Raymond Ozoji, Awka The spiritual leader of the Igbo nation and proprietor of Rojenny Games Village Oba in Idemili-South local government area of Anambra state, Chief Rommy Ezeonwuka (Ogilisi Igbo) has tasked Ndigbo to use this period of lockdown against the spread of Coronavirus to evacuate all the corpses that are long deposited in mortuaries across Igboland, commit them to ...

Police operatives and some medical personnel at Osun/Oyo border on Sunday evening reportedly intercepted a car, said to have conveyed a sick man, who eventually died while being checked. The vehicle, it was learnt, was stopped at Odo Oba, Iwo, an entry point to Osun from Oyo State while attempting to enter Osun State. The car was said to have ...

Armed youths, who protested against alleged attacks by hoodlums known as the One Million Boys, on Monday, threw residents of Mushin, Oworonshoki, Shomolu, Bariga and Isolo areas of Lagos State into panic. PUNCH Metro gathered that the demonstrations in the areas were as a result of the incessant attacks launched by the hoodlums on residents during the lockdown occasioned by the coronavirus ...

By Valentine Obienyem I saw a post on Twitter that Mr. Peter Obi bought a house that previously belonged to Dr. Chu Okongwu, located at the end of Oba Close, GRA, Enugu. Let me make it categorically clear that Obi did not buy any house in Enugu or any other place in Nigeria. Obi owns a house in Onitsha. When ...

…Governor Condemns Stigmatisation Of Patients, Urges Muslims To Obey Restriction Guidelines As Ramadan Begins By next week, the use of face mask may be made mandatory in Lagos State, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu revealed on Monday during a statewide briefing held at the State House in Marina. The Governor said the rise in the number of confirmed cases of the novel ...

…donate N1 million to support fight against virus The Association of Retired Heads of Service and Permanent Secretaries of Lagos State (ALARHOSPS) on Monday lauded the prompt and decisive steps taken so far by the State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu to contain the dreaded Covid-19 pandemic, saying the government deserved to be commended. In a statement by the President of ...

Casmir Igbokwe It was about 3pm. A strange, lanky woman had blocked Ebuka from driving back home. It was at a neighbourhood supermarket where he had gone to buy a few things for the family. Surprised and confused, he demanded to know the woman’s mission. But she kept asking him to park. Before he could fathom what was going on, some ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 86 new cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria, taking the country’s total infections to 627. According to the agency, which confirmed this late on Sunday via a statement on Twitter, of the 86 new cases, 70 were in Lagos, seven in FCT, three in Katsina, three in Akwa Ibom, one in Jigawa, ...

The Lagos State Government on Sunday, as part of efforts to step up COVID-19 tests,  created testing centres in 20 local government areas of the state. The state government, which released a list of the testing centres, stated that they were in primary health centres and other facilities in the  20 local government areas of the state. As the Lagos ...

Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, has warned internet fraudsters to desist from using his name, pictures or any representation of his person and brand, to defraud unsuspecting individuals on the internet. In a statement on Sunday signed by Obi’s Special Adviser, Barr Valentine Obienyem, Obi warned that several security agencies had been notified ...