[PIn its bid to attract patients from the West African sub-region and other parts of the world, the Management of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) has embarked on a massive upgrade of its facilities and ancillary services. The Chief Medical Director of UBTH, Prof. Darlington Obaseki, made...
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A 35-year-old man, Baba Emmanuel, who allegedly stole a car valued at N2 million, on Monday appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court. Emmanuel, who resides at Iju, Lagos, is facing a charge of stealing. The Prosecutor, ASP Bisi Ogunleye, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Commad in Plateau has arrested two suspects for allegedly vandalizing rail tracts. The NSCDC Commandant in the state, Mr. Stephen Jiyason, paraded the suspects before newsmen on Monday in Jos. He said the suspects committed the act at Wassa, Sanga Local...
Properties worth millions of Naira and over 60 shops have been recorded destroyed following a Saturday midnight fire outbreak at the TudunWada Market, in Gusau, Zamfara State capital. The Chairman of the market, Lawali Bello told Channels Television that the inferno was caused by an electrical fault in one...
A 47-year-old mechanic, Bamidele Michael, on Monday appeared in a Mechanic docked for criminally selling customer’ s car A 47-year-old mechanic, Bamidele Michael, on Monday appeared in a Zuba Upper Area Court, Abuja, for allegedly selling a customer’s car without permission. The police charged Michael of Giri Junction, Abuja,...
The Defence Headquarters on Monday held a summit over terrorism and insurgency bedeviling the North-Eastern part of the country. Speaking at the National Defence College in Abuja, the Minister of Defence, Major General Bashir Magashi, restated the imperative of kinetic measures to address the current security challenges in the...
The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) has warned regulated service providers in the maritime industry that they would be sanctioned if they fail to register with the council within one month. The Executive Secretary/Chief Executive Officer of the NSC, Mr. Hassan Bello, disclosed this in Lagos, at a sensitisation clinic...
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo would on April 3 receive the torch of unity of the 20th National Sports Festival (NSF) tagged “Edo 2020”, an official said on Monday. In a statement, the chairman of the festival’s Local Organising Committee (LOC), Philip Shaibu said the torch of unity would...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has disbursed N149.21 billion to 316,869 households to cushion the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The funds, which were given out in the first phase of the N150 billion Targeted Credit Facility (TCF), were disbursed through the NIRSAL Microfinance Bank after the beneficiaries...
Myanmar’s Ambassador to the UN, Kyaw Moe Tun, has called on the international community to toughen its sanctions against the country’s military, following increasing violence in the aftermath of Feb. 1 coup. In an interview with NHK World, Kyaw said that the international community should take action against the...
Two Taiwanese fighter jets crashed on Monday in the third such incident in the past half year, at a time when the Beijing-claimed island’s armed forced are under increasing pressure to intercept Chinese aircraft on an almost daily basis. While Taiwan’s air force is well trained and well equipped,...
At least 40 people have been killed in another attack in Niger, when a group of armed assailants ravaged several villages in the Tahoua region near the border with Mali, the government said on Monday. Government spokesperson Abdoulraman Zakaria said on Monday that soldiers were sent to the region...
A mysterious fire outbreak have destroyed properties worth billions of Naira in the popular Katsina Central Market, Katsina State. It was gathered that the men of the State Fire Service are still battling to contain the inferno which started around 8:30 AM on Monday. By the time the market...
The recommendation that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP should throw the race for its 2023 Presidential ticket open to all Nigerians has been opposed by a pressure group. A review committee led by Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State made the recommendation in it’s report last week. In a...
The team from Rafan ward of Barkin-Ladi Local Government Area (LGA) of Plateau on Sunday received a car for winning the Peace, Unity and Reconciliation Football Tournament. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the tournament was organised by Sen. Istifaus Gyang (PDP-Plateau) and its star prize was...
Foreign players in the French League will not need to be quarantined after returning from FIFA World Cup play-off duty, the French sports ministry has ruled. This follows a change in policy by the Ministry over imposing quarantine restrictions on foreign players in Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 returning...
The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA)has affirmed that it would ensure that all patients of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and the Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) are given a priority in the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination in the country. The Director-General of the NACA, Dr Gambo Aliyu,...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja- The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Monday said it has registered 86 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 161,737. As at Sunday (21st, March 2021), the public health agency recorded no COVID-19-related deaths, leaving...
Recently, when Doyin Okupe feebly declared he would contest for the office of the President in 2023, most Nigerians didn’t take note or take him seriously. To draw sufficient attention he challenged Nigerians to shoot him if he failed to end insincerity in 2 years as President of Nigeria,...
Nigeria is a bundle of contradictions. It is a hypocritic nation. You cannot pin the country down on any issue, because while they will be saying one thing, they will be doing a different thing. Nigeria is a country with no principle, where two different rules apply simultaneously –...