Welcome to NGdotcom

             NCDC ✔ @NCDCgov 132 new cases of # COVID19Nigeria ; Lagos-52 Gombe-27 Plateau-17 Kwara-10 Enugu-9 Ogun-9 Katsina-3 Ekiti-2 Bauchi-1 Osun-1 Rivers-1 56,388 confirmed 44,337 discharged 1,083 deaths

  Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s former prime minister, has tested positive for coronavirus. The 83-year-old is currently in isolation at his home near Milan, according to a statement issued by his staff. It added that he would continue to contribute to the electoral campaigns of candidates from his Forza Italia party at local elections scheduled for September. Mr Berlusconi has served as PM in four governments, holding the role for a total of nine years.

          Psychologist Robert Child, 37, admits that he murdered his mum Janice but denies he killed her for financial gain. According to Liverpool Echo, he is claimed to have had £32,000 of debt at the time of his mum's death. His mum's body was found locked in the utility room of her home in Woolton, Liverpool, on March 6. A Newton hearing at Liverpool Crown Court heard the day before his mum's body was found Child transferred £25,000 from her bank account into his. When police went to inform him about her death he was out buying a £14,000 Jaguar car. Giving evidence via video-link, Child's friend Philip Walker, who worked with him at the University of Liverpool, said he had the impression Child did not get on with his mum. He said Child forwarded him a message in February sent by his mum in which she suggested he stockpile food because of the coronavirus pandemic. The court heard Child then referred to his mum as "the Brexit-voting halfwit." Mr Walk...

           The Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Victory has arrested a 16-year-old and seven other suspected smugglers of 1,522 bags of foreign bags of rice in Calabar, Cross River. The Commander of NNS Victory, Commodore Idi Abbas, told journalists on Wednesday that the suspects were intercepted in two batches. Abbas said that the first group of four men were arrested on Sunday around Tom Short Island with a large wooden boat containing 1,482 bags of foreign parboiled rice while the second group was arrested on the 28 of August. According to him, the confiscated items and eight suspects are hereby handed over to the Team Leader of Operation Border Drill for further investigations and prosecution. “We have been up and doing as part of our patrol effort not only to check smuggling but also curb all forms of criminality within our waterways. “We are aware that most times when kidnapping is carried out, the fastest way for them to escape is through the creeks, so we h...

                                                                       The Maiduguri zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, September 1, 2020, re-arraigned the Chief Executive Officer( CEO) of Complete Care and Aid Foundation, Aisha Alkali Wakil, popularly known as Mama Boko Haram, before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri, on amended four-count charges bordering on conspiracy, giving false information and cheating to the tune of N6million. After the amendment of the charge the defendants was asked to take her plea. One of the charges read, “That you, Aisha Alkali Wakil, Tahiru Alhaji Saidu Daura and Prince Lawal Shoyode whilst being chief executive officer, programme manager and country director respectively, of Complete Care and Aid Founda...

  NCDC @NCDCgov · 10h 216 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria ; Plateau-59 Rivers-27 Abia-22 Lagos-20 Oyo-18 Enugu-17 Kaduna-11 FCT-11 Ogun-10 Ebonyi-4 Osun-4 Ekiti-4 Delta-3 Edo-3 Akwa Ibom-2 Bauchi-1 54,463 confirmed 42,439 discharged 1,027 deaths

            Thread See new Tweets Tweet NCDC @NCDCgov · 15h 143 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria ; Plateau-35 Kaduna-21 Lagos-19 FCT-13 Ebonyi-9 Adamawa-7 Enugu-7 Katsina-7 Edo-6 Kwara-5 Osun-3 Anambra-2 Kano-2 Niger-2 Ogun-2 Benue-1 Borno-1 Sokoto-1 54,008 confirmed 41,638 discharged 1,013 deaths

   Nigeria will release   a list of countries that can fly into the country. Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, last week made it clear that Nigeria will apply principle of reciprocity. The principle means that countries that bans flights from Nigeria will also be banned to fly to Nigeria International flights in Nigeria is meant to commence on Friday, 4th of September. Speaking at the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 on Thursday, the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) Director-General, Captain Musa Nuhu, stated that the list of countries which carriers will be allowed into Nigeria will be announced next week. “In due course and very shortly, we will announce the protocols once the logistics are done, the protocols for the resumption and also further details on the principles of reciprocity that we mentioned will be given. “We are looking at a list and we are working on that and hopefully early next week, we will release it,” Nuhu ...

                                  “If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. ” ―  Marcus Garvey

       Thread See new Tweets Tweet NCDC @NCDCgov · 10h 296 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria ; Plateau-85 Enugu-46 Oyo-31 Lagos-21 Rivers-20 FCT-15 Kaduna-13 Bauchi-12 Delta-11 Ekiti-11 Akwa Ibom-7 Ebonyi-6 Kwara-5 Ogun-4 Osun-4 Gombe-3 Niger-2 53,317 confirmed 40,726 discharged 1,011 deaths