The Presidency has reacted to the comments of the Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, faulting the lockdown order of the Federal Government that Nigeria is not in a “war emergency”. It said the playwright had no specialty in medicine but may choose to write a play on the pandemic after the emergency was over. In a statement signed on Wednesday ...

Food markets to open 10am to 2pm every other day Nigeria’s cases hit 174 The whereabouts of the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, who tested positive for coronavirus, have remained hazy. At a press conference in Abuja yesterday, the Minister of Health, Dr  Osagie Ehanire, also refused to disclose the location of Kyari. Kyari had disclosed in ...

Raymond Ozoji, Awka Few days to the expiration period of Governor Willie Obiano’s self-quarantine after his contact with Bauchi state governor in the last National Executive Council meeting in Abuja, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra state, Mr. Emeka Igwe has challenged the governor to provide covid19 test kits to ascertain citizens’ status. Igwe said it ...

Anambra state government has come out hard against Senator Ifeanyi Ubah for mobilising funds towards the containment of the Coronavirus pandemic in the state. “Since the launch last week of the Anambra State COVID-19 account in the determination to fight the spread of the coronavirus in the state, a lot of people from the state and beyond have been calling ...

…debunks stories of lackluster attitude to war against coronavirus Raymond Ozoji, Awka In response to the order on inter-state border closure to prevent the spread of coronavirus in the country, the Federal Road Safety Commission has taken further proactive measures to ensure that governnent directives are complied with. This necessitated the monitoring and enforcement exercise embarked upon by the Anambra ...

Raymond Ozoji, Awka The management of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka Anambra state has issued a disclaimer on a purported story making the rounds that the Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Charles Okechukwu Esimone has tested positive for coronavirus. The disclaimer signed and issued to newsmen in Awka yesterday by the acting Public Relations Officer of the institution Chika Gladys ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities says the novel Coronavirus pandemic has exposed our naked and empty teaching hospitals. According to the body, it ordered its members, who are lecturers across universities, to embark on strike during the coronavirus pandemic because there would never be a time approved for such an action. The President, Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof. ...

There was substantial compliance with the Federal Government’s lockdown order in Abuja, Lagos and Ogun states, on Tuesday as travellers groaned under the weight of the initiative to curtail the spread of COVID-19 in the country. President Muhammadu Buhari had on Sunday ordered a 14-day lockdown of Lagos, Ogun and the FCT to curtail the spread of the coronavirus ravaging ...

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has suspended the proposed increase in electricity tariffs initially slated for Wednesday (today). NERC had on January 4, in its December 2019 Minor Review of Multi Year Tariff Order 2015 and Minimum Remittance Order for the Year 2020 for the 11 Discos, said that consumers would start to pay more for electricity from April 1. ...

The Federal Government on Tuesday night reduced the price of petrol from N125/litre to N123.5/litre. Current petrol price indicates a reduction of N1.5 on every litre of petrol purchased nationwide. It announced the reduction through the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, after a whole day meeting with stakeholders in the oil and gas sector in Abuja. Announcing the reduction, the ...