Nigeria on Thursday recorded her largest number ever of people invested with the ravaging coronavirus infection in a single day. She recorded 14 new cases, thus bringing the total number of infections in the country to 65. This worrisome statistics was provided by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control made via its Twitter handle on […]

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi has ordered the shutdown of the palace to curb the spread of coronavirus. In a statement by his Director of Media and Public Affairs, Comrade Moses Olafare on Thursday, the royal father announced the closure of the place. The statement read, “the place is shut down and all […]

A foremost Lagos lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, SAN, has asked the Federal Government to invoke the Quarantine Act which provides for and regulates the imposition of quarantine and in accordance with its powers under Section 305 of the Constitution of Nigeria. He said that federal and state governments will have difficulties enforcing regulations they put […]

The Supreme Court has scheduled ruling for Friday in an application by the Abdulaziz Yari faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for a review of its May 24, 2019 judgment in the intra-party dispute in the Zamfara APC. The Supreme Court had, in the judgment, held among others, that the APC did not hold […]

Kaduna state government Thursday announced a 24-hour curfew until further notice as parts of the measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus to the state. The state deputy governor, Hadiza Balarabe said in a broadcast that from midnight on Thursday, residents are to stay inside their homes from dusk to dawn. She said the decision […]

Mortuary employees wearing face masks wheel a coffin into the crematorium of La Almudena cemetery in Madrid on March 24, 2020 during the funeral of a COVID-19 coronavirus victim. – Spain has been one of the worst-hit countries, logging the third-highest number of deaths with the latest figures showing a toll of 2,696. (Photo by […]

The US Senate unanimously passed the nation’s largest-ever rescue package late Wednesday, a $2 trillion lifeline to suffering Americans, critically depleted hospitals and an economy all ravaged by a rapidly spreading coronavirus crisis. The measure cleared the Senate 96-0 after days of tumultuous, sometimes bitter negotiations and debate, as the US death toll for the […]

Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has called on the Federal Government to immediately provide relief for poor Nigerians whose daily livelihood is being affected by the restriction on movement due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A statement by Mr Ezrel Tobiowo, Special Assistant (Press) to the Senate President on Thursday in Abuja, said that Lawan made the […]