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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Tuesday said he tested positive for the coronavirus and was receiving treatment in hospital, news agencies...

The House of Representatives has approved the request by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to borrow N850bn to fund the 2020 budget. The...

Professor Agboola Ibrahim Gambari has been appointed as the new chief of staff to President Muhammadu Buhari. Prof. Gambari, a Nigerian scholar, diplomat and an...

The 16th President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers and former Kano State Commissioner for Rural and Community Development, Engr. Ibrahim Khaleel Inuwa, is...

President Muhammadu Buhari has sent the names of forty-two ambassadorial nominees to the Senate for screening and subsequent confirmation. The names were contained in a...

The Nigerian Correctional Services has reportedly refused to re-admit the three suspects arrested earlier over the murder of Mrs Olufunke Olakunrin, daughter of Afenifere...

Mauritius has officially become coronavirus-free with no active case for the past 15 days, the country's ministry of health has said. The Indian Ocean island...

The President of Senegal, Macky Sall, has announced the reopening of mosques and churches. Sall made the announcement while easing restrictions imposed on the country...

In what will come to many as a shock, an APC Governor has overlooked caution from his party to swear in a PDP candidate. Niger...

A new terrorist group secretly operating in Nigeria has been discovered by the police. The Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team (IRT) headed by...

Governor Nyesom Wike has said that he doesn't regret demolishing two hotels in Rivers state, following the contravention of a total lockdown order he...

Governor Bala Mohammed has revealed that residents of Bauchi state do not believe Coronavirus is real even after he survived the disease. Speaking during an...

The Anambra State Command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has arrested a Nigerian man for allegedly defrauding a German national...

Billionaire Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, has revealed that he informed Donald Trump to prepare for pandemic weeks before Trump became the U.S. president. Gates, who...

US president, Donald Trump, has reacted to a video of him snubbing reporters after a Chinese-American reporter asked him why he always talked about...

A fake Bayelsa State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board Cooridnator identified as Muhammad Halim Ogbobio, has been handed a 28 year jail sentence after being...

The Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency (TRACE) says its operatives intercepted a truck loaded with about 30 Almajiris at Joju area of...

The Nigerian government's request for a subpoena on 10 US banks for information needed to prosecute government officials allegedly connected to British Virgin Island...

Spain’s oldest person, Maria Branyas, a 113-year-old woman has become the oldest reported survivor of the novel coronavirus. The mother of three who is a...

After being in the hospital for the past six days in the intensive care unit of the Federal Medical Centre, Katsina for an undisclosed...

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, on Monday said Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo is the current chairman of a group he called the Nigerian Association of...

The Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development announced on Monday night that it would commence the Home-Grown School Feeding Programme...

The Peoples Democratic Party has accused the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and the All Progressives Congress of betraying Almajirai and Nigeria’s poor...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has asked private laboratories willing to join in testing for COVID-19 in the country to be ready to...

The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, on Monday said the Federal Government and the World Health Organisation were carrying out COVID-19 drug trial...

The dollar exchanged for N445 in the parallel market on Monday due to scarcity and shrinking liquidity in the forex market. The extension of the...

An Ekiti State High Court in Ado Ekiti yesterday sentenced two men and two women to death by hanging after finding them guilty of...

Police in Katsina rescued two women abducted by notorious bandits at Sabon Layi village in Kurfi Local Government Area of the state. Spokesperson of the...

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 41-year-old man, Patrick Mbama, and 30-year-old, woman, Ogechi Chinonso Ekwebele, for stealing a one month old...

Nigeria's Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire has revealed that the plant extract in Madagascar’s herbal drug for Coronavirus, grows in the country. Speaking at the...