President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has approved the release of thirty thousand tonnes of maize from the national reserves. The release is meant for the production of animal feed in order to reduce the high cost of poultry products in Nigeria. According to a message shared on the President’s Twitter handle, @Mbuhari, he said the government was mindful of…
President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has extended the mandate of the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 till December this year. President BUHARI also approved the third phase of the ease-of-lockdown in the national response to the COvid-19 pandemic, which is to last four weeks. These latest developments were announced by the Chairman of the PTF and Secretary to the…
The Nigerian Senate has denied that its members collected twenty-million naira each as Covid-19 palliative from the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. The Senate spokesman, Senator AJIBOLA BASIRU, made the denial in reaction to claims by NDDC’s Director of Projects, CAIRO OJUGBOH, who also alleged that fifteen million naira was given to each member of the House…
The Lagos State Health Commissioner, Professor AKIN ABAYOMI, has recovered from Covid-19. This comes one week after Professor ABAYOMI announced that he had contracted the new coronavirus and proceeded on self-isolation at home for treatment. The latest development was made known in a statement by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, GBENGA OMOTOSO. He said Professor ABAYOMI…
The resumption of international flight operations in Nigeria has been shifted by one week. The Minister of Aviation, HADI SIRIKA, has earlier announced that international flight operations would resume on Saturday, August 29, 2020. However; the Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, Captain MUSA NUHU, said that date was no longer possible. The NCAA…
Nigeria has added two hundred and ninety-six new cases of Covid-19, which takes the country’s total to fifty-three thousand, three hundred and seventeen. The new cases were recorded Thursday, August 27, 2020, in sixteen states and Abuja, with Plateau sustaining its lead on the daily list for the third day, with additional eighty-five cases. The Nigeria Centre…