PREMIUM TIMES The Akwa Ibom state government is building a new isolation centre to add to the existing two isolation centres in the state because of the novel coronavirus. There are nine confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Akwa Ibom…
INDEPENDENT Following reports on the raging issue of dead croaker fishes along the Atlantic shoreline, oil industry regulators have been asked to make it a priority to investigate increased toxicity of the Atlantic coastline, which allegedly, has been causing massive…
INDEPENDENT The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) daily basket price stood at 14.63 U.S. dollars a barrel on Tuesday, compared with 14.19 dollars on Monday. This is according to OPEC Secretariat calculations released on Wednesday. Also known as…
PUNCH The Bayelsa State Government has warned residents against harvesting dead fishes washed ashore by tidal waves around the coastlines of some communities in the Southern Ijaw and Brass Local Government Areas of the state. In a statement on Tuesday,…
RIPPLES NIGERIA Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, on Wednesday, dismissed as outright falsehood claims that a strange disease has killed an unspecified number of people in the state. The governor, who spoke on national television on Tuesday night, however, said…
DAILY POST Nigeria on Wednesday, confirmed ninety-one new cases of Coronavirus. The Nigeria Center for Disease and Control, NCDC, confirmed this on its Twitter page. This brings the number of confirmed cases in Nigeria to 873. The tweet read: “91…
THE GUARDIAN Civil society groups, including the Civil Liberty Organisation (CLO), Social Action, and Media COVID-19 Situation Room, have alleged exclusion of Niger Delta states by the Federal Government from the coronavirus interventions, especially in the distribution of test kits,…
THIS DAY President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the immediate payment of salaries of lecturers withheld for not registering with the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS). THISDAY gathered that the gesture was a sign of the president’s goodwill to…
PREMIUM TIMES The slump in the U.S. crude oil futures below $0 per barrel is not a reflection of the reality in the global oil market capable of impacting Nigeria’s oil production, the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National…
DAILY POST The Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, on Tuesday, confirmed 117 new cases of Coronavirus in Nigeria. NCDC in a tweet on its official Twitter page, disclosed that the confirmed cases were 59 in Lagos, 14 in Kano,…