Tag: COVID-19 Pandemic
FG to spend N109.8bn on proposed two-month free power supply
Statistics from the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) and the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc (NBET) show that the federal government would spend an...
NMA, others express angst as FG invites Chinese doctors to fight...
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has rejected plan by the federal government to bring Chinese medical experts to help in managing the coronavirus pandemic...
House committee chair on aviation counsels airlines to reconsider no pay...
The chairman, house committee on aviation, Mr. Nnolim Nnaji, has appealed to airlines and private organisations in the aviation sector not to abandon their...
FIRS realises N1.12trn revenue in Q1
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has said that it collected N1.123 trillion revenue in the first quarter (Q1) of 2020.
The director of communications...
Emmanuel signs Quarantine and Restriction of Movement Regulations, 2020
In exercise of the powers conferred on him by Sections 4 and 8 of the Quarantine Act, Cap. Q2, Laws of the Federation of...
Full text of President Muhammadu Buhari’s address to Nigerians on COVID-19...
1. Fellow Nigerians,
2. From the first signs that Coronavirus, or COVID-19 was
turning into an epidemic and was officially declared a world-wide emergency,
the Federal Government...
Strategies and lessons from the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918
Akinmutola Abayomi
It is often said that if you want to understand today, you
have to search yesterday.
Going by this, we have to critically take...
Crude oil price dips to $23 per barrel
Crude oil benchmarks slumped at the open of electronic trading yesterday, extending last week’s losses as the global COVID-19 pandemic worsened and the Saudi...
Dana, Arik suspend operations
Dana Air and Arik Air have announced suspension of scheduled operations in response to the COVID-19 spreading across the country and the need to...
COVID-19: CJN shuts down courts nationwide for 14 days
INEC halts activities except preparations for Ondo, Edo governorship polls
The Chief Justice Tanko Muhammad on Monday directed the suspension of judicial activities in courts...