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This is the new NCDC advisory to public sector leaders and business owners on the resurgence of COVID-19 Following the increasing number of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in Nigeria, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has developed the following guidelines for public sector leaders and business owners in Nigeria. Nigeria a on Wednesday recorded its highest daily number of COVID-19 …

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, former Governor of Zamfara state, Sen. Sani Yerima has declared his ambition to vie for the presidency, dismissing claims of any zoning arrangement within his ruling All Progressives Congress APC. At a media interface yesterday in Abuja, Yerima said he had on three occasions since 2006 buried his presidential ambition to support President Muhammadu …

The US Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday it was working with Pfizer to revise a fact sheet for recipients of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine after two people had allergic reactions. The two people, both health workers, were vaccinated in Alaska and one of them had a serious or “anaphylactic” reaction resulting in hospitalisation. Doran Fink, deputy director of …

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has faulted the claim by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, that the man in Aso rock is not President Muhammadu Buhari but Jubril from Sudan. Adesina in his article titled: ‘Buhari at 78: If only we knew this president’, poured encomium …

Ekiti State Governor and Chairman, Nigerian Governors’ Forum, Dr Kayode Fayemi, said, on Thursday, that the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities would soon resolve their ongoing crisis. Fayemi, who said he had the opportunity to be part of negotiations between government and ASUU in his capacity as NGF chairman, said that in view of the successes …

The Edo state governorship election petition tribunal has fixed January 11, 12, and 13 next year to hear petitions filed by four political parties against the governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP); and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over September 19, 2020, election which conduct and the outcome they are contesting. The Justice Yunusa …

Following the increasing cases of COVID-19 in the country, the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has said that everyone above six years of age should always wear a face mask. This is coming as the World Health Organization, WHO, has warned of a “further resurgence” of COVID-19 cases in early 2021. In a series of tweets on its official …

A former member of the National Assembly, who represented the Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the 8th Senate, Shehu Sani, has said the closure of Nigeria’s land borders did not yield any result. Sani said the closure of the borders rather worsened the economic situation of the country and inflicted hardship on Nigerians. The ex-senator spoke on Wednesday on a PUNCH …

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the immediate reopening of four main borders. The President also directed that the remaining borders that were closed down should be reopened before the end of December 31. The four borders that are to be reopened immediately are the Seme border in South West, Maigatari and Ilela borders in North West and Mfun borders in South-South. …

By Okhide Em’ya David. Former Commissioner of Agriculture, Edo State, Dr. Johnson Erimafa, on Tuesday  demanded at  the Edo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry for victims of SARS and related abuses for compensation to the tune of N1 billion for the death of his only son murdered in cold blood by police officer in 2003. Dr. Erimafa, a retired Mathematics …