Data from Nigeria Centre for Disease and Control (NCDC) showed the number of deaths from COVID-19 rose to 813, with 38,344 infections. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Wednesday. The agency data showed that eight Nigerians died from COVID-19 complications, as at July 22. The...
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By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday evening, condemned the recent murder of five staff of humanitarian agencies in Borno State, who were kidnapped by Boko Haram Terrorists a month ago. In a statement by his Senior Special Assistant (Media & Publicity), Garba Shehu, President Buhari sympathised with...
By PAUL ADAJI, Abuja – Indigenes of a community in Gombe South Senatorial Zone have spoken up against an alleged act of injustice done to one of their own, former Acting Chief Judge of the state, Justice Beatrice Iliya, by the state government. The group, known as Tangale Community...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi Following the ban on commercial motorcycle operation in Bauchi State, Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, on Wednesday flagged off the distribution of 1000 units of tricycles, also known as Keke NAPEP, to ease transportation difficulties in the state. Speaking at the flag off ceremony of the...
Alleged $9.8m fraud: Ex-NNPC GMD Yakubu tells EFCC, “you can’t question me on case not before court”
Alleged $9.8m fraud: Ex-NNPC GMD Yakubu tells EFCC, “you can’t question me on case not before court”
Former Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Andrew Yakubu, on Wednesday told the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), it cannot cross-examine him based on a previous case in another court. According to a report by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Yakubu, who...
Suspected members of the extremist Boko Haram sect have shot dead five persons believed to be humanitarian workers, PREMIUM TIMES is reporting. According to the report, the terrorist group publicized the development via a viral video it published on social media Wednesday. The gunmen who carried out the killing...
A Lagos lawmaker and some concerned residents have lamented over the deplorable condition of Badagry Expressway, describing the road as a death trap. Addressing a news conference in Lagos on Wednesday, Mr Setonji David, the lawmaker representing Badagry Constituency II in Lagos House of Assembly, said that the road...
BY PATRICK OBAHIAGBON Having read the magnum opus from the avuncular and coruscatingly resilient CAPPY, it is my pleasure to commend to him some sapient ecclesiastical dictum, which goeth thus; “Have mercy on me, my God, have mercy on me, for in you I take refuge. I will take...
EHIME ALEX, Lagos She Writes Woman (SWW) Safe Place community has been selected for the 2020 Facebook Accelerator, a six-month program focused on helping impactful communities to grow. The announcement was contained in a statement on Wednesday signed by Adaora Okoye, communications manager at She Writes Woman, a leading...
EDDY OCHIGBO, Kaduna The Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU) has expressed dismay over the position of the Presidency that ‘the problem of insecurity in Southern Kaduna is more complicated as many people are willing to admit, dismissing it as a cheap propaganda in favour of what it called ‘ethnic...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi Bauchi State Coalition Against Financial Crimes and Injustice (BACAFCI) said it has written three petitions against Mohammed Abubakar, a former Governor of the state, before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), over alleged financial misappropriation,...
SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri Governor Babagana Umara Zulum of Borno State has commended the automobile spare-parts dealers, mostly the Igbos at the popular spare parts market at Bola in Maiduguri, for their courage in not moving their businesses away from Borno State but staying put despite the Boko Haram challenges since...
By GRACE AUDU, Abuja – Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, said in Abuja on Tuesday his administration remained committed to the growth of local entrepreneurs as well as small and medium scale businesses in the Territory. The Minister stated this when he received...
By GRACE AUDU, Abuja – The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), announced Tuesday night that a 576 new cases of COVID-19 had been recorded across the nation. According to the health agency, this figure brings the total number of recovered and discharges cases of the virus in Nigeria...
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