Author: Chronicle Editor

Nigerian Government on Tuesday granted a waiver on import duty for medical supplies coming into the country as it battles coronavirus

Lagos State Government on Tuesday announced the death of another COVID19 patient with 14 others recovering from the disease.

A member of the Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation and Chairman of the Nigeria National League, Chidi Ofo-Okenwa, has died at the age of 50.

Not less than 10 medical doctors have tested positive for COVID-19 at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital.

A driver with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Nasarawa.

Nigeria’s House of Representatives on Tuesday denied receiving $10 million from an external body to introduce and pass the Infectious Disease Bill.

The Senate on Tuesday asked the Federal Government to suspend the planned deployment of the Fifth Generation Network in Nigeria.

The American University of Nigeria (AUN), Yola, owned by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has sacked 400 staff. The AUN is the second Yola enterprise owned by Atiku to sack staff in five days, after Gotel Communications, a television and radio firm, sacked 46 workers on May 1, Workers Day. President of the AUN, Dawn Dekle signed the letters disengaging the 400 university workers. The university immediately issued a statement, however, explaining why the workers had to go. The Vice President in charge of University Relations of the AUN, Abubakar Abba Tahir, said the action by the institution is part…

By Buchi Ofoku Muhammad Nami, Chairman of the Federal (Board of) Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), seems to have a made of hobby of whining about his predecessor, Babatunde Fowler’s past policies. Recently, he said the FIRS “keeled over” under Fowler, leaving him the “daunting task of rebuilding it from scratch’. Despite his claim, a considerable number of staff alleged Nami is nepotistic and his policies, divisive. For instance, five of those he recently hired as contract staff and made directors are of his Nupe ethnicity. Not a few saw the hiring merely as ‘jobs for the boys’ and reason being…

By Michael Jimoh Trawling through twitter, this writer came across a tweet – HM @sadiya_farouq on an official visit to @nemanigeria. The DG updated the Hon. Minister @sadiya_farouq and the perm sec Jalal Arabi on the activities, interventions and responses of @nemanigeria with respect to the #COVID19 pandemic. A comment caught my eye – “What is this woman @sadiya_farouq doing again with NEMA?” My first instinct was to consider the question, what is the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development doing with NEMA? But the moment I considered the question, the answer popped up almost immediately. The…