247 Instant Naijanews Today
Why we may not cope with virus, by EHORECON As part of efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus in the country, the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) has started …
Read moreLUTH begins admitting coronavirus patients
Babagana Zulum The Borno State COVID-19 response team has directed the Army to screen and test drivers at three entry points into Maiduguri metropolis namely: Njimtilo, Muna and Dalori camp. …
• Travellers pay security operatives for passage• We’re not aware, say police The police and other security agencies have been accused of profiteering from the lockdown put in place to …
Read more‘How police, military extort at COVID-19 checkpoints’
Law enforcement officials checking vehicles at the Nasarawa and Abuja boundary, to enforce government’s 14-day lockdown order to contain the spread of COVID-19…yesterday. PHOTO: NAN • Benue approves additional N100m to …
Read moreNasarawa residents defy shutdown, return to businesses
CP demotes officer for assaulting medic, apologises to NMA The Akwa Ibom COVID-19 enforcement team, led by CP Imohimi Edgal, has chased erring clerics and worshippers out of churches in …
Read moreCOVID-19 enforcement team chases erring clerics, worshippers from Akwa Ibom churches
Dr. Hadiza Balarabe SOKAPU condemns arrest, detention of district heads by police Kaduna State Government has threatened to revert to the previous 24-hour curfew in the state by closing the …
Read moreKaduna threatens return to 24-hour curfew as state records new case
Lagos NUJ seeks FG’s support for media practitioners The Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has charged the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu to restore discipline in the force, saying …
Read moreMRA tasks IGP on alleged brutalisation of journalists
The United Nations (UN) and Nigeria have launched a basket fund to complement ongoing efforts by the National COVID-19 Multi-Sectoral Pandemic Response Plan, initiated by the Presidential Task Force on …
Read moreUN, government, governors, others move against coronavirus
Kayode Fayemi • Provides food for vulnerable people• Fayose urges FG, religious bodies, corporate organisations to provide food for the needy Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi has relaxed the stay-at-home …
Seyi Makinde ‘It is most cheering news of the year’ Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde yesterday promised the people of the state some palliative measures to ease the impacts of …
Our Reporter The Federal Government cash stimulus for the vulnerable and the poorest of the poor in the society, under the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) initiative began across several states …
Read moreFed Govt transfers cash in Plateau, Kano, Adamawa, Kwara, C’River, others
Ensure foodstuff get to the needy, Wike charges palliative committee Rivers State Government has earmarked N2 billion to procure food from farmers and fishermen that would be distributed to people …
Read moreRivers government earmarks N2b to boost food supply
Akwa Ibom gov’s aide donates food to community A group, Youth leaders of Ethic Nationalities in Niger Delta, has condemned the donation of N1.045 billion by Niger Delta Development Commission …
Read moreYouths berate NDDC over N1.045b donation to oil states
Members of Anglican and Catholic and Anglican churches in Anambra State are deserting their worship places ahead of the Easter period due to the ravaging threat of Coronavirus otherwise called …
Read moreMembers desert Anglican, Catholic churches ahead of Easter
Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State has declared total lockdown of the state from midnight of Thursday, April 9 to 11p.m. of Wednesday, April 15, 2020. He threatened to close …
Bola Bamigbola, Osogbo The lifeless body of a yet-to-be-identified man found flouting on a river along Osogbo-Iragbiji road on Monday led to apprehension in the Kelebe community of Osogbo. The …
Bola Bamigbola, Osogbo Family of the deceased chairman of the Ejigbo Local Government Area of Osun State, Gbenga Ayegbayo, on Monday, said the late politician was denied treatment at the …
• Fintiri wades into media/police face-off• MRA urges police to produce SARS personnel that brutalised journalists It was drama in Adamawa State where nurses, patients and residents fled hospitals and …
Read moreNurses, patients flee from COVID-19 suspects in Adamawa
Kamarudeen Ogundele, Abuja The Federal Government has declared Friday and Monday as public holiday to mark the Easter celebration. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, said this in a statem…
EFCC cautions against sham DIY test, others Kwara State Technical Committee on COVID-19 has confirmed two cases of coronavirus in the state. One is the wife of the United Kingdom …
No fewer than 585 American and Canadian citizens were yesterday airlifted from Lagos and Abuja. The evacuation was in response to requests by the nationals, who felt insecure staying in …
Raphael Ede, Enugu The Enugu State Police Command on Monday said it arrested a middle-aged man, Abba Kyari Mohammed, for assault and alleged rape of a 68-year-old woman in Umulungbe …
Read moreEnugu man arrested for alleged rape of 68-year-old woman
By Precious Igbonwelundu 100 terrorists killed as Deby leads onslaught Shekau to fleeing terrorists: fight on Chadian President Idriss Deby has issued a yellow card to Boko Haram terrorists’ leader …
Read moreChadian President to Shekau: surrender now or be killed
Our Reporter Renowned Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie is always worried each time her husband, who happens to be a medical doctor in America, leaves for work, she confessed on Monday. …
Read moreI worry each time my husband leaves for work, says Chimamanda
Tribune OnlineAirtel supports 36 states, FCT with toll-free lines, bulk SMS to fight COVID-19 LEADING telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria, has announced the donation of toll-free lines and free bulk …
Read moreAirtel supports 36 states, FCT with toll-free lines, bulk SMS to fight COVID-19
Tribune OnlineNCC, ALTON dispel rumour on connection between 5G and COVID-19 THE Association of Licensed Telecom Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) has expressed surprise over recent issue in the media space …
Read moreNCC, ALTON dispel rumour on connection between 5G and COVID-19
Tribune OnlineDavid Mark: Unfading patriot, still championing legacies at 72 “I will continue to contribute to the wellbeing and the development of our country. I will remain a peace ambassador, …
Read moreDavid Mark: Unfading patriot, still championing legacies at 72
Tribune OnlineMany FG’s MDAs constitute waste —Faleke Chairman, House Committee on Finance, Honourable Abiodun Faleke, in this interview by KEHINDE AKINTOLA, speaks on economic issues bothering on the proposed amendment …
By Precious Igbonwelundu People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain and former governorship aspirant in Lagos State, Babatunde Gbadamosi has been arrested by the police for allegedly flouting the lockdown order of …
Read moreLagos PDP chieftain Gbadamosi, wife for trial over social distancing violation
Lagos still tracing 2,293 contacts, battling local transmission Chinese doctors, nurses to undergo test, isolation on arrival – FG Eight fresh COVID-19 cases surface in Ogun, Kwara, E…