Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri has allayed fears of the imposition of another lockdown on Adamawa State but vowed to ensure strict compliance of COVID-19...
France has not ruled out imposing a third nationwide lockdown if coronavirus cases continue to rise, its health minister said Sunday, as the country...
President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigeria’s economy is too fragile for fresh COVID-19 lockdown.
The President, therefore, urged Nigerians to obey all protocols recommended by health...
Few days to Eid-Fitr Sallah celebration, Kano Mobile Court working with the law enforcement agents arrested 45 vehicles for allegedly defying the lockdown order as well as ban on inter-states travels.
Jigawa State Government has ordered lockdown of additional three local government councils for a period of one week after two samples returned positive.
The Lagos State Police Command says it has arrested and charged 620 persons, including 39 strippers and ravers at a nightclub, for violating the lockdown directive to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease in the state.
Hundreds of residents of Jos North local government area of Plateau state, Saturday launched protest against lockdown with pleas for palliatives from the government.
A driver attached to The Punch newspapers, Joshua Momoh and six others were sentenced by an Ado-Ekiti Magistrate’s Court for violating the lockdown order in Ekiti State.
The Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has declared a tolal lockdown of the state for 14 days as part of measures to curb the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19)
Some top aides of President Muhammadu Buhari have been denied access into the Presidential Villa in Abuja after returning from the burial of late Chief of Staff to Buhari, Abba Kyari, on Saturday a report by SAHARAREPORTERS revealed.
Deputy Senate President Ovie Omo-Agege, on Thursday, appealed for calm following protests in Sapele, Delta State, against the government’s two-week extension of the COVID-19 lockdown.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) says Nigeria’s security agencies have killed 18 citizens since the lockdown regulations on the COVID-19 pandemic were enforced — more than the disease itself.
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
Amidst an order by Lamido of Adamawa, Dr. Barkindo Aliyu Mustapha ordering the closure of congregational prayers and shutting down of mosques in Yola, governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri said he did not order the closure of worship centers across the state.
The federal government has on Friday appealed to state governments against relaxing movement restrictions for Jumaat prayers, Church service and Easter celebration, saying it would reverse the gains recorded against the spread of COVID-19 disease in the country.
A non Governmental Organisation (NGO) Bintalya First Foundation Business Transformation Programme (BTP), has distributed COVID-19 palliatives to over 5,000 less privileged people across three Local Government Areas of Kaduna state.
A 66-year-old retired soldier, Elkanah Martikus has reportedly slumped and died in Yola after trekking for several hours to access his destination eyewitnesses told FOMBINATIMES.
Popular Nigerian screen diva, Funke Akindele is currently cooling her heels in the police net for defying restriction of movement order imposed by the Lagos State government to tame COVID-19 pandemic.
Twin explosions have unsettled the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) secretariat in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
The explosion, which occurred at about 3pm Thursday during the...
The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts has summoned the Group Managing Director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mele Kyari, to...