The Chairman of BUA Group, Alhaji Abdussamad Rabiu, has donated a 3-story building in Kano, to serve as an isolation centre for the COVID-19 disease. Mallam Garba Mohammed, Chairman Kano state fundraising committee on COVID-19, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Kano. According to the statement, the BUA CEO had already instructed his contractors to commence the renovation of the gigantic structure immediately. It said the building situated along Court Road in Tarauni...
Pearl Entertainment Modeling Concept (PEMC), the organisers of the forthcoming 2020 Most Adorable Queen In Nigeria/Nigeria Noble Achievers Award, has postponed the event due to the outbreak of COVID-19. Samuel Osioh, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of PEMC, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Lagos that the decision to postpone the event was taken in collaboration with its sponsors and partner. Osioh said that 20 contestants had registered for the 3rd...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) says there will be a 3-month delay in the implementation of any electricity tariff. Minister of Power, Mr. Sale Mamman made this known in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday. Mamman said that the delay in the implementation of the tariff was one of several critical actions that the administration was taking to ensure citizens have power supply in this difficult time. He said that the 3-month delay in...
The Nigerian Army led by Lt. General Tukur Buratai, Chief of Army Staff, is reported to have removed General Olusegun Adeniyi, who recently appeared in a viral video beggingmilitary authorities to supply them with weapons and accurate intelligence to combat Boko Haram terrorists in the North-East region. Adeniyi, who is Theatre Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, in the viral video lamented how his men were outgunned and ambushed while on an operation in Borno. West...
Violence protest had on Tuesday ensued at Kaduna Correctional Centre (Prison) when inmates attempted a jailbreak over the Coronavirus pandemic in the country. An inside source at the centre confided that the inmates, who fear that they could contract the deadly virus going by the poor ventilation and lack of protective items in the facility, thronged in large numbers in the morning hours of Tuesday, in an attempt to break free from the correctional centre....
The Jigawa Commissioner for Health, Dr Abba Zakari, on Monday suspended all weekly markets in the state as part of measures to curb the spread of Coronavirus. Zakari, who said this while briefing newsmen on COVID-19 in Dutse, added that such markets were suspended in all the 27 local government areas of the state. According to him, the suspension is part of the precautionary measures to prevent the spread of the global COVID-19 pandemic in...
Residents of parts of Port Harcourt were forced off the streets on Tuesday by security personnel as Gov. Nyesom Wike imposed a dusk to dawn curfew in parts of the state. Residents who went out as early as 6am were driven back by security personnel in Obiri-Ikwerre Junction (Ozuoba, Rumualogu) – Choba and from Education Bus Stop – Agip Junction. Some residents in the affected areas told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that they woke up to see that...
KADUNA: Inmates of the Prison at Kaduna State Have Began Violent Protest, Insisting that Officials Must Release them to Avoid Being Infected by the Deadly Virus. Security personnel, including prison wardens, are reportedly battling the inmates. Reports say shots have been fired in the ensuing fracas. Developing story…Details soon…
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