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The Federal Government of Nigeria on Tuesday night reduced the price of petrol from N125/litre to N123.5/litre. Current petrol price indicates a reduction of N1.5 on every litre of petrol purchased nationwide. It announced the reduction through the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, after a whole day meeting with stakeholders in the oil and gas sector in Abuja. Announcing the ...

For Oluwaseun Ayodeji Osowobi, (a COVID-19 survivor) Monday, 30 March, 2019 will linger in her memory, that was the day she was discharged from the Infectious Disease Hospital, IDH, Yaba where she battled to live. She was struck down by the deadly Coronavirus. Her journey to the dreaded IDH, began when she tested positive for Coronavirus after returning to Nigeria from ...

Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases have risen to 131 in Nigeria as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control announced 20 new cases on Monday. Of the 20 new cases, 13 were recorded in Lagos State, four in Federal Capital Territory (Abuja), two in Kaduna and one in Oyo, Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde, earlier announced that he tested positive for the virus. The NCDC ...

Nigeria has recorded another death from the cornavirus outbreak. Osagie Ehanire, minister of health, disclosed this during the presidential task force briefing on COVID-19, on Monday, in Abuja. More to follow…

Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari,on Monday, approved skeletal exemptions for financial service providers and money markets in the country to operate in lockdown states. Recall,THE NEWMAX reported that the president on Sunday ordered the cessation of movements in Lagos, Ogun and the Federal Capital Territory in a bid to checkmate the spread of (COVID-19). The initial order which, however, exempted some persons (financial service providers ...

The Senate on Sunday backed President Muhammadu Buhari’s lockdown of Abuja, Lagos, and Ogun states over the coronavirus pandemic. The president, in a nationwide broadcast, said the decision was taken based on the advice of the Federal Ministry of Health and the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC. It was, however, unclear if the president consulted the National Assembly before shutting down states. ...

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari,has ordered the restriction of movements in Lagos, Ogun and Abuja from 11pm on Monday 30th, March, 2020. The president who disclosed this in his broadcast to the nation on Sunday, however, said the restriction will be for an initial period of 14 days from Monday. “Based on the advice of the Federal Ministry of Health and ...

Lagos state governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has formally launched a 110-bedspace isolation centre for the Lagos Island located in Onikan Stadium, for (COVID-19).  The facility was built by the Lagos state government in collaboration with the management of Guaranty Trust Bank within the space of one week. Speaking at the official collaboration and handing over ceremony, Sanwo-Olu described the centre as a ...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said that curfew may be imposed in the state with the increasing cases of COVID-19. He said this during a live broadcast at the State House, Marina, on Friday evening. He said, “We are moving to the direction of curfew, but there are indices and numbers we need to see, we haven’t seen that ...

The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 14 new cases of Covid-19 in Nigeria. It said two of the cases are in FCT and 12 in Lagos. Out of the 14, two were detected on a vessel, three were returning travellers and one is close contact of a confirmed case. This brings the total number of confirmed cases ...