The Senate on Wednesday urged the Federal Ministry of Health, the National Arbovirus and the Vector Research Centre, to probe the cause of strange deaths in Benue State. The resolution was sequel to a motion on the urgent need to deal with the outbreak of Read More …
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BUHARI AGREES TO ADDRESS HOUSE OF REPS OVER INSECURITY IN NIGERIA
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has agreed to address the House of Representatives on the security challenges across the country. The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, disclosed this to State House correspondents on Wednesday after meeting Buhari Read More …
JUDICIARY TOPS ICPC CORRUPTION INDEX WITH 9.4BIL IN TWO YEARS
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says N9,457,650,000 was corruptly demanded, offered and paid as bribe in Nigeria’s justice sector between 2018 and 2020. This was contained in a report entitled, ‘Nigeria Corruption Index: Report of a pilot survey’, carried out Read More …
FALLOUT FROM FACEOFF: UMAHI SACKS AIDES FROM ANYIM PIUS ANYIM’S LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi has sacked the majority of his political aides in the Ivo Local Government Area of the State, where former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Pius Anyim, hails from. This is coming barely 24 hours after Senator Anyim wrote Read More …
CORONAVIRUS: FG CONFIRMS 2 VACCINES HAVE BEEN TRIED ON NIGERIANS WITH 90% SUCCESS
The Federal Government of Nigeria has expressed confidence that COVID-19 would soon be a thing of the past in the country as two vaccines under trial have more than 90 per cent efficacy to end the disease. Boss Mustapha, the Secretary to the Government of Read More …
NIGERIAN CONVICTED IN UK OVER MURDER OF HOTEL STAFF
A Nigerian man, Samuel Odupitan, who stabbed a hotel concierge worker to death so he could steal his Gucci bag, has been convicted of murder. Odupitan, 24, knifed Tyler Roye six times as he was making his way home after work in south London in Read More …
PDP SPEAKS OVER RUMOURS OF IHEDIOHA JOINING APC
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has refuted speculations that former Imo State Governor, Emeka Ihedioha, has concluded plans to join the All Progressives Congress (APC). In a statement on Tuesday, Ogubundu Nwadike, Imo PDP Publicity Secretary, said it was untrue that the ex-Deputy Speaker of Read More …
IT HURTS AS BOKO HARAM LEADER ADDRESSES NIGERIANS OVER BORNO MASSACRE AND BUHARI HAS REFUSED TO TALK TO HIS PEOPLE, AISHA YESUFU LAMENTS
Human rights activist and co-convener of the BringBackOurGirls Movements, Aisha Yesufu, has decried the failure of President Muhammadu Buhari to address the country on the gruesome killings of at least 43 farmers in the Zabarmari area of Borno State. Yesufu on Twitter lamented that a Read More …
CRIMINALS NOW SELLING FAKE CORONAVIRUS VACCINE, INTERPOL WARNS NIGERIA
Kayode Oyero The International Criminal Police Organisation has alerted Nigeria, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States and 190 other countries of threat from organised crime groups during upcoming COVID-19 vaccination campaigns, including fake vaccines and the theft of supplies. The need for a vaccine has Read More …
FG MAKES U-TURN, SAYS NIGERIANS WILL PAY UP TO 250,000 NAIRA TO COVERT THEIR CARS FROM PETROL TO GAS
Kayode Oyero The Federal Government says car owners will pay up to N250,000 to have their vehicles converted to run on gas. Justice Derefaka, Technical Adviser on Gas Business and Policy Implementation to Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva, made this known on Wednesday. Read More …