President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the presidential task force on COVID-19 to pick up Covid-Organics, Madagascar’s self-proclaimed, plant-based “remedy” for coronavirus. Boss Mustapha, secretary to the government of the federation, broke the news at the daily briefing of the task force, which he heads. He said Madagascar donated some of the products to Nigeria through Guinea-Bissau and arrangements were being ...

Nigeria has recorded 248 new cases of COVID-19, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced. NCDC, on its verified twitter handle on Sunday night, said, “81 in Lagos, 35 in Jigawa, 26 in Borno, 26 in Kano 20 in Bauchi, 13 in FCT, 12 in Edo, 10 in Sokoto, seven in Zamfara, four in Kwara, four in Kebbi, ...

Nigeria’s leading financial inclusion services provider, First Bank of Nigeria Limited has announced that its *894# Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD), Quick Banking service has hit over 9.5 million customers.  This is in clear demonstration of its acknowledged leadership in electronic Banking. The Bank’s USSD banking service, launched in January 2015, is an easy to use, convenient, fast, user-friendly mobile banking channel through which various banking activities are carried out on a mobile phone – across the four major GSM network operators in the country – without the use of ...

The Rivers state government has pulled down  Prodest Hotel, Eleme, and and Etemeteh Hotel, Onne, for allegedly violating the lockdown directives. Nyesom Wike, the governor, had imposed a lockdown and directed all hotels in the state to suspend services immediately as parts of measures  to check the spread of COVID-19. The governor had warned residents that failure to comply with the ...

The Supreme Court, on Friday, quashed the judgement that convicted and sentenced the former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor-Kalu, to 12 years imprisonment. The apex court, in a unanimous decision by a seven-man panel of Justices led by Justice Amina Augie, held that the Federal High Court in Lagos acted without jurisdiction when it convicted Kalu, his firm, Slok ...

No fewer than 10 persons at the Lagos State Government House Marina have tested positive for COVID-19. Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, disclosed on Thursday afternoon on his verified twitter handle. He said the development forced Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and his wife, Joke to undergo another test. The tests, he however revealed, returned negative. “I am glad to announce ...

Two hundred and sixty-five Nigerians evacuated from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have arrived Lagos, The Nation is reporting The Emirates Airlines aircraft they boarded landed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos. Regional Manager, South West, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) Mrs Victoria Shin – Abah said the aircraft arrived 7.30 pm. The 265 evacuees are on their way to ...

First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s premier and leading financial inclusion services provider, will host a virtual SME Business Clinic to provide insightful information on how SMEs can better manage the financial activities of their businesses. The clinic which is scheduled to hold via Microsoft Teams by 11 am on Thursday, 7 May 2020 is entitled: “Developing a budget to ...

The Federal Government of Nigeria has extended the ban on local and international flights by four weeks. This was revealed by Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, during the daily briefing on Wednesday. “Tomorrow marks the last day for the enforcement of the closure of Nigeria’s airspace to flights. We have assessed the situation in the ...

Leading Nigerian financial institution, First City Monument bank (FCMB) has issued an official statement to address the video making rounds about a customer who collapsed at its Onipan branch in Lagos State.  See the full statement of the bank below: “Our attention has been drawn to a video making the rounds which shows a customer collapsing at our branch located at 178, Ikorodu ...