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Guaranty Trust Bank, Africa’s foremost financial institution, has placed a hold on its loan repayment plan for all Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) that have obtained credit facilities from the bank. According to the biggest bank…

The Treasury Department has ordered President Trump’s name be printed on stimulus checks the Internal Revenue Service is rushing to send to tens of millions of Americans, a process that could slow their delivery by a few…

        The federal capital territory (FCT) has charged nine COVID-19 patients. In a series of tweets on Wednesday, Muhammed Bello, FCT minister, said the patients have returned to their homes after testing negative for the disease.…

In the bid to follow the directive of the Federal government in the extension of the lockdown in Lagos, Ogun and Federal Capital Territory, (FCT) in the fight against world pandemic…

A number of food and liquor stores have been looted in South Africa amid a strict national lockdown that was put in place to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. Incidents were reported…

Keniebi Okoko, Bayelsa-born billionaire businessman and philanthropist, has died in Lagos, throwing many Bayelsans into mourning. Some reports said Okoko died on Tuesday during a…

Five new cases of COVID-19 have been recorded in Kano state. This was disclosed via the Twitter handle of the state’s ministry on health on Wednesday. With the announcement, a total of nine persons have tested positive for…

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Tuesday, said miscreants using the lockdown to unleash havoc on the residents are not ‘hungry people’ but opportunistic criminals.…

The Head, European Union Delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Amb. Ketil Karlsen, has said that the N21bn (€50m) donated to Nigeria by the EU is largely meant for the poor. “That is why part of the €50m we provide will also be for the…

Nigeria may earn about $10.61bn from crude oil sales between May and December this year following latest decision by members and non-members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting…

Magistrates Lateef Layeni and Bimbo Oshodi-Makanju, on Tuesday, convicted 120 out of the 183 persons arraigned before the mobile court sitting at the Lagos State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Panti, Yaba, for…

NIRSAL Microfinance Bank (NMFB) has resolved that the business plans for the ₦50 billion Targeted Credit Facility as a stimulus package to support households and MSMEs is no longer…

Manchester United striker, Odion Ighalo, has identified 2 players in the Super Eagles team that would not allow him to return to the team. Ighalo, in a Twitter Q&A, said the young players in the Super Eagles squad are doing well. The…

South Africans attacked police officers on the streets of Cape Town on Tuesday as the effects of a Coronavirus inspired lockdown bites harder. Police fired rubber bullets and teargas at residents…

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, says the state has uncovered 119 persons with symptoms of COVID-19 in a search of 118,000 households in the state. He disclosed this during a briefing on Tuesday.…

Nigeria’s largest quoted company and Sub-Saharan Africa’s largest cement company, Dangote Cement Plc, on Tuesday completed the book building and allotment of its N100 billion debut bond…

About 116 former coronavirus patients have tested positive for the second time. They tested negative when discharged from hospitals, according to the Korea Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC). They then tested positive…

Mohammed Babandede, comptroller-general of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), has tested negative for COVID-19. The comptroller-general had tested positive for the disease after he returned from the…

The Founder of defunct Sosoliso Airlines, Chief Victor Ikwuemesi, has died of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID). The victim died in a London hospital on Tuesday. He was said to…

A Councillor in Katcha Local Government Area of Niger State has disappeared with palliative grains meant for vulnerable households in his ward. The Councillor is said to be nowhere to be…

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Ikorodu Branch has declared it is cushioning the effects of the14-day lockdown extension by giving each member N5, 000. Its chairman, Bayo Akinlade, said…

The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, has identified the states that have benefitted from the Federal Government’s COVID-19 rice relief. She made the disclosure during a…

Lille star Victor Osimhen has revealed that his desire to play first-team football was the reason that he rejected a move to Arsenal in 2017. The attacker has been one of Europe’s…

A Nigerian COVID-19 survivor, John Opabola who lives in Longford in the Republic of Ireland, has explained what he went through after contracting the virus. Opabola, who spoke on Channels…