Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, today commissioned the 118-bed Isolation and Treatment Center set up within the premises of Gbagada General Hospital for management of COVID-19 cases. Within the three-floor Isolation and Treatment facility are the dedicated intensive care isolation unit, ventilators, monitors, respirators, mobile x-ray, ultrasound, oxygen amongst other ultramodern medical equipment. Speaking […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the implementation of a 2011 report submitted by the presidential committee on restructuring and rationalization of federal government parastatals, commissions and agencies commonly referred to as ‘Oronsanye’ report. The 800-paged report, submitted during the Goodluck Jonathan administration, had recommended the abolishment and merging of 102 government agencies and parastatals. Zainab […]

The collapse in oil prices, Nigeria’s economic life elixir and it’s looming negative impact may have compelled Federal Government to inaugurate an Inter-ministerial Committee on Extended Special Public Work for job creation drive, in the 774 local government areas of the country. The Committee is expected to identify the comparative advantage of each local government […]

The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 says Federal Government establishments, banks, construction companies, manufacturing and others can commence operation from on May, 4, after four weeks lockdown. The National Coordinator of the PTF on COVID-19, Dr Aliyu Sani, stated this during the daily briefing by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 pandemic on Wednesday in […]

ADDRESS BY H.E. MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE CUMULATIVE LOCKDOWN ORDER OF LAGOS AND OGUN STATES AS WELL AS THE FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY ON COVID- 19 PANDEMIC AT THE STATE HOUSE, ABUJA MONDAY, 27th APRIL, 2020 1. Fellow Nigerians 2. I will start by commending you all for the […]

A newly appointed Commissioner 1 in the Kwara State Local Government Service Commission, Olatunji Abel, has died in his sleep forty-eight hours to his resumption at the new desk. Abel, who is from Igbaja in Ifelodun area of the state died on Saturday of suspected heart attack at his home town on his return from […]

National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has released his COVID-19 test result alongside that of his wife, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, A contrasting fortunes, the couple tested negative but two of their aides including the Lagos former governor’s Chief Security Officer, Lateef Raheem, who died last Friday came out positive. Raheem’s […]

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 87 new cases of coronavirus disease in the country bringing the total infected cases to 1182. According to the NCDC on its official twitter page, 33 new cases were recorded in Lagos, 18 in Borno,  12 in Osun, Nine in Katsina, four each in Kano and […]