The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced a reduction in the ex-depot price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS). PMS has been reduced from N113.28k per litre to N108.00K per litre across all its products loading facilities. This was contained in a statement issued by the corporation’s spokesman, Dr. Kenny Obateru in Abuja on Wednesday. … Read more
Nigerian singer, Daddy Showkey, has come down hard on Nigerians especially Lagos residents for violating social distancing rules. Ekohotblog recalls that on May 4, 2020, President Muhammadu Buhari eased the lockdown issued in some states to contain the spread of coronavirus. Upon the ease of the lockdown, many have been found violating social distancing rules … Read more
Despite Brent-crude futures rallying in recent weeks, Nigeria is facing a fast-looming future without reliance on fiscal revenue from its massive oil wealth, Bloomberg reports. Amid the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, which has brought to a halt economic activity and travel, demand for crude has been crippled, resulting in a dramatic oversupply. Accordingly, … Read more
The Buhari administration through Minister of Health Dr. Osagie Ehanire has assured that they would conduct basic research on local herbs to cure COVID-19 patients. Dr. Osagie Ehanire who disclosed this during the daily press briefing on COVID-19 in Abuja said that before any local herb is administered to a COVID-19 patient, the Nigerian Institute … Read more
The environs of Ilorin, Kwara State capital was in disorder after residents of the state violated social distancing and the mandatory use of face mask on Monday. This is coming after the state government on Monday relaxed the lockdown order placed on the state. Following the directives of the state government to relax the lockdown, … Read more
The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has accused the leadership of the House of Representatives of allegedly taking a $10 million bribe from Bill Gates to pass a compulsory vaccine bill. In a statement issued and signed by the spokesperson of the opposition political parties, Barrister Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, CUPP asked Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila … Read more
The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 says it has observed poor compliance to physical distancing and use of face masks as ease of five weeks lockdown on Lagos, FCT and Ogun states began on Monday. Mr Boss Mustapha, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and PTF Chairman, made the observation at … Read more
National leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has waded into the interest rates policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Tinubu said the current financial system in Nigeria opposes growth as the interest rates affect domestic investment, the private sector, and job creation. Tinubu warned that to attract investment borrowing that will … Read more
24-year-old Kenyan woman, Winfred Nduku allegedly stabbed her two children, aged 2 and 6, to death, before attempting suicide after a fight with her own mother. A police spokesperson at the Kayole Police Station confirmed the tragic incident to Kenyans.co.ke, adding that Nduku was recuperating at Mama Lucy Hospital. The spokesperson said the sad incident … Read more
President John Magufuli of Tanzania has ordered a probe on the country’s COVID-19 test kits after goat and pawpaw tested positive for coronavirus. President Magufuli while speaking at an event in Chato in the northwest of Tanzania, revealed that the COVID-19 testing kits which had been imported from abroad had “technical errors”. Magufuli said he … Read more
Banks in Lagos generally opened for business on Monday but with many of them not ensuring that their customers kept to the physical distancing rule set by the authorities. Ekohotblog recalls that the Lagos State Government while giving guidelines for the residents of the state to adhere to during the gradual easing of the lockdown … Read more
As Lagos residents embark on their normal daily activities, many of them wear seen wearing face masks but snubbing the much-clamored for social and physical distancing. Recall President Muhammadu Buhari on 27 of April ordered the gradual easing of lockdown occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic in two states, Lagos and Ogun and the federal capital … Read more
Popular Lagos monarch, Oba Saheed Ademola Elegushi has celebrated his first wedding anniversary with his second wife, Olori Hadiza Yakasai. The couple got married in Kano, May 2019. He took to his official Instagram page to pen a heartfelt message to her. He wrote: “Happy 1st Anniversary to my beautiful wife. The past year has … Read more
Nigerian singer Aituaje Iruobe, known professionally as Waje has called for calm in the investigation of murder against Clarence Peters. Lagos State Police Command announced that the popular music video director was being investigated for murder over the death of professional dancer, Love Divine, known as Kodak. Lagos Police PRO, Bala Elkana said: “It is … Read more
A video fast trending captures the moment Indians were throwing their idols (gods) into a river. Some assume Indians no longer have faith in their idols after recording massive death cases of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. However, Ekohotblog gathered that the idols called ‘Ganapati’ were disposed of in year 2015 by Indian civil authorities for … Read more
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu on Sunday said 27 policemen have been assaulted in the course of enforcing COVID-19 lockdown across the nation. According to the statement signed by the Force Public Relations Officer, DCP Frank Mba, the IGP was reacting to a viral video that showed a woman identified as Kehinde Afolake … Read more
The management of Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Abeokuta, Ogun state capital through Head, Public Relations, Segun Orisajo On Sunday confirmed reports that an unknown pregnant woman died of coronavirus on Friday. Segun Orisajo also stated that it had shut down the Accident and Emergency Complex of the centre where the patient died. He said, “Three … Read more
As Lagos state eases lockdown on Monday, the chairman of the state council of National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Musiliu Akinsanya (aka MC Oluomo), has mandated that commercial drivers should not allow passengers without facemasks to board their vehicles. Recall President Muhammadu Buhari had on Monday, April 27, approved the easing of lockdown … Read more
Nigeria’s foremost luxury and lifestyle company Polo Limited, as part of its multi-level intervention in providing succour for segments of the society affected by the COVID-19 lockdown recently visited the press corps of the Lagos State Government. In charting a different path from the norm of donations so far, the company delegation led by the … Read more