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Seventeen people have died of Covid-19 in Algeria, which currently has 230 cases of Coronavirus, 54% of them in the province of Blida, south of the capital Algiers. Algeria’s health ministry has said hospitals in the North African nation can use chloroquine to treat patients infected with Coronavirus. However, the...

By DAVID IORJA and PAUL ADAJI (Abuja) –  President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed “profound grief and sorrow’’ over the loss of soldiers who were ambushed by terrorists in Gorgi Village, Borno State. In a statement issued in Abuja Tuesday evening by his Senior Special Assistant (Media & Publicity), Garba...

Everybody is now apprehensive about a new pandemic called coronavirus, also known as covid-19, which is ravaging all countries of the world, spreading like wildfire. As at March 24, 2020, the disease had spread to about 192 countries, with 381,586 cases, and 16,457 deaths. This is very serious, and...

By MBAFAN ADE – ABUJA, March 24, (NATIONAL ACCORD) – The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) is preparing multiple health isolation and treatment centres across the Territory to better manage cases of the COVID-19 pandemic in the nation’s capital. Minister of the FCT, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, who made...

Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has announced measures that translate into partial lockdown of the nation’s capital city, as cases of the coronavirus hit seven. The minister who addressed newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja said that all gatherings in public parks, gardens, bars,...

EHIME ALEX, Lagos  Abba Kyari, chief of staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, has tested positive for coronavirus. According to multiple media reports on Tuesday, Kyari is alleged to has tested positive several days after returning from an official trip to Germany. In a tweet on Tuesday, former vice president...

SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri  State Emergency Management Agency in Borno State has imposed a four-week ban on visitors to all Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in the state. The Executive Chaiman, Hajiya Yabawa Kolo, disclosed this at a meeting with about 50  IDPs camps managers on Monday, saying that the decision...

The US Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs says it is organizing repatriation flights for U.S. citizens who are having trouble leaving Ghana because of travel restrictions driven to fight the coronavirus outbreak. This comes as the presidents of Ivory Coast and Senegal, two of West Africa’s largest...

The 9th Senate has lost three members in a space of three months, with the death of Senator Rose Oko, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Cross River North, last night. Oke, who as the Chairman, Senate Committee on Trade and Investment, died  at a UK medical facility at the age of...

The global toll of the novel coronavirus is said to has risen to 381,293 cases and 16,508 deaths globally. This is according to the Johns Hopkins University, a body which is tracking figures from the World Health Organization and additional sources. Below is the coronavirus pandemic update, around the...

JOHN ONAH, Abuja The Executive of the Ministry of Defence Agricultural Cooperative Society (MODACS) said it has accomplished 75 per cent of what it has promised the Members of the society. The President of MODACS, Dr Edacbhe Okoh Adigwu, who disclosed this in Abuja over the weekend at the...

EHIME ALEX, Lagos  Ogun State Government on Monday announced new measures to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. According to a statement by Kunle Somorin, chief press secretary to the governor, the decisions were taken after the daily review of development at a meeting chaired by the Incident Commander, His Excellency,...

the LEADERSHIP Person of the Year 2019, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, has said he would not relent in his service to humanity. Prof. Oloyede stated this at the Leadership Persons of the Year 2019 Award organised by the Leadership Newspaper recently in Abuja. According to him, the Award would serve...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has successfully concluded the conduct of the 2020 UTME. The examination was concluded in most states on Thursday 19th march, 2020, 10 other states completed on Saturday 21st March, 2020 while Bayelsa with only four (4) approved CBT centres after a number...

“We must make sure about two things, namely: that our principles are just and that are methods are practical; for nothing destroys her own ends as unjust principles and impractical methods and approach.”  – Obafemi Awolowo. Twenty three years ago, yours sincerely authored an article on one of Nigeria’s never-endingDevelopment Plans....

By JACOB KUBEKA, Abuja With confirmed cases of the rampaging coronavirus reported to have risen to 36 in Nigeria, a former Managing Director of the Pipelines and Products Marketing company (PPMC), Suleiman Achimugu died over night from the strange disease also known as COVID-19, becoming the first casualty in...

For not wanting to comply with government instructions, the behavior of the Right Honorable Cavaye Yeguie Djibril exposed the lives of 167 deputies and their relatives. According to hospital sources, the President of the National Assembly of Cameroon has tested positive for Coronavirus. This is just as the son of...

OLA MODUPE, Lagos  Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari urging him to use his leadership position to “urgently instruct the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to jointly track and...

For not wanting to comply with government instructions, the behavior of the Right Honorable Cavaye Yeguie Djibril exposed the lives of 167 deputies and their relatives. According to hospital sources, the President of the National Assembly of Cameroon has tested positive for Coronavirus. Indeed, the latter was part of an...