Amid shuttering of social activities especially commercial services, through various lockdown measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic, FirstBank has proven that as long as its customers require services, the Bank will be waiting right in front of them. As key enablers of the economy, banks are providers of essential services to customers and communities. Sequel to the pandemic outbreak, the ...

The Presidency has announced the death of one of President Muhammadu Buhari’s personal bodyguard, Warrant Officer Lawal Mato. Mato passed away, Tuesday, after three years of struggling with diabetes, Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media & Publicity), said in a statement. The President described the officer, who had been working with him for many years before he ...

The Presidential Task Force (PTF) On COVID-19 Pandemic, on Monday, said the bodies of persons, who died of coronavirus, were not infectious. This is in sharp contradiction to a statement by the Nigeria’s minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, who is also a member of the PTF on COVID-m19. Mohammed had said corpses of persons who tested positive for COVID-19 could not be claimed for burial because they are ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 38 new COVID-19 cases. This was announced on the NCDC’s Twitter handle on Monday night. The cases were recorded in five states, bringing Nigeria’s total to 665. According to the breakdown, 23 were recorded in Kano, five in Gombe, three in Kaduna, two in Borno, two in Abia, and one each in the federal capital territory, Sokoto ...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Monday said the state would begin the enforcement of compulsory wearing of face masks in public places from next week as coronavirus bites harder. On Sunday, Lagos recorded 70 new cases of Coronavirus, the biggest it has recorded in a single day. Speaking at a news conference at the State House, Marina, the governor stated ...

Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Lagos State Governor, says his government will review the nearly three weeks-long lockdown in the state in the next seven days. The governor, at the second virtual meeting with Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) on the COVID-19 Business Challenges and Support, assured them that “strategic relaxation of the lockdown may be implemented.” The meeting was convened under the aegies ...

Eighty-Six new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) have been recorded in Nigeria. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) disclosed this on its verified twitter handle on Sunday night. It said 70 of the new cases are in Lagos, seven in FCT, three in Katsina, three in Akwa Ibom, while Jiagawa, Bauchi and Borno States have one each. The total confirmed cases in ...

The Nigerian government through the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, at the weekend, said a total of 428,941 beneficiaries have benefited from the Conditional Cash Transfer in 24 states, with 130,455 of them from Katsina State. In a statement in Abuja on Sunday by special adviser to the minister on Media, Salisu Dambatta, the minister disclosed that ...

As part of its efforts to ease the hardship of the lockdown order by the Nigerian government in combating the coronavirus pandemic, Chinwe Bode-Akinwande – CBA Foundation, a Lagos-based non-governmental organisation, on Friday distributed relief food items and cash support to underprivileged widows and their vulnerable children in four communities in Lagos. The under-privileged widows and children in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos ...

The remains of the late Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, have been laid to rest in Abuja. The body of Kyari, who died on Friday after testing positive for the coronavirus, was interred at the Gudu Cemetery, Abuja. The remains arrived at the cemetery about 11.10 am in a white casket and were lowered into the grave at about 11.20 am. His ...