Nigeria has recorded 1,056 new cases of Coronavirus. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) stated this in a late-night tweet via its verified Twitter handle. NCDC also recorded 21 new deaths. Here are the details: Lagos-214 Osun-120 FCT-116 Plateau-88 Ebonyi-75 Kwara-73 Gombe-70 Ondo-57 Rivers-47 Akwa Ibom-38 Edo-25 Oyo-23...
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The residence of Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, located in Abeokuta Ogun State, was neither attacked nor invaded by suspected herdsmen. His son, Dr Olaokun Soyinka confirmed this in a statement on Wednesday, after rumours had made the rounds that his home had been under attack and invaded by...
Members of the National Assembly have, again, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to rejig the security architecture of the country by taking more decisive steps to curb the insecurity in the country. They have also called on the new security chiefs to take more drastic actions to bring an...
There was pandemonium on Wednesday at the Ondo State-owned Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, in Owo, Ondo State, as a yet to be identified student of the polytechnic was macheted to death. The Public Relations Officer of the institution, Samuel Ojo, who confirmed the incident to Channels Television in a telephone...
Nigeria can now borrow as much as forty percent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This is as contained in the new Medium-Term Debt Management Strategy 2020-2023 as approved by the Federal Executive Council. In a statement by the Debt Management Office, the increase in the borrowing target is...
Yobe state Governor and Chairman APC Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Mai Mala Buni, has commended the Federal government for approving eight Billion Naira for Dam project in Yobe state to boost water supply. This is contained in a statement signed by the Director-General Press and Media Affairs to...
The Chief Executive Officer of African Railway Consortium ( AFRECO), Mr Olawale Rasheed has affirmed that Nigeria needs more transnational railway lines to sustain and expand its economic influence within Africa. Mr. Rasheed who hailed the commencement of Kano-Maradi railway project called for the initiation of Maiduguri-Ndjamena railway line,...
From LOUIS AMOKE, Enugu – Workers of Enugu State under the aegis of the Organized Labour, have paid a Thank-you visit to Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi for his administration’s consistency in addressing their issues in spite of various challenges confronting the nation. The Organized Labour, comprising the state leadership of...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has joined the rest of the world to celebrate the Africa Safer Internet Day (ASID), which is the continent’s version of the World Safer Internet Day (WSID), held on February 9 every year. In marking the Africa Safer Internet Day 2021, with the theme...
The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) Katsina Area Command has seized an oil tanker used to smuggle rice into the country. The Area Controller of Customs in the State, Comptroller Adewale Musa Aremu, while parading the seized items, said the smugglers concealed 210 bags of 50kg rice in two out...
The Senate has begun the screening of the newly appointed Chief of Defence Staff and Service Chiefs forwarded to it by President Muhammadu Buhari for screening and subsequent confirmation. Consequently, the Senate on Wednesday referred the names of the newly appointed Service Chiefs to its Joint Committee on Defence,...
The Ebonyi State Police Command, Wednesday, arraigned 55 suspects in connection with the murder, arson, and destruction of properties that place during a communal conflict in the State. The defendants were alleged to be responsible for killings, destruction of buildings, and illegal possession of firearms during the crises that...
Operatives of the Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested 14 persons following series of intelligence on their alleged fraudulent activities. They were arrested at 1004 Estate, Victoria Island, Lagos on Thursday, February 4, 2021. The suspects are Akin Abiola Daramola, Stephen Augustine...
A landlord, identified as Mufutau Ojomu, on Wednesday appeared in a Magistrates’ Court in Ogudu, Lagos, for allegedly beating up a tenant over a quit notice he gave. The police charged Ojomu with conspiracy and assault. The prosecution counsel, Donjour Perezi, told the court that the defendant committed the...
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, said that the position of the president on the farmers and herders clash, and the recent killings in the country, is that anybody bearing arms unlawfully must be arrested and prosecuted. Mr. Adesina said this, while...
The Saudi-led coalition engaged in Yemen said Iran-aligned Houthi rebels launched an attack on Saudi Arabia’s Abha airport that caused a fire in a civilian aircraft, state media reported on Wednesday. Yemen’s Houthi movement regularly launches drones and missiles into Saudi, many of which Saudi says it intercepts. Some...
An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday ordered that a man, identified as Usman Abdulkareem, who allegedly conspired with a herbalist, a friend to abduct his wife, be remanded in a correctional centre. The police charged Abdulkareem, a herbalist, Babatunde Mohammed and a friend, Fatai Adisa with two counts of...
The Commander 302 Artillery Regiment Nigerian Army Onitsha, Col. A.A Sambo, has called for improved synergy between the army and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Anambra. Col. Sambo made the call during a courtesy visit to the Commandant of the NSCDC in the state, David...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri- The Governor of Borno State, Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum alongside officials of Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, has arrived in Marwa, towards the voluntary repatriation of 9,800 Nigerians of Borno origin, who are taking refuge in Minawao camp in The...
Financial markets thrive on public confidence and that is why regulatory actions need to be weighed and counter checked and consequences of actions clearly understood and communicated before decisions that affect operators are taken and enforced. The reported clampdown on portfolio investment firms appears to negate this regulatory decorum....