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President Muhammadu Buhari has terminated the appointment of Charles Uwakwe as registrar of National Examinations Council and four other management staff for various offences. Their removal comes after a panel investigating allegations of misconduct against them while they were on suspension recommended they be removed. A May 11 letter signed by the permanent secretary Sonny Echono said Uwakwe was accused ...

Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari has extended the gradual easing of the lockdown by two weeks across the nation. The chairman of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Boss Mustapha, announced this on Monday during the daily briefing of the task force in Abuja. According to him: “​Based on the ...

President Muhammadu Buhari held a virtual meeting with state governors on Monday. This was confirmed by one of his media aides, Bashir Ahmaad, via his Twitter page. Buhari took part in the video conference meeting at the Council Chambers of the State House, Abuja. The Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum and Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, led ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has made a u-turn on the expected nationwide broadcast. Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, in a tweet Monday afternoon, said the presidential committee on coronavirus will brief the nation instead. “No presidential broadcast on COVID-19 updates today. Rather, the Presidential Task Force will during its usual media briefings bring the nation up to speed on the next steps”, ...

Lagos State is considering the full re-opening of the critical sectors of its economy, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu revealed on Sunday. But the move will not be pushed in a hurry. In the coming days, Sanwo-Olu said the State Government would be rolling out Register-to-Open initiative as part of the plans that would enable it assess the level of readiness of ...

  Wike The Special Adviser to Governor Nyesom Wike on Electronic Media, Simeon Nwakaudu, is dead. The cause of his death is still unknown, but sources at Government House Port Harcourt said Simeon may have died of cardiac arrest. Governor, Nyesom Wike in a statement by the Commissioner for Information and Communications, Paulinus Nsirim, expressed shock over the sudden death ...

The Federal government has impounded an aircraft belonging to Flair Aviation, a United Kingdom- based aviation company for operating a commercial flight as against the humanitarian operations it was given approval for in Nigeria. Aviation Minister Hadi Sirika confirmed this on his official twitter handle, saying the crew are also being interrogated as there shall be maximum penalty for the ...

  The Federal government has impounded an aircraft belonging to Flair Aviation, a United Kingdom- based aviation company for operating a commercial flight as against the humanitarian operations it was given approval for in Nigeria. Aviation Minister Hadi Sirika confirmed this on his official twitter handle, saying the crew are also being interrogated as there shall be maximum penalty for ...

NCDC DG, Chikwe Ihekweazu Chikwe Iheakweazu, the director-general of the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) on Friday spoke on the differences between COVID-19 and malaria. This follows recent revelations by some high-profile survivors, who spoke about the drugs administered on them during their treatment. One of the survivors, Raymond Dokpesi who is the founder of DAAR communications Plc, had said that all the ...

One hundred and seventy-six (176) new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) have just been confirmed in Nigeria. According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC via official Twitter handle, 95 of the new cases are recorded in Lagos, followed by 31 in Oyo and 11 in FCT. 8 of the cases are in Niger and Borno each, 6 in Jigawa and 4 ...