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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 ...

The late chief of staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Abba Kyari, will be buried on Saturday (today) in Abuja, according to Islamic rites. THE NEWSMAXNG, however, learnt that Kyari will be interred behind closed doors in compliance with the existing social distancing directive aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus. Personal Assistant on New Media to President Buhari, Basir Ahmad, in a tweet ...

More details have emerged on why Abba Kyari, former chief of staff to Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, died after contracting the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Kyari’s death which may have increased the number of confirmed coronavirus death cases in Nigeria to 17, was said to have occurred on Friday, after battling with the disease for four weeks. Though, Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, who ...

CHIEF OF STAFF TO PRESIDENT, ABBA KYARI, PASSES ON The Presidency regrets to announce the passage of the Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari. The deceased had tested positive to the ravaging COVID-19, and had been receiving treatment. But he died on Friday, April 17, 2020. May God accept his soul. Funeral arrangements will be announced shortly.

Thirty-five new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), taking Nigeria’s total infections to 442.  The NCDC confirmed this on Thursday evening via a statement on Twitter. According to the agency, of the 35 cases, 19 were found in Lagos, 9 in the FCT, 5 in Kano and 2 in Oyo state. A ...

Nigeria has recorded 20 new cases of Coronavirus, taking the national total to 343, according to the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC. Of the 20 new cases, Lagos has 13 of them, two each in Edo, Kano and Ogun while Ondo recorded one case. “Twenty new cases of #COVID19 have been reported as follows: 13 in Lagos, 2 in ...