confirmed. This was disclosed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control via its official twitter handle.   204...

The Federal Government has released new guidelines for the new phase of containment of COVID-19 from May 4 to May 17, 2020. Part the guidelines which were signed by the Secretary to the Government of...

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Nigeria has risen to 1728. This was disclosed via the twitter handle of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).   196 new cases of #COVID19 reported; 87-Lagos 24-Kano 18-Gombe 17-Kaduna 16-FCT 10-Katsina 8-Sokoto 7-Edo 6-Borno 1-Yobe 1-Ebonyi 1-Adamawa As...

1.6 billion people are in “immediate danger of having their livelihoods destroyed” by the economic impact of COVID-19, the International Labour Organization has warned. Of the total global working...

The Lagos state government has said that it has discharged 49 COVID-19 patients in  a day. This was disclosed via the official twitter handle of the governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu. Dear Lagosians, to begin...

The West African Ex­aminations Council (WAEC) in Nigeria on Sunday reassured all registered can­didates, schools and other stakeholders that new inter­national timetable for the con­duct of the examination...

The Executive Chairman of BUA Group, Abdulsamad Rabiu  has made an additional N3.3 billion grant towards equipping two existing permanent facilities in Kano and Lagos states to fight the COVID-19 virus. The...

The Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau, Nuno Gomes Nabiam, announced on Wednesday that he had tested positive for COVID-19. “I have tested positive for the new coronavirus, I am at home and I feel good,”...