The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says the bank does not charge any fee on the COVID-19 loan application as claimed in false reports circulated on social media. The CBN’s Director, Corporate Communications Department, Mr. Isaac Okorafor said this in a statement in Abuja on Monday. Okorafor explained that procedures for accessing the N50 billion Targeted Credit Facility (TCF) stimulus package for households and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises affected by the pandemic were clearly...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said that the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the country had risen to 343, following 20 confirmed new cases from five states. NCDC, through its verified Twitter account on Monday, said that the 20 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded from Lagos -13, Edo -2, Kano -2, Ogun -2 and Ondo -1. According to NCDC, as at 09:50 p.m on April 13 there are 343 confirmed cases of COVID-19...
No fewer than 3,249 arms including ammunition and cartridges have been recovered by the Rivers Police Command at a criminal hideout in a forest at Ogu/Bolo Local Government Area of the state. The state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mustapha Dandaura, made this known on Monday in Port Harcourt when he presented the recovered arms before journalists, Gov. Nyesom Wike and Service Commanders. Dandaura, who led the governor and service commanders on inspection of the recovered...
President Mohammed Buhari said he has directed the National Social Register for Poor and Vulnerable Households to increase the number of estimated households to 3.6 million. In a televised broadcast on Monday night, the president announced that all palliative measures will be sustained following the extension to the lockdown directives in FCT, Lagos and Ogun state Increasing the beneficiaries of the federal government palliative from an initial 2.6 million, the president stated that support measures...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says Coronavirus (COVID-19) is 10 times deadlier than swine flu which caused a global pandemic in 2009. WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, stated this at a virtual news conference in Geneva on Monday. He said that the virus could spread more easily in crowded environments like nursing homes. “We know that early case-finding, testing, isolating caring for every case and tracing every contact is essential for stopping transmission. “We know...
President Muhammadu Buhari has alerted the nation of reported an alarming number of new infections of Coronavirus in communities across the country, through person-to-person contacts. The president made this known when he addressed the nation on the extension of restriction of movement in Lagos, Ogun, and FCT by additional 14 days to curb the spread of the deadly virus in the country. He said: “As a nation, we are on the right track to win...
President Muhammadu Buhari has urged security agencies to continue to maintain utmost vigilance, firmness and restraint in enforcing the restriction orders across the country, while not neglecting statutory security responsibilities. The president had, on Monday in a broadcast, extended the current restriction of movement in Lagos and Ogun States as well as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) by another 14 days to curb the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the country. Buhari, however, noted...
African ambassadors in China have written to the country’s foreign minister over what they call discrimination against Africans as the country seeks to prevent a resurgence of the coronavirus. Several African countries have separately also demanded that China address their concerns that Africans, in particular in the southern city of Guangzhou, are being mistreated and harassed. Having brought under control the original outbreak centred on the city of Wuhan, China is now concerned about imported...
The president said this in a nationwide broadcast to Nigerians. “With this in mind and having carefully considered the briefings and Report from the Presidential Task Force and the various options offered, it has become necessary to extend the current restriction of movement in Lagos and Ogun States as well as the FCT for another 14 days effective from 11:59 pm on Monday, 13th of April, 2020. I am therefore once again asking you all to work...
In the past week, the rise in reports of armed robberies, gang attacks, burglary, has exponentially increased, with Lagos and Ogun states, topping the list. Similarly, there are reports in Nnewi, Anambra State, Aba in Abia State, and Onitsha, Anambra state. The security situation in Nigeria has become unstable, especially with the fight against insurgency in the northern parts of the country. In southern Nigerian, however, the insecurity is not notably different, as kidnapping for...
