2020

Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, literally opened the food and financial vaults of the state today to support those hit hardest by the lockdown in the state occasioned by the Coronavirus pandemic affecting the world. In a brief…

The Abia State Covid-19 Joint Taskforce, continued its work on enforcement of the lockdown directive of the State Government with a monitoring visit to some strategic borders in the State. The high-powered team is led by the Special…

The Abia State Government has announced the extension of the lockdown by additional Seven Days with effect from Wednesday, April 8, 2020. In a release, the Secretary to the Government of Abia State, Barrister Chris Ezem said the extension…

The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, says President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the engagement of 774, 000 Nigerians on Special Public Works programme in the country to cushion the effect of COVID-19…

Chadian President Idriss Deby has issued a yellow card to Boko Haram terrorists’ leader Abubakar Shekau. He should surrender or be prepared to die. President Deby, said Shekau risks death in his Dikoa hideout. Deby issued the warning in a…

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has decried the deluge of fake news “distracting” the Federal Government in the fight against COVID-19 across the country. Speaking during a briefing on Monday by the…

The United Kingdom has joined the United States in resisting a plan by the Nigerian government to give Kebbi State Governor, Atiku Bagudu, about $110m (N41.8bn) out of the $155m (N58.9bn) stolen by late dictator, Sani Abacha, Bloomberg…

Abia State Governor, Okezie Victor Ikpeazu announced that his administration has set in motion the platform for the distribution of food palliatives to Abians following the sit-at-home directive to check the spread of Coronavirus starting…

NDJAMENA, Chad — Chad’s president, Idriss Déby, speaks in a soft mumble, wears spectacles and an immaculate white robe, and is to be found in the quiet inner recesses of a gilt-edged, marble presidential palace — under crystal chandeliers…

Despite the N13.59bn budgetary provision for the State House Clinic in the last five years under President Muhammadu Buhari, the facility appears ‘unfit’ to treat his Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari. The State House Clinic is meant to treat the…