A filling station belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), situated along College road, Ogba, Ikeja, Lagos currrently burning. witnesses told our reporter that the fire started at about 1:10pm. The fire is said to have razed down vehicles and houses around the fuel station. Efforts are currently on by officials of fire service to put out the fire, ...

The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire,says President Muhammadu Buhari will determine when to lift the lockdown order in Lagos, Abuja and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Ehanire disclosed this on Sunday while speaking on the efforts made by the Federal Government to tackle COVID-19 pandemic in the country. “The President will make that announcement in his own time. We will give him the ...

Kaduna State Government has extended the lockdown occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic in the state by 30 days. This was contained in a statement on Sunday signed by Muyiwa Adekeye, media aide to Governor Nasir El-Rufai. The government had imposed its quarantine orders on the state for one month beginning March 26. According to the statement, the governor’s extension decision ...

The Anambra State governor, Willie Obiano, has relaxed the lockdown on the state and has asked churches to commence full activities. The governor stated this in a broadcast to the people of the state on Saturday evening. Before the Saturday broadcast, church activities had been restricted for 14 days as one of the measures to prevent the spread of the ...

Nigeria has recorded 114 new cases of COVID-19, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced. NCDC, on its verified twitter handle on Friday evening, said 80 of the new cases are in Lagos, 21 in Gombe, five in FCT, two in Zamfara, two in Edo, one in Ogun, one in Oyo, one in Kaduna, one in Sokoto With ...

The Federal Government granted Nigerian students free subscription to e-learning through some selected sites in partnership with some major networks in the country. Mr Emeka Nwajiuba, Minister of State for Education, made this known during the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 daily press briefing in Abuja. He said the federal government granted free subscription to students during the lockdown as a ...

One hundred and eight new cases of coronavirus have been recorded in NIgeria. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said 78 of the new cases are in Lagos, fourteen in the FCT, five in Ogun State, four in Gombe State, three in Borno State, two in Akwa Ibom State and one each in Kwara and Plateau State As at ...

The management of Keystone Bank Limited, has alerted its teeming customers of the activities of one Mr. Obinna Onuselogu, who parades a company, Triple C Investment Limited, as an affiliate of the bank with the aim of defrauding unsuspecting members of the public. In a statement by the lender on Thursday, the bank said Mr. Onuselogu who used to be ...

The attention of the Lagos State Ministry of Education has been drawn to the plans by some private schools in the State to resume academic activities for the third term of the 2019/20 session by online teaching. This is with effect from Monday, 27th April, 2020. As we are already aware, the State is presently on lockdown imposed by the ...

By Bolatito Adebola In this COVID-19 era where movement is restricted in some major parts of the world – including Nigeria – with many Banks and business reengineering efforts to improve the adaptability of their customers to electronic ways of carrying out business, Firstmonie Agents, an agent banking initiative from First Bank of Nigeria Limited is bridging the gaps and ...