POLITICS

A former presidential aspirant under the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adamu Garba, Thursday threatened to sue Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey for supporting the #EndSARS protest.   Adamu in a Tweet said if the protest continues to evolve into disorder explained that Jack’s tweet calling for support against disbanded SARS was …

  The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP has stressed the need for the judiciary to rule against unduly withheld access to asset declaration forms. It said Code of Conduct Bureau’s obstruction of Nigerians who seek access to the forms was one of the reasons the system had not been …

Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, has appointed as coronavirus ambassador, Femi Adeoye, the man who publicly reprimanded his son who travelled to Lagos despite his warning not to embark on the trip. The video of Mr Adeoye refusing to cover up for his son over fear of contracting and spreading …

Few days after the Lagos State Government issued a stay-at-home directive to residents, in order to curtail the spread of the novel coronavirus, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has unveiled economic stimulus package for the indigent and the most vulnerable in the society. The stimulus, which comes in food packs, to be …

Nigerian President Muhammdu Buhari has approved the immediate release of a 10 billion Naira grant to Lagos State. Buhari said the grant will enable the state to increase its capacity to control and contain the outbreak, while also supporting other States with capacity-building. He said: “The impact of COVID-19 is …

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)  in the 2019 election, Atiku Abubakar, has made an announced as his son tests positive for coronavirus (COVID-19). The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has also confirmed five new case of Coronavirus (COVID-19) today: 2 in FCT, 2 in Lagos …

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun has respectively signed the State’s N1.168 Trillion and N449.97 Billion 2020 Budget into law. The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu assented to the Appropriation Bill at a short ceremony held in Alausa on Tuesday, pledging that …

….As Govt provides N100 million for Ayadecare program, to register 1million people in 2020 To ensure positive agenda setting in the health sector in the year 2020, the Cross River State government is set to commence the test-run operations of the much awaited Calabar Pharmaceutical Company for 6months. The Government …

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), a civil society organisation, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to openly condemn attacks against press -journalists and media organisations – in the country. The report, ‘A Downward Spiral: How Federal and State Authorities are Tightening the Screws on Media Freedom in Nigeria’, which …

The Centre for Infrastructural and Technological Advancement for the Blind (CITAB) has hailed the Lagos Waste Management Agency (LAWMA) over its recent employment of 20 disabled persons. This was contained in a press release issued by the group’s Executive Chairman of Mr. Jolomi Fenemigho. The CITAB boss showered more encomiums …