Lagos State Governor, BABAJIDE SANWO-OLU, has declared that cinemas will reopen soon. Governor SANWO-OLU made this known during a virtual meeting with members of the Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria. The Governor also pledged the commitment of his administration to work with the creative industry in Lagos State. SANWO-OLU also promised that his government would do all…
Primary and secondary schools in Benue State will not observe the third term of the 2019/2020 academic session. This is because the State Government has directed that schools should open for the first term of the 2020/2021 session on Monday next week. The Commissioner for Education, Professor DENNIS ITYAVYAR, said the adjustment in the schools’ curriculum was…
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…
The Lagos State Government has released guidelines for the reopening of event and recreation centres, including a fine of one million naira against violators. The requirements for the reopening of such venues after the Covid-19 lockdown include operating at fifty percent capacity, two metres spacing and a Covid-19 register for all customers above eighteen years. Such facilities,…
Some two hundred Nigerians who are serving prison terms in Saudi Arabia are expected to be brought home soon. The transfer of the Nigerian prisoners is being done under the Federal Government’s arrangement for the repatriation of Nigerians trapped overseas due to the Covid-19 lockdown. The Chairman of the Nigeria Diaspora Commission, ABIKE DABIRI-EREWA, who confirmed the…
Nigerian Muslims have been reminded of the existing guidelines to check the spread of Covid-19. The advice comes as Muslims in Nigeria prepare to join their counterparts around the world for the celebration of Sallah this weekend. The Federal Government announced that all the existing guidelines of the current phase of the Ease of Covid-19 Lockdown are…