President Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the opening of five COVID-19 bank accounts for donations toward the fight against coronavirus in the country. This forms part of the existing Treasury Single Account (TSA) arrangement with five…

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a blanket waiver of import duty for medical equipment and supplies to “strengthen health infrastructure” in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He also ordered the immediate evacuation of all…

Dr Nasiru Sani Gwarzo, leader of the Presidential Task Force Committee on COVID-19, has said that the virus is the cause of the mysterious deaths recently recorded in Kano State. The state in recent weeks has recorded an unusual…

President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the Director-General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mustapha Maihaja. This was announced in a statement issued by Willie Bassey, the Director of Information, Office of the…

Nigerian Senate has approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s N850bn loan request to fund some projects in the 2020 budget. The request was contained in a letter to the National Assembly, which was read by the Senate President, Ahmad…

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved for a phased and gradual easing of the lockdown measures in the FCT, Lagos and Ogun states. The President who said this during a televised broadcast on Monday night stated that this new measure…

Femi Adesina, special adviser to the president on media and publicity has said President Muhammadu Buhari will deliver a nationwide address at 8pm on Monday. He made this known in a statement released on Monday afternoon. Adesina…

Chief Press Secretary to a State Governor in Nigeria has said the inter-state lockdown decision taken by the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) is to be effected by President Buhari on Monday.  The governor’s aide made this known to Daily…

ECOWAS leaders have appointed President Muhammadu Buhari as the head of the COVID-19 response, in the region. Presidents of West African countries under the aegis of ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government announced the…

President Buhari Muhammadu has paid his tribute to his friend and former Chief of Staff, Mallam Abba Kyari who died on Friday from Coronavirus complications. The President in a heartfelt eulogy shared on his verified Twitter page…

Nigeria has received €50m from the European Union (EU) to boost its ongoing fight against Coronavirus in the country. President Muhammadu Buhari hosted the EU team at the Council Chambers, State House, Abuja on Tuesday. Making the…

President Muhammadu Buhari in a broadcast has ordered for the extension of the lockdown in Lagos, Ogun and Federal Capital Territory (FCT) by two weeks. On March 29, President Buhari had in a similar public address ordered for the…

Femi Adesina, special adviser to the president on media and publicity has said President Muhammadu Buhari will deliver a nationwide address at 7pm on Monday. He made this known in a statement released on Monday afternoon. The…

President Muhammadu Buhari has encouraged Nigerians to abide by the stay-at-home order, adding that restriction of movement in some states and Federal Capital Territory (FCT) will remain as long as experts find it necessary. It would be…

The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Hameed Ali, has approved the release of 247 truckloads of relief items worth N3.250 billion and a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N2bn from its warehouses. This was revealed in a…