Delta Governor, Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, has reaffirmed his administration’s readiness to partner youths in the state to improve on governance and its structures. The governor made this known when the Delta Caucus in the House of Representatives, led by the Minority Leader, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, paid him a solidarity visit on Wednesday, at Government ...

Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, has described Covid-19 as ‘glorified malaria’ which some Nigerian politicians and middlemen have used to steal billions of naira. He disclosed this on the Tuesday edition of Sunrise Daily on Channels TV. Governor Bello explained that most of the looting of CACOVID warehouses across the nation was partly because the ...

Prominent Democrats have condemned the confirmation and swearing in of Judge Amy Coney Barrett as justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Barrett took the constitutional oath of office before President Donald Trump at a brief ceremony hosted by the White House on Monday night. Coming through a 53-48 vote along party lines, Barrett’s confirmation is ...

Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar-Faruk, says she has forgiven those who accused her of hiding COVID-19 palliatives meant for the poor. She stated this while fielding questions from journalists on Monday in Gusau. “I am aware many people have made various spurious allegations and accusations against my person ...

The Federal Government says the risk of   resurgence of  COVID-19 pandemic  in Nigeria is high due to the large gatherings of the #EndSARS protesters and the mayhem that  followed. Mr Boss Mustapha, Chairman of the, Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 , made the disclosure at  a joint national media briefing of the taskforce in ...

The NBA, which was the first pro league to suspend play amid the COVID-19 pandemic, made $1.5 billion less than it projected last season due to the pandemic and other factors, according to an Associated Press report. The league shut down March 11, then returned to finish a shortened season at the ESPN Wide World ...

The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 has predicted a spike in the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak in the country in the next two weeks just as 118 new infections were recorded Monday. The fresh cases brings Nigeria’s tally of people infected with the COVID-19 to 61,558. Boss Mustapha, the Secretary to the Government of the ...

Global economic recovery is going to be slow as long as the COVID-19 pandemic continues uncontrolled, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Chief Economist Gita Gopinath has said. She has, therefore, called for multilateral efforts to contain the virus. In its latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) report, the IMF projected that the global economy would contract by ...

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate in the Edo State governorship election, Godwin Obaseki, is projected to win the election by a wide margin going by results from more than half of the total wards where election took place. At the time of filing this reports, INEC has received results from about 1,576 polling units ...

Voters in the Edo State governorship election were seen observing physical distancing, washing hands and wearing face masks to curtail the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19). These were requirement laid down by INEC in conformity with the Covid-19 protocols. The situation was the same in all monitored units across the state. At Gov. Godwin Obaseki’s polling ...