•Health Minister, Dr Osagie Ehanire The Federal Ministry of Health has confirmed the first case of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Nigeria. Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, confirmed the case in a statement issued in the early hours of Friday, February 28, 2020. According to the statement, the... Read more
Former Boko Haram terrorists and their wives who recently denounced membership of the group and surrendered to troops in Niger Republic have arrived Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria’s Borno State. The ex-terrorists arrived the Maiduguri airport on Wednesday in a military aircraft accompanied by Nigerian soldiers led by Major... Read more
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it has not prohibited the acceptance of foreign currency cash deposits by Deposit Money Banks (DMBs). The CBN Director, Corporate Communications, Mr Issac Okorafor made the clarification while speaking to newsmen in Abuja on Sunday. A domiciliary account is a type of... Read more
The Federal Government has assured the Government and people of Rivers State that it will effect a refund of monies expended on Federal Projects in the state. The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike led the Federal Executive Council Verification Team on a tour of listed projects in the ... Read more
The Cross River State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) on Monday said that the state was currently hosting 36,044 Camerounian refugees in its settlements across the state. Mr Princewill Ayim, Director General of SEMA in Cross River, disclosed this in an Interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Calabar.... Read more
Residents of Garkida town in the Gombi Local Government Area of Adamawa State were on Sunday fleeing the area, following a fresh threat by the Boko Haram insurgents to attack the town. A resident of Garkida, in an interview with the Hausa service of the British Broadcasting Corporation, monitored... Read more
Intervene Before Christians Are Wiped Out In Northern Nigeria, Human Rights Group Begs World Leaders
Considering what it called a “choreographed genocide of Christians and the burning of their churches and houses in towns and villages of northern Nigeria by Islamic terrorists and armed Fulani herdsmen,” the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has called on the world leaders to intervene without further... Read more
The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has renewed its commitment to transforming the rural economy of the Niger Delta region and improving the livelihood of the citizens. Speaking at a project facilitation training of the $129.17 million Livelihood Improvement Family Enterprises Programme in the Niger Delta, LIFE-ND project in... Read more
The Kwara State, Nigeria-based Elites Network for Sustainable Development (ENetSuD), a Civil Society Organization known for its #FollowKwaraMoney activities, have charged Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to step up its game in the fight against corruption in Kwara state, especially on handling petitions it has been receiving... Read more
Some 70 members of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association (PENGASSAN) on Monday bemoaned the nonpayment of their severance package 10 years after they were sacked by Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN) subsidiary of US fim ExxonMobil. They said that they were disengaged in 2009 before the expiration of... Read more
