Chief of staff to President Buhari, Abba Kyari, has become the first Nigerian high profile politician to pass away from the Covid-19 pandemic. How death was confirmed by special adviser to the President, Mr Femi Adesina. Statement below: The Presidency Read more
Today, Facebook has announced another step the company is taking to combat the spread of harmful hoaxes and misinformation about COVID-19 on its platforms. Through Facebook’s Newsfeed, users who interact with harmful COVID-19 claims will receive messages on COVID-19 myths Read more
Every program has its model and modus operandi. The CCT program unlike the N-power program for instance uses a world bank model which does not want it in the hands of politicians. (Please Google conditional Cash transfer worldwide). What has Read more
As expected, the Nigerian government has extended the lockdown by 14 days in Lagos, FCT & Ogun. What we also expected was for the president to address the hunger & insecurity in the land, give more details on how the Read more
The European Union has given Nigeria a grant of €50 million to fight COVID-19. The grant was announced by the Head of EU delegation in Nigeria, Ambassador Ketil Karlsen, at a meeting with President Buhari in Abuja. The Special Adviser Read more
Sadiya Umar Farouq, minister of humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development, says 500,000 N-Power beneficiaries across the country will start receiving alerts for outstanding payments from Tuesday. In a statement issued by Salisu Dambatta, the minister’s special assistant on Read more
ADDRESS BY H.E. MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE EXTENSION OF COVID- 19 PANDEMIC LOCKDOWN AT THE STATE HOUSE, ABUJA MONDAY, 13TH APRIL, 2020 1. Fellow Nigerians 2. In my address on Sunday, 29th March, Read more
Former First Lady Patience Jonathan has struck a deal to release her 200-bed hotel as COVID-19 Isolation and treatment centre. The Abuja hotel, which is believed to be worth about N2 billion, is under interim forfeiture secured by the Economic Read more
Professor Akin Abayomi, commissioner for health in Lagos state, has announced the death of another COVID-19 patient in the state. He made the announcement via Twitter on Saturday morning. According to the commissioner, the patient died in a private facility. Read more
The outbreak of novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) and national response to it clearly exposed our ill preparedness for its possible spread to Nigeria. Response and management of the crisis also showed our poor strategy to emergency handling as a nation. Several Read more