The Northern Governors Forum (NGF) has revealed that political marauders, ethnoreligious bigots, and diabolical influencers are the group of personalities pushing for regime change.
This was contained in a communiqué made available at the end of their emergency meeting held at Kaduna yesterday.

The All Progressive Congress (APC) has accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of sponsoring and fuelling of the protest through making some provocative statements on social media.

The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Yekini Nabena has hinted that the next presidential candidate of their party would be product of stakeholder negotiation. Nabena stated this while speaking with the Sun newspaper, he also gave clues on how the South East can go about actualising their quest for Igbo presidency in the 2023 general election.

The Federal government on Monday cautioned that cases of COVID-19 will definitely increase in the coming weeks owing to the ongoing #EndSARS protests across the country. The Chairman, Presidential Taskforce, PTF, on COVID-19 and Secretary to the Government of the Federation SGF, Mr Boss Mustapha, while issuing the warning in Abuja, said despite the appreciable success recorded so far in the fight against COVID-19, the ongoing protest may spark up a second wave of the virus.
 “I can say it authoritatively that with the ongoing protest across the country, in the next two weeks the cases of COVID-19 would have increased. Each and everyone that attended the protest and did not put up any form of protection are likely going to spread the virus. When people contract the virus during the protest gathering, they will go back home and spread it.

About 113 new cases of COVID-19 has been confirmed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Saturday. The NCDC via its Twitter handle revealed that a total of 14 States recorded new infections in the country in the last 24 hours. The health agency said, the 113 new cases brought the nation’s confirmed COVID-19 infection cases to a total of 61,307. It also mentioned that four persons died from complications resulting from the virus.

The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has disclosed that the total cases of the coronavirus infection in the country have just jumped to 60,834 after 179 new cases were recorded yesterday.

The Federal Government has disclosed that it will kick start disbursement of the N75 billion support grants to Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises that are eligible to partake in the COVID-19 support scheme. Accordingly, on September 10, the Federal Government inaugurated two schemes to support about 1.7 million Medium and Small Scale Enterprise (MSMEs) financially across the country with N75billion naira.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said its involvement in the Cotton, Textile and Garments (CTG) industry has resulted in the funding of 320,000 farmers across the entire CTG value chain. The apex bank stated that N120 billion has been invested in the CTG sector which is expected to assist in reaching and exceeding the cotton lint requirement for the country’s textile industry.

The National Pension Commission (PenCom) announced that it has released a total of N2.58bn as pension benefits to relatives of deceased workers under the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) between the period of April and June 2020. This was disclosed in a report on the second quarter of 2020.

Chelsea manager, Frank Lampard kicks when his side was denied a penalty kick after Man-U defender, Henry Maguire pulled down Cesar Azpilicueta during a corner kick in Saturday’s match that ended in a draw.

Portugal coach Fernando Santos, says Cristiano Ronaldo is doing just fine and is showing no symptoms after his positive coronavirus test while in the Portugal camp. "I am told he (Ronaldo) is doing well. Obviously from the time he did the retest this morning, and it was confirmed, he went into isolation last night after he did the test, just like all the players. Yesterday after taking the test the players went to their rooms, then overnight we got the news," he said. "Tomorrow Cristiano and the other players will be tested again. Obviously, Cristiano has been isolated from the others from the start and will remain isolated. He's in his room. He says he wants to play. He talks to us from his balcony. And anyway, he is completely asymptomatic. He feels fine, without any symptoms at all. He doesn't even know what happened to him.

English football giants Liverpool and Manchester United, have presented a proposal that will see the English top-flight league EPL cut down to 18 teams from the current 20. The blueprint for change was developed by John W Henry, Liverpool’s principal owner, with Old Trafford throwing its weight behind the idea. Glazer suggested that the radical manifesto is necessary to safeguard the existence of professional clubs outside the Premier League.