The Federal Government has placed fresh travel restrictions on 100 passengers for flouting its directives on COVID-19. The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 released the passport details of the defaulters in a tweet, announcing they have been restricted from travelling for six months. While noting that the travellers had been notified and barred from travelling out of…
President Muhammadu Buhari has presided over the meeting of the Federal Executive Council on his return from Daura, Katsina State, where he spent four days. Members of the Federal Executive Council observed a moment of silence for two former cabinet members – late Alfa Wali and late Tony Momoh, who died recently. Meanwhile; the Council considered several…
The Federal Government has extended the deadline for Nigerians to link their National Identity Number to mobile phone SIM by eight weeks. This means that instead of the initial expiry date of February 9, mobile phone subscribers who are yet to link their SIM to their NIN would be allowed to enjoy services until April 8, 2021.…
A Covid-19 isolation centre has been opened at the State House Clinic in Abuja. Government also plans to build a Covid-19 testing laboratory at the State House Clinic. The Secretary to Government, and Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19, Boss Mustapha, made this known in Abuja. Mustapha was speaking at the commissioning of the Special…
The Federal Government is targeting the vaccination of up to seventy percent of Nigerians for Covid-19. The Secretary to Government, BOSS MUSTAPHA, says the Federal Government will do all it can to achieve the target. MUSTAPHA, who is the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19, made this known at an event in Abuja. The event…
The three tiers of government in Nigeria have shared the sum of six hundred and nineteen point three billion naira as federal allocations for the month of December last year. The allocation was approved at the meeting of the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee, with the Federal Government taking two hundred and eighteen point two billion naira. The…