Publisher - The Nigerian News

Nigeria has been ranked first globally in terms of economic optimism in a survey recently conducted by Gallup International, ahead of Azerbaijan and Vietnam. Nigeria won the highest…
Read More...

Dr Haroun Hamzat, half-brother of Lagos State Deputy Governor Obafemi Hamzat, has died after testing positive for COVID-19. Aged 37, the deceased worked in a primary health care centre…
Read More...

Barely 24 hours after announcing his positve status on social media, singer Paul Okoye says he has tested negative for coronavirus. The 39-year-old announced this in an Instagram post…
Read More...

The Federal Government on Tuesday emphasised the ban on rice importation into Nigeria. The Comptroller, Nigerian Customs Service in charge of Sokoto and Zamfara, Abdulhamid Ma’aji,…
Read More...

Veteran Yoruba actress Folake Aremu, popularly known as Orisabunmi, has died. The 60 years old died four four months after ex-husband Jimoh Aliu, better known as Aworo. President of…
Read More...

For the second successive day, Nigeria has broken its daily new coronavirus cases record. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), on Tuesday, confirmed 1,354 new infections.…
Read More...

The 2021 Grammy Awards ceremony has been postponed, due to concerns about the spread of the coronavirus. The Recording Academy announced on Tuesday that the ceremony will not take…
Read More...

The First City Monument Bank Limited (FCMB) has sent its managing director Adam Nuru on leave to enable it investigate the paternity allegations against him. Nearly 2,000 persons had…
Read More...

The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 said on Tuesday at least 731 members of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) Batch B had tested positive for COVID-19. The PTF…
Read More...

The United Kingdom has recorded more than 60,000 COVID-19 cases in daily figures for the first time on Tuesday as the government struggles to deal with a new, more infectious variant of…
Read More...