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The Federal Government has directed the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to reduce the pump price of petrol from N145 to N125. This, the government said, was to reflect the current crash in the global price of crude oil. The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), approved the price reduction after the Minister of State, Petroleum […]

Italy on Wednesday reported 475 new deaths from the novel coronavirus, the highest one-day official toll of any nation since the first case was detected in China late last year. Total deaths in Italy have reached 2,978, more than half of all the cases recorded outside China, while the number of infections stood at 35,713. […]

The Senate, on Wednesday, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to “immediately” address the nation on the situation of the Coronavirus pandemic in Nigeria. The red chamber said if the president addressed Nigerians, citizens and government agencies would be more serious in adhering to the preventive measures. It also asked the Federal Government to take more drastic […]

The Lagos State Government has banned all religious gathering of over 50 people within the state. The decision was arrived at on Wednesday after a meeting of the Lagos State Government with religious bodies in the state, because of the increasing number of coronavirus cases in the country. The religious bodies include the Christian Association […]

The Senate yesterday raised alarm that with its approval of $22.7billion foreign loan request by President Muhammadu Buhari penultimate week, the total debt profile of Nigeria now stands at N33 trillion. Speaking at  the one day public lecture organised by the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies ( NILDS), on Public Debt in Nigeria […]

The Lagos State Commissioner of Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, has advised those on the British Airways flight that arrived in Lagos on March 13 to stay at home or isolate themselves for 14 days. The Commissioner made the announcement on Tuesday through his Twitter handle following the confirmation of another case of Coronavirus in Lagos. […]

French health authorities on Tuesday said that 27 more people had died over the last 24 hours from the coronavirus in the country, bringing the total death toll in France to 175 people. There are now 7,730 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the country, France’s top health official Jerome Salomon told reporters, a jump of […]

The World Health Organization recommended Tuesday that people suffering COVID-19 symptoms avoid taking ibuprofen, after French officials warned that anti-inflammatory drugs could worsen effects of the virus. The warning by French Health Minister Olivier Veran followed a recent study in The Lancet medical journal that hypothesised that an enzyme boosted by anti-inflammatory drugs such as […]

The Federal Government has banned all government officials, including public and civil servants, from travelling abroad. The Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 announced the decision after a closed-door meeting in Abuja on Tuesday. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation and Chairman of the committee, Boss Mustapha, while briefing journalists, said the ban took […]

As of 4 p.m in Geneva on Monday, the World Health Organization has recorded 168,019 coronavirus cases and 6,610 deaths globally. A separate tally from the Johns Hopkins University, which is tracking cases reported by the WHO and additional sources, puts the number of cases at over 181,500 with at least 7,100 deaths. Nearly 79,000 […]

The death toll in the Abule-Ado explosion  in Lagos rose to 20 on Monday, as many families continued to search for their missing relatives. Punch correspondents also learnt that 50 pupils of the Bethlehem Girls College were injured in the incident. Punch had reported that an explosion, which rocked the community on Sunday, left 17 […]

Three days after his wife contracted Coronavirus, Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, ordered the closure of all borders to foreign nationals, except U.S. citizens, advising people to stay at home to stop spread of the virus. Disclosing this on Monday, Trudeau said, “We will be denying entry into Canada to people who are not Canadian […]

An herbalist, Simon Odo, popularly called Onu Uwa, has explained the reason behind his decision to marry 58 women, saying most men die untimely due to pressure from bad wives. Odo, who is also known as King of Satan, spoke on Monday in an interview with journalists on why he married his 58th wife recently. He […]

The Federal Government says it has no plans to impose  travel  restrictions  on visitors from countries where  coronavirus continues to spread rapidly. However,  Nigeria   has  decided to screen visitors entering the  country  from  China (where the disease originated last year), Japan, Iran, Italy , Germany, France,  South  Korea and Spain. The killer disease was brought […]

The suspected case of Coronavirus reported in Enugu State is negative. This is according to the state government who said that the result from the test carried out at the Irua Specialist Hospital confirmed the status. In a short statement by the permanent secretary,  in the State’s Ministry of Health, Dr Ifeanyi Agujiobi, the result […]

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Sunday recommended that no gatherings with 50 people or more take place for the next eight weeks to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. The agency said these gatherings include conferences, festivals, parades, concerts, sporting events, weddings and other types of assemblies. “Large events and mass […]