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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 ...

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 ...