The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and non-OPEC allies, known as OPEC+ have agreed to extend the 10 million barrel per day (mbd) first phase of the oil output cut by one month, to July 2020. The group disclosed this in a statement released at the end of...
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“Goodness is the only investment that never fails. Those who bring sunshine cannot keep it from themselves.” – Thor The first Sunday in June every year (Sunday, June 7 in 2020) is known as the International Cancer Survivors Day (ICSD). It is a day set aside to celebrate cancer...
EHIME ALEX, Lagos The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $288.5 million loan to help Nigeria tackle the COVID-19 pandemic and mitigate its impact on people and businesses. A statement distributed by APO Group on Saturday on behalf of AfDB stated that the...
Following incessant cases of sex abuse in Ekiti state in recent times, Gov. Kayode Fayemi, on Saturday, said no person convicted for sex offence, such as rape in any part of the state would enjoy his powers of prerogative of mercy. The governor made the declaration in Ado Ekiti,...
Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, on Saturday laid the foundation for the construction of a 200-bed Emergency and Infectious Disease Hospital in Kaita, Katsina State, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. The project had been estimated to cost the sum of N21 billion...
EHIME ALEX, Lagos Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi has approved the redeployment of 119 Officers of the ranks of Assistant Corps Marshals, Corps Commanders, Deputy Corps Commanders and intermediate ranks, who are all expected to report to their new Commands on or before Friday, 12...
Evangelist Bamidele Olumilua was an elder-statesman and an unrelenting patriot. He was irrevocably committed to the unity and indivisibility of this country. A servant-leader, Evangelist Olumilua provided leadership and mentoring to many of us during the aborted Third Republic and even after. He believed in democratic principles and worked...
The first bi-annual national steering committee meeting for the Spotlight Initiative in 2020 is set to hold in Abuja on Friday, June 5, to back a national action to end violence against women and girls amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The committee, which was set up to provide overall strategic...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced on Thursday that it recorded 350 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number in the country to 11,516. According to its official Twitter handle, all new cases, as at June 4, 2020, Nigeria has 350 new confirmed cases with...
By GRACE AUDU, Abuja – Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, on Wednesday chaired a meeting of the FCT Administration and leadership of the FCT Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and League of FCT Imams Initiative to review the guidelines issued by the Presidential...
By MBAFAN ADE, Abuja – The family of Margaret Adiya Ikumu, the 19-year old girl who recently faked her own death in Lagos, has formally apologized to her employer, Dr. Nimechi Ugorji and her family over the unfortunate behaviour. Margaret had used the image photograph of her employer’s daughter on...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with government and people of Ondo State over the death of Evangelist Bamidele Isola Olumilua, who was a governor of the state from 1992-1993. The former governor’s eldest son, Muyiwa Olumilua, who is a serving Commissioner in the State,...
Senegal’s government said on Thursday it would relax slightly a dawn-to-dusk curfew after protesters in Dakar set tyres on fire and threw stones in demonstrations against the restrictions imposed almost three months ago over the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Wednesday night’s unrest in Senegal’s capital followed similar action in the...
The past one week and still counting has seen the world take a detour away from the pandemic wreaking havoc on nations and its economies. The world and the media space have rather surprisingly been awash with stories spanning from racism to police brutality to rape and even down...
Oil prices dropped on Thursday, reversing gains in the previous session, on concern over whether major crude producers will be able to agree to extend record output cuts, heightened by worries over a huge build in U.S. distillate inventories. Brent crude LCOc1 futures fell 1.46 per cent, or 58...
The U.S. Mission to the United Nations has rejected an UN agreement on humanitarian assistance for emergencies, including the COVID-19 pandemic, that would have promoted abortion, C-Fam reports. The Center for Family and Human Rights stated that in a statement released Tuesday night, the U.S. Mission to the UN...
By GRACE AUDU, Abuja – The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), announced on Wednesday the confirmation of 348 new Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases and 1 death, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 11, 166. According to the NCDC, 11,166 cases had been confirmed, with 3329...